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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>THE BATTAILE OF AGINCOVRT.</P>
<P>FOVGHT BY HENRY THE FIFT of that name, King of <HI>England,</HI> again&s;t the whole power of the <HI>French:</HI> vnder the Raigne of their CHARLES the &s;ixt, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1415.</P>
<P>The Mi&s;eries of Queene MARGARITE, the infortunate Wife, of that mo&s;t infortunate King HENRY the &s;ixt.</P>
<P>NIMPHIDIA, the Court of <HI>Fayrie.</HI></P>
<P>The Que&s;t of CINTHIA.</P>
<P>The Shepheards SIRENA.</P>
<P>The <HI>Moone-Calfe.</HI></P>
<P>Elegies vpon &s;undry occa&s;ions.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> MICHAELL DRAYTON, <HI>E&s;quire.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>A. M.</HI> for WILLIAM LEE, and are to be &s;old at the Turkes Head in Fleete-Streete, next to the Miter and Phaenix. 1631.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<P>_TO you tho&s;e No|ble&s;t of Gentlemen of the&s;e Renow|ned Kingdomes of Great <HI>Britaine:</HI> who in the&s;e declining times, haue yet in your braue bo&s;omes the &s;parkes of that &s;prightly fire, of your couragious Ance&s;tors; and to this houre retaine the &s;eedes of their magnanimitie and Great|ne&s;&s;e, who out of the vertue of your mindes, loue and cheri&s;h neglected Poe&s;ie, the delight of
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Ble&s;&s;ed &s;oules, And the language of Angels. To you are the&s;e my Poems dedicated.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By your truely affectioned Seruant, MICHAELL DRAYTON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>THE VISION OF BEN. IOHNSON, ON THE MVSES OF HIS FRIEND M. DRAITON.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IT hath beene que&s;tion'd MICHAEL, if I be</L>
<L>A Friend at all; or, if at all, to thee:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, who make the que&s;tion, haue not &s;eene</L>
<L>Tho&s;e ambling vi&s;its, pa&s;&s;e in ver&s;e, betweene</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI> and mine, as they expect. 'Tis true:</L>
<L>You haue not writ to me, nor I to you;</L>
<L>And, though I now begin, 'tis not to rub</L>
<L>Hanch again&s;t Hanch, or rai&s;e a riming <HI>Club</HI></L>
<L>About the towne: this reck'ning I will pay,</L>
<L>Without conferring &s;ymboles. This's my day&punc;</L>
<L>It was no Dreame! I was awake and &s;aw!</L>
<L>Lend me thy voice, O FAME, that I may draw</L>
<L>Wonder to truth! and haue my vi&s;ion ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rld,</L>
<L>Hot from thy trumpet, round about the world&punc;</L>
<L>I &s;aw a Beauty from the Sea to ri&s;e,</L>
<L>That al Earth look'd on; &amp; that earth, all Eyes!</L>
<L>It ca&s;t a beame as when the chear-full Sun</L>
<L>Is fayre got vp, and day &s;ome houres begun!</L>
<L>And fill'd an Orbe as circular as heauen!</L>
<L>The Orbe was cut foorth into Regions &s;ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L><PB REF="4">And tho&s;e &s;o &s;weet, &amp; well proportion'd parts,</L>
<L>As it had bin the circle of the Arts!</L>
<L>When, by thy bright <HI>Ideas</HI> &s;tanding by,</L>
<L>I found it pure, and perfect <HI>Poe&s;y,</HI></L>
<L>Ther read I, &s;treight, thy learned <HI>Legends</HI> three,</L>
<L>Heard the &s;oft airs, between our &s;wains &amp; thee,</L>
<L>Which made me thinke, the old <HI>Theocritus,</HI></L>
<L>Our Rurall <HI>Virgil</HI> come, to pipe to vs!</L>
<L>But then, thy&punc;epi&s;tolar <HI>Heroick</HI> Songs,</L>
<L>Their loues, their quarrels, iealou&s;ies &amp; wrongs</L>
<L>Did all &s;o &s;trike me, as I cry'd, who can</L>
<L>With vs be call'd, the <HI>Na&s;o,</HI> but this man?</L>
<L>And looking vp I &s;aw <HI>Mineruaes</HI> fowle,</L>
<L>Pearch'd ouer head, the wi&s;e <HI>Athenian</HI> Owle:</L>
<L>I thought thee the~ our <HI>Orpheus,</HI> that would&s;t try</L>
<L>Like him, to make the ayre, one volary:</L>
<L>And I had &s;til'd thee <HI>Orpheus,</HI> but before</L>
<L>My lips could forme the voyce, I heard that rore,</L>
<L>And rouze, the marching of a mighty force,</L>
<L>Drums again&s;t drums, theneighing of the hor&s;e,</L>
<L>The fights, the cryes, &amp; wondring at the iarres</L>
<L>I &s;aw, and read, it was thy <HI>Barons Warres!</HI></L>
<L>O, how in tho&s;e, do&s;t thou in&s;truct the&s;e times,</L>
<L>That Rebels actions, are but valiant crimes!</L>
<L>And caried, though with &s;hout, &amp; noi&s;e co~fe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>A wild and an authoriz'd wickedne&s;&s;e!</L>
<L><PB REF="4">Say&s;t thou &s;o, <HI>Lucan?</HI> But thou &s;eorn&s;t to &s;tay</L>
<L>Vnder one title. Thou ha&s;t made thy way</L>
<L>And flight about the Ile, well neare, by this</L>
<L>In thy admired <HI>Periege&s;is,</HI></L>
<L>Or vniuer&s;all circumduction</L>
<L>Of all that reade thy <HI>Poly-Olbyon.</HI></L>
<L>That reade it? that are raui&s;h'd! &s;uch was I</L>
<L>With euery &s;ong, I &s;weare, and &s;o would dye:</L>
<L>But that I heare, againe thy Drum to beate</L>
<L>A better cau&s;e, and &s;trike the braue&s;t heate</L>
<L>That euer yet did fire the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> blood!</L>
<L>Our right in <HI>France!</HI> if rightly vnder&s;tood.</L>
<L>There, thou art <HI>Homer!</HI> Pray thee, v&s;e the &s;tile</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t de&s;eru'd: And let me read the while</L>
<L>Thy Catalogue of Ships, exceeding his,</L>
<L>Thy li&s;t of aydes, and force, for &s;o it is:</L>
<L>The Poets act! and for his Country's &s;ake</L>
<L>Braue are the Mu&s;ters, that the Mu&s;e wil make.</L>
<L>And whe he &s;hips the~ where to v&s;e their Arms</L>
<L>How do his tru~pets breath! What loud alarms!</L>
<L>Looke, how we read the Spartans were inflamd</L>
<L>With bold <HI>Tyrtaeus</HI> ver&s;e, when thou art nam'd</L>
<L>So &s;hall our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Youth vrge on, and cry</L>
<L>An <HI>Agin-court,</HI> an <HI>Agin-court,</HI> or dye.</L>
<L>This booke! it is a <HI>Catechi&s;me</HI> to fight,</L>
<L>And will be bought of euery <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ord and Knight,</L>
<L>That can but read; who cannot, may in pro&s;e</L>
<L><PB REF="5">Get broken pieces, and fight well by tho&s;e.</L>
<L>The mi&s;eries of <HI>Margaret</HI> the Queene</L>
<L>Of tender eyes will more be wept, then &s;eene:</L>
<L>I feele it by mine owne, that ouerflow,</L>
<L>And &s;top my &s;ight, in euery line I goe.</L>
<L>But then refre&s;hed by thy <HI>Fayrie Court,</HI></L>
<L>I looke on <HI>Cynthia,</HI> and <HI>Syrenas</HI> &s;port,</L>
<L>As on two flowry Carpets, that did ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And with their gra&s;sy green re&s;tor'd mine eyes</L>
<L>Yet giue mee leaue, to wonder at the birth</L>
<L>Of thy &s;trange <HI>Moon-Calfe,</HI> both thy &s;traine of  mirth</L>
<L>And Go&s;&s;ip-got acquainta~ce, as to vs,</L>
<L>Thou had&s;t brought <HI>Lapland</HI> or old <HI>Cobalus,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Empu&s;a, Lamia,</HI> or &s;ome Mon&s;ter more</L>
<L>Then <HI>Affricke</HI> knew, or the full <HI>Grecian</HI> &s;tore!</L>
<L>I gratulate it to thee, and thy <HI>Ends,</HI></L>
<L>To all thy vertuous and well cho&s;en Friends,</L>
<L>Onely my lo&s;&s;e is, that I am not there:</L>
<L>And till I worthy am to wi&s;h I were,</L>
<L>I call the world, that enuies me, to &s;ee</L>
<L>If I can be a Friend, and Friend to thee&punc;</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
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<HEAD>VPON THE BATTAILE OF <HI>AGINCOVRT,</HI> VVRIT|TEN BY HIS DEARE FRIEND MICHAEL DRAYTON E&s;quire.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HAd <HI>Henryes</HI> name beene only met in Pro&s;e,</L>
<L>Recorded by the humble wit of tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who write of le&s;&s;e then Kings: who Victory,</L>
<L>As calmely mention, as a Pedigree,</L>
<L>The French alike with vs, might view his name</L>
<L>His actions too, and not confe&s;&s;e a &s;hame:</L>
<L>Nay, grow at length, &s;o boldly trouble&s;ome,</L>
<L>As to di&s;pute if they were ouercome.</L>
<L>But thou ha&s;t wakt their feares: thy fiercer hand</L>
<L>Hath made their &s;hame as la&s;ting, as their land.</L>
<L>By thee againe they are compeld to know</L>
<L>How much of Fate is in an Engli&s;h foe.</L>
<L>They bleed afre&s;h by thee, and thinke the harme</L>
<L>Such; they could rather wi&s;h, t'were <HI>Henries</HI> arme,</L>
<L>Who thankes thy painefull quill; and holds it more</L>
<L>To be thy Subiect now, then King before.</L>
<L><PB REF="6">By thee he conquers yet; when eu'ry wora</L>
<L>Yeelds him a fuller honour, then his &s;word.</L>
<L>Strengthens his actions again&s;t time: by thee,</L>
<L>He Victory, and <HI>France,</HI> doth hold in fee,</L>
<L>So well ob&s;eru'd he is, that eu'ry thing,</L>
<L>Speakes him not only Engli&s;h, but a King.</L>
<L>And <HI>France,</HI> in this, may boa&s;t her fortunate,</L>
<L>That &s;he was worthy of &s;o braue a hate.</L>
<L>Her &s;uffering is her gayue. How well we &s;ee</L>
<L>The Battaile labour'd worthy him, and thee,</L>
<L>Where we may Death di&s;couer with delight,</L>
<L>And entertaine a plea&s;ure from a fight.</L>
<L>Where wee may &s;ee how well it doth become</L>
<L>The brau'ry of a Prince to ouer come.</L>
<L>What <HI>Povver</HI> is a Poet: that can add</L>
<L>A life to Kings, more glorious, then they had</L>
<L>For what of <HI>Henry,</HI> is vn&s;ung by thee,</L>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> doth want of his Eternity.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I. Vaughan.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>TO MY VVORTHY FRIEND M^r. MICHAELL DRAYTON vpon his Poems.</HEAD>
<LG>
<HEAD>SONNET.</HEAD>
<L>VVHat lofly Trophyes of eternall Fame,</L>
<L><HI>England</HI> may vaunt thou do'&s;t erect to her,</L>
<L>Yet forced to confe&s;&s;e, (yea blu&s;h for &s;hame,)</L>
<L>That &s;he no honour doth on thee confer</L>
<L>How't would become her, would &s;he learne to know</L>
<L>Once to requite thy Heauen-borne Art and zeale,</L>
<L>Or at the lea&s;t her &s;elfe but thankefull &s;howe</L>
<L>Her ancient Glories that do'&s;t still reueale:</L>
<L>Sing thou of Loue, thy &s;trains (like powerful charmes)</L>
<L>Enrage the bo&s;ome with an amorous fire,</L>
<L>And when againe thou lik'&s;t to &s;ing of Armes</L>
<L>The Coward thou with courage do'&s;t in&s;pire:</L>
<L>But when thou com'&s;t to touch our Sinfull Times,</L>
<L>Then Heauen farre more then Earth &s;peakes in thy (Rimes.)</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Reynolds.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="7">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>THE BATTAILE OF <HI>AGJN COVRT.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_CEas'd was the Thunder of tho&s;e Drums view,</L>
<L>which wak'd,</L>
<L>Th'affrighted <HI>French</HI> their mi&s;eries to</L>
<L>At <HI>Edwards</HI> name, which to that houre</L>
<L>&s;till quak'd,</L>
<L>Their <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The law Sa+lique was, that women &s;hould no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> herite; wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> law Edward the third <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> his right to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Crowne by his mot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> cancelled w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> his &s;word: &s;o much as at that ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> made way his clarme, though in France th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> law bee in|violable.</NOTE><HI>Salique Tables</HI> to the ground that threw,</L>
<L>Yet were the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> courages not &s;lak'd,</L>
<L>But the &s;ame Bowes, and the &s;ame Blade<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> they drew,</L>
<L>With the &s;ame Armes tho&s;e weapons to aduance,</L>
<L>Which lately lopt <HI>the Flower de liz of France.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> the fift, that man made out of fire,</L>
<L>Th'Imperiall Wreath plac'd on his Princely browe;</L>
<L>His Lyons courage &s;tands not to enquire</L>
<L>Which way old <HI>Henry</HI> came by it; or how</L>
<L>At <HI>Pomfret</HI> Ca&s;tell <HI>Richard</HI> &s;hould expire:</L>
<L>What's that to him? he hath the Garland now;</L>
<L>Let <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Henry th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o named <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Town in L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> colne Shi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> where he borne.</NOTE> <HI>Bullenbrooke</HI> beware how he it wan,</L>
<L>For <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Henry the fift borne Munmou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">.</NOTE> <HI>Munmouth</HI> meanes to keepe it if he can.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="2" REF="8">
<L>That glorious day, which his great Father got,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dowglas in that battaile <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ew three in the Kings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oat A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></NOTE></L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>Percies;</HI> calling to their ayde</L>
<L>The Valiant <HI>Dowglas,</HI> that Herculian <HI>Scot,</HI></L>
<L>When for his Crowne at <HI>Shrewsbury</HI> they playde,</L>
<L>Had quite di&s;hartned eu'ry other plot,</L>
<L>And all tho&s;e Tempe&s;ts quietly had layd,</L>
<L>That not a cloud did to this Prince appeare,</L>
<L>No former King had &s;eene a skie &s;o cleere.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet the rich Clergy felt a fearefull Rent,</L>
<L>In the full bo&s;ome of their Church (whil&s;t &s;he</L>
<L>A Monarche&s;&s;e, immea&s;urably &s;pent,</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e then &s;he was, and thought &s;he might not be:)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wickliffe a learned Di|uine, and the greate&s;t Pro|pe&s;tant of tho&s;e times.</NOTE></L>
<L>By <HI>Wickliffe</HI> and his followers; to preuent</L>
<L>The growth of who&s;e opinions, and to free</L>
<L>That foule A&s;per&s;ion, which on her they layd,</L>
<L>She her &s;trong'&s;t wits mu&s;t &s;tir vp to her ayde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When pre&s;ently a Parliament is cal'd</L>
<L>To &s;et things &s;teddy, that &s;tood not &s;o right,</L>
<L>But that thereby the poore might be inthral'd,</L>
<L>Should they bee vrg'd by tho&s;e that were of might,</L>
<L>That in his Empire, equitie en&s;taul'd,</L>
<L>It &s;hould continue in that perfect plight;</L>
<L>Wherefore to <HI>Le&s;ter,</HI> he t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">' A&s;&s;embly drawes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Parlia|ment at Lei|ce&s;ter.</NOTE></L>
<L>There to Inact tho&s;e nece&s;&s;ary Lawes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In which one Bill (mong&s;t many) there was red,</L>
<L>Again&s;t the generall, and &s;uperfluous wa&s;te</L>
<L>Of temporall Lands&punc; (the Laity that had fed)</L>
<L>Vpon the Hou&s;es of Religion ca&s;te,</L>
<L><PB N="3" REF="8">Which for defence might &s;tand the Realme in &s;ted&punc;</L>
<L>Where it mo&s;t needed, were it rightly plac'd;</L>
<L>Which made tho&s;e Church-men generally to feare,</L>
<L>For all this calme, &s;ome tempe&s;t might be near.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being right skilfull, quickly they fore&s;awe,</L>
<L>No &s;hallow braines this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e went about:</L>
<L>Therefore with cunning they mu&s;t cure this flawe;</L>
<L>For of the King they greatly &s;tood in doubt,</L>
<L>Le&s;t him to them, their oppo&s;ites &s;hould drawe;</L>
<L>Something mu&s;t be thru&s;t in, to thru&s;t that out:</L>
<L>And to this end they wi&s;ely mu&s;t prouide,</L>
<L>One, this great Engine, Clearkly that could guide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Chichley,</HI> that &s;ate on <HI>Canterburies</HI> See,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Henry Chich+ly &s;ucceeding Arund<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll (late dec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">+&s;ed) in that See.</NOTE></L>
<L>A man well &s;poken, grauely &s;tout, and wi&s;e,</L>
<L>The mo&s;t &s;elect (then thought of that could be,)</L>
<L>To act what all the Prelacy deui&s;e;</L>
<L>(For well they knew, that in this bus'ne&s;&s;e, he</L>
<L>Would to the vtmo&s;t &s;traine his faculties;)</L>
<L>Him lift they vp, their maine &s;tre~gth, to proue</L>
<L>By &s;ome cleane &s;light this <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So they ter|med it as un|worthy of a better title.</NOTE> libell to remoue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His braine in labour, gladly foorth would bring</L>
<L>Somewhat, that at this needfull time might fit,</L>
<L>The &s;prightly humour of this youthfull King,</L>
<L>If his inuention could but light of it;</L>
<L>His working &s;oule pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cteth many a thing,</L>
<L>Vntill at length out of the &s;trength of wit,</L>
<L>He found a warre with <HI>France</HI> mu&s;t bee the vvay</L>
<L>To da&s;h this Bill, el&s;e threatning their decay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="4" REF="9">
<L>Whil&s;t vacant minds &s;ate in their brea&s;ts at ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And the remembrance of their Conque&s;ts pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Vpon their fan&s;ies doth &s;o &s;trongly &s;ea&s;e,</L>
<L>As in their teeth their Cowardi&s;e is ca&s;t,</L>
<L>Rehear&s;ing to them tho&s;e victorious dayes&punc;</L>
<L>The deeds of which, beyond their names &s;hould la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That after ages, reading what was thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</L>
<L>Shall hardly thinke, tho&s;e men had any Heires.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And to this point, premeditating well,</L>
<L>A &s;peech, (which chanc'd, the very point to cleau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Aym'd, what&s;oeuer the &s;ucce&s;&s;e befell</L>
<L>That it no roomth &s;hould for a &s;econd leaue,</L>
<L>More of this Tittle then in hand to tell,</L>
<L>If &s;o his skill him did not much deceiue,</L>
<L>And 'gaiu&s;t the King in publike &s;hould appeare<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Thus frames his &s;peech to the A&s;&s;embly there.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>PA<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">don my boldnes, my Liedge Soueraigne L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Archbi|&s;hop of Can|terburies Ora|tion, to t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> King<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Parliament at Lece&s;ter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> following Stanzaes.</NOTE></L>
<L>Nor your Dread pre&s;ence let my &s;peech offer</L>
<L>Your milde attention, fauourably affoord,</L>
<L>Which, &s;uch cleere vigour to my &s;pirit &s;hall lend,</L>
<L>That&punc; it &s;hall &s;et an edge vpon your Sword,</L>
<L>To my demand&punc; and make you to attend,</L>
<L>Asking you, why&punc; men train'd to Armes you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Your right in <HI>France</HI> yet &s;uffering &s;till to &s;leep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Can &s;uch a Prince be in an Iland pent,</L>
<L>An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> poorely thus &s;hut vp within a Sea.</L>
<L>When as your right includes that large extent,</L>
<L>To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Alpes</HI> your Empire forth to lay,</L>
<L><PB N="5" REF="9">Can he be <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> borne&punc; and is not bent</L>
<L>To follow you, appoint you but the way,</L>
<L>We'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e wade if we want &s;hips, the waues to climme,</L>
<L>In one hand hold ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;words, with th'other &s;wim.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What time co~trouls your braue great gra~d&s;irs claim<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> of France de|&s;cended vpon Edward the third, from I|&s;abell <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u Mo|ther, Daugh|tar and &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing heire, to King Philip of France na|med the faire.</NOTE></L>
<L>To th'Realme of <HI>France,</HI> from <HI>Philip</HI> nam'd the faire</L>
<L>Which to King <HI>Edward</HI> by his mother came,</L>
<L>Queene <HI>I&s;aebel;</HI> that <HI>Philips</HI> onely heire,</L>
<L>Which this &s;hort intermi&s;&s;ion doth not maime,</L>
<L>But if it did, as he, &s;o yours repaire;</L>
<L>That where his blood in right preuailed not,</L>
<L>In &s;pight of hell, yet by his Sword he got.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What &s;et the Conquerour, by their <HI>Salique Lawes,</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e poore decrees their Parliaments could make,</L>
<L>He entred on in iu&s;tne&s;&s;e of his Cau&s;e,</L>
<L>To make good, what he dar'd to vndertake,</L>
<L>And once in Action he &s;tood not to pau&s;e,</L>
<L>But in vpon them like a Tempe&s;t brake,</L>
<L>And downe their buildings with &s;uch fury bare,</L>
<L>That they from mi&s;ts di&s;&s;olued were to ayre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As tho&s;e braue <HI>Edwards,</HI> Father, and the Sonne&punc;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Conquer'd <HI>Cre&s;&s;y&punc;</HI> with &s;ucce&s;&s;efull lucke,</L>
<L>Where fir&s;t all <HI>France</HI> (as at one game) they wonne,</L>
<L>Neuer two Warriours, &s;uch a Battaile &s;trucke,</L>
<L>That when the bloody di&s;mall fight was done,</L>
<L>Here in one heape, there in another Rucke</L>
<L>Princes and pea&s;ants lay together mixt,</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Swords, no difference knew betwixt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="6" REF="10">
<L>There <HI>Lewe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> King of <HI>Beame</HI> was ouerthrowne,</L>
<L>With valiant <HI>Charles,</HI> of <HI>France</HI> the yonger brother</L>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Iames, Daul|p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> of Vien|noies. The Dukes of L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">raine &amp; Burbon. The Earles of Aumerl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, Savoye, Mountbilli|ard Flaun|ders, Nevers, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">arcourt. King Iohn of France and Philip his &s;on taken by the Blacke Prince, at the Battaile of Poyteers, brought Pri|&s;oners to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> land. Iohn of Cleu|mount. Peter of Burbon. Examples of &s;uch as haue aduan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d them&s;elues to the Crowne of France, a|gain&s;t the &s;trict letter of the lawe Salique, in two following Stanzaes.</NOTE> A <HI>Daulphine</HI> and two Dukes, in pieces hewen;</L>
<L>To them &s;ixe Earles lay &s;laine by one another;</L>
<L>her the grand <HI>Prior</HI> of <HI>France,</HI> fetcht his la&s;t groa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Two Archbi&s;hops the boi&s;trous croud doth &s;mothe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>There fifteene thou&s;and of their Gentrie dy'de&punc;</L>
<L>With each two Souldiers, &s;laughtered by his &s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor the <HI>Blacke Prince</HI> at <HI>Poyters</HI> battaile fough<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Short of his Father, and him&s;elfe before,</L>
<L>Her King and Prince, that pri&s;oners hither broug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>From forty thou&s;and, weltring in their gore,</L>
<L>That in the worlds opinion it was thought,</L>
<L><HI>France</HI> from that in&s;tant could &s;ub&s;i&s;t no more,</L>
<L>The * <HI>Mar&s;hall,</HI> and the * <HI>Con&s;table,</HI> there <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">laine,</L>
<L>Vnder the Standard, in that battaile ta'ne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor is this claime for women to &s;ucceed,</L>
<L>(Gain&s;t which they would your right to <HI>France</HI> de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>A thing &s;o new, that it &s;o much &s;hould need</L>
<L>Such oppo&s;ition, as though fetcht from farre,</L>
<L>By <HI>Pepin</HI> this is prou'd, as by a deed,</L>
<L>Depo&s;ing <HI>Cheldricke,</HI> by a fatall warre,</L>
<L>By <HI>Blythyld</HI> dat'd his title to aduance,</L>
<L>Daughter to <HI>Clothar,</HI> fir&s;t &s;o nam'd of <HI>France.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Hugh Capet,</HI> who from <HI>Charles</HI> of <HI>Lorayne</HI> too<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>The Crown of <HI>France,</HI> that he in peace might raig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>As heire to <HI>Lingard</HI> to her title &s;tooke,</L>
<L>Who was the daughter of King <HI>Charlemaine,</HI></L>
<L><PB N="7" REF="10">So holy <HI>Lowes</HI> poring on his booke,</L>
<L>Whom that <HI>Hugh Capet</HI> made his heire againe,</L>
<L>From <HI>Ermingard</HI> his Gra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, claimd the crown,</L>
<L>Duke <HI>Charles</HI> his caughter, wrongfully put down.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor thinke my Liege a fitter time then this,</L>
<L>You could haue found your title to aduance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t the full height, when now the faction is,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'wixt <HI>Burgoyne,</HI> and the hou&s;e of <HI>Orleance,</HI></L>
<L>Your purpo&s;e you not po&s;&s;ibly can mi&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for my Lord &s;o luckily doth chance,</L>
<L>That whil&s;t the&s;e two in oppo&s;ition &s;tand,</L>
<L>You may haue time your Army there to land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And if my fancy doe not ouerpre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y vi&s;uall &s;ence, me thinkes in euery eye</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ee &s;uch cheere, as of our good &s;ucce&s;&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>France</HI> hereafter &s;eemes to Prophecie;</L>
<L>Thinke not my Soueraigne, my Alegiance le&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Quoth he; my Lords nor doe you mi&s;aply</L>
<L>My words: thus long vpon this &s;ubiect &s;pent,</L>
<L>Who humbly here &s;ubmit to your a&s;&s;ent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THis &s;peech of his, that powerful Engine prou'd</L>
<L>Then e'r our Fathers got&punc; which rais'd vs hier,</L>
<L>The Clergies feare that quietly remou'd,</L>
<L>And into <HI>France</HI> transferd our Ho&s;tile fier,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> made the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> through the world belou'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat dur&s;t to tho&s;e &s;o mighty things a&s;pire,</L>
<L>And gaue &s;o cleare a lu&s;ter to our fame,</L>
<L>That neighboring nations trembled at our name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="8" REF="11">
<L>When through the hou&s;e, this rumor &s;car&s;ely r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That warre with <HI>France</HI> propounded was againe&punc;</L>
<L>In all th'a&s;&s;embly there was not a man,</L>
<L>But put the proiect on with might and maine,</L>
<L>So great applau&s;e it generally wan,</L>
<L>That el&s;e no bus'ne&s;&s;e they would entertaine,</L>
<L>As though their honour vtterly were lo&s;t,</L>
<L>If this de&s;ine &s;hould any way be cro&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So much mens minds now vpon <HI>France</HI> were &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That euery one doth with him&s;elfe foreca&s;t,</L>
<L>What might fall out this enterpri&s;e to let,</L>
<L>As what againe might giue it wings of ha&s;t,</L>
<L>And for they knew&punc; the <HI>French</HI> did &s;till abet</L>
<L>The <HI>Scot</HI> again&s;t vs, (which we v&s;'d to ta&s;t)</L>
<L>It que&s;tion'd was if it vvere fit or no;</L>
<L>To conquer them, ere we to <HI>France</HI> &s;hould goe&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which <HI>Raulph</HI> then Earle of <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> propo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ralph Neuill then warden of the Mar|ches betwixt England and Scotland. An <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> adag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> He that will France wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; mu&s;t with Scotland fir&s;t beginne. The Duke of Exce&s;ter the Kings owne <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Quoth he with <HI>Scotland</HI> let vs fir&s;t begin,</L>
<L>By which we are vpon the North inclos'd,</L>
<L>And lockt with vs, one Continent within,</L>
<L>Then fir&s;t let <HI>Scotland</HI> be by vs di&s;pos'd,</L>
<L>And with more ea&s;e, yee &s;patious <HI>France</HI> may win<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>El&s;e of our &s;elues, ere we our &s;hips can cleere,</L>
<L>To land in <HI>France;</HI> they will invade vs here.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not &s;o braue <HI>Neuill, Exce&s;ter</HI> replies,</L>
<L>For that of one tvvo labours were to make,</L>
<L>For <HI>Scotland</HI> wholly vpon <HI>France</HI> relies;</L>
<L>Fir&s;t Conquer <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> yee may take&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="9" REF="11"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is the <HI>French</HI> pay, the <HI>Scot</HI> to them that tyes,</L>
<L>That &s;topt, a&s;under quickly ye &s;hall &s;hake,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Scots;</HI> to <HI>France</HI> then fir&s;t &s;ay I,</L>
<L>Fir&s;t, fir&s;t, to <HI>France</HI> then all the commons cry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in&s;tantly an <HI>Emba&s;&s;y</HI> is &s;ent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t brea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h with France.</NOTE></L>
<L>To <HI>Charles</HI> of <HI>France,</HI> to will him to re&s;tore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e Territories, of who&s;e large extent,</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Kings were owners of before;</L>
<L>Which if he did not, and incontinent,</L>
<L>The King would &s;et tho&s;e <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> on his &s;hore,</L>
<L>That in de&s;pight of him, and all his might,</L>
<L>Should leaue their liues there, or redeeme his right.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t <HI>Normandy,</HI> in his demaund he makes,</L>
<L>With <HI>Aquitane,</HI> a Dutchy no le&s;&s;e great,</L>
<L><HI>Aniou,</HI> and <HI>Mayne,</HI> with <HI>Ga&s;coyne</HI> which he takes,</L>
<L>Cleerely his owne, as many an Engli&s;h &s;eat:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Countries demanded by the King of England.</NOTE></L>
<L>With the&s;e proud <HI>France,</HI> he fir&s;t of all awakes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or their deliuery, giuing power to treat;</L>
<L>For vvell he knew, if <HI>Charles</HI> &s;hould the&s;e re&s;tore,</L>
<L>No King of <HI>France</HI> was euer left &s;o poore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>King,</HI> and <HI>Daulphin,</HI> to his proud demand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">at he might &s;ee they no &s;uch matter ment,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a thing &s;itter for his youthfull hand;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Tunne of <HI>Paris</HI> Tennis Balls him &s;ent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King and Daulphine of France, d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">|deth the King of Eng|land.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tter him&s;elfe to make him vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">riding his ridiculous intent:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> And that was all the an&s;were he could get,</L>
<L>Which more the King doth to this Conque&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="10" REF="12">
<L>That an&s;wering the Amba&s;&s;adour, quoth he,</L>
<L>Thanks for my Bals, to <HI>Charles</HI> your Soueraign gi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Henry the fi&s;t an&s;wered for the Tennis Balles.</NOTE></L>
<L>And thus A&s;&s;ure him, and his &s;onne from me,</L>
<L>I'le &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd him Bals, and Rackets if I liue,</L>
<L>That they &s;uch R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;hall in <HI>Paris</HI> &s;ee,</L>
<L>When ouer line with B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">dies I &s;hall driue,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The lan|guage of Ten|nis.</NOTE></L>
<L>As that before the &s;et be fully done,</L>
<L><HI>France</HI> may (perhap) into the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">zzard runne&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So little doth luxurious <HI>France</HI> fore &s;ee</L>
<L>By her di&s;daine, vvhat &s;hee vpon her drew:</L>
<L>In her mo&s;t brau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">y &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing then to bee,</L>
<L>The puni&s;hment that &s;hortly &s;hould en&s;ue,</L>
<L>Which &s;o incen&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> King, that he,</L>
<L>For full reuenge into that fury grew:</L>
<L>That tho&s;e three horro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, Famine, Sword, and F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Could not &s;uffice to &s;atisfie his ire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In all mens mouthes novv was no word but w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>As though no thing had any other name;</L>
<L>And folke would aske of them ariu'd from farre,</L>
<L>What forces were preparing whence they came <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Gain&s;t any bus'ne&s;&s;e 'twas a lawfull barre</L>
<L>To &s;ay for <HI>France</HI> they were; and 'tvvas a &s;hame</L>
<L>For any man to take in hand to doe</L>
<L>Ought, but &s;omething that did belong thereto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Old Armours are dre&s;t&punc; vp, and new are made<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Iacks are in vvorking, and &s;trong &s;hirts of Male,</L>
<L>He &s;covvers an * old Foxe, he a <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Blades ac|counted of the be&s;t&punc; tem|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er&punc;</NOTE> bilbow blade,</L>
<L>Novv Shields and Targets onely are for &s;ale;</L>
<L><PB N="11" REF="12">Who works for wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re, now&punc; thriueth by his Trade&punc;</L>
<L>The brown-Bill, and the Battle-Axe preuaile:</L>
<L>The curious Fletcher fits his well-&s;trung Bowe,</L>
<L>And his barb'd Arrow which he &s;ets to &s;howe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tents and Pauillions in the fields are pitcht,</L>
<L>(<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> full wrought vp their Roomthyne&s;&s;e to try)</L>
<L>Windowes, and Towers, with En&s;ines are inricht,</L>
<L>With ruffing Banners, that doe braue the skie,</L>
<L>Wherewith the wearied Labourer bewitcht</L>
<L>To &s;ee them thus hang wauing in his eye:</L>
<L>His toyl&s;ome burthen from his back doth throw,</L>
<L>And bids them work that wil, to <HI>France</HI> hee'l go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Rich Sadles for the Light-hor&s;e and the Bard,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Armed at all poynts&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>For to be brau'&s;t ther's not a man but plyes,</L>
<L>Plumes, Bandroules, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d Caparizons prepar'd;</L>
<L>Whether of two, and men at Armes diui&s;e,</L>
<L>The <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Armings for the thigh and legge-</NOTE> Greaues, or * Guy&s;es were the &s;urer guard,</L>
<L>The <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Armings for the arme and &s;houlder.</NOTE> Vambra&s;&s;e, or the Pouldron, they &s;hould prize,</L>
<L>And where a &s;tand of Pikes plac't clo&s;e, or large,</L>
<L>Which way to take aduantage in the Charge,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One traynes his Hor&s;e, another trayles his Pike.</L>
<L>He with his Pole&punc; Axe, practi&s;eth the fight,</L>
<L>The Bowe-man (which no Country hath the like)</L>
<L>With his &s;heafe Arrow, proueth by his might,</L>
<L>How many &s;core off, he his Foe can &s;trike,</L>
<L>Yet not to draw aboue his bo&s;omes height:</L>
<L>The Trumpets &s;ound the Charge and the Retreat,</L>
<L>The bellowing Drum, the March again doth beat,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="12" REF="13">
<L>Cannons vpon their Carriage mounted are,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Battery <HI>France</HI> mu&s;t feele vpon her Walls,</L>
<L>The Engineer prouiding the Petar,</L>
<L>To breake the &s;trong Percullice, and the Balls</L>
<L>Of Wild fire deuis'd to throw from farre,</L>
<L>To burne to ground their Pallaces and Halls:</L>
<L>Some &s;tudying are, the Scale which they had got,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Great Ord|nance then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> newly in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Thereby to take the Leuell of their Shot.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The man in yeares preacht to his youthfull &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Pre&s;t to this Warre, as they &s;ate by the fire,</L>
<L>What deedes in <HI>France</HI> were by his Father done,</L>
<L>To this attempt to worke him to a&s;pire,</L>
<L>And told him there, how hee an En&s;igne vvonne,</L>
<L>Which many a yeare was hung vp in the Quire:</L>
<L>And in the Batrell, where he made his way,</L>
<L>How many <HI>French-men</HI> he &s;truck down that day<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The good old man with teares of ioy would tell,</L>
<L>In <HI>Cre&s;&s;y</HI> field, vvhat prizes <HI>Edward</HI> play'd,</L>
<L>As what at <HI>Poycteers</HI> the <HI>Blacke Prince</HI> befell,</L>
<L>How like a L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on hee about him layd:</L>
<L>In deedes of Armes, how <HI>Audely</HI> did excell,</L>
<L>For their olde &s;ins&punc; how they the <HI>French-men</HI> paid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>How brauely <HI>Ba&s;&s;et</HI> did be haue him there:</L>
<L>Hovv <HI>Oxford</HI> charg'd the Van, <HI>Warwick</HI> the reare</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And Boy, quoth he, I haue heard thy Grand&s;ire &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That once he did an Engli&s;h Archer &s;ee,</L>
<L>Who &s;hooting at a French twelue &s;core away,</L>
<L>Quite through the body, &s;tucke him to a Tree;</L>
<L><PB N="13" REF="13">Vpon their &s;trengths a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ng his Crowne might lay:</L>
<L>Such wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the men of that braue age quoth hee,</L>
<L>When with his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> he at his foe did driue,</L>
<L>Murrian and &s;calpe down to the teeth could riue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;carlet Iudge might now &s;et vp his Mule,</L>
<L>With neighing Steeds the Street &s;o pe&s;tred are,</L>
<L>For where he went in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> to rule,</L>
<L>On his Tribunall &s;eate the man of vvarre,</L>
<L>The Lawyer to his chambe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> doth recule,</L>
<L>For hee hath now no bus'ne&s;&s;e at the barre:</L>
<L>But to make Wills, and Te&s;taments for tho&s;e,</L>
<L>That were for <HI>France,</HI> their &s;ub&s;tance to di&s;po&s;e&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By this, the Councell of the War had met,</L>
<L>And had at large of euery thing di&s;cu&s;t;</L>
<L>And the graue Clergie had with them beene &s;et,</L>
<L>To warrant vvha they vndertooke was iu&s;t,</L>
<L>And as for monies that to be no let,</L>
<L>They, bad the King for that to them to tru&s;t:</L>
<L>The Church to pawn, would &s;ee her chalice laid,</L>
<L>E'r &s;he would leaue one Pyoner vnpayd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>Milford</HI> Hauen, to the mouth of <HI>Tweed,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Halfe th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="5 letters"> cutt of the I&s;land, from the Spani&s;h to the Ger|man Ocean.</NOTE></L>
<L>Ships of all burthen to <HI>Southampton</HI> brought,</L>
<L>For there the King the Rendeuous decreed</L>
<L>To beare abroad his mo&s;t victorious fraught:</L>
<L>The place from whence he with the greate&s;t &s;peed,</L>
<L>Might land in <HI>France&punc;</HI> (of any that was thought)</L>
<L>And with &s;ucce&s;&s;e vpon that lucky &s;hore,</L>
<L>VVhere his great Grand&s;ire landed had before.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Edward the third.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="14" REF="14">
<L>But for he found tho&s;e ve&s;&s;els were too few,</L>
<L>That into <HI>France</HI> his Army &s;hould conuay:</L>
<L>He &s;ent to <HI>Belgia,</HI> who&s;e great &s;tore he knew,</L>
<L>Might now at need &s;upply him euery way,</L>
<L>His bounty ample; as the vvindes that blew,</L>
<L>Such Barkes for <HI>Portage</HI> out of eu'ry bay</L>
<L>In <HI>Holland, Zeland,</HI> and in <HI>Flanders,</HI> brings;</L>
<L>As &s;pred the wide <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Soa be|twixt France and England <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> called. A Catalogue of the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ps in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Stanzaes.</NOTE> &s;leeue with their canua&s;e wings&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But fir&s;t &s;euen Ships from <HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> are &s;ent,</L>
<L>The narrovv Seas, of all the <HI>French</HI> to &s;weepe;</L>
<L>All men of vvar with &s;cripts of Mart that went,</L>
<L>And had command, the Coa&s;t of <HI>France</HI> to keepe:</L>
<L>The comming of a Nauie to preuent,</L>
<L>And view what &s;trength was in the Bay of <HI>Deepe:</HI></L>
<L>And if they found it like to come abroad,</L>
<L>To doe their be&s;t to fire it in the Road.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Bonauenture, George,</HI> and the <HI>Expence,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The names of the Kings 7. Ships of War</NOTE></L>
<L>Three as tall &s;hips, as e'r did Cable tewe,</L>
<L>The <HI>Henry Royall,</HI> at her parting thence,</L>
<L>Like the Huge <HI>Ruck</HI> from <HI>Gillingham</HI> that flevv:<NOTE PLACE="marg">An Indian Bird &s;o great, that &s;he is a|ble to carrie an Elephant.</NOTE></L>
<L>The <HI>Antilop,</HI> the <HI>Elephant, Defence,</HI></L>
<L>Bottoms as good as euer &s;pred a clue:</L>
<L>All hauing charge, their voyage hauing bin,</L>
<L>Before <HI>Southampton</HI> to take Souldiers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tvvelue Merchants &s;hips, of mighty burthen all,</L>
<L>New of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tocks, that had beene rig'd for <HI>Stoad,</HI></L>
<L>Riding in <HI>Thames,</HI> by <HI>Lymehou&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Blackwall,</HI></L>
<L>That ready were their Merchandize to load,</L>
<L><PB N="15" REF="14">Straightly commanded by the Admirall,</L>
<L>At the &s;ame Port to &s;ettle their aboad&punc;</L>
<L>And each of the&s;e a Pinnis at command.</L>
<L>To put her fraught conueniently to land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Eight goodly Ships, &s;o <HI>Bri&s;tow</HI> ready made,</L>
<L>Which to the King they bountifully <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ent,</L>
<L>With Spani&s;h Wines which they for balla&s;t lade,</L>
<L>In happy &s;peed of his braue Voyage ment,</L>
<L>Hoping this Conque&s;t &s;hould enlarge their Trade,</L>
<L>And there&punc; withall a rich and &s;pacious Tent:</L>
<L>And as this Fleete the Seuerne Seas doth &s;tem,</L>
<L>Fiue more from <HI>Pad&s;towe</HI> came along with them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Hare of Loo</HI> a right good &s;hip well knowne,</L>
<L>The yeare before that twice the &s;traits had pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Two wealthy Spani&s;h Merchants did her owne,</L>
<L>Who then but lately had repair'd her wa&s;t;</L>
<L>For from her Decke a Pyrate &s;hee had blowne,</L>
<L>After a long Fight, and him tooke at la&s;t:</L>
<L>And from <HI>Mounts Bay</HI> &s;ixe more, that &s;til in &s;ight</L>
<L>Walted with her before the <HI>Ile of Wight.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>Plymmouth</HI> next came in the <HI>Blazing Star,</HI></L>
<L>And fiery <HI>Dragon</HI> to take in their fraught;</L>
<L>With other foure, e&s;peciall men of warre,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bay of Portugal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the high working S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that is know<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE></L>
<L>That in the Bay of <HI>Portugall</HI> had fough,</L>
<L>And though returning from a Voyage farre,</L>
<L>Stem'd that rough &s;ea, whe~ at the high'&s;t it wroght&punc;</L>
<L>With the&s;e of <HI>Dertmouth</HI> &s;eu'n good &s;hips ther were</L>
<L>The golden Cre&s;&s;ant in their tops that beare&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="16" REF="15">
<L>So <HI>Lyme,</HI> three Ships into the Nauy &s;ent,</L>
<L>Of which the <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> &s;carce a mon'th before,</L>
<L>Had &s;prung a Planke, and her maine Ma&s;t had &s;pent&punc;</L>
<L>With extreme perill that &s;hee got to &s;hore;</L>
<L>Wich them fiue other out of <HI>Waymouth</HI> went,</L>
<L>Which by <HI>Southampton,</HI> vvere made vp a &s;core:</L>
<L>With tho&s;e that rode (at plea&s;ure) in the Bay,</L>
<L>And that at Anchor before <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next the&s;e, <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> furni&s;heth the Fleet</L>
<L>With nine good Hoyes of nece&s;&s;ary v&s;e;</L>
<L>The Dani&s;h Pyrats&punc; valiantly they beet,</L>
<L>Offring to Sacke them as they &s;ayl'd from <HI>Sluce:</HI></L>
<L>Sixe Hulks from <HI>Hul</HI> at <HI>Humbers</HI> mouth them meet,</L>
<L>Which had them oft acompanied to <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A country <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ng vpon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t Sea, ordering vp|on Poland. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">amous for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">erring fi&s;h|ng.</NOTE><HI>Pruce,</HI></L>
<L>Fiue more from * <HI>Yurmouth</HI> falling them among&punc;</L>
<L>That had for fi&s;hing beene prepared long.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Cow</HI> of <HI>Harwitch</HI> neuer put to flight,</L>
<L>For Hides and Furres, late to <HI>Mu&s;co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ia</HI> bound,</L>
<L>Of the &s;ame Port, another nam'd the <HI>Spight,</HI></L>
<L>That in her comming lately, from the Sound,</L>
<L>After a two dayes-&s;till&punc; continued fight,</L>
<L>Had made three Flemings run them&s;elues on ground;</L>
<L>With three neat Flee-boats which with the~ do tak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Sixe &s;hips of <HI>Sandwich</HI> vp the Fleet to make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nine &s;hips for the Nobility were there,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ydes to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing by the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">obility.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of able men, the enterprize to ayde,</L>
<L>VVhich to the King mo&s;t liberally they lent,</L>
<L>At their owne charge, and bountifully payd,</L>
<L><PB N="17" REF="15"><HI>Northumberland,</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> in &s;ent,</L>
<L>Foure&s;core at Armes a peece, them&s;elues, and layd</L>
<L>At <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ix &s;core Archers each, as <HI>Suffolke</HI> &s;howes,</L>
<L>Twenty tall men at Armes, with forty Bowes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Warwicke,</HI> and <HI>Stafford</HI> leauied at no le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Then Noble <HI>Suffolke,</HI> nor doe offer more,</L>
<L>Of men at Armes, and Archers which they pre&s;&s;e&punc;</L>
<L>Of their owne Tenants Arm'd wite their own &s;tore;</L>
<L>Their forwardne&s;&s;e fore&s;hewes their good &s;ucce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>In &s;uch a Warre&punc; as had not beene before:</L>
<L>And other Barrons vnder Earles that were,</L>
<L>Yet dar'd with them an equall charge to beare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Darcy,</HI> and <HI>Camois,</HI> zealous for the King,</L>
<L><HI>Louell, Fitzwater, Willoughby,</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Berkely, Powis, Burrell,</HI> fa&s;t together cling;</L>
<L><HI>Seymor</HI> and <HI>Saint-Iohn</HI> for the bus'ne&s;&s;e clo&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Each twenty Hor&s;e, and forty foote doe bring,</L>
<L>More, to nine hundred mounting in the gro&s;&s;e</L>
<L>In tho&s;e nine Ships, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">itly them be&s;tow'd,</L>
<L>Which with the other fall into the Road.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>Holland, Zeland,</HI> and from <HI>Flanders</HI> won,</L>
<L>By weekely pay, three&s;core twelue Bottoms came,</L>
<L>From fifty vpward; to fiue hundred Tunne;</L>
<L>For eu'ry v&s;e a Marriner could name,</L>
<L>Who&s;e glittering Flags again&s;t the Radient Sunne,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">how'd as the Sea had all beene of a flame;</L>
<L>For Skiffes, Crays, Scallops, &amp; the like, why the&s;e</L>
<L>From eu'ry &s;mall Creeke, couer'd all the Seas.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="18" REF="16">
<L>The man who&s;e way from <HI>London</HI> hap'd to lye,</L>
<L>By tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e met might gue&s;&s;e the generall force,</L>
<L>Dayly encountred as he pa&s;&s;ed by,</L>
<L>Now with a Troupe of Foote, and then of Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>To whom the people &s;till them&s;elues apply,</L>
<L>Bringing them victuals as in meere remorce&punc;</L>
<L>And &s;till the acclamation of the pre&s;&s;e&punc;</L>
<L>Saint <HI>George</HI> for <HI>England,</HI> to your good &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There might a man haue &s;eene in euery &s;treete,</L>
<L>The Father bidding farewell to his Sonne:</L>
<L>Small Children kneeling at their Fathers feete:</L>
<L>The Wife with her deare Husband ne'r had done,</L>
<L>Brother his Brother, with adieu to greet:</L>
<L>One Friend to take leaue of another runne:</L>
<L>The Mayden with her be&s;t belou'd to part,</L>
<L>Gaue him her hand, who tooke away her heart&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The nobler Youth the common ranke aboue,</L>
<L>On their coructing Cour&s;ers mounted faire,</L>
<L>One ware his Mi&s;tris Garter, one her Gloue,</L>
<L>And he a locke of his deare Ladies haire;</L>
<L>And he her Collours, whom he mo&s;t did loue,</L>
<L>There was not one but did &s;ome Fauour weare:</L>
<L>And each one tooke it, on his happy &s;peed,</L>
<L>To make it famous by &s;ome K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ightly deed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The cloudes of du&s;t, that from the wayes aro&s;e,</L>
<L>Which in their March the trampling troups do rear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>When as the Sunne their thickne&s;&s;e doth oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>In his de&s;cending, &s;hining wonderous cleare,</L>
<L><PB N="19" REF="16">To the beholder far off &s;tanding &s;howes,</L>
<L>Like &s;ome be&s;ieged towne, that were on fire,</L>
<L>As though fore-telling e'r they &s;hould returne,</L>
<L>That many a City yet &s;ecure mu&s;t burne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The well-rigd Nauy falne into the Road,</L>
<L>For this &s;hort Cut with victuall fully &s;tord,</L>
<L>The King impatient of their long aboad,</L>
<L>Commands his Army in&s;tantly aboard,</L>
<L>Ca&s;ting to haue each company be&s;tow'd,</L>
<L>As then the time conuenience could afford;</L>
<L>The Ships appointed wherein they &s;hould goe,</L>
<L>And Boats prepar'd for wa&s;tage to and fro.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To be imbarqu'd when euery band comes down,</L>
<L>Each in their order as they mu&s;tred were,</L>
<L>Or by the difference of their <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">A blazon of the En|&s;ignes of the &s;eueral Shire<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in 14. Stan|zas following.</NOTE> Armings knowne,</L>
<L>Or by their Collours; for in En&s;ignes there,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome wore the Armes of their mo&s;t ancient towne,</L>
<L>Others againe their owne Diui&s;es beare.</L>
<L>There was not any&punc; but that more or le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Somthing had got, that &s;omthing &s;hould expre&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>FIr&s;t, in the <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Expre&s;&s;ing their free|dome, as &s;till retaining their ancient liberties, by &s;urprizing the Conque|ror like a mouing wood.</NOTE> <HI>Kenti&s;h</HI> Stremer was a Wood,</L>
<L>Out of vvho&s;e top, an arme that held a &s;word,</L>
<L>As their right Embleme; and to make it good,</L>
<L>They aboue other onely had a word,</L>
<L>Which was; <HI>Vnconquer'd;</HI> as that free&s;t had &s;tood.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">An expre&s;|&s;ion of King Harolds deat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;laine with an Arrow i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the head, at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> of Ha&s;tings fighting a|gain&s;t the Conquerour.</NOTE> <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> the next that was to come Aboard</L>
<L>Boare a blacke Lyon Rampant &s;ore that bled,</L>
<L>With a Field-Arrow darted through the head.</L>
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<PB N="20" REF="17">
<L>The men of <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t fa|mous Earle of that country.</NOTE> <HI>Surry,</HI> Checky Blew and gold&punc;</L>
<L>Which for braue <HI>Warren</HI> their fir&s;t Earle they w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>In many a Field, that honour'd was of old)</L>
<L>And <HI>Ham&s;hiere</HI> next, in the &s;ame collours bore,</L>
<L>Three Lyons Pa&s;&s;ant, th'Armes of <HI>Benis</HI> Bold,</L>
<L>Who through <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ld, &s;o famous was of yore&punc;</L>
<L>A &s;iluer <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Expre&s;sing the plea&s;ant|ne&s;&s;e of the &s;cituation of that country, lying vpon the French Sea</NOTE> Tower, <HI>Dor&s;ets</HI> Red Banner beares</L>
<L>The <HI>Corni&s;hmen</HI> two Wre&s;tlers had for theirs.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">At lying the fitte&s;t to ex|pell or fore&punc;warne. Inua|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">on.</NOTE> <HI>Deuon&s;hire</HI> Band, a Beacon &s;et on fire,</L>
<L><HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Expre&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ng the delica<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y of the Bath, their chiefe City.</NOTE> a Virgine Bathing in a Spring,</L>
<L>Their Cities Armes the men of <HI>Glo&s;ter&s;hire,</HI></L>
<L>In Gold&punc; three Bloudy Cheuernells doe bring,</L>
<L><HI>Wilt&s;hire</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Crowned * Piramed; As higher</L>
<L>Then any other to match to the King;</L>
<L><HI>Barke&s;hire,</HI> a * Stag, vnder an Oake that &s;tood,</L>
<L><HI>Oxford,</HI> a White Bull wading in a Flood.<NOTE PLACE="marg">h The Armes of the anci|ent Family of Clare Earle of Glo&s;ter borne by the City. Stonidge be|ing the fir&s;t wonder of England, &s;tanding in Wilt&s;hire: An old Em|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rk|&s;hire.</NOTE></L>
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<LG>
<L>The mu&s;tred men for <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">A <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">adge of the ancient Family of the Staffords, Dukes of that place.</NOTE> <HI>Buckingham,</HI> are gone,</L>
<L>Vnder the Swan, the Armes of that old Towne;</L>
<L>The <HI>Londoners,</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> as one,</L>
<L>Are by the Red Cro&s;&s;e, and the Dagger knowne&punc;</L>
<L>The Men of <NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Queene <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Founder-of the Cro&s;&s;e, wife to Con&s;tantine, and daughter to King Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll, builder of Colche&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> E&s;&s;ex.</NOTE> <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> ouermatcht by none,</L>
<L>Vnder Queene <HI>Hellens</HI> Image Marching downe;</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Suffolke the mo&s;t Ea&s;terly of the Engli&s;h &s;hieres.</NOTE> <HI>Suffolke</HI> a Sunne halfe ri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n from the brack,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">For the br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">: prospect to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Germaine Ocean.</NOTE> <HI>Norfolke</HI> a Triton on a Dolphins backe.</L>
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<PB N="21" REF="17">
<L>The &s;ouldiers &s;ent from <HI>Cambridge&s;hire,</HI> a Bay<NOTE PLACE="marg">a Hauing re|lation to that famous Vni|uer&s;ity their Shire townes.</NOTE></L>
<L>Vpon a Mountaine watred with a &s;hower:</L>
<L><HI>Hartford</HI> <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">The Armes of the Town<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;omewhat al|luding to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> name.</NOTE> two Harts that in a riuer play:</L>
<L><HI>Bedford</HI> an Eagle pearcht vpon a Tower,</L>
<L>And <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">The Armes of the towne of Hunting&punc;don, fir&s;t &s;o named of a place where Hunters met&punc;</NOTE> <HI>Huntington</HI> a people proud as they,</L>
<L>Nor giuing place to any for their power,</L>
<L>A youthfull Hunter with a Chap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et Crown'd,</L>
<L>In a pyde Lyam leading foorth his Hound.</L>
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<L><HI>Northampton</HI> <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">The Armes of the towne.</NOTE> with a Ca&s;tle &s;eated high,</L>
<L>Supported by two Lyons thither came,</L>
<L>The men of <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">From the a|boundance of wool in that tract.</NOTE> <HI>Rutland,</HI> to them marching nie;</L>
<L>In their rich En&s;igne beare an Ermine Ram,</L>
<L>And <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">A sport more v&s;ed in that &s;hire from ancient time&punc; then in any other.</NOTE> <HI>Le&s;ter&s;hire</HI> that on their &s;trength relye,</L>
<L>A Bull and Ma&s;tiue fighting for the game,</L>
<L><HI>Lincolne</HI> <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">For the length that it hath vpon the German Ocean.</NOTE> a &s;hip mo&s;t neatly that was lim'd,</L>
<L>In all her &s;ailes with Flags and Pennons trim'd.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Sto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">The Bear and ragged Staffe, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ancient Armes of that Earle|dome.</NOTE> <HI>Warwick&s;hire,</HI> her ancient badg the Beare,</L>
<L><HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;ter</HI> <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">For the abundance of fruite more there then in any other tract.</NOTE> a Peare-tree laden with the fruit,</L>
<L>A Golden fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ce and <NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">The fine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of the Wooll of Lem&s;ter in that &s;hire</NOTE> <HI>Hereford</HI> doth weare</L>
<L><HI>Stafford&punc;</HI> <NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Many Hermites liued there in the woods in ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> pa&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, it being all forre&s;trie.</NOTE> A Hermet in his homely &s;ute,</L>
<L><HI>Shrop&s;hire</HI> <NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Expre&s;&s;ing the loftine&s;&s;e of the mountaines in that S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> on which many Hawkes were wont <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> ay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y.</NOTE> a Falcon towring in the ayre,</L>
<L>And for the Shire who&s;e &s;urface &s;eemes mo&s;t brute,</L>
<L><HI>Darby,</HI> an Eagle &s;itting on a Roote,</L>
<L>A &s;wathed infant holding in her foote.</L>
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<PB N="22" REF="18">
<L>Olde <NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">That fa|mous out&punc;law <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ch in&punc; that Country, and is yet by many places there Celebrated.</NOTE> <HI>Nottingham</HI> an Archer clad in greene,</L>
<L>Vnder a Tree with his drawne bowe that &s;tood,</L>
<L>Which in a checkquer'd Flagge farre off was &s;eene</L>
<L>It was the picture of old <HI>Robin Hood,</HI></L>
<L>And <NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">nted o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r the be&s;t Archers of England.</NOTE> <HI>Lanca&s;hire</HI> not as the lea&s;t I weene,</L>
<L>Thorough three Crowns, three arrows &s;meard wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> blood</L>
<L><HI>Che&s;hire</HI> a Banner very &s;quare &amp; broad,</L>
<L>Wherein a man vpon a Lyon rode.</L>
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<LG>
<L>A flaming Lance, the <NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">For their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> with the sp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of their Nagg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>Yorke&s;hir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> men for the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>As tho&s;e for <HI>Durham</HI> neere againe at hand,</L>
<L>A Myter crowned with a Diadem:</L>
<L>An armed man&punc; the men of <NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Being ready &s;til in Armes again&s;t the Scots</NOTE> <HI>Cumberland:</HI></L>
<L>So <NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Expre&s;&s;ing the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">it<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ther|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uting ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> into tho&s;e dangerous S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">, be|twixt Eng|land and Ire|land</NOTE> <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> link'd with it in one Stem,</L>
<L>A &s;hip that wrackt lay fierd vpon the &s;and:</L>
<L><HI>Northumberland</HI> <NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> conflicts (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">) with the Scots, ex|pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d in the fight between <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> golden &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d Lyon&punc;</NOTE> with the&s;e com'n as a broth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Two Lyons fighting tearing one another.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Thus as them&s;elues the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men had &s;how'd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Vnder the En&s;igne of each &s;euerall Shiere,</L>
<L>The natiue <HI>Welch</HI> who no le&s;&s;e honour ow'd,</L>
<L>To their owne King, nor yet le&s;&s;e valiant were;</L>
<L>In one &s;trong Reg'ment had them&s;elues be&s;tow'd,</L>
<L>And of the re&s;t, re&s;umed had the Reare:</L>
<L>To their owne Quarter marching as the re&s;t,</L>
<L>As neatly Arm'd, and brauely as the be&s;t,</L>
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<PB N="23" REF="18">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Milford Hauen in Penbrooke&punc;&s;hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">, one of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> harbours in the kno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> world, there|fore not vn|aptly &s;o ex|pre&s;&s;ed.</NOTE> <HI>Pembrooke,</HI> a Boat wherein a Lady &s;tood,</L>
<L>Rowing her&s;elfe within a quiet Bay;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e men of <HI>South-wales</HI> of the <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Partly Dut<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, partly Engli&s;h, part|ly Welch.</NOTE> mixed blood</L>
<L>Had of the <HI>Welch</HI> the leading of the way:</L>
<L><HI>Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rmardin</HI> <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, by who&s;e birth and knowledg that towne <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mous</NOTE> in her collours beare a Rood,</L>
<L>Whereon an old man lean'd him&s;elfe to &s;tay,</L>
<L>At a Starre poynting; which of great renowne,</L>
<L>Was skilfull <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lin,</HI> namer of that towne.</L>
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<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">A watch Tower or pha|rus, hauing the &s;cituation wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> Seuor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> beginneth to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> widden, as when Pirats haue come in to gi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e war|ning to the other Mari|tine Coun|tryes.</NOTE> <HI>Glamorgan</HI> men, a Ca&s;tell great and hie,</L>
<L>From which, out of the battlement aboue,</L>
<L>A flame &s;hot vp it &s;elfe into the skie:</L>
<L>The men of <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">For the glo|ry it hath at|tained to be the Kings birth-place, and to ex|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&s;&s;e his principalities.</NOTE> <HI>Munmouth</HI> (for the ancient loue</L>
<L>To that deare Country neighboring them &s;o nie)</L>
<L>Next after them in Equipage that moue,</L>
<L>Three Crownes Imperiall which &s;upported were</L>
<L>With three Arm'd Armes, in their proud En&s;igne (beare.)</L>
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<LG>
<L>The men of <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">The Armes of Brecknocke.</NOTE> <HI>Brecknock</HI> brought a Warlik Tent,</L>
<L>Vpon who&s;e top there &s;ate a watchfull Cocke,</L>
<L><HI>Radnor,</HI> <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Lying towards the mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t of W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> for abundance of Sheepe liuing on tho&s;e high mountaines.</NOTE> a mountaine of an high a&s;cent,</L>
<L>Thereon a &s;hepheard keeping of his Flocke,</L>
<L>As <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Lying towards the mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t of W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> for abundance of Sheepe liuing on tho&s;e high mountaines.</NOTE> <HI>Cardigan</HI> the next to them that went,</L>
<L>Came with a Meremayd &s;itting on a Rocke,</L>
<L>And <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">For the abundance of G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ate<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> tho&s;e inac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ible Mountaines.</NOTE> <HI>Merioneth</HI> beares (as the&s;e had done)</L>
<L>Three dancing goates again&s;t the ri&s;ing Sunne.<NOTE PLACE="marg">h Expre&s;&s;ing the &s;cituation <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Sh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, lying on the Maritine part vpon the Iri&s;h Sea.</NOTE></L>
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<LG>
<PB N="24" REF="19">
<L>Tho&s;e of <NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">The &s;hiere breeding the be&s;t Hor&s;es of Wales</NOTE> <HI>Montgomery,</HI> beare a prancing Stee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><HI>Denbeio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> <NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">As <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> it &s;elfe to the great North or Deucal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|donian Sea. in Expre&s;&s;ing the abun|dance of Corn and gra&s;&s;e, in that little Tract.</NOTE> a Neptune with his three-fork'd Mace</L>
<L><HI>Flint&s;hire (m)</HI> a Workemayd in her Summer wee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>with Sheafe and Sickle (with a warlike pace)</L>
<L>Tho&s;e of <HI>Caernaruon</HI> not the lea&s;t in &s;peed,</L>
<L>Though marching la&s;t (in the maine Armies face)</L>
<L>Three golden Eagles in their En&s;igne brought,</L>
<L>Vnder which oft braue <HI>Owen Guyneth</HI> fought,</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Seas amazed at that fearefull &s;ight,</L>
<L>Of Armes and En&s;ignes that abroad were brought</L>
<L>Of Streamers, Banners, Pennons&punc; En&s;ignes pight,</L>
<L>Vpon each Pub, and Prowe; and at the fraught,</L>
<L>So full of terror, that it hardly might</L>
<L>Into a naturall cour&s;e againe be brought,</L>
<L>As the Va&s;te Nauie which at Anchor rides,</L>
<L>Proudly pre&s;umes to &s;houlder out the Tides.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Fleete then full and floating on the maine</L>
<L>The numerous Ma&s;ts, with their braue top&s;ails &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>When as the wind a little doth them &s;traine,</L>
<L>Seeme like a Forre&s;t bearing her proud head&punc;</L>
<L>Again&s;t &s;ome rough flaw, that foreruns a raine:<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simile of the Nauy.</NOTE></L>
<L>So doe they looke from euery lofty &s;ted,</L>
<L>Which with the &s;urges, tumbled to and fro,</L>
<L>Seeme (euen) to bend, as trees are &s;eene to doe</L>
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<LG>
<L>From euery Ship when as the Ordnance ror<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Of their depart that all might vnder&s;tand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The braus &s;o|lemnity of the departing of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et</NOTE></L>
<L>When as the zealous people from the &s;hore,</L>
<L>Againe with fires &s;alute them from the Land,</L>
<L><PB N="25" REF="19"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or &s;o was order left with them before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o watch the Beacons with a carefull hand,</L>
<L>Which being once fierd, the people more or le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Should all to Church, to pray for their &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</L>
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<LG>
<L>They &s;hape their cour&s;e into the Mouth of <HI>Seyne,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Nauy Landing in the mouth of Seyne.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat de&s;tin'd Flood tho&s;e Nauies to receiue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">efore who&s;e fraught, her <HI>France</HI> had pro&s;trate laine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s now &s;hee mu&s;t this, that &s;hall neuer leaue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ntill the En&s;ignes that it doth containe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">to the ayre her heightned walls &s;hall heaue;</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;tubborne Turrets had refus'd to bow,</L>
<L>To that braue Nation that &s;hall &s;hake them now.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Long Boats with Scouts are put to land before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pon light Naggs the countrey to di&s;ery,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the braue Army &s;etting is on &s;hore,)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> vievv what &s;trength the enemy had nie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ing the bo&s;ome of large <HI>France</HI> &s;o &s;ore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">at her pale <HI>Genius,</HI> in affright doth flye</L>
<L>To all her Townes, and warnes them to awake,</L>
<L>And for her &s;afety vp their Armes to take&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At <HI>Paris, Roane,</HI> and <HI>Orleance,</HI> &s;he calls,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d at their gates with groanings doth complaine:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en cries &s;he out, O get vp to your walles:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Armies are return'd againe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich in two Battailes gaue tho&s;e fatall falls,</L>
<L><HI>Cre&s;&s;y,</HI> and at <HI>Poyteers,</HI> where lay &s;laine,</L>
<L>Our conquered Fathers, which with very feare,</L>
<L>Quake in their graues to feele them landed here.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="26" REF="20">
<L>The King of <HI>France</HI> now hauing vnd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;tood,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Henryes</HI> entrance. (but too wel unprou'd,)</L>
<L>He cleerely &s;aw that deere mu&s;t be the blood,</L>
<L>That it mu&s;t co&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> he could be remou'd,</L>
<L>He &s;ends to make his other &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a Townes good,</L>
<L>Neuer before, &s;o much it him behou'd,</L>
<L>In euery one a Gari&s;on to lay,</L>
<L>Fearing fre&s;h powers from <HI>England</HI> eu'ry day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To the high'&s;t earth whil&s;t awfull <HI>Henry</HI> gets,</L>
<L>From whence &s;trong <HI>Harflew</HI> he might ea&s;ie&s;t &s;ee,</L>
<L>With &s;prightly words, &amp; thus their courage whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ue en|couragement of a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ragi|ous King.</NOTE></L>
<L>In yonder walls be Mines of gold (quoth hee)</L>
<L>He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'s a poore &s;laue that thinkes of any debts;</L>
<L><HI>Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">flew</HI> &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y for all, it ours &s;hall bee,</L>
<L>This ayre of <HI>France</HI> doth like me wonderous we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Lets burne our &s;hips, for here we meane to dw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But through his H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t he fir&s;t of all proclai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>In paine of death no <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man &s;hould take,</L>
<L>From the Religion<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> aged, or the maym'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A charitable Proclamation made by the King.</NOTE></L>
<L>Or women that could no re&s;i&s;tance make;</L>
<L>To gaine his owne for that he only aym'd;</L>
<L>No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> would haue &s;uch to &s;uffer for his &s;ake:</L>
<L>Which in the French (when they the &s;ame did he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Bred of this braue King, a religions feare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His arm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> rang'd, in order fitting war,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings mayne Stan|dard (for the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nderou&s;nes thereof,) eu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> borne vpon a Carriage.</NOTE></L>
<L>Each with &s;ome greene thing doth his Murrian cro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>With his mayne &s;tandard fixt vpon the Carre;</L>
<L>Comes, the great King before th'intrenched to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><PB N="27" REF="20">Whil&s;t from the walles the people gazing are,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> all their &s;ights he &s;ets an army downe,</L>
<L>Not for their &s;hot he careth not a pin.</L>
<L>But &s;eekes where he his battery may begin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And into three, his Army doth diuide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King makes his aproches on three parts.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is &s;trong approaches on three parts to make;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">im&s;elfe on th'one, <HI>Clarence</HI> on th'other &s;ide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>Yorke,</HI> and <HI>Suffolke</HI> he the third doth take,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Mines the Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> doth guide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen caus'd his Ships the riuer vp to Stake,</L>
<L>That none with victual &s;hould the Town relieue,</L>
<L>Should the &s;word faile, with famin them to grieue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From his pauillion where he &s;ate in State,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rm'd for the &s;iedge, and buckling on his Shield,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">raue <HI>Henry</HI> &s;ends his Herauld to the Gate,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King &s;ummons Harflew.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y trumpets &s;ound to &s;ummon them to yeeld,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd to accept his mercy e'r too late,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r el&s;e to &s;ay, ere he for&s;ooke the field,</L>
<L><HI>Harflew</HI> &s;hould be but a meere heape of Stones,</L>
<L>Her buildings buried with her owners bones.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>France</HI> on this &s;uddaine put into a fright,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith the &s;ad newes of <HI>Harflew</HI> in di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e inexpected, mi&s;erable plight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee on the &s;uddaine, knew not to redre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t vrg'd to doe, the vtmo&s;t that &s;he might,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e peoples feares and clamours to &s;uppre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Rai&s;eth a power with all the &s;peed &s;he could,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">om what thereby to loo&s;e King <HI>Henryes</HI> hold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="28" REF="21">
<L>The <HI>Mar&s;hall</HI> and the <HI>Con&s;table</HI> of <HI>France,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Charles de A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bert, and Iohn Bowee|qualt.</NOTE></L>
<L>Leading tho&s;e Forces lev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed for the turne,</L>
<L>By which they thought their Titles to aduance,</L>
<L>And of their Countrey endle&s;&s;e prai&s;e to earne,</L>
<L>But it with them farre otherwi&s;e doth chance,</L>
<L>For when they &s;aw the villages to burne,</L>
<L>And high-towr'd <HI>Harflew</HI> round ingi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t with fire</L>
<L>They with their power to <HI>Cawdebeck</HI> retire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like as a Hinde when &s;he her Calfe doeth &s;ee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simile of the French power.</NOTE></L>
<L>Lighted by chance into a Lyons pawes,</L>
<L>From which &s;hould &s;hee aduenture it to free,</L>
<L>Shee mu&s;t her &s;elfe fill his deuouring Iawes,</L>
<L>And yet her young one, &s;till his prey mu&s;t bee,</L>
<L>(Shee &s;o in&s;tructed is by Natures Lawes:)</L>
<L>With them &s;o fares it, which mu&s;t needs go dow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>If they would figh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">; and yet mu&s;t loo&s;e the Tow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now doe they mount their Ordnance for the da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">A di&s;cription of the &s;iege of Harflewe, in the 19 fol|lowing Stan|zaes.</NOTE></L>
<L>Their &s;caling Ladders rearing to the walls,</L>
<L>Their battering Rams again&s;t the gates they lay,</L>
<L>Their brazen &s;lings &s;end in the wild-fire balls,</L>
<L>Baskets of twigs now carry &s;tones and clay</L>
<L>And to th'a&s;&s;ault, who furiou&s;ly not falls;</L>
<L>The &s;pade and Pick-Axe working are below;</L>
<L>Which then vnfelt, yet gaue the great&s;t blow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Rampiers of earth the painfull pyoners rai&s;e,</L>
<L>With the walls equall, clo&s;e vpon the Dike,</L>
<L>To pa&s;&s;e by which the &s;ouldier that a&s;&s;ayes,</L>
<L>On plankes thru&s;t ouer, one him downe doth &s;trike</L>
<L><PB N="29" REF="21">Him with a mall a &s;econd <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> payes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;econd <HI>French</HI> tran&s;pearc'd him with a pike</L>
<L>That from the height of the embattel'd Towers,</L>
<L>Their mixed blood ran down the wals in &s;howers.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>French-man</HI> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ke into the towne doth fall,</L>
<L>With a &s;heafe Arrow &s;hot into the head,</L>
<L>An <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man in &s;calling of the wall,</L>
<L>From the &s;ame place, is by a &s;tone &s;trucke dead,</L>
<L>Tumbling vpon them logs of wood, and all,</L>
<L>That any way for their defence might &s;ted:</L>
<L>The hills at hand re-echoing with the din,</L>
<L>Of &s;houts without, and feareful &s;hrikes within.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When all at once the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men a&s;&s;aile,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> within all valiantly defend,</L>
<L>And in a fir&s;t a&s;&s;ault, if any faile,</L>
<L>They by a &s;econd &s;triue it to amend:</L>
<L>Out of the towne come <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Crosbowe Arrowes.</NOTE>quarries thicke as haile;</L>
<L>As thicke againe their Shafts the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;end:</L>
<L>The bellowing Canon from both &s;ides doth rore,</L>
<L>With &s;uch a noy&s;e as makes the thunder poore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now vpon one &s;ide you &s;hall heare a cry,</L>
<L>And all that Quarter clowded with a &s;mother,</L>
<L>The like from that again&s;t it by and by;</L>
<L>As though the one were eccho to the other,</L>
<L>The King and <HI>Clarence</HI> &s;o their turnes can ply:</L>
<L>And valiant <HI>Glo&s;ter</HI> &s;howes him&s;elfe their brother;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Mynes to the be&s;ieg'd more mi&s;chiefe do,</L>
<L>Then with th'a&s;&s;aults aboue the other two.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="30" REF="22">
<L>An old man &s;itting by the fier &s;ide,</L>
<L>Decrepit with extreamity of Age,</L>
<L>Stilling his little Grand-childe when it cride,</L>
<L>Almo&s;t di&s;tracted with the Batteries rage:</L>
<L>Sometimes doth &s;peake it faire, &s;ometimes doth chide</L>
<L>As thus he &s;eekes its mourning to a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>By chance a bullet doth the chimney hit,</L>
<L>Which falling in doth kill both him and it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t the &s;ad weeping Mother &s;its her downe,</L>
<L>To giue the little new-borne babe the Pap,</L>
<L>A luckle&s;&s;e quarry leuel <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Towne,</L>
<L>Kills the &s;weete baby &s;leeping in her lap,</L>
<L>That with the fright &s;hee falls into a &s;woone,</L>
<L>From which awak'd, and mad with this mi&s;hap,</L>
<L>As vp a Rrampire &s;hreeking &s;he doth clim,</L>
<L>Comes a great &s;hot, and &s;trikes her lim from lim,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t a &s;ort runne confu&s;edly to quench,</L>
<L>Some Pallace burning, or &s;ome fired Street,</L>
<L>Cal'd fro~ where they were fighting in the Trench:</L>
<L>They in their way with Balls of wild-fire met,</L>
<L>So plagued are the mi&s;erable <HI>French,</HI></L>
<L>Not aboue head, but al&s;o vnder feete,</L>
<L>For the fierce <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> vowe the Tovvne to take,</L>
<L>Or of it &s;oone a heape of &s;tones to make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hot is the &s;iege the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> comming on;</L>
<L>As men &s;o long to be kept out that &s;corne,</L>
<L>Carele&s;&s;e of wounds as they were made of &s;tone,</L>
<L>As with their teeth the walls they would haue torn:</L>
<L><PB N="31" REF="22"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nto a breach who quickly is not gone,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> by the next behinde him ouer-borne:</L>
<L>So that they found a place that gaue them way,</L>
<L>They neuer car'd what danger therein lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From euery Quarter they their cour&s;e might ply,</L>
<L>As't plea&s;'d the King them to th'a&s;&s;ault to call:</L>
<L>Now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n the <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>Yorke</HI> the charge doth lye:</L>
<L>To <HI>Kent</HI> and <HI>Cornewall</HI> then the turne doth fall:</L>
<L>Then <HI>Huntingdon</HI> vp to the walles they cry:</L>
<L>Then <HI>Suffolke,</HI> and then <HI>Exce&s;ter;</HI> which all,</L>
<L>In their meane Souldiers habits vs'd to goe,</L>
<L>Taking &s;uch part as them that own'd them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The men of <HI>Harflew</HI> rough excur&s;ions make,</L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in their watchfull Tent,</L>
<L>Who&s;e courages they to their co&s;t awake,</L>
<L>With many a wound that often backe them &s;ent,</L>
<L>So proud a Sally that dur&s;t vndertake,</L>
<L>And then the Cha&s;epell mell among&s;t them went,</L>
<L>For on the way &s;uch ground of them they win,</L>
<L>That &s;ome <HI>French</HI> are &s;hut out, &s;ome <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor idely &s;it our men at Armes the while,</L>
<L>Foure thou&s;and Hor&s;e that eu'ry day goe out,</L>
<L>And of the Field are Ma&s;ters many a mile,</L>
<L>By putting the rebellious <HI>French</HI> to rout,</L>
<L>No pea&s;ants them with promi&s;es beguile:</L>
<L>Another bus'ne&s;&s;e they were come about;</L>
<L>For him they take, his ran&s;ome mu&s;t redeeme,</L>
<L>Onely <HI>French</HI> Crownes, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men e&s;teeme.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="23">
<L>Whil&s;t <HI>Engli&s;h Henry</HI> la&s;tly meanes to trye;</L>
<L>By three va&s;t Mines, the walls to ouerthrow,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> men their approches that e&s;py,</L>
<L>By countermynes doe meete with them below,</L>
<L>And as oppo&s;ed in the workes they lye:</L>
<L>Vp the Be&s;ieged the be&s;iegers blow,</L>
<L>That &s;tifled quite, with powder as with du&s;t,</L>
<L>Longer to walls they found it vaine to tru&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Till <HI>Gaucourt</HI> then, and <HI>Tuttiuile</HI> that were</L>
<L>The townes commanders, (with much perill) find</L>
<L>The Re&s;olution that the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> beare;</L>
<L>As how their owne to yeelding were enclinde,</L>
<L>Summon to parly, offring franckly there;</L>
<L>If that ayde came not by a day a&s;signde,</L>
<L>To giue the town vp, might their liues &s;tand freee:</L>
<L>As for their goods, at <HI>Henryes</HI> will to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And hauing wonne their conduct to the King,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e hardy chiefes on whom the charge had laine&punc;</L>
<L>Thither tho&s;e well-fed Burge&s;les doe bring,</L>
<L>What they had off'red &s;trongly to maintaine,</L>
<L>In &s;uch a ca&s;e, although a dangerous thing,</L>
<L>Yet they &s;o long vpon their knees remaine:</L>
<L>That fiue days re&s;pight from his Grant they haue</L>
<L>Which was the mo&s;t, they (for their liues) dur&s;t craue</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The time prefixed comming to expire,</L>
<L>And their reliefe ingloriou&s;ly delay'd,</L>
<L>Nothing within their fight but &s;word, and fire;</L>
<L>And bloody En&s;ignes eu'ry where di&s;play'd,</L>
<L><PB N="34" REF="23">The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;till within them&s;elues entire,</L>
<L>When all the&s;e things they &s;eriou&s;ly had way'd,</L>
<L>To <HI>Henryes</HI> mercy found that they mu&s;t tru&s;t,</L>
<L>For they perceiu'd their owne to be vniu&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ports are opened, weapons layd a&s;ide,</L>
<L>And from the vvalles th'artillery di&s;plac'd,</L>
<L>The Armes of <HI>England</HI> are aduanc'd in pride:</L>
<L>The watch tower, with Saint <HI>Georges</HI> banner grac'd</L>
<L>Liue <HI>England Henry,</HI> all the people cry'd:</L>
<L>Into the &s;treets the vvomen run in ha&s;t,</L>
<L>Bearing their little children, for who&s;e &s;ake,</L>
<L>They hop'd the King would the more mercy take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The gates thus widned vvith the breath of vvar;</L>
<L>Their ample entrance to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> gaue.</L>
<L>There was no doore that then had any bar,</L>
<L>For of their owne not any thing they haue:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King of England en|treth Har|flew in tri|umph.</NOTE></L>
<L>When <HI>Henry</HI> comes on his Emperiall Carre:</L>
<L>To whom they kneele their liues alone to &s;aue.</L>
<L>Strucken with wonder, when that face they &s;aw,</L>
<L>Wherein &s;uch mercy was vvith &s;o much avve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And fir&s;t them&s;elues the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> to &s;ecure,</L>
<L>Doubting what danger might yet be within,</L>
<L>The &s;tronge&s;t Forts, and Citadell make &s;ure,</L>
<L>To &s;hovve that they could keepe as vvell as winne,</L>
<L>And though the &s;poyles them wonderou&s;ly allure.</L>
<L>To fall to pillage e'r they will beginne,</L>
<L>They &s;hut each pa&s;&s;age, by which any power,</L>
<L>Might be brought on to hinder, but an hower.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="34" REF="24">
<L>That Conquering King which entring at the g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Borne by the pre&s;ie as in the ayre he &s;wamme:</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;uddaine layes a&s;ide his &s;tate,</L>
<L>And of a Lyon is become a Lambe:</L>
<L>He is not now what he was but of late:</L>
<L>But on his bare feete to the Church he came:</L>
<L>By his example, as did all the pre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>To giue God thanks, for his fir&s;t good &s;ucce&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;ends his Herauld to King <HI>Charles</HI> to &s;ay,</L>
<L>That though he thus was &s;etled on his &s;hore,</L>
<L>Yet he his Armes was ready downe to lay,</L>
<L>His ancient right if &s;o he would re&s;tore;</L>
<L>But if the &s;ame he wilfully denay,</L>
<L>To &s;top th'effu&s;ion of their Subiects gore;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hing Henry offereth to de|cade his right by &s;ingle com|bat.</NOTE></L>
<L>He frankly off'reth in a &s;ingle fight,</L>
<L>With the yong <HI>Daulphine</HI> to decide his right&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Eight dayes at <HI>Harflew</HI> he doth &s;tay to heare,</L>
<L>What an&s;were back, his Harauld him would b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>But when he found that he was ne'r the neere,</L>
<L>And that the <HI>Daulphine</HI> meaneth no &s;uch thing,</L>
<L>As to fight &s;ingle; nor that any were</L>
<L>To deale for compo&s;ition from the King:</L>
<L>He ca&s;ts for <HI>Callice</HI> to make foorth his way.</L>
<L>And take &s;uch townes as in his iourney lay,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But fir&s;t his bus'ne&s;&s;e he doth &s;o contriue,</L>
<L>To curbe the Townes-men, &s;hould they chanc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Of Armes, and office, he doth them depriue,</L>
<L>And to their roomes the Engli&s;h doth preferre;</L>
<L><PB N="35" REF="24"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of the ports all Vagrants he doth driue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd therein &s;ets his Vncle <HI>Exce&s;ter:</HI></L>
<L>This done, to march he bids the thundring Drums,</L>
<L>To &s;courge proud <HI>France</HI> when now her conqueror comes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The King and <HI>Daulphine</HI> hauing vnder&s;tood,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow on his way this haughty <HI>Henry</HI> was,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uer the <HI>Soame,</HI> which is a dangerous flood;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uckt down the bridges that might giue him pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd euery thing, if fit for humane food,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us'd to be forrag'd; (to a wonderous ma&s;&s;e,)</L>
<L>And more then this, his iourneys to fore-&s;low,</L>
<L>He &s;carce one day vnskirmi&s;h'd with doth goe,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But on his march, in mid&s;t of all his foes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e like a Lyon keeps them all at bay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd when they &s;eeme him &s;trictly to inclo&s;e;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et through the thick'&s;t he hewes him out a way:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or the proud <HI>Daulphine</HI> dare him to oppo&s;e;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hough off'ring oft his Army to fore-lay:</L>
<L>Nor all the power the enuious <HI>French</HI> can make,</L>
<L>Force him one foote, his path (but) to for&s;ake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And each day as his Army doth remoue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arching along vpon <HI>Soams</HI> Mar&s;hy &s;ide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">d found in the riuer of Soame.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is men at Armes on their tall Hor&s;es proue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o find &s;ome &s;hallow, ouer where to ride,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut all in vaine again&s;t the Streame they &s;troue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill by the helpe of a laborious guide,</L>
<L>A Ford was found to &s;et his Army ore</L>
<L>Which neuer had di&s;couered bene before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="36" REF="25">
<L>The newes divulg'd that he had waded <HI>Soame&punc;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;afe to &s;hore his Caridges had brought,</L>
<L>Into the <HI>Daulphines</HI> bo&s;ome &s;trooke &s;o home,</L>
<L>And on the weakene&s;&s;e of King <HI>Charles</HI> &s;o wrou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That like the troubled Sea, when it doth Foame,</L>
<L>As in a rage, to beate the Rocks to nought;</L>
<L>So doe they &s;torme, and cur&s;e on cur&s;e they hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Gain&s;t tho&s;e which &s;hould the pa&s;&s;ages haue ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And at that time, both re&s;ident in <HI>Roan,</HI></L>
<L>Thither for this a&s;&s;embling all the Peeres,</L>
<L>Who&s;e coun&s;ailes now mu&s;t vnder prop their thro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">A coun&s;ill held at Roan again&s;t the King of England.</NOTE></L>
<L>Again&s;t the Foe; which not a man but feares;</L>
<L>Yet in a moment confident are growne,</L>
<L>When with fre&s;h hopes each one his fellow chee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That ere the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> to their <HI>Callis</HI> got,</L>
<L>Some for this &s;poyle &s;hould pay a bloody &s;hot,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore they both in &s;olemne Coun&s;aile &s;at<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>With <HI>Berry</HI> and with <HI>Britane</HI> their Allies;</L>
<L>Now &s;peake they of this cour&s;e, and then of that,</L>
<L>As to in&s;nare him how they might deui&s;e;</L>
<L>Something they faine would do, but know not w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>At length the Duke <HI>Alanzon</HI> vp doth ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And crauing &s;ilence of the King and Lords,</L>
<L>Again&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> brake into the&s;e words,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>HAd this vnbridled youth an Army led,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;peech of the Duke A|lanzon a|gain&s;t the Engli&s;h.</NOTE></L>
<L>That any way were vvorthy of your feare&punc;</L>
<L>Again&s;t our Nation that dur&s;t turne the head,</L>
<L>Such as the former <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> forces were,</L>
<L><PB N="37" REF="25">This care of yours, your Countrey then might &s;ted,</L>
<L>To tell you then, who longer can forbeare,</L>
<L>That into que&s;tion you our vallour bring,</L>
<L>To calla coun&s;aile for &s;o poore a thing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Route of tatter'd Ra&s;cals &s;tarued &s;o,</L>
<L>As forced through extremity of need,</L>
<L>To rake for &s;craps on Dunghils as they goe,</L>
<L>And on the Berries of the Shrubs to feed,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides with fluxes are enfeebled &s;o,</L>
<L>And other foule di&s;ea&s;es that they breed,</L>
<L>That they di&s;abled are their Armes to &s;way,</L>
<L>But in their march doe leaue them on the way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And to our people but a handfull are,</L>
<L>Scar&s;e thirty thou&s;and, when to land they came,</L>
<L>Of which to <HI>England</HI> dayly &s;ome repaire,</L>
<L>Many from <HI>Harflew</HI> carried &s;icke and lame,</L>
<L>Fitter for Spittles, and the Surgions care,</L>
<L>Then with their &s;words on vs to winne them fame,</L>
<L>Vn&s;hod, and without &s;tockings are the be&s;t,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e by Winter mi&s;erably oppre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To let them dye vpon their March abroad,</L>
<L>And foules vpon their Carkai&s;es to feed,</L>
<L>The heapes of them vpon the common road,</L>
<L>A great infection likely were to breed,</L>
<L>For our owne &s;afeties &s;ee them then be&s;tow'd,</L>
<L>And doe for them this charitable deed,</L>
<L>Vnder our &s;words together let them fall,</L>
<L>And on that day they dye be buried all&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="38" REF="26">
<L>This bold invectiue forc'd again&s;t the Foe,</L>
<L>Although it mo&s;t of the a&s;&s;embly &s;ea&s;'d,</L>
<L>Yet tho&s;e which better did the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> know,</L>
<L>Were but a little with his &s;peeches plea&s;'d,</L>
<L>And that the Duke of <HI>Berry</HI> meant to &s;how:</L>
<L>Which when the murmure &s;omewhat was appea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>After a while, their li&s;tning &s;ilence breakes,</L>
<L>And thus in an&s;were of <HI>Alanzon</HI> &s;peakes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>MY Liedg, quoth he, &amp; you my Lords &amp; pee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Berrys an|&s;were to A|lanzon.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whom this great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e chiefly doth co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> ce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>By my experience, now &s;o many yeres,</L>
<L>To know the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> am not to learne,</L>
<L>Nor I more feeling haue of humane feares,</L>
<L>Then fitteth Manhood, or do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hope to earne</L>
<L>Suffrage from any; but by zeale am wonne,</L>
<L>To &s;peake my mind here, as the Duke hath do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Th'euents of War are various (as I know,)</L>
<L>And &s;ay, the lo&s;&s;e vpon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> light,</L>
<L>Yet may a dying man giue &s;uch a blow,</L>
<L>As much may hinder his proud conquerours might&punc;</L>
<L>It is enough our pui&s;&s;ant power to &s;howe,</L>
<L>To the weake <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> now vpon their flight,</L>
<L>When want, and winter, &s;trongly &s;purre them<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>You el&s;e but &s;tay them, that would faine be go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I like our Forces their fir&s;t cour&s;e &s;hould hold&punc;</L>
<L>To skirmi&s;h with them vpon euery &s;tay,</L>
<L>But fight by no means with the~, though they wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Except they find them forraging for pray,</L>
<L><PB N="39" REF="26">So &s;till you haue them &s;hut vp in a foold,</L>
<L>And &s;till to <HI>Callis</HI> keepe them in their way,</L>
<L>So <HI>Fabius</HI> wearied <HI>Haniball,</HI> &s;o wee,</L>
<L>May <HI>Engli&s;h Henry,</HI> if you plea&s;ed be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> rid your Countrey cleane,</L>
<L>If on their backs, but <HI>Callis</HI> walles they winne,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Frontier Townes you ea&s;ily may maintaine,</L>
<L>With a &s;trong Army &s;till to keepe them in,</L>
<L>Then let our Ships make good the mouth of <HI>Seyne,</HI></L>
<L>And at your plea&s;ure <HI>Harflew</HI> you may winne,</L>
<L>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e with &s;upplyes againe they can inuade,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pent in the Voyage lately hither made&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That day at <HI>Poyteers,</HI> in that bloody Field,</L>
<L>The &s;udden turne in that great Battell then,</L>
<L>Shall euer teach me, whil&s;t I Armes can weeld,</L>
<L>Neuer to tru&s;t to multitudes of men;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> was the fir&s;t day that ere I wore a Shield,</L>
<L>Oh let me neuer &s;ee the like agen</L>
<L>Where their Blacke <HI>Edward</HI> &s;uch a Battell won,</L>
<L>As to behold it might amaze the Sunne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There did I &s;ee our conquered Fathers fall,</L>
<L>Before the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> on that fatall ground,</L>
<L>When as to ours their number was but &s;mall,</L>
<L>And with braue Spirits <HI>France</HI> ne'r did more abound</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et oft that Battaile into minde I call,</L>
<L>Whereas of ours, one man &s;eemd all one wound,</L>
<L>I in&s;tance this; yet humbly here &s;ubmit,</L>
<L>My &s;elfe to fight, if you &s;hall thinke it fit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="40" REF="27">
<L>The Mar&s;hall and the Con&s;table about,</L>
<L>To &s;econd, what this &s;ager Duke had &s;ayd:</L>
<L>The youthfull Lords into a cry brake out,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Yong mens coun&s;ails oft|times proue the vtter &s;ub|uer&s;ion both of them&s;elues and others.</NOTE></L>
<L>Gain&s;t their opinions, &s;o that ouer-&s;way'd,</L>
<L>Some &s;eeming of their Loyalties to doubt;</L>
<L><HI>Alanzon</HI> as an Oracle obey'd,</L>
<L>And not a <HI>French</HI> then pre&s;ent, but doth &s;weare</L>
<L>To kill an <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> if ynow there were.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Herault po&s;ted pre&s;ently away,</L>
<L>The King of <HI>England</HI> to the field to dare,</L>
<L>To bid him cea&s;e his &s;poyle, nor to delay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The French King &s;endeth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o dare the King of Eng|land to Bat|taile.</NOTE></L>
<L>Gain&s;t the <HI>French</HI> power his forces but prepare:</L>
<L>For that King <HI>Charles</HI> determin'd to di&s;play</L>
<L>His bloody En&s;ignes, and through <HI>France</HI> declare,</L>
<L>The day and place, that <HI>Henry</HI> &s;hould &s;et dow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>In which their Battails, &s;hould di&s;po&s;e the cro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The newes to <HI>Henry</HI> by the Herault brought,</L>
<L>As one di&s;pa&s;sion'd &s;oberly (quoth he)</L>
<L>Had your King pleas'd, we &s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r might haue fou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>For now my &s;ouldiers much enfeebled bee:</L>
<L>Nor day, nor place, for Battaile &s;hall be &s;ought,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King of Englands mo|de&s;t an&s;were.</NOTE></L>
<L>By <HI>Engli&s;h Henry:</HI> but if he &s;eeke me,</L>
<L>I to my vtmo&s;t will my &s;elfe defend,</L>
<L>And to th'Almighties plea&s;ure leaue the end,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The brute of this intended Battaile &s;pred,</L>
<L>The coldne&s;&s;e of each &s;leeping courage warmes,</L>
<L>And in the <HI>French</HI> that daring boldne&s;&s;e bred:</L>
<L>Like ca&s;ting Bees that they ari&s;e in &s;warmes,</L>
<L><PB N="41" REF="27"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hinking the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> downe &s;o farre to tred,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> pa&s;t that day ne'r more to ri&s;e in Armes.</L>
<L>T'ext rpe the name, if po&s;sible it were,</L>
<L>At lea&s;t not after to be heard of there.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As when you &s;ee the enuious Crow e&s;pie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">omething that &s;he doth naturally dete&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simily of the ri&s;ing of the French.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith open throat how &s;he doth &s;quall and cry,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd from the next Groue &s;he doth call the re&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd they for tho&s;e beyond them bawling flye,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll their foule noy&s;e doe all the ayre infe&s;t:</L>
<L>Thus <HI>French,</HI> the <HI>French</HI> to this great Battaile call,</L>
<L>Vpon their &s;words to &s;ee the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And to the King when &s;eriou&s;ly one told,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith what an ho&s;t he &s;hould encountred be,</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m</HI> noting well, the King did him behold,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dauid Ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a great Cap|taine in that Warre.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the reporting; Merrily (quoth hee).</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y Liedge I'le tell you if I may be bold,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e will diuide this Army into three,</L>
<L>One part we'll kill, the &s;econd pri&s;oners &s;tay,</L>
<L>And for the third, we'll leaue to runne away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But for the Foe came hourely in &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t they his Army &s;hould di&s;ordred take;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e King who wi&s;ely doth the wor&s;t foreca&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;peedy march doth pre&s;ently for&s;ake,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;uch forme and his Battalion ca&s;t;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t doe their wor&s;t, they &s;hould not ea&s;'ly &s;hake;</L>
<L>For that his &s;couts which Forrag'd had the coa&s;t,</L>
<L>Bad him at hand expect a pui&s;&s;ant Ho&s;t&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="42" REF="28">
<L>On which ere long the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Vauward light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Yorke.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which <HI>Yorke,</HI> of men the braue&s;t doth command,</L>
<L>When either of them in the others &s;ight,</L>
<L>He cau&s;'d the Army in&s;tantly to &s;tand,</L>
<L>As though preparing for a pre&s;ent fight,</L>
<L>And rideth foorth from his couragious Band,</L>
<L>To view the <HI>French,</HI> who&s;e numbers ouer &s;pread</L>
<L>The troubled countrey on who&s;e earth they tre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now were both Armies got vpon that ground</L>
<L>As on a &s;tage, where they their &s;trengths mu&s;t try</L>
<L>Whence from the wydth of many a gaping wou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Ther's many a &s;oule into the ayre mu&s;t fly,</L>
<L>Meane while the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> that &s;ome ea&s;e had found,</L>
<L>By the aduantage of a Village nie,</L>
<L>There &s;et them downe the Battell to abide,</L>
<L>When they the place had &s;trongly forti&s;ide,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Made drunk with pride the haughty <HI>French</HI> di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The French &s;corning the Engli&s;h being &s;o few in re|spect of their mighty power.</NOTE></L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e then their owne, a multitude to view,</L>
<L>Nor aske of God, the victory to gaine,</L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> wext &s;o poore and few,</L>
<L>To &s;tay their &s;laughter thinking it a paine,</L>
<L>And la&s;tly to that in&s;olence they grew,</L>
<L>Quoyts, Lots, and Dice for <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> to ca&s;t,</L>
<L>And &s;weare to pay the Battaile being pa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For knots of corde to eu'ry towne they &s;end,</L>
<L>The Captiu'd <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> that they caught to bind,</L>
<L>For to perpetuall &s;lau'ry they intend:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that aliue they on the Field, &s;hould find,</L>
<L><PB N="43" REF="28"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o much as that they fear'd le&s;t they &s;hould &s;pend,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oo many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> wherefore they a&s;signd,</L>
<L>Some to keep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fa&s;t tho&s;e, faine that would be gon,</L>
<L>After the Fight, to try their Armes vpon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One his bright &s;harp edg'd Semiter doth &s;howe,</L>
<L>Off'ring to lay a thou&s;and crownes (in pride)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he two naked <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> at one blowe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ound backe to backe will at the wa&s;ts diuide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome bett his &s;word will do't, &s;ome others no,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fter the Battaile, and they'll haue it tride:</L>
<L>Another wafts his Blade about his head,</L>
<L>And &s;hews them how their ha~&s;trings he will &s;hread</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They part their pri&s;oners, pa&s;&s;ing them for debt,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in their Ran&s;ome ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ibly accord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o a Prince of ours, a Page of theirs they &s;et,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd a <HI>French</HI> Lacky to an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Lord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s for our Gentry them to hyre they'll let,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd as good cheape as they can them afford,</L>
<L>Branded for &s;laues, that if they hapt to &s;tray,</L>
<L>Knowne by the marke, them any one might &s;tay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And ca&s;t to make a Chariot for the King,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ainted with Antickes, and ridiculous toyes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> which they meane to <HI>Paris</HI> him to bring,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o make &s;port to their Madames, and their boyes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd will haue Ra&s;calls, Rimes of him to &s;ing,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">de in his mock'ry; and in all the&s;e ioyes,</L>
<L>They bid the Bells to ring, and people cry,</L>
<L>Before the Battaile, <HI>France</HI> and Victory.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="44" REF="29">
<L>And to the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Daulphine</HI> &s;ent away.</L>
<L>(Who at that time re&s;iding were in <HI>Roane</HI>)</L>
<L>To be partakers of that glorious day:</L>
<L>Wherein the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;hould be ouerthrowne,</L>
<L>Le&s;t that of them en&s;uing dayes &s;hould &s;ay;</L>
<L>That for their &s;afety they for&s;ooke their owne,</L>
<L>When <HI>France</HI> did that braue victory obtaine,</L>
<L>That &s;hall her la&s;ting'&s;t Monument remaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> the whiles,</L>
<L>Not dar'd by doubt, and le&s;&s;e appaul'd by dread,</L>
<L>Of their Arm'd pikes, &s;ome &s;harpning are the pyle</L>
<L>The Archer grinding his barb'd Arrow head:</L>
<L>Their Bils &amp; blades, &s;ome whetting are with File</L>
<L>And &s;ome their Armours &s;trongly Reuited,</L>
<L>Some poynting &s;takes to &s;ticke into the groun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>To guard the Bow-men, &amp; their Hor&s;e to woun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The night fore-running this mo&s;t dreadfull da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> that all to iollity incline;</L>
<L>Some fall to dancing, &s;ome againe to play:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ryot in the French Campe the night before the Battell.</NOTE></L>
<L>And &s;ome are drinking to this great De&s;igne:</L>
<L>But all in plea&s;ure &s;pent the night away,</L>
<L>The tents with lights, the fields with bon-fires &s;hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>The common Souldiers free-mens catches &s;ing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>With &s;houts and laughter al the Camp doth ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The wearied <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> watchfull o'r their Foes,</L>
<L>(The depth of night then drawing on &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>That faine a little would them&s;elues repo&s;e,</L>
<L>With thankes to God, doe take that &s;mall repa&s;t,</L>
<L><PB N="45" REF="29">Which that poore Village willingly be&s;towes:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pondering in hu thoughts hu Fathers comming to the crowne by depo&s;ing of the rightfull King. Henry the fift cau&s;ed the body of King Rich|ard to be ta|ken vp, where it was mean|ly buried at Langly, and to be layd in We&s;tmin&s;ter by his fir&s;t. Wife, Queene Anne.</NOTE></L>
<L>And hauing plac'd their Sentinels at la&s;t,</L>
<L>They fall to prayer, and in their Cabins ble&s;t,</L>
<L>T'refre&s;h their &s;pirits, then tooke them to their re&s;t</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In his Pauillion Princely HENRY lay'd,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t all his Army round about him &s;lept:</L>
<L>His re&s;tle&s;le head vpon his Helmet &s;tay'd,</L>
<L>For carefull thoughts his eyes long waking kept:</L>
<L>Great God (quoth he) withdraw not now thy ayde,</L>
<L>Nor let my Father HENRIES &s;innes be heapt</L>
<L>On my tran&s;gre&s;sions, vp the Summe to make,</L>
<L>For which thou may'&s;t me vtterly for&s;ake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>King <HI>Richards</HI> wrongs to mind, Lord do not call,</L>
<L>Nor how for him my Father did offend,</L>
<L>From vs alone deriue not thou his fall,</L>
<L>Who&s;e odious life cau&s;'d his vntimely end,</L>
<L>That by our almes be expiated all:</L>
<L>Let not that &s;inne on me his Sonne de&s;cend,</L>
<L>When as his body I tran&s;lated haue,</L>
<L>And buried in an honourable graue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e things thus pondring, &s;orrow-cea&s;ing &s;leep,</L>
<L>From cares to re&s;cue his much troubled mind,</L>
<L>Vpon his Eye-lids &s;tealingly doth creepe,</L>
<L>And in &s;oft &s;lumbers euery &s;en&s;e doth blind,</L>
<L>(As vndi&s;turbed euery one to keepe)</L>
<L>When as that Angell to whom God a&s;sign'd,</L>
<L>The guiding of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> gliding downe,</L>
<L>The &s;ilent campe doth with fre&s;h courage crown.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="46" REF="30">
<L>His glittering wings he gloriou&s;ly di&s;playes,</L>
<L>Ouer the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t as euery way it lyes,</L>
<L>With <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">olden Dreames their trauell, and repayes,</L>
<L>This Herault from the Rector of the skies,</L>
<L>In Vi&s;ion wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nes them not to v&s;e delayes,</L>
<L>But to the Battell cheerefully to ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And be victorious for that day at hand,</L>
<L>He would among&s;t them for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The dawne &s;car&s;e drew the curtaines of the Ea&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>But the late wearied <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> awake,</L>
<L>And much refre&s;hed with a little re&s;t,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues &s;oone ready for the Battaile make,</L>
<L>Not any one but feeleth in his brea&s;t,</L>
<L>That &s;prightly fire which courage bids him take,</L>
<L>For cre the Sunne next ri&s;ing went to bed,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> by them in triumph &s;hould be led,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And from their Cabins, ere the <HI>French</HI> aro&s;e,</L>
<L>(Drown'd in the plea&s;ure of the pa&s;&s;ed night)</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ca&s;t their Battailes to di&s;po&s;e,</L>
<L>Fit' or the ground whereon they were to fight:</L>
<L>Foorth that braue King couragious <HI>Henry</HI> goes,</L>
<L>An hower before that it was fully light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The great are of a wi&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">litike aptaine.</NOTE></L>
<L>To &s;ee if there might any place be found,</L>
<L>To giue his Ho&s;t aduantage by the ground.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where twas his hap a Quick&s;et hedge to view,</L>
<L>Well growne in heigh; and for his purpo&s;e thin,</L>
<L>Yet by the Ditch vpon who&s;e banke it grew,</L>
<L>He found it to be difficult to winne,</L>
<L><PB N="47" REF="30"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pecially if tho&s;e of his were true,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mong&s;t the &s;hrubs that he &s;hould &s;et within,</L>
<L>By which he knew their &s;tre~gth of hor&s;e mu&s;t come</L>
<L>If they would euer charge his Vanguard home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And of three hundred Archers maketh choice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|gem the ouer|throw of the French.</NOTE></L>
<L>Some to be taken out of euery Band,</L>
<L>The &s;tronge&s;t Bowmen&punc; by the generall voyce,</L>
<L>Such as be&s;ide were valiant of their hand,</L>
<L>And to be &s;o imployed, as would reioyce,</L>
<L>Appointing them behind the hedge to &s;tand,</L>
<L>To &s;hrowd them&s;elues from &s;ight, and to be mute,</L>
<L>Vntill a &s;ignall freely bad them &s;hoote.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The game &s;ome Larke now got vpon her Wing,</L>
<L>As twere the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> early to awake,</L>
<L>And to wide heauen her cheerefull notes doth &s;ing,</L>
<L>As &s;he for them would interce&s;sion make,</L>
<L>Nor all the noy&s;e that from below doth &s;pring,</L>
<L>Her ayrie walke can force her to for&s;ake,</L>
<L>Of &s;ome much noted, and of others le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>But yet of all pre&s;aging good &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The lazie <HI>French</HI> their lei&s;ure &s;eeme to take,</L>
<L>And in their Cabins keepe them&s;elues &s;o long,</L>
<L>Till flocks of Rauens them with noy&s;e awake,</L>
<L>Ouer the Army like a cloud that hong,</L>
<L>Which greater ha&s;t inforceth them to make,</L>
<L>When with their croaking all the Country rong,</L>
<L>Which boaded flaughter as the mo&s;t doe &s;ay,</L>
<L>But by the <HI>French</HI> it turned was this way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="48" REF="31">
<L>That this diuining Foule well vnder&s;tood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The French mi&s;-interpre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the flight of Rauens <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oue|ring ouer there owre <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>Vpon that place much gore was to be &s;pill'd,</L>
<L>And as tho&s;e Birds doe much delight in blood,</L>
<L>With humane fle&s;h would haue their gorges fill'd,</L>
<L>So waited they vpon their &s;words for food,</L>
<L>To fea&s;t vpon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> being kil'd,</L>
<L>Then little thinking that the&s;e came indeed,</L>
<L>On their owne mangled Carka&s;es to feed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;oone the <HI>French</HI> preparing for the Field,</L>
<L>Their Armed troupes are &s;etting in array,</L>
<L>Who&s;e wondrous numbers they can hardly weeld,</L>
<L>The place too little whereupon they lay,</L>
<L>They therefore to nece&s;&s;ity mu&s;t yeeld,</L>
<L>And into order put them as they may.</L>
<L>Who&s;e motion &s;ounded like to <HI>Nilus</HI> fall,</L>
<L>That the Va&s;t ayre was deafned therewithall,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Con&s;table, and admirall of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>With the grand Mar&s;hall, men of great command&punc;</L>
<L>The Dukes of <HI>Burbon,</HI> and of <HI>Orleance,</HI></L>
<L>Som for their place, &s;ome for their birth-right &s;tand,</L>
<L>The <HI>Daulphine</HI> of <HI>Auerney</HI> (to aduance,</L>
<L>His worth and honour) of a pui&s;&s;ant hand:</L>
<L>The Earle of <HI>Ewe</HI> in Warre that had bene bred,</L>
<L>The&s;e mighty men the mighty Vauward led.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The maine brought forward by the Duke of <HI>Bar&punc;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Mar&s;hal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ch Ar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ontai|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">g three <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Neuers</HI> and <HI>Beamont,</HI> men of &s;peciall name,</L>
<L><HI>Alan Zon</HI> thought, not equall'd in this Warre,</L>
<L>With them <HI>Salines, Rous,</HI> and <HI>Grandpre</HI> came,</L>
<L><PB N="49" REF="31"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">heir long experience, who had fetcht from farre,</L>
<L>Whom this expected Conque&s;t doth enflame,</L>
<L>Con&s;i&s;ting mo&s;t of Crosbowes, and &s;o great,</L>
<L>As <HI>France</HI> her &s;elfe it well might &s;eeme to threat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Brabant</HI> of high valour knowne,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Earles of <HI>Marle,</HI> and <HI>Faconbridge</HI> the Reare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>Arthur</HI> Earle of <HI>Richmount's</HI> &s;elfe alone,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hey leaue the right wing to be guided there:</L>
<L><HI>Lewes</HI> of <HI>Burbon,</HI> &s;econd yet to none,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed on the left; with him that mighty Peere</L>
<L>The Earle of <HI>&V;andome,</HI> who of all her men,</L>
<L>Large <HI>France</HI> entytled, her great Ma&s;ter then.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Vauward guides,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Mar&s;hal ling of the Engli&s;h Ar|my contai|ning fiue Stanzaes.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of our &s;trong Archers, that con&s;i&s;ted mo&s;t;</L>
<L>Which with our hor&s;e was wing'd on both the &s;ides,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">affront &s;o great and terrible an ho&s;t;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">here valiant <HI>Fanhope,</HI> and there <HI>Beamont</HI> rides,</L>
<L>With <HI>Willoughby</HI> which &s;cowred had the Coa&s;t,</L>
<L>That morning early, and had &s;eene at large,</L>
<L>How the Foe came, that then they were to charge,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> him&s;elfe, on the mayne battell brings,</L>
<L>Nor can the&s;e Legions of the <HI>French</HI> affright,</L>
<L>This <HI>Mars</HI> of men, this King of earthly Kings:</L>
<L>Who &s;eem'd to be much plea&s;ed with the &s;ight,</L>
<L>As one ordayn'd t'accompi&s;h mighty things;</L>
<L>Who to the field came in &s;uch brau'ry dight:</L>
<L>As to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> boades &s;uccesfull lucke,</L>
<L>Before one &s;troke, on either &s;ide was &s;trucke.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="50" REF="32">
<L>In Warlike State the Royall Standard borne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The brauery of King Hen|ryes ow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e Per&s;on.</NOTE></L>
<L>Before him as in &s;plendrous Armes he road,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t his coruetting Cour&s;er &s;eem'd in &s;corne,</L>
<L>To touch the earth whereon he proudly troad;</L>
<L>Lillyes and Lyons quarterly adorne,</L>
<L>His &s;hield, and his Capari&s;on doe load:</L>
<L>Vpon his Helme a crowne with Diamonds dec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Which through the field, their Radient fires re|f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> neere to him agen,</L>
<L>T'a&s;si&s;t his Brother in that dreadfull day,</L>
<L><HI>Oxford,</HI> and <HI>Suffolke</HI> both true Mar&s;hall men,</L>
<L>Ready to keepe the battell in Array,</L>
<L>To <HI>Exce&s;ter</HI> there was appointed then,</L>
<L>The Reare; on which their &s;econd &s;uccours lay,</L>
<L>Which were the youth mo&s;t of the Noble&s;t blo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Vnder the En&s;ignes of their names that &s;tood.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then of the &s;takes he doth the care commend,</L>
<L>To certaine troupes that actiue were and &s;trong,</L>
<L>Onely deui&s;'d the Archers to defend,</L>
<L>Poynted with Iron and of fiue foote long,</L>
<L>To be remou'd &s;till which way they &s;hould bend,</L>
<L>Wher the <HI>French</HI> hor&s;e &s;hold thick'&s;t vpo~ the~ thro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Which when the ho&s;t to charge each other went&punc;</L>
<L>Show'd his great wit that fir&s;t did them inuent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Both armies fit, and at the point to fight,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> a&s;&s;uring of them&s;elues the day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;cornfull me&s;&s;age of the French to the King of England&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>Send to the King of <HI>England</HI> (as in &s;pight,)</L>
<L>To know what he would for his Ran&s;ome pay,</L>
<L><PB N="51" REF="32">Who with this an&s;were doth their &s;corne requite:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings an&s;wer to the French.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pray thee Herault wi&s;h the <HI>French</HI> to &s;tay,</L>
<L>And e'r the day be pa&s;t, I hope to &s;ee.</L>
<L>That for their Ran&s;omes they &s;hall &s;end to mee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> which found how little <HI>Henry</HI> makes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f their vaine boa&s;ts, as &s;et therewith on fire,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t each one to his En&s;igne him betakes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Con&s;ta|bles Oration to the French</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Con&s;table to rai&s;e his &s;pleene the hyer,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hus &s;peaks: Braue frie~ds, now for your Grand&s;ires &s;aks,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">our countrys honor, or what may in&s;pire,</L>
<L>Your &s;ouls with courage, &s;train vp all your pow|er</L>
<L>To make this day victoriou&s;ly ours.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Forward &s;tout <HI>French,</HI> your vallours and aduance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y taking vengeance for our Fathers &s;laine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;trongly fixe the Diadem of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>Which to this day vn&s;tead<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> doth remaine:</L>
<L>Now with your &s;words their Traitors bo&s;oms lance</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd with their bloods wa&s;h out that ancient &s;taine,</L>
<L>And make our earth drunke with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> gore,</L>
<L>Which hath of ours oft &s;urfetted before,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let not one liue in <HI>England</HI> once to tell,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat of their King, or of the re&s;t became:</L>
<L>Nor to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> what in <HI>France</HI> befell,</L>
<L>But what is bruted by the generall fame:</L>
<L>But now the Drums began &s;o loud to yell,</L>
<L>As cut off further what he would declame:</L>
<L>And <HI>Henry</HI> &s;eeing them on &s;o fa&s;t to make,</L>
<L>Thus to his Souldiers comfortably &s;pake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="52" REF="33">
<L>THinke but vpon the iu&s;tne&s;&s;e of our cau&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King of Englands O|ration <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o the Engli&s;h.</NOTE></L>
<L>And he's no man their number that will w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Thus our great Grand&s;ire purcha&s;'d his applau&s;e</L>
<L>The more they are, the greater is our prey,</L>
<L>We'll hand in hand wade into dangers iawes,</L>
<L>And let report to <HI>England</HI> this conuey</L>
<L>That it for me no ran&s;ome e'r &s;hall ray&s;e,</L>
<L>Either Il'e Conquer, or here end my dayes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It were no glory for vs to &s;ubdue&punc;</L>
<L>Them, then our number, were the <HI>French</HI> no mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>When in one battaile twice our Fathers flew,</L>
<L>Three times &s;o many as them&s;elues before,</L>
<L>But to doe &s;omething that were &s;trange and new&punc;</L>
<L>Wherefore (I aske you) Came we to this &s;hore&punc;</L>
<L>Vpon the&s;e <HI>French</HI> our Fathers wan renow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And with their &s;words we'l hew yan forre&s;t d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The meane&s;t Souldier if in fight hee take,</L>
<L>The greate&s;t Prince in yonder Army knowne,</L>
<L>Without controule &s;hall him his pri&s;oner make,</L>
<L>And haue his ran&s;ome freely as his owne:</L>
<L>Now, <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> lyes our honour at the &s;take,</L>
<L>And now or neuer be our valour &s;howne:</L>
<L>God &amp; our cau&s;e, Saint <HI>George</HI> for <HI>England</HI> &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Now charge them <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> fortune guide yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When hearing one wi&s;h all the valiant men,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The high <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of the King of Eng|land.</NOTE></L>
<L>At home in <HI>England,</HI> with them pre&s;ent were,</L>
<L>The King makes an&s;were in&s;tantly againe,</L>
<L>I would not haue one man more then is here:</L>
<L><PB N="53" REF="33"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;ubdue, le&s;&s;e &s;hould our prai&s;e be then:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">euer come, le&s;&s;e lo&s;&s;e &s;hall <HI>England</HI> beare:</L>
<L>And to our numbers we &s;hould giue that deed,</L>
<L>Which mu&s;t from Gods own powerfull hand pro|ceed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The dreadful charge the drums &amp; trumpets &s;ound</L>
<L>With hearts exalted, though with humbled eyes,</L>
<L>When as the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> kneeling on the ground,</L>
<L>Extend the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r hands vp to the glorious skies,</L>
<L>Then from the earth as though they did rebound:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iue as fire immediatly they ri&s;e:</L>
<L>And &s;uch a &s;hrill &s;houte from their thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ats they &s;ent,</L>
<L>As made the <HI>French</HI> to &s;tagger as they went.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherwith they &s;topt, when <HI>Erpingham</HI> which led<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir Thomas Erpingham gaue the &s;ig|nall to the Engli&s;h.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e Army, &s;aw, the &s;hout had made them &s;tand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ting his warder thrice about his head,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e ca&s;t it vp with his au&s;pitious hand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich was the &s;ignall through the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;pread,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat they &s;hould charge: which as a dread co~mand,</L>
<L>Made them ru&s;h on, yet with a &s;econd rore,</L>
<L>Frighting the <HI>French</HI> wor&s;e then they did before,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when they &s;aw the enemy &s;o &s;lowe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich they expected fa&s;ter to come on,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e &s;cattering &s;hot they &s;ent out as to &s;howe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> their approach they onely &s;tood vpon,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich with more feruour made their rage <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o glow,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> much di&s;grace that they had vnder-gone,</L>
<L>Which to amend with En&s;ignes let at large,</L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> furiou&s;ly they charge,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="54" REF="34">
<L>At the full Moone looke how th'vnweldy Tyde&punc;<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simily of the French charging the Engli&s;h.</NOTE></L>
<L>Shou'd by &s;ome Tempe&s;t that from Sea doth ri&s;e,</L>
<L>At the full height, again&s;t the ragged &s;ide,</L>
<L>Of &s;ome rough Cliffe (of a Giganticke &s;i&s;e)</L>
<L>Foming with rage impetuou&s;ly doth ride,</L>
<L>The angry <HI>French</HI> (in no le&s;&s;e furious wi&s;e)</L>
<L>Of men at Armes vpon their ready Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;ayle the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> to di&s;per&s;e their force.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as tho&s;e Archers there in ambu&s;h layd,</L>
<L>Hauing their broad &s;ide as they came along,</L>
<L>With their barb'd Arrows the <HI>French</HI> Hor&s;es pay&punc;</L>
<L>And in their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lankes like cruell Hornets &s;tong:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The three hundred Ar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs lay a in ambu&s;h, di&s;|order the French men <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Armes at the fir&s;t encounter.</NOTE></L>
<L>They kick and cry, of late that proudly nay de:</L>
<L>And from their &s;eates their Armed riders flong,</L>
<L>They ranne together flying from the Dike,</L>
<L>And make their riders one another &s;trike.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And whil&s;t the front of the <HI>French</HI> vanguard ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> thinking them to Route,</L>
<L>Their Hor&s;es runne vpon the Armed &s;takes,</L>
<L>And being wounded turne them&s;elues about,</L>
<L>The bit into his teeth the Cour&s;er takes,</L>
<L>And from his Ranke flyes with his Ma&s;ter out,</L>
<L>Who either hurts or is hurt of his owne,</L>
<L>If in the throng not both together throwne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tumbling on heapes, &s;ome of their Hor&s;es ca&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>With their foure feete all vp into the ayre,</L>
<L>Vnder who&s;e backs their Ma&s;ters breath their la&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>Soe breake their rains, and thence their riders b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><PB N="55" REF="34"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome with their feete &s;ticke in the &s;tirrups fa&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y their fierce Iades and trayled here and there,</L>
<L>Entangled in their bridles, one backe drawes,</L>
<L>And pluckes the bit out of anothers iawes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With &s;howers of &s;hafts yet &s;till the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ply,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>French</HI> &s;o fa&s;t vpon the poynt of flight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith the mayne Battell yet &s;tood <HI>Henry</HI> by,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or all this while had medled in the fight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pon the Hor&s;es as in cha&s;e they fly,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rowes &s;o thicke, in &s;uch abundance light,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat their broad buttocks men like buts might &s;ee,</L>
<L>Whereat for pa&s;time bow-men &s;hooting bee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;oone <HI>De Lannies</HI> and <HI>Sureres</HI> ha&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ayde their friends put to this &s;hamefull foyle,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Two wings of French hor&s;e defeated.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith two light wings of Hor&s;e which had beene plac't,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill to &s;upply where any &s;hould recoyle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t yet their forces they but vainely wa&s;te,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r being light into the generall &s;poyle,</L>
<L>Great lo&s;&s;e <HI>De Linnies</HI> &s;hortly doth &s;u&s;taine,</L>
<L>Yet &s;capes him&s;elfe; but braue <HI>Surreres</HI> &s;laine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The King who &s;ees how well his Vanguard &s;ped,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ds his command that in&s;tantly it &s;tay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;iring <HI>Yorke</HI> &s;o brauely that had led,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> hold his &s;ouldiours in their fir&s;t array,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r it the Conflict very much might &s;ted,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">mewhat to fall a&s;ide, and giue him way,</L>
<L>Till full vp to him he might bring his power,</L>
<L>And make the Conque&s;t compleat in an hower.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="56" REF="35">
<L>Which <HI>Yorke</HI> obayes, and vp King <HI>Henry</HI> comes,</L>
<L>When for his guidance he had got him roome,</L>
<L>The dreadful bellowing of who&s;e &s;traitbracd dru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Engli&s;h Va<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ard and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Bas|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">e charge <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he French <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE></L>
<L>To the <HI>French</HI> &s;ounded like the dreadfull doome,</L>
<L>And them with &s;uch &s;tupidity benummes,</L>
<L>As though the earth had groaned from her wombe,</L>
<L>For the grand &s;laughter ne'r began till then,</L>
<L>Couering the earth with multitudes of men.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vpon the <HI>French</HI> what <HI>Engli&s;hman</HI> not falls,</L>
<L>(By the &s;trong Bow-men beaten from their &s;tee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>With Battle-axes, Halbers, Bils, and Maules.</L>
<L>Where, in the &s;laughter euery one exceeds,</L>
<L>Where euery man his fellow forward calls,</L>
<L>And &s;howes him where &s;ome great born <HI>French<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> bleed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Whil&s;t Scalps about like broken pot-&s;herds fly,</L>
<L>And kill, kill, kill, the Conquering <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> cry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now wexed horror to the very height,</L>
<L>And &s;car&s;e a man but wet-&s;hod went in gore,</L>
<L>As two together are in deadly fight,</L>
<L>And to death wounded, as one tumbleth ore,</L>
<L>This <HI>Frenchman</HI> falling, with his very weight,</L>
<L>Doth kill another &s;trucken downe before,</L>
<L>As he againe &s;o falling, likewi&s;e feeles,</L>
<L>His la&s;t breath ha&s;tned by anothers heeles,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And whil&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> eagerly pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>The fearefull <HI>French</HI> before them &s;till that fly,</L>
<L>The points of Bils and Halberts they imbrue</L>
<L>In their &s;icke bowels, beaten downe that lye,</L>
<L><PB N="57" REF="35"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">o man re&s;pects how, or what blood he drew,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">or can heare tho&s;e that for their mercy cry,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ares are damn'd vp with howles &amp; helli&s;h &s;ounds,</L>
<L>One fearefull noy&s;e, a fearefuller confounds,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the couragious Con&s;table of <HI>France,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Charles de <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Con&s;ta|ble of F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">h'vnluckly Vanguard valiantly that led,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">we the day turn'd by this di&s;a&s;trous chance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nd how the <HI>French</HI> before the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fled;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;tay (quoth he) your En&s;ignes yet aduance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nce more vpon the enemy make head:</L>
<L>Neuer let <HI>France</HI> &s;ay, we were vanqui&s;ht &s;o,</L>
<L>With our backs ba&s;ely turn'd vpon our Foe,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whom the <HI>Chattillyon</HI> hapned to acco&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d &s;eeing thus the Con&s;table di&s;mayd:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ift Noble Lord (quoth he) the day is lo&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">the whole world vpon the match were layd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">cannot thinke but that Blacke <HI>Edwards</HI> Gho&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">i&s;ts the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and our Hor&s;e hath frayde,</L>
<L>If not, &s;ome Deuils they haue with them then,</L>
<L>That fight again&s;t vs in the &s;hapes of men.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not I my Lord, the Con&s;table replies:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> my be&s;t &s;oule, the field I will not quit:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">hil&s;t two braue Battailes are to bring &s;upplies,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ither of which one &s;troke haue &s;trucken yet,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">y (quoth <HI>Dampier</HI>) I doe not this adui&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">re then your &s;elfe, that I doe feare a whit:</L>
<L>Spurre vp my Lord, then &s;ide to &s;ide with mee,</L>
<L>And that I feare not you &s;hall quickly &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="58" REF="36">
<L>They &s;trucke their Rowels to the bleeding &s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Of their fierce&punc; Steeds into the ayre that &s;prong&punc;</L>
<L>And as their fury at that in&s;tant guides:</L>
<L>They thru&s;t them&s;elues into th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> murth'ring thro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Where &s;uch bad fortune the&s;e braue Lords betide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>The Admirall from off his Hor&s;e was &s;tong,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">all fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"></NOTE></L>
<L>For the &s;terne <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> downe before them beere</L>
<L>All that with&s;tand, the Pea&s;ant and the Peere.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which when the Noble Con&s;table with griefe</L>
<L>Doth this great Lord vpon the ground behold,</L>
<L>In his account &s;o ab&s;olute a Chiefe&punc;</L>
<L>Who&s;e death through <HI>France</HI> he knew would bee condo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Like a braue Knight to yeeld his friend reliefe,</L>
<L>Doing as much as po&s;sibly hee could,</L>
<L>Both Hor&s;e and man is borne into the mayne&punc;</L>
<L>And from his friend not halfe a furlong flaine.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Con&s;ta|ble flaine.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now <HI>Wil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ough by</HI> vpon his well-Arm'd Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>Into the mid&s;t of this Battalion brought,</L>
<L>And valiant <HI>Fanhope</HI> no whitle&s;&s;e in force,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe hath thither through the &s;quadrons ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Whereas the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> without all remorce,</L>
<L>(Looking like men that deepely are di&s;traught)</L>
<L>Smoking with &s;weat, be&s;mear'd with du&s;t &amp; b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Cut into Cantles all that them with&s;tood.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet whil&s;t thus hotely they hold vp the Cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>French,</HI> and had &s;o high a hand&punc;</L>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Burbon</HI> to make good his place&punc;</L>
<L>Inforc'd his troupes (with much adoe) to &s;tand&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="59" REF="36">To whom the Earle of <HI>Suffolke</HI> makes apace,</L>
<L>Bringing a fre&s;h and yet vnfought-with band:</L>
<L>Of valiant Bill-men, <HI>Oxford</HI> with &s;ucce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Vp with his Troupes doth with the other pre&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When in comes <HI>Orleance;</HI> quite thru&s;t off before,</L>
<L>By tho&s;e rude crowdes that from the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ran,</L>
<L>Encouraging &s;tout <HI>Burbons</HI> Troupes the more,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'affront the Foe that in&s;tantly began:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aine would the Duke (if po&s;sible) re&s;tore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">Doing as much as could bee done by man)</L>
<L>Their Honour lo&s;t, by this their la&s;t defeate,</L>
<L>And cau&s;ed onely by their ba&s;e Retreat,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their men at Armes their Lances clo&s;ely locke,</L>
<L>One in another, and come vp &s;o round,</L>
<L>That by the &s;trength and horrour of the &s;hocke,</L>
<L>They forc't the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> to for&s;ake their ground,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hrinking no more then they had bene a Rocke,</L>
<L>Though by the &s;hafts receiuing many a wound,</L>
<L>As they would &s;how, that they were none of tho&s;e</L>
<L>That turn'd their backs &s;o ba&s;ely to their Foes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Panting for breath his Murrian in his hand,</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oodhou&s;e</HI> comes in as backe the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> beare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Woodhou&s;e remark<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">able.</NOTE></L>
<L>My Lords (quoth he) what now inforc't to &s;tand,</L>
<L>When &s;miling Fortune offereth vs &s;o faire,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Frenchly</HI> yonder like to wreakes of &s;and,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd you by this our glory but impaire:</L>
<L>Or now, or neuer, your fir&s;t fight maintaine,</L>
<L><HI>Chattillion</HI> and the Con&s;table are flaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="60" REF="37">
<L>Hand ouer head pell mell vpon them ronne,</L>
<L>If you will prooue the Ma&s;ters of the day,</L>
<L><HI>Ferrers</HI> and <HI>Grey&s;tocke</HI> haue &s;o brauely done,</L>
<L>That I enuy their glory, and dare &s;ay,</L>
<L>From all the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> they the Gole haue wonne,</L>
<L>Either let's &s;hare, or they'll beare all away,</L>
<L>This &s;poke, his Axe about his head he flings,</L>
<L>And ha&s;ts away, as though his heeles had win<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Incitation of this youthfull Knight,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides amends for their retrayte to make,</L>
<L>Doth re-enforce their courage, with their might,</L>
<L>A &s;econd charge with &s;peed to vndertake;</L>
<L>Neuer before were they &s;o mad to fight,</L>
<L>When valiant <HI>Fanhope</HI> thus the Lords be &s;pake,</L>
<L><HI>Suffolke,</HI> and <HI>Oxford</HI> as braue Earles you be,</L>
<L>Once more beare vp with <HI>Willoughby</HI> and me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why now, me think's I heare braue <HI>Fanhope</HI> &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Quoth noble <HI>Oxford,</HI> thou ha&s;t thy de&s;ire,</L>
<L>The&s;e words of thine &s;hall yan battalion breake,</L>
<L>And for my &s;elfe I neuer will retire,</L>
<L>Vntill our Teene vpon the <HI>French</HI> we wreake,</L>
<L>Or in this our la&s;t enterpri&s;e expire:</L>
<L>This &s;poke, their Gauntlets each doth other g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And to the charge as fa&s;t as they can driue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That &s;laughter &s;eem'd to haue but &s;tayd for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>To make the horrour to in&s;ue the more,</L>
<L>With hands be &s;mear'd with blood when meager</L>
<L>Looketh more gri&s;ly then he did before,</L>
<L><PB N="61" REF="37"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o that each body &s;eem'd but as a &s;heath,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o put their &s;words in to the Hilts in gore:</L>
<L>As though that in&s;tant were the end of all,</L>
<L>To fell the <HI>French</HI> or by the <HI>French</HI> to fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Looke how you &s;ee a field of &s;tanding Corne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simily <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the appea|rance of the Battell.</NOTE></L>
<L>When &s;ome &s;trong wind in Summer haps to blow,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t the full height, and ready to be &s;horne,</L>
<L>Ri&s;ing in waues, how it doth come and goe,</L>
<L>Forward and backward &s;o the crowds are borne,</L>
<L>Or as the Edie turneth in the flow,</L>
<L>And aboue all the Bils and Axes play,</L>
<L>As doe the Attom's in the Sunny ray.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now with mayne blowes their Armours ore vn|bra&s;'d,</L>
<L>And as the <HI>French</HI> before the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fled,</L>
<L>With their brown Bils their recrea~t backs they ba&s;t</L>
<L>And from their &s;houlders their faint armes do &s;hred,</L>
<L>One with a gleaue neere cut off by the wa&s;te,</L>
<L>Another runnes to ground with halfe a head:</L>
<L>Another &s;tumbling falleth in his flight,</L>
<L>Wanting a legge, and on his face doth light.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Duks who found their force thus ouerthrown,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e few left them ready &s;till to route,</L>
<L>Hauing great skill, and no le&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e courage &s;howne;</L>
<L>Yet of their &s;afeties much began to doubt,</L>
<L>For hauing few about them of their owne,</L>
<L>And by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;o impal'd about,</L>
<L>Saw that to &s;ome one they them&s;elues mu&s;t yeeld,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e abide the fury of the field</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="62" REF="38">
<L>They put them&s;elues on tho&s;e victorious Lord<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Burben and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance to|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> pri&s;oners.</NOTE></L>
<L>Who led the Vanguard with &s;o good &s;ucce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Be&s;peaking them with honourable wordes,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues their pri&s;oners freely and confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Who by the &s;trength of their commanding &s;word<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Could hardly &s;aue them from the &s;laught'ring pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>By <HI>Suffolkes</HI> ayde till they away were &s;ent,</L>
<L>Who with a Guard conuayd them to his Tent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as their Souldiers to e&s;chew the &s;acke,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t their owne Battell beating in their flight,</L>
<L>By their owne <HI>French</HI> are &s;trongly beaten backe:</L>
<L>Le&s;t they their Ranks, &s;hould haue di&s;ord'red quig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>So that tho&s;e men at Armes goe all to wracke.</L>
<L>Twixt their own friends &amp; tho&s;e with whom the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Wherein di&s;order and de&s;truction &s;eem'd,</L>
<L>To &s;triue, which &s;hould the powerfulle&s;t be d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">em'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And whil&s;t the <HI>Daulphine</HI> of <HI>Auerney</HI> cryes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of &s;ome Gui&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ard the Daulphine of A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</NOTE></L>
<L>Stay men at Armes, let Fortune doe her wor&s;t,</L>
<L>And let that Villane from the field that flies,</L>
<L>By Babes yet to be borne, be euer cur&s;t:</L>
<L>All vnder Heauen that we can hope for, lyes</L>
<L>On this dayes battell, let me be the fir&s;t,</L>
<L>That turn'dye backe vpon your de&s;perate Foe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>To &s;aue our Honours, though our liues we lo&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To whom comes in the Earle of <HI>Ewe,</HI> which long</L>
<L>Had in the Battaile ranged here and there,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and Bills, a thou&s;and Bowes among,</L>
<L>And had &s;eene many &s;pectacles of feare,</L>
<L><PB N="63" REF="38">And finding yet the <HI>Daulphins</HI> &s;pirit &s;o &s;trong,</L>
<L>By that which he had chancd from him to heare,</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;houlder claps him&punc; Prince quoth he,</L>
<L>Since I mu&s;t fall, Oh let me fall with thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Scar&s;e had he &s;poke, but th'<HI>Engli&s;h</HI> them inclo&s;e,</L>
<L>And like to Ma&s;tiues fiercely on them flew,</L>
<L>Who with like courage &s;trongly them oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>When the Lord <HI>Beamont,</HI> who their Armings knew,</L>
<L>Their pre&s;ent perill to braue <HI>Suffolke</HI> &s;hewes,</L>
<L>Quoth he, lo where <HI>Dauerney</HI> are and <HI>Ewe,</HI></L>
<L>In this &s;mall time, who &s;ince the Field begun,</L>
<L>Haue done as much, as can by men be done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now &s;laughter ceaze me, if I doe not grieue,</L>
<L>Two &s;o braue Spirits &s;hould be vntimely &s;laine,</L>
<L>Lies there no way (my Lord) them to releeue,</L>
<L>And for their Ran&s;omes two &s;uch to retaine:</L>
<L>Quoth <HI>Suffolke,</HI> come, weele hazzard their repreeue,</L>
<L>And &s;hare our Fortunes, in they goe amaine,</L>
<L>And with &s;uch da~ger through the pre&s;&s;e they wade</L>
<L>As of their liues but &s;mall account they made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet ere they through the clu&s;tred clouds could get</L>
<L>Oft downe on tho&s;e, there trod to death that lay,</L>
<L>The valiant <HI>Daulphine</HI> had di&s;charg'd his debt,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Daulphine of Auerney &s;laine. The Earle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Ewe taken pri&s;oner.</NOTE></L>
<L>Then whom no man had brauelier &s;eru'd that day,</L>
<L>The Earle of <HI>Ewe,</HI> and wondrous hard be&s;et:</L>
<L>Had left all hope of life to &s;cape away:</L>
<L>Till Noble <HI>Beamont</HI> and braue <HI>Suffolke</HI> came,</L>
<L>And as their pri&s;oner &s;eas'd him by his name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="64" REF="39">
<L>Now the maine Battaile of the <HI>French</HI> came on&punc;</L>
<L>The Vauward vanqui&s;ht, quite the field doth fly,</L>
<L>And other helpes be&s;ides this, haue they none,</L>
<L>But that their hopes doth on their mayne rely,</L>
<L>And therefore now it &s;tandeth them vpon,</L>
<L>To fight it brauely, or el&s;e yeeld, or dye:</L>
<L>For the fierce <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Charge &s;o home and &s;ort&punc;</L>
<L>As in their hands <HI>Ioues</HI> thunderbolts they bore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> who &s;ince their fight begun<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Yorke &s;laine.</NOTE></L>
<L>Still in the top of all his troopes was &s;eene,</L>
<L>And things well-neere beyond beleefe had done,</L>
<L>Which of his fortune, made him ouer weene,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe &s;o farre into the maine doth runne,</L>
<L>So that the <HI>French</HI> which quickly got betweene</L>
<L>Him and his &s;uccours, that great Chieftaine &s;lue</L>
<L>Who brauely fought whil&s;t any breath he drew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The newes &s;oone brought to this couragious King</L>
<L>Ore&s;pred his face with a di&s;tempred Fire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of the Duk of Yorks <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Though making little &s;hew of any thing,</L>
<L>Yet to the full his eyes expre&s;t his Ire,</L>
<L>More then before the <HI>Frenchmen</HI> menacing,</L>
<L>And hee was heard thus &s;oftly to re&s;pire:</L>
<L>Well, of thy blood reuenged will I bee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings &s;olution.</NOTE></L>
<L>Or ere one houre be pa&s;t Ile follow thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as the frolike Caualry of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>That in the Head of the maine Battaile cam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Perceiu'd the King of <HI>England</HI> to aduance,</L>
<L>To charge in per&s;on; it doth them inflame,</L>
<L><PB N="65" REF="39"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ch one well hoping it might be his chance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ea&s;e vpon him, which was all their ayme,</L>
<L>Then with the braue&s;t of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> met,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues that there before the King had &s;et,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When th'Earle of <HI>Cornewall</HI> with vnu&s;uall force,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The bloody &s;cuffle be|tweene the French and Engli&s;h, at the ioyning of the two maine Battailes in fiue S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">anzaes.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">counters <HI>Grandpre</HI> (next that came to hands)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;trength his equall, blow for blow they &s;corce,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eelding their Axes as they had bene wands,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll the Earle tumbles <HI>Grandpre</HI> from his Hor&s;e&punc;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">er whom &s;trait the Count <HI>Salines</HI> &s;tands,</L>
<L>And lendeth <HI>Cornewall</HI> &s;uch a blow withall&punc;</L>
<L>Ouer the crupper that he makes him fall&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Cornewall</HI> recouers, for his Armes were good,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d to <HI>Saline&punc;</HI> maketh vp againe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho chang'd &s;uch boy &s;trous buffers, that the blood</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th through the ioints of their &s;trong Armor &s;train</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Count <HI>Salines</HI> &s;unke downe where he &s;tood&punc;</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mount</HI> who &s;ees the Count <HI>Salines</HI> &s;laine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">traight copes with <HI>Cornewal</HI> beaten out of breath</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Till <HI>Kent</HI> comes in, and re&s;cues him from death.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Kent</HI> vpon <HI>Blamount</HI> furiou&s;ly doth fly,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> at the Earle with no le&s;&s;e courage &s;trucke,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d one the other with &s;uch knocks they ply,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">at eithers Axe in th'others Helmets &s;tucke,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hil&s;t they are wra&s;tling, cro&s;sing thigh with thigh</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">eir Axes pikes, which &s;oone&s;t out &s;hould plucke:</L>
<L>They fal to ground like in their Casks to &s;mother,</L>
<L>With their clutcht Gantlets <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uffing one another.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="66" REF="40">
<L>Couragious <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> grieued at the &s;ight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Called Cl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Brabant.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of his friend <HI>Blamounts</HI> vnexpected fall,</L>
<L>Makes in to lend him all the ayde he might;</L>
<L>Who&s;e co~ming &s;eem'd the &s;tout Lord <HI>Soales</HI> to cal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Betwixt whom then began a mortall fight,</L>
<L>When in&s;tantly fell in Sir <HI>Phillip Hall,</HI></L>
<L>Gain&s;t him goes <HI>Rou&s;&s;y,</HI> in then <HI>Louell</HI> ran,</L>
<L>Whom next Count <HI>Morveyle</HI> chu&s;eth as his m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their Curates are vnreuited with blowes,</L>
<L>With Horrid wounds their brea&s;ts and faces &s;la&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>There drops a cheeke, and there falls off a no&s;e,</L>
<L>And in ones face his fellowes braines are da&s;ht;</L>
<L>Yet &s;till the better with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> goes.</L>
<L>The earth of <HI>France</HI> with her owne blood is wa&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>They fall &s;o fa&s;t, &s;he &s;carce affords them roome<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>That one mans trunke becomes anothers tom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Suffolke</HI> chargeth <HI>Huntingdon</HI> with &s;lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Earle of Suffolke char|geth the Earle of Huntington with brea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h of promi&s;e.</NOTE></L>
<L>Ouer him&s;elfe too wary to haue bin,</L>
<L>And had neglected his fa&s;t plighted troth,</L>
<L>Vpon the Field, the Battaile to begin,</L>
<L>That where the one was, there they would be both<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>When the &s;tout Earle of <HI>Huntingdon,</HI> to win,</L>
<L>Tru&s;t with his friends; doth this him&s;elfe inlar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>To this great Earle who dares him thus to charg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Lord (quoth he) it is not that I feare,</L>
<L>More then your &s;elfe, that &s;o I haue not gone;</L>
<L>But that I haue beene forced to bee neare,</L>
<L>The King, who&s;e per&s;on I attend vpon,</L>
<L><PB N="67" REF="40"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d that I doubt not but to make appeare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow, if occa&s;ion &s;hall but call me on;</L>
<L>Looke round about my Lord, if you can &s;ee,</L>
<L>Some braue aduenture worthy you and me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See yan proud Banner of the Duke of <HI>Barres,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A desp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> attempt by the Earle of Huntingdon.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> think'&s;t it wa&s;ts vs, and I heare it &s;ay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">her's that couragious <HI>Engli&s;hman</HI> that dares,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> enture, but to carry me away,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is were a t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing now worthy of our warres;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> true, quoth <HI>Suffolke,</HI> by this ble&s;&s;ed day,</L>
<L>On, and weele haue it, &s;ay&s;t thou &s;o indeed,</L>
<L>Quoth <HI>Huntingdon,</HI> then Fortune be our &s;peed,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd through the rancks then ru&s;hing in their pride</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ey make a Lan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">; about them &s;o they lay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ote goes with foote, and &s;ide is ioynde to &s;ide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ey &s;trike downe all that &s;tand within their way,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d to direct them, haue no other guide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> as they &s;ee the multitude to &s;way;</L>
<L>And as they pa&s;&s;e, the <HI>French</HI> as to defie,</L>
<L>Saint <HI>George</HI> for <HI>England</HI> and the King they cry,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By their examples, each braue <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> blood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">One braue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> beger|teth another?</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the <HI>Frenchmen</HI> for their En&s;ignes runne,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e there as trees within a well-growne wood;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ere great Atchieuements in&s;tantly were done,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">in&s;t them roughly whil&s;t that Nation &s;tood,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&ocirc; what man his de&s;tinie can &s;hunne,</L>
<L>That Noble <HI>Suffolke</HI> there is ouerthrowne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Earle of Suffolk <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e much vallour &s;undry wayes had &s;howne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="68" REF="41">
<L>Which the proud <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> further doth pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Who to de&s;truction bodily were bent,</L>
<L>That the maine battaile in&s;tantly they broke,</L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>French</HI> &s;o furiou&s;ly they went,</L>
<L>And not an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> but doth &s;corne a &s;troake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Engli&s;h kill she French with their owne Weapons.</NOTE></L>
<L>If to the ground it not a <HI>Frenchman</HI> &s;ent,</L>
<L>Who weak with wounds, their weapons fro~ th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>With which the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fearefully them &s;lew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Alanzon</HI> backe vpon the Reareward borne,</L>
<L>By tho&s;e vnarm'd that from the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fled,</L>
<L>All further hopes them vtterly forlorne,</L>
<L>His Noble heart in his full bo&s;ome bled,</L>
<L>VVhat fate, quoth he, our ouerthrow hath &s;worne</L>
<L>Mu&s;t <HI>France</HI> a pri&s;oner be to <HI>England</HI> led,</L>
<L>VVell, if &s;he be &s;o, yet Ile let her &s;ee,</L>
<L>Shee beares my carka&s;&s;e with her, and not me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And puts his Hor&s;e vpon his full Careere,</L>
<L>When with the courage of a valiant Knight,</L>
<L>(As one that knew not, or forgot to feare,)</L>
<L>He tow'rds King <HI>Henry</HI> maketh in the fight,</L>
<L>And all before him as he downe doth beare,</L>
<L>Vpon the Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> doth light:</L>
<L>Which on the youthfull Chiualry doth brin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Scar&s;e two piks length that came before the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their Staues both &s;trongly reuetted with &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Gloce&s;ter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> by the Duke of Alanzon.</NOTE></L>
<L>At the fir&s;t &s;troke each other they a&s;tound,</L>
<L>That as they &s;taggering from each other reele&punc;</L>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> falleth to the ground,</L>
<L><PB N="69" REF="41"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen as <HI>Alanzon</HI> round about doth wheele,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hinking to lend him his la&s;t deadly wound,</L>
<L>In comes the King, his brother<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> life to &s;aue,</L>
<L>And to this braue Duke a fre&s;h on&punc; &s;et gaue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as them&s;elues like thunderbolts they &s;hot,</L>
<L>One at the other, and the lightning brake</L>
<L>Out of their Helmets, and againe was not,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'r of their &s;troake the eare a &s;ound could take,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">etwixt them two, the conflict grew &s;o hot,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich tho&s;e about them &s;o amaz'd doth make,</L>
<L>That they &s;tood &s;till as wondring at the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ight,</L>
<L>And quite forgot that they them&s;elues mu&s;t fight</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vpon the King <HI>Alanzon</HI> pre&s;t &s;o &s;ore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat with a &s;troke (as he was wondrous &s;trong)<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King of England in dan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be &s;lan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> by the Duke of A|lanzon.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eft the Crowne which on his Helme he wore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd tore his Plume that to his heeles it hong:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen with a &s;econd bru&s;'d his Helme before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat it his forehead pitifully wrung:</L>
<L>As &s;ome that &s;aw it certainely had thought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he King therewith had to the ground bin brought</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But <HI>Henry</HI> &s;oone <HI>Alanzons</HI> Ire to quit,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s now his valour lay vpon the Racke)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Alanzon bet|ten downe by the King of England.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on'th face the Duke &s;o &s;trongly hit,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> in his Saddle layd him on his backe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d once perceluing that be had him &s;plit,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">llow'd his blowes redoubling thwack on thwack</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Till <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e had lo&s;t his &s;tirrups, and his head</L>
<L>Hung where his Hor&s;e was like thereon to tread.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="70" REF="42">
<L>When &s;oone two other &s;econding their Lord,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King kil le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o two Gen+tlemen that aduenture to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re&s;ene the Duke.</NOTE></L>
<L>His kind companions in this glorious prize,</L>
<L>Hoping againe the Duke to haue re&s;tor'd</L>
<L>If to his feet his Armes would let him ri&s;e:</L>
<L>On the Kings Helme their height of fury &s;cor'd;</L>
<L>Who like a Dragon fiercely on them flies,</L>
<L>And on his body &s;lew them both, whil&s;t he,</L>
<L>Recouering was their ayde againe to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The King thus made the ma&s;ter of the fight:</L>
<L>The Duke calls to him as he there doth lye,</L>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> I'le pay my ran&s;owe, doe me right:</L>
<L>I am the Duke <HI>Alanzon,</HI> It is I,</L>
<L>The King to &s;aue him putting all his might,</L>
<L>Yet the rude &s;ouldiers with their &s;hout and cry,</L>
<L>Quite drownd his voyce, his Helmet being &s;hut,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke Alanzon &s;laine.</NOTE></L>
<L>And that braue Duke into &s;mall pieces cut.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Report once &s;pred, through the di&s;tracted Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>Of their prime Hope, the Duke <HI>Alanzon</HI> &s;laine,</L>
<L>That flower of <HI>France,</HI> on whom they tru&s;ted mo&s;t,</L>
<L>They found their valour was but then in vaine,</L>
<L>Like men their hearts that vtterly had lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Who &s;lowly fled before, now runne amaine,</L>
<L>Nor could a man be found, but that di&s;paires,</L>
<L>Seeing the Fate both of them&s;elues and theirs.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Duke <HI>Neuers,</HI> now in this &s;ad retreat,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke Neuers taken pri&s;oner.</NOTE></L>
<L>By <HI>Dauid Gam</HI> and <HI>Morrisby</HI> pur&s;ude,</L>
<L>(Who throughly cha&s;'d, neere melted into &s;weat,</L>
<L>And with <HI>French</HI> blood their Pollaxes imbrud)</L>
<L><PB N="71" REF="42">They &s;ea&s;e vpon him following the defeat,</L>
<L>Among&s;t the faint and fearefull multitude,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Morrisby and Gam a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> con|tention for the Duke of Neueres.</NOTE></L>
<L>When a contention fell betweene them twaine.</L>
<L>To whom the Duke &s;hould right<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly pertaine,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e thou had&s;t him fir&s;t in cha&s;e,</L>
<L>Quoth <HI>Morrisby;</HI> but lefts him in the throng,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen put I on, quoth <HI>Gam</HI> ha&s;t thou the face,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;ulting Knight to offer me this wrong;</L>
<L>Quoth <HI>Morrisby,</HI> who &s;hall decide the ca&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t him confe&s;&s;e to whom it doth belong,</L>
<L>Let him (quoth <HI>Gam</HI>) but if't be not to mee,</L>
<L>For any right you haue, he may goe free,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With that couragious <HI>Morrisby</HI> grew hot,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Morrisby <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">auey <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Knigh</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ere not &s;ayd he his ran&s;ome worth a pin,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow by the&s;e Armes I were, thou gett'&s;t him not,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r if thou do&s;t thou &s;halt him hardly win:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dauid Ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> oft mentioned in this P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">am</HI> who&s;e <HI>Welch</HI> blood could hardly brooke this blot,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o bend his Axe vpon hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> doth begin,</L>
<L>He his at him, till the Lord <HI>Beamont</HI> came,</L>
<L>Their ra&s;h attempt, and wi&s;ely thus doth blame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Are not the <HI>French</HI> twice trebl'd to our power,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd fighting &s;till, nay, doubtfull yet the day:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke you not th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e vs fa&s;t enough deuoure:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t that your braues the Army mu&s;t di&s;may:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ought but good befall vs in this houre:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is be you &s;ure your liues for it mu&s;t pay:</L>
<L>Then fir&s;t the end of this dayes Battaile &s;ee,</L>
<L>And then decide who&s;e pri&s;oner he &s;hall be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="72" REF="43">
<L>Now <HI>Exce&s;ter</HI> with his vntaynted Reare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Exce&s;ter commeth in with the Reare.</NOTE></L>
<L>Came on, which long had labour'd to come in,</L>
<L>And with the Kings mayne battell vp doth beare,</L>
<L>Who &s;till kept off, till the la&s;t houre had bin:</L>
<L>He cryes and clamours eu'ry way doth heare:</L>
<L>But yet he knew not which the day &s;hould win:</L>
<L>Nor askes of any what were fit to doe,</L>
<L>But where the <HI>French</HI> were thick'&s;t he falleth to.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Earle of <HI>Vandom</HI> certainely that thought,</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fury &s;ome what had beene &s;tayd:</L>
<L>Weary with &s;laughter as men ouer-wrought,</L>
<L>Nor had beene &s;pur'd on by a &s;econd ayd:</L>
<L>For his owne &s;afety, then more fiercely fought,</L>
<L>Hoping the tempe&s;t had bin &s;omewhat layd:</L>
<L>And he thereby (though &s;uff'ring the defeate)</L>
<L>Might keepe his reareward whole in his retreat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>On whom the Duke of <HI>Exce&s;ter</HI> then fell,</L>
<L>Reare with the Reare now for their valoursvy,</L>
<L>Ours finde the <HI>French</HI> their liues will dearely &s;ell,</L>
<L>And th'Engli&s;h meane as dearely them to buy:</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> follow, &s;hould they run through hell,</L>
<L>And through the &s;ame the <HI>French</HI> mu&s;t, if they fly,</L>
<L>When too't they goe, deciding it with blowes,</L>
<L>With th'one &s;ide now, then with th'other't g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But the &s;terne <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> with &s;uch lucke and mig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>(As though the fates had &s;worn to take their part</L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>French</HI> preuailing in the Fight,</L>
<L>With doubled hands, and with re-doubled heart<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><PB N="77" REF="43">The more in perill &s;till the more in plight,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t them whom fortune mi&s;erably thwarts:</L>
<L>Di&s;abled quite before the foe to &s;tand,</L>
<L>But fall like gra&s;&s;e before the Mowers hand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That this <HI>French</HI> Earle is beaten on the field,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Earle of Vandome &s;laine.</NOTE></L>
<L>His fighting &s;ouldiers round about him &s;laine,</L>
<L>And when him&s;elfe a Pri&s;oner he would yeeld,</L>
<L>And beg'd for life, it was but all in vaine:</L>
<L>Their Bils the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> doe &s;o ea&s;ily weeld,</L>
<L>To kill the <HI>French</HI> as though it were no paine:</L>
<L>For this to them was their au&s;picious day,</L>
<L>The more the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fight, the more they may,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When now the Mar&s;hall <HI>Boucequalt,</HI> which long</L>
<L>Had through the Battell waded euery way,</L>
<L>Oft hazzarded the murthered troupes among,</L>
<L>Encouraging them to abide the day:</L>
<L>Finding the Army which he thought &s;o &s;trong,</L>
<L>Before the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> faintly to di&s;may,</L>
<L>Brings on the wings which of the re&s;t remain'd,</L>
<L>With which the battaile &s;toutly he maintain'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Till old Sir <HI>Thomas Erpingham</HI> at la&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir Thomas Erpingham getteth in with his three hundred A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hers.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith tho&s;e three hundred Archers commeth in,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich layd in ambu&s;h not three houres yet pa&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad the Defeat of the <HI>French</HI> Army bin,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith the&s;e that noble &s;ouldier maketh ha&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">t other from him &s;hould the honour win:</L>
<L>Who as before now &s;tretch their wel-waxt &s;trings,</L>
<L>At the <HI>French</HI> Hor&s;e then comming in the wings.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="74" REF="44">
<L>The &s;oyle with &s;laughter euery where they lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Whil&s;t the <HI>French</HI> &s;toutely to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;tood,</L>
<L>The drops from eithers emptied veynes that flow</L>
<L>Where it was lately firme had made a flood,</L>
<L>But Heau'n that day to the braue <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ow'd;</L>
<L>The Sunne that ro&s;e in water, &s;et in blood:</L>
<L>Nothing but horror to be look'd for there,</L>
<L>And the &s;lought Mar&s;hall vainely doth but fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Hor&s;e &s;ore wounded whil&s;t he went a&s;ide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Mar&s;hal of France &s;laine.</NOTE></L>
<L>To take another &s;till that doth attend,</L>
<L>A &s;haft that &s;ome too-lucky hand doth guide,</L>
<L>Piercing his Gorget brought him to his end,</L>
<L>Which when the proud Lord <HI>Falkonbridge</HI> e&s;pide,</L>
<L>Thinking from thence to beare away his friend,</L>
<L>Strucke fro~ his Hor&s;e with many a mortal wou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Is by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> nayled to the ground.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Mar&s;hals</HI> death &s;o much doeth them affrig</L>
<L>That downe their weapons in&s;tantly they lay,</L>
<L>And better ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to fit them for their flight,</L>
<L>Their weightier Armes they wholly ca&s;t away,</L>
<L>Their hearts &s;o heauy makes their heeles &s;o light,</L>
<L>That there was no intreating them to &s;tay,</L>
<L>Ore hedge and ditch di&s;tractedly they take, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>And happie&s;t he the greate&s;t ha&s;t could make,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>&V;adamount</HI> now in the conflict met,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Vada|mount.</NOTE></L>
<L>With valiant <HI>Brabant,</HI> who&s;e high valour &s;how<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That day did many a blunted courage whet,</L>
<L>Ere long before that from the field had flowne,</L>
<L><PB N="75" REF="44">Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oth <HI>Vadamount,</HI> &s;ee how wee are be&s;et,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Brabant a mo&s;t couragi|ous Prince</NOTE></L>
<L>To death like to be troden by our owne,</L>
<L>My Lord of <HI>Brabant,</HI> what is to be done?</L>
<L>See how the <HI>French</HI> before the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> runne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why let them runne, and neuer turne the Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A bitter ex|clamation of the Duke of Brabant a|gain&s;t the French.</NOTE></L>
<L>Quoth the braue Duke, vntill their hatefull breath,</L>
<L>For&s;ake their bodies, and &s;o farre haue fled,</L>
<L>That <HI>France</HI> be not di&s;parag'd by their death,</L>
<L>Who tru&s;ts to Cowards ne'r is better &s;ped,</L>
<L>Be he accur&s;t, with &s;uch that holdeth faith,</L>
<L>Slaughter con&s;ume the Recreants as they fly,</L>
<L>Branded with &s;hame, &s;o ba&s;ely may they dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ignoble <HI>French,</HI> your fainting cowardize craues</L>
<L>The dreadfull cur&s;e of your owne mother earth,</L>
<L>Hardning her brea&s;t, not to allow you graues,</L>
<L>Bee &s;he &s;o much a&s;hamed of your birth;</L>
<L>May he be cur&s;t that one of you but &s;aues,</L>
<L>And be in <HI>France</HI> hereafter &s;uch a dearth,</L>
<L>Of courage, that men from their wits it feare,</L>
<L>A Drum or Trumpet when they hap to heare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>Burgundy</HI> brought I the force I had,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anthony Duke of Bra|bant &s;onne to the Duke of Burgundy.</NOTE></L>
<L>To fight for them, that ten for one did fly,</L>
<L>It &s;plits my brea&s;t, O that I could be mad;</L>
<L>To vexe the&s;e Slaues who would not dare to dye:</L>
<L>In all this Army is there not a Lad,</L>
<L>Th'ignoble <HI>French</HI> for cowards that dare cry:</L>
<L>If &s;car&s;e one found, then let me be that one,</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army that oppo&s;'d alone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="76" REF="45">
<L>This <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">Spand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> his Hor&s;e vpon his &s;peed,</L>
<L>And in like <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ing on the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> flew:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;onne he made to bleed,</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> with much a&s;toni&s;hment they view:</L>
<L>Where hauing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cted many a Knight-like deed,</L>
<L>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> and his Hor&s;e they all too peeces hewe:</L>
<L>Yet he that day more la&s;ting glory wan,</L>
<L>Except <HI>Al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nzon</HI> then did any man.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The valiant Duke of Bra|bant &s;laine.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> great King <HI>Henry</HI> came,</L>
<L>Of a va&s;t ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">om the Battaile <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ed,</L>
<L>(Among&s;t the <HI>French</HI> men of mo&s;t &s;peciall name)</L>
<L>But the &s;toute <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fiercely followed;</L>
<L>Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;afety, (much though to their &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Many of the French in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hotr flight get <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">to an old Fort.</NOTE></L>
<L>Got in their flight into &s;o &s;trong a &s;ted,</L>
<L>So fortifi'd by nature (as 'twas though<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">)</L>
<L>They might no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thence, but with much blood be brought</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>An aged Ra~pire, with huge Ruines heapt&punc;</L>
<L>Which &s;eru'd for Shot, gain&s;t tho&s;e that &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Who&s;e narrow entrance they with crosbowes kept</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;harpned quarres came in &s;how<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'s like haile<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings &s;light an&s;were.</NOTE></L>
<L>Quoth the braue King fir&s;t let the field be &s;wept,</L>
<L>And with the re&s;t we well enough &s;hall deale;</L>
<L>Which though &s;ome heard &amp; &s;o &s;hut vp their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are</L>
<L>Yet reli&s;h't not with many &s;ouldiers there,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some that them&s;elues by Ran&s;omes would in r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>(To make their pray of Pe&s;ants yet de&s;pi&s;e)</L>
<L>Felt as they thought their bloody palmes to 'tch,</L>
<L>To be in action for their wealthy prize,</L>
<L><PB N="77" REF="45">Others whom onely glory doth bewitch,</L>
<L>Rather then life would to this enterprize:</L>
<L>Mo&s;t men &s;eem'd willing, yet not any one,</L>
<L>Would put him&s;elfe this great exployt vpon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which <HI>Woodhou&s;e</HI> hearing merrily thus &s;pake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Woodhou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eereth at the attempt.</NOTE></L>
<L>One that right wel knew, both his worth and wit)</L>
<L>A d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ng <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ous thing it is to vndertake,</L>
<L>A fort, where Souldiers be defending it,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> path<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;leepe, and if they &s;hould awake,</L>
<L>With <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ones, or with their &s;hafts they may vs hitt,</L>
<L>And in our Conque&s;t whil&s;t &s;o well we fare,</L>
<L>It were meere folly, but I &s;ee none dare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which <HI>Gam</HI> or'hearing (being neere at hand,)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Braues pa&s;&s;e between Gam and Wood|hou&s;e.</NOTE></L>
<L>Not dare quoth he, and angerly doth frowne,</L>
<L>I tell thee <HI>Woodhou&s;e,</HI> &s;ome in pre&s;ence &s;tand,</L>
<L>Dare propp the Sunne if it were falling downe,</L>
<L>Dare gra&s;pe the bolt from Thunder in his hand,</L>
<L>And through a Canon leape into a Towne,</L>
<L>I tell thee, a re&s;olued man may doe,</L>
<L>Things that thy thoughts yet neuer mounted to.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I know that re&s;olution may doe much,</L>
<L><HI>Woodhou&s;e</HI> replyes, but who could act my thought,</L>
<L>With his proud Head the pole might ea&s;ily tuch,</L>
<L>And <HI>Gam</HI> quoth he, though brauely thou ha&s;t fought</L>
<L>Yet not the Fame thou ha&s;t attain'd to, &s;uch,</L>
<L>But that behind as great is to be bought,</L>
<L>And yonder tis, then <HI>Gam</HI> come vp with mee,</L>
<L>Where &s;oone the King our Courages &s;hall &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="78" REF="46">
<L>Agreed quoth <HI>Gam,</HI> and vp their troups they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Hand ouer head, and on the <HI>French</HI> they ranne,</L>
<L>And to the fight couragiou&s;ly they fall,</L>
<L>When on both &s;ides the &s;laughter &s;oone began;</L>
<L>Fortune a while indifferent is to all,</L>
<L>The&s;e what they may, and tho&s;e doe what they ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><HI>Woodhou&s;e</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">am,</HI> vpon each other vye,</L>
<L>By Armes their manhood de&s;peratly to try.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To clime the Fort, the Light-arm'd <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;trin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And &s;ome by Trees there growing to a&s;cend;</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> with flints let at the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> driue,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues with &s;hields the <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> defend,</L>
<L>And faine the fort down with their hands would r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Thus either &s;ide their vtmo&s;t power extend,</L>
<L>Till valiant <HI>Gam</HI> &s;ore wounded, drawne a&s;ide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gam <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</NOTE></L>
<L>By his owne &s;ouldiers, &s;hortly after dy'de,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then take they vp the bodyes of the &s;layne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">For this &s;er|uice done by Woodhou&s;e&punc; there was an addition of honour giuen him which was a hand holding<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> club: with the word, Frappe Fort, which is borne by the Fami|ly of the Woodhou&s;e of Norfolke to t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> day.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which for their Targets ours before them beare,</L>
<L>And with a fre&s;h a&s;&s;ault came on againe,</L>
<L>Scar&s;e in the Field yet &s;uch a fight as there,</L>
<L>Cros-bowes, and Long-bowes, at it are amaine,</L>
<L>Vntill the <HI>French</HI> their ma&s;&s;acre that feare,</L>
<L>Of the fierce <HI>Engli&s;h&punc;</HI> a ce&s;&s;ation craue,</L>
<L>Offring to yeeld, &s;o they their liues would &s;aue&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Lewis</HI> of <HI>Burbon</HI> in the furious heat,</L>
<L>Of this great Battaile, hauing made &s;ome &s;tay</L>
<L>Who with the left Wing &s;uffred a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d feate,</L>
<L>In the beginning of this luckle&s;&s;e day,</L>
<L><PB N="79" REF="46">Finding the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> forcing their retreat,</L>
<L>And that much hope vpon his valour lay,</L>
<L>Fearing le&s;t he might vndergoe &s;ome &s;hame,</L>
<L>That were vnworthy of the <HI>Burbon</HI> name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hath gathered vp &s;ome &s;cattered troops of hor&s;e,</L>
<L>That in the Field &s;tood doubtfull what to doe,</L>
<L>Though with much toyle, which he doth reinforce,</L>
<L>With &s;ome &s;mall power that he doth adde thereto,</L>
<L>Proclaiming &s;till the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had the wor&s;e,</L>
<L>And now at la&s;t, with him if they would goe,</L>
<L>He dares a&s;&s;ure them Victory, if not,</L>
<L>The greare&s;t fame that euer Souldiers got.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being wi&s;e, &s;o <HI>Burbon</HI> to beguile,</L>
<L>The <HI>French,</HI> (preparing in&s;tantly to fly)<NOTE PLACE="marg">A deui&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Burbons to giue incou|ragement to the French.</NOTE></L>
<L>Procures a Souldier by a &s;ecret wile,</L>
<L>To come in &s;wiftly and to craue &s;upply,</L>
<L>That if with courage they would fight a while,</L>
<L>It certaine was the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> all &s;hould dye,</L>
<L>For that the King had offered them to yeeld,</L>
<L>Finding his troupes to leaue him on the field,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Arthur</HI> Earle of <HI>Richmount</HI> comming in,</L>
<L>With the right wing that long &s;taid out of &s;ight,</L>
<L>Hauing too lately with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> bin,</L>
<L>But finding <HI>Burbon</HI> bent againe to fight,</L>
<L>His former credit hoping yet to winne,</L>
<L>(Which at that in&s;tant ca&s;ily he might)</L>
<L>Comes clo&s;e vp with him, and puts on as fa&s;t,</L>
<L>Brauely re&s;olu'd to fight it to the la&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="80" REF="47">
<L>And both encourag'd by the newes was braug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Of the ariuing of the <HI>Daulphine:</HI> power;</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;peedy Van, their Reare had almo&s;t raug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>(From <HI>Agin Court</HI> di&s;couered from a Tower)</L>
<L>Which with the <HI>Norman</HI> Gallantry was fraught,</L>
<L>And on the &s;uddaine comming like a &s;hower;</L>
<L>Would bring a deluge on the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Hoa&s;t,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t yet they &s;tood their victory to boa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And on they come, as doth a rowling tide,</L>
<L>Forc'd by a wind, that &s;houes it foorth &s;o fa&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simily of the, French.</NOTE></L>
<L>Till it choke vp &s;ome channell, &s;ide to &s;ide,</L>
<L>And the crab'd banks doth downe before it ca&s;t,</L>
<L>Hoping the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> would them not abide,</L>
<L>Or would be &s;o amaz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d at their ha&s;t,</L>
<L>That &s;hould they faile to route them at their w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Yet of their blood, the fields &s;hould drinke their f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> who&s;e o'r-wearied Armes,</L>
<L>Were with long &s;laughter lately waxed &s;ore,</L>
<L>The&s;e inexpected, and &s;o fierce Alarmes,</L>
<L>To their fir&s;t &s;trength doe in&s;tantly re&s;tore,</L>
<L>And like a Stone their &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ned &s;inewes warmes,</L>
<L>To act as brauely as th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> did before;</L>
<L>And the proud <HI>French</HI> as &s;toutly to oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>Scorning to y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d one foote de&s;pight of blowes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The figh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> is fearefull, for &s;tout <HI>Burbon</HI> brings,</L>
<L>His f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> forces on with &s;uch a &s;hocke,</L>
<L>That they were like to cut the Archers &s;trings,</L>
<L>E're they their Arrowes hand&s;omely could nock,</L>
<L><PB N="81" REF="47"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e <HI>French</HI> like Engins that were made with &s;prings:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">em&s;elues &s;o fa&s;t into the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> locke,</L>
<L>That th'one was like the other downe to beare,</L>
<L>In wanting roomth to &s;trike, they &s;tood &s;o neare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Till &s;taggering long they from each other reel'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lad that them&s;elues they &s;o could di&s;ingage:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d falling backe vpon the &s;pacious field,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or this la&s;t Sceane, that is the bloody Stage)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">here they their weapons liberally could weeld,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hey with &s;uch madne&s;&s;e execute their rage,</L>
<L>As though the former fury of the day,</L>
<L>To this encounter had bene but a play.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Slaughter is now de&s;ected to the full,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ere from their backs their batter'd Armorsfall,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">left &s;houlder, there a clouen &s;cull,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">here hang his eyes ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> beat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n with a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mall,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ntill the edges of their Bill<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> grow dull,</L>
<L>p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n each other they &s;o &s;pend their gall,</L>
<L>Wilde &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s and clamors all the ayre doe fill,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> cry <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tue,</HI> and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> kill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Barre</HI> in this va&s;t &s;poyle by chance;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith the Lord <HI>Saint-Iohn</HI> on the field doth meete,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow'rds whom that braue Duke doth him&s;elfe ad|ua~ce</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho with the like encou~ter him doth greet,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">his <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Barron, and this Peere of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rapling together, falling from their feet,</L>
<L>With the rude crowds had both to death beene cru&s;ht,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n for their &s;afety, had their friends not ru&s;ht.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="82" REF="48">
<L>Both againe rai&s;'d, and both their &s;ouldiers &s;hift</L>
<L>To &s;aue their liues if any way they could:</L>
<L>But as the <HI>French</HI> the Duke away wouldlift,</L>
<L>Vpon his Armes the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> taking hold,</L>
<L>(Men of that &s;ort, that thought vpon their thrift)</L>
<L>Knowing his Ran&s;ome dearely would be &s;ould:</L>
<L>Dragge him away in &s;pight of their defence,</L>
<L>Which to their quarter would haue borne him thence,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Meane while braue <HI>Burbon</HI> from his &s;tirring hor&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Gall'd with an Arrow to the earth is throwne,</L>
<L>By a meane &s;ouldier &s;ea&s;ed on by force,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lewis of Bur|bon taken pri&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> by a meane &s;ouldi|our.</NOTE></L>
<L>Hoping to haue him certainely his owne,</L>
<L>Which this Lord holdeth better &s;o then wor&s;e:</L>
<L>Since the <HI>French</HI> fortune to that ebbe is growne,</L>
<L>And he perceiues the &s;ouldier doth him deeme,</L>
<L>To be a per&s;on of no meane e&s;teeme.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Berkely</HI> and <HI>Burnell,</HI> two braue <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Lords,</L>
<L>Fle&s;ht with <HI>French</HI> blood &amp; in their Valours pride&punc;</L>
<L>Aboue their Arm'd heads brandi&s;hing their &s;words,</L>
<L>As they tryumphing through the Army ride,</L>
<L>Finding what prizes fortune her affords,</L>
<L>To eu'ry Souldier, and more wi&s;tly eyde,</L>
<L>This gallant pri&s;oner, by this Arming &s;ee,</L>
<L>Of the great <HI>Burbon</HI> family to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And from the Souldier they his pri&s;oner take,</L>
<L>Of which the <HI>French</HI> Lord &s;eemeth wondrous faine&punc;</L>
<L>Thereby his &s;afety more &s;ecure to make,</L>
<L>Which when the &s;ouldier finds his hopes in vaine,</L>
<L><PB N="83" REF="48"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> rich a booty forced to for&s;ake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lewis of Bur|bon &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bd by a Souldier that tooke him pri&s;oner,</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> put him&s;elfe and pri&s;oner out of paine,</L>
<L>He on the &s;uddaine &s;tabs him, and doth &s;weare,</L>
<L>Would th'aue his Ran&s;ome, they &s;hould take it there&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Morley</HI> making in amaine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing the Lord <HI>Darcy</HI> vp with them along,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e Hor&s;e had lately vnder him beene &s;laine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d they on foote found fighting in the throng,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">o&s;e Lords his friends remounting him againe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing a man that valiant was and &s;trong:</L>
<L>They altogether with a generall hand,</L>
<L>Charge on the <HI>French</HI> that they could find to &s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And yet but vainely as the <HI>French</HI> &s;uppo&s;'d,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">th'Earle of <HI>Richmount</HI> forth &s;uch earth had fou~d,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">at on two &s;ides with quick-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et was inclos'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d the way to it by a ri&s;ing ground,</L>
<L>which a while the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were oppo&s;'d,</L>
<L>euery Charge which el&s;e came vp &s;o round,</L>
<L>As that except the pa&s;&s;age put them by,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> as wel might leaue their Armes and fly.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vpon both parts it furiou&s;ly is fought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d with &s;uch quickn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e ri&s;eth to that height,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">t horror needs no further to be &s;ought:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nely that might &s;atisfie the &s;ight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">o would haue fame full d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly here i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> bought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> it was &s;old by mea&s;ure and by weight,</L>
<L>And at one rate the price &s;till certaine &s;tood,</L>
<L>An ounce of honour co&s;t a pound of blood,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="84" REF="49">
<L>When &s;o it hapt that <HI>Dampier</HI> in the Van,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lords Dampier an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Saue&s;&s;es ta|taken pri&s;o|ners.</NOTE></L>
<L>Meetes with &s;toute <HI>Darcy,</HI> but whil&s;t he him pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Ouer and ouer commeth Hor&s;e and man,</L>
<L>Of whom the other &s;oone him&s;elfe po&s;&s;e&s;t:</L>
<L>When as <HI>Saue&s;&s;es</HI> vpon <HI>Darcy</HI> ran,</L>
<L>To ayde <HI>Dampier,</HI> but as he him adre&s;t;</L>
<L>A Halbert taking hold vpon his Greaues,</L>
<L>Him from his Saddle violently heaues,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVhen &s;oone fiue hundred <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> at Arme</L>
<L>That to the <HI>French</HI> had giuen many a Cha&s;e,</L>
<L>And when they couered all the field with &s;warmes</L>
<L>Yet oft<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hat day had brauely bid them ba&s;e:</L>
<L>Now at the la&s;t by rai&s;ing fre&s;h alarmes;</L>
<L>And comming vp with an vnu&s;uall pace,</L>
<L>Made them to know that they mu&s;t run or yee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Neuer till now the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had the Field.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where <HI>Arthur</HI> Earle of <HI>Richmount</HI> beaten dow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Arthur Earle of Richmount taken pri&s;o|ner.</NOTE></L>
<L>Is left (&s;uppo&s;'d of euery one for dead)</L>
<L>But afterwards awaking from his &s;woone,</L>
<L>By &s;ome that found him, was recouered:</L>
<L>So Count <HI>Du Marle</HI> was likewi&s;e ouerthrowne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Count du Marle &s;laine.</NOTE></L>
<L>As he was turning meaning to haue fled,</L>
<L>VVho fights the cold blade in his bo&s;me feele<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>VVho flyes, &s;till heares it whisking at his heel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Till all di&s;rank'd, like &s;iely &s;heepe they runne,</L>
<L>By threats nor prayers, to be con&s;train'd to &s;tay&punc;</L>
<L>For that their hearts were &s;o extreamely done,</L>
<L>That fainting oft they fall vpon the way,</L>
<L><PB N="85" REF="49">Or when they might a pre&s;ent perill &s;hunne,</L>
<L>They ru&s;h vpon it by their much di&s;may;</L>
<L>That from the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;hould they &s;afely flye,</L>
<L>Of their owne very feare, yet they &s;hould dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some they take pri&s;oners, other &s;ome they kill,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s they affect tho&s;e vpon whom they fall:</L>
<L>For they as Victors may doe what they will:</L>
<L>For who this Conquerour to account dare call,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n gore the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;eeme their &s;oules to &s;will,</L>
<L>And the deiected <HI>French</HI> mu&s;t &s;uffer all;</L>
<L>Flight, cords, and &s;laughter, are the onely three,</L>
<L>To which them&s;elues &s;ubiected they doe &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A &s;hoole&s;le Souldier there a man might meete,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The mi&s;ery of the French.</NOTE></L>
<L>Leading his Moun&s;ier by the Armes fa&s;t bound:</L>
<L>Another, his had &s;hackled by the feete;</L>
<L>Who like a Cripple &s;hu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fled on the ground;</L>
<L>Another three or foure before him beete,</L>
<L>Like harmefull Cattell driuen to a pound,</L>
<L>They mu&s;t abide it, &s;o the Victor will,</L>
<L>Who at his plea&s;ure may, or &s;aue, or kill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That braue <HI>French</HI> Gallant when the fight began,</L>
<L>Who&s;e lea&s;e of Lackies ambled by his &s;ide,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe a Lacky now mo&s;t ba&s;ely ran,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t a rag'd &s;ouldier on his Hor&s;e doth ride,</L>
<L>That Ra&s;call is no le&s;&s;e then at his man,</L>
<L>Who was but lately to his Luggadge tide;</L>
<L>And the <HI>French</HI> Lord now court&s;ies to that &s;laue,</L>
<L>Who the la&s;t day his Almes was like to craue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="86" REF="50">
<L>And tho&s;e few <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> wounded in the fight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The French forced to beare the wounded Eng|li&s;h on their backs.</NOTE></L>
<L>The force the <HI>French</HI> to bring with them away,</L>
<L>Who when they w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re depre&s;&s;ed with the weight&punc;</L>
<L>Yet dar'd not once their burden downe to lay,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e in the morne, who&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hopes wer at their h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Are fallne thus lowe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re the departing day,</L>
<L>With picks of Halberts pric<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t in &s;tead of goa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Like tyred Hor&s;es labouring with their Loads&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But as the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> from the field returne,</L>
<L>Some of tho&s;e <HI>French</HI> who when the fight b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gan,</L>
<L>For&s;ooke their friends, and hoping yet to earne,</L>
<L>Pardon, for that &s;o covvardly they ran,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">h <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rri'ges to burne.</L>
<L>Which to defend them &s;carcely had a man;</L>
<L>For that their keepers to the field were got,</L>
<L>To picke &s;uch &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">yles, as chance &s;hould then&punc; al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Captaines of this Ra&s;call cowardly Ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Were <HI>I&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ret</HI> of <HI>Agincourt</HI> at hand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of ra&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">al French <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the King Englands <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Riflant</HI> of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">luna&s;&s;e</HI> a Dorpe there about,</L>
<L>And for the chiefe in this their ba&s;e command.</L>
<L>Was <HI>Robin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t</HI> of <HI>Burn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">le;</HI> throughout,</L>
<L>The country knowne, all order to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>The&s;e with fiue hundred Pea&s;ants they had ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Tents vpon an in&s;tant &s;ea&s;'d.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For &s;etting on tho&s;e with the Luggadge left,</L>
<L>A few poore Sutlers with the Campe that went,</L>
<L>They ba&s;ely fell to pillage and to theft,</L>
<L>And hauing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ifled euery Booth and Tent,</L>
<L><PB N="87" REF="50"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome of the &s;illye&s;t they of life bereft,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he feare of which, &s;ome of the other &s;ent,</L>
<L>Into the Army, with their &s;uddaine cryes,</L>
<L>Which put the King in feare of fre&s;h &s;upplies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For that his Souldiers tyred in the fight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">heir pri&s;oners more in number then they were,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e thought it for a thing of too much weight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oppo&s;e fre&s;h fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and to guard them there,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Daulphines</HI> Powers, yet &s;tan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing in their &s;ight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd <HI>Burbons</HI> Fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ces of the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ld n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t cleere,</L>
<L>The&s;e yearning cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rom the caridge came</L>
<L>His blood yet hot, more highly doth i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">flame,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in his rage he in&s;tantly commands,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Engli&s;h kill <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">|&s;oners.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat euery Engli&s;h &s;hould his pri&s;oner <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cept &s;ome few in &s;ome g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">at Captaines hands,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e Ran&s;omes might his emptied C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fers fill,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lls one who&s;e loo&s;e, or who is now in bonds,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oth mu&s;t one way it is the Co~qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rours wil,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e who late thought, &s;mal ran&s;oms them might free</L>
<L>Saw onely death their Ran&s;oms now mu&s;t be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Accu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed <HI>French,</HI> and could it not &s;uffize,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ion.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat ye but now bath'd in your natiue gore;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut ye mu&s;t now infortunately ri&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o draw more plagues vpon ye then before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd gain&s;t your &s;elfe more mi&s;chiefe to deui&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen th'<HI>Engli&s;h</HI> could haue, and &s;et wide the doore,</L>
<L>To vtter ruine, and to make an end,</L>
<L>Of that your &s;elues, which others would&punc; not &s;pend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="88" REF="51">
<L>Their vtmo&s;t rage the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> now hath breath'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And their proud hearts gan &s;omewhat to relent,</L>
<L>Their bloody &s;words they quietly had &s;heath'd,</L>
<L>And their &s;trong bowes already were vnbent,</L>
<L>To ea&s;efull re&s;t their bodies they bequeath'd,</L>
<L>Nor farther harme at all to you they ment,</L>
<L>And to that paynes mu&s;t ye then need&s;ly put,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The French <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">au&s;e of their owne ma&s;&s;a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hre. A di&s;cripti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n of the Ma&s;&s;acre in the foure fol|lowing Stan|zaes.</NOTE></L>
<L>To draw their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">niues once more your throats <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> cut</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That French who lately by the Engli&s;h &s;tood,</L>
<L>And freely ask'd what ran&s;ome he &s;hould pay,</L>
<L>Who &s;omewhat coold, and in a calmer moode,</L>
<L>Agreed with him both of the &s;umme and day,</L>
<L>Now findes his fle&s;h mu&s;t be the pre&s;ent foode,</L>
<L>For wolues and rauens, for the &s;ame that &s;tay,</L>
<L>And &s;ees his blood on th'others &s;word to flow,</L>
<L>E'r his quicke &s;en&s;e could apprehend the blow&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t one is asking what the bus'ne&s;&s;e is,</L>
<L>Hearing (in <HI>French</HI>) his country-man to cry:</L>
<L>He who detaines him pri&s;oner, an&s;weres this:</L>
<L>Moun&s;ier, the King commands that you mu&s;t die&punc;</L>
<L>This is plaine <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> whil&s;t he's killing his:</L>
<L>He &s;ees another on a <HI>French</HI> man flye,</L>
<L>And with a Poleax pa&s;heth out his braines,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t he's demanding what the garboile mea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That tender heart who&s;e chance it was to haue&punc;</L>
<L>Some one, that day who did much valour &s;howe,</L>
<L>Who might perhaps haue had him for his Slaue:</L>
<L>But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> all Lots had fate pleas'd to be&s;tow:</L>
<L><PB N="89" REF="51">Hee who his pri&s;oner willingly would &s;aue,</L>
<L>La&s;tly con&s;train'd to giue the deadly blowe,</L>
<L>That &s;ends him downe to euerla&s;ting &s;leepe:</L>
<L>Turning his face, full bitterly doth weepe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ten thou&s;and <HI>French</HI> that inwardly were well,</L>
<L>Saue &s;ome light hurts that any man might heale,</L>
<L>Euen at an in&s;tant, in a minute fell,</L>
<L>And their owne friends their deaths to them to deale,</L>
<L>Yet of &s;o many, very few could tell,</L>
<L>Nor could the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> perfectly reueale,</L>
<L>The de&s;perate cau&s;e of this di&s;a&s;trous hap.</L>
<L>But euen as Thunder kil'd them with a clap,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How happy were tho&s;e in the very height,</L>
<L>Of this great Battaile, that had brauely dyde,</L>
<L>When as their boyling bo&s;omes in the fight,</L>
<L>Felt not the &s;harpe &s;teele thorow them to &s;lide;</L>
<L>But the&s;e now in a mi&s;erable plight,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t in cold blood this ma&s;&s;acre abide,</L>
<L>Cau&s;&punc;d by tho&s;e Villanes (cur&s;t aliue and dead,)</L>
<L>That from the field the pa&s;&s;ed morning fled.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as the King to Crowne his glorious day,</L>
<L>Now bids his &s;ouldiers after all this toyle,</L>
<L>No forces found that more might them di&s;may)</L>
<L>Of the dead <HI>French</HI> to take the gen'rall &s;poyle,</L>
<L>Who&s;e heapes had well neere &s;topt vp eu'ry way,</L>
<L>For eu'n as Clods they cou'red all the &s;oyle,</L>
<L>Commanding none &s;hould any one controule,</L>
<L>Catch that catch might, but each man to his dole.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="90" REF="52">
<L>They fall to groping bu&s;ily for gold,</L>
<L>Of which abou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re,</L>
<L>They find as much as w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll their hands can hold,</L>
<L>Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad but &s;iluer, him they counted po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re,</L>
<L>Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">fes, Chaines&punc; an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Bracel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s, were not to be told</L>
<L>So rich as th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ouldiers were before;</L>
<L>Who got a Ring, would &s;carcely put it on,</L>
<L>Except therein there were &s;ome Radiant &s;tone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Out of rich &s;ates the Noble&s;t <HI>French</HI> they &s;trip,</L>
<L>An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> leaue their bodies naked on the ground,</L>
<L>And each one fill his Knap&s;ack, or his Scrip,</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&s;ome rare th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ng that on the Field i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> found:</L>
<L>About his bus'n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">bly Skip,</L>
<L>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> vpon him m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ny a c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll wound:</L>
<L>And where they found a <HI>French</HI> not out-right &s;lain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>They <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">im a pri&s;oner con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">antly retaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who &s;car&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a Shirt had but the day before,</L>
<L>No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a whole S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cking to keepe out the cold,</L>
<L>Hath a whole Wardrop at commend in &s;tore)</L>
<L>In th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>French</HI> fa&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on flanting it in gold,</L>
<L>And in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">auerne, in his C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ps doth rore,</L>
<L>Chocking his Crowns and growes thereby &s;o bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>That proudly he a Captaines name a&s;iumes,</L>
<L>In his gilt Gorget with his to&s;sing Plumes.</L>
<L><PB N="91" REF="52">Wagons and Carts are laden till they cracke&punc;</L>
<L>With Armes and Tents there taken in the field;</L>
<L>For want of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arridge on who&s;e tops are pac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">,</L>
<L>En&s;ignes, Coat-Armours, Targets, Speares, &amp; Shields</L>
<L>Nor need they conuoy f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing to be &s;ack<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">;</L>
<L>For all the country to King <HI>Henry</HI> yeelds,</L>
<L>And the poore pea&s;ant helpes along to beare,</L>
<L>What late the goods of his proud Landlords were.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Hor&s;e well furni&s;ht for a pre&s;ent Warre:</L>
<L>For a <HI>French</HI> Crowne might any where be bought,</L>
<L>But if &s;o be that he had any &s;carre,</L>
<L>Though n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'r &s;o &s;mall he valew'd was at naught;</L>
<L>With &s;poyles &s;o &s;ated the proud <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> are;</L>
<L>Among&s;t the &s;laine, that who for pillage &s;ought,</L>
<L>Except &s;ome rich Capari&s;on he found,</L>
<L>For a &s;teele Saddle would not &s;toope to ground.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And many a hundred beaten downe that were,</L>
<L>Who&s;e wounds were mortal, others wondrous deep</L>
<L>When as our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ouer&punc;pa&s;t t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ey heare&punc;</L>
<L>And no man left a Watch on them to keepe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">to the Bu&s;hes, and the Ditches neare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pon their weake hands and their knees doe creepes</L>
<L>But for their hurts tooke a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re&punc; and were vndre&s;t,</L>
<L>They were found dead and buried with the re&s;t&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="92" REF="53">
<L>Thus when the King &s;aw that the coa&s;t was clear'd&punc;</L>
<L>And of the <HI>French</HI> who were not flaine were fled,</L>
<L>Nor in the field not any then appear'd,</L>
<L>That had the power againe to make a head:</L>
<L>This Conquerour exceedingly is cheer'd,</L>
<L>Thanking his God that he &s;o well had &s;ped,</L>
<L>And &s;o towr'ds <HI>Callice</HI> brauely marching on,</L>
<L>Leaueth &s;ad <HI>France</HI> her lo&s;&s;es to bemoane,</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS. The Battaile of Agin-Court.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="93" REF="53">
<HEAD>THE MISERIES OF QVEENE <HI>MARGARITE.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_I Sing a woman, and a powerfull Queene,</L>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> the Sixt, the King of <HI>Englands</HI> Wife,</L>
<L>The beautious <HI>Margarite,</HI> who&s;e</L>
<L>mi&s;gouern'd &s;pleene</L>
<L>So many &s;orrowes brought vpon her life&punc;</L>
<L>As vpon womans neuer yet were &s;eene,</L>
<L>In the beginning of that fatall &s;trife,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The family of Yorke &s;ough<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> under hand to promoue their title a|bout that time.</NOTE></L>
<L>(Th'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nlucky &s;ea&s;on) when the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> &s;aught,</L>
<L>To bring the Line of <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> to naught.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It was the time of tho&s;e great &s;tirres in <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>Their ancient Right that th'<HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had regain'd,</L>
<L>By the proud <HI>French</HI> attributing to chance,</L>
<L>What by meere Manhood &s;toutly ours obtain'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">After the &s;e+cond conque<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> of France by Henry the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ift.</NOTE></L>
<L>Their late-falne En&s;ignes labour'd to aduance,</L>
<L>The Streets with blood of either Nation &s;tain'd:</L>
<L>The&s;e &s;triue to hold, tho&s;e to ca&s;t off the yoake,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t forts, &amp; towns flew vp to heauen in &s;moke</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="94" REF="54">
<L>The neighboring Princes greatly pittying the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Chri&s;tian Princes &s;eeke to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> a peace between <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> and France.</NOTE></L>
<L>The Chri&s;tian blood in that long quarrel &s;hed,</L>
<L>Which had d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ur'd &s;uch multitudes of m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the full a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th could &s;car&s;ely keepe he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> dead;</L>
<L>Yet for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ach <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> of her Nat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> ten:</L>
<L>In zeale to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the&s;e neighbouring Princes l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d&punc;</L>
<L>At <HI>Tours</HI> in <HI>Tourayne</HI> &s;et them downe a Dyet,</L>
<L>(Could it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> don<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; the&s;e clamorous fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uds to quiet&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From th'Emperour there Am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e,</L>
<L>The Kings of <HI>Denmarke, Hungary,</HI> and <HI>Spayne,</HI></L>
<L>And that each thing the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly might cont<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iue,</L>
<L>And both the King there largely might complaine,</L>
<L>The Duke of <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance</HI> for the <HI>French</HI> doth &s;triue,</L>
<L>To &s;how his grie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ce; <HI>William Poole</HI> againe,</L>
<L>The Earle of <HI>Suffolke</HI> do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>England</HI> &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d,</L>
<L>Who &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er'd the &s;tate then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> a powerful hand</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For eighteene moneths they ratifie a peace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> 18 moneths.</NOTE></L>
<L>Tw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">xt the&s;e proud Real<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s&punc; which <HI>Suffolk</HI> doth pur|&s;ue</L>
<L>With al his powers, with hope &s;til to encrea&s;e,</L>
<L>The &s;ame expir'd, that it &s;hould &s;oone renew,</L>
<L>For by his meanes if &s;o th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> wars might cea&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e in this time of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">our<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">onclud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a Mar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">age be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ixt th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lady Mar|garire and the King his Ma&s;ter.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e had a plot of which they neuer knew,</L>
<L>To his intent, if all things went aright,</L>
<L>Heele make the dull world to admire his might,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For hauing &s;eene faire <HI>Margarite</HI> in <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>(that tim's bright&s;t beauty) being then but yong,</L>
<L>Her piercing eyes with many a &s;ubtill glance,</L>
<L>His mighty heart &s;o for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ibly had &s;tung,</L>
<L><PB N="99" REF="54">As made him thinke if that he could aduarce,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poole taken with the ex|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ding <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y of the Prince&s;&s;e.</NOTE></L>
<L>This nortall wonder, onely that among,</L>
<L>His ri&s;ing Fortunes &s;hould the greate&s;t proue,</L>
<L>If to his Queene, he could aduance his loue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her eyes at all points Arm'd with tho&s;e deceits,</L>
<L>That to her &s;exe are naturall euery way,</L>
<L>Which vvith more Art, &s;he as inticing baits,</L>
<L>For this great Lord doth with aduantage lay,</L>
<L>As he againe that on her bo&s;ome waits,</L>
<L>Had found that there, which could he come to &s;way</L>
<L>He would put faire as euer man did yet,</L>
<L>Vpon the height of Fortunes wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ele to &s;it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Loue and Ambition &s;purre h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> in &s;uch &s;ort,</L>
<L>As that (alone t'accompli&s;h h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> de&s;ire,</L>
<L>To fall with <HI>Phaeton</HI> he would thinke it &s;port,</L>
<L>Though he &s;hould &s;et the Vnl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ire,</L>
<L>Nor recks he what the world of him report,</L>
<L>He mu&s;t &s;corne that, who will dare to a&s;pier,</L>
<L>For through the aire his wings him way &s;hal make</L>
<L>Though in his fall the frame of heauen he &s;hake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Reyner</HI> de&s;cended from the Royall &s;tem<NOTE PLACE="marg">He had only the title of the&s;e King|domes with|out any l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">|lyhoo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE></L>
<L>Of <HI>France,</HI> the Duke of <HI>An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> &s;tiled King</L>
<L>Of <HI>Naples, Cicil,</HI> and <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI></L>
<L>Although in them he had not any thing,</L>
<L>But the poore title of a Diadem;</L>
<L>Seing by <HI>Suffolke</HI> greater hopes to &s;pring;</L>
<L>Puts on his Daughter that great Lord to plea&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Margarite Duk Reyners Daughter.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of <HI>Englands</HI> Coun&s;ailes who kept all the keyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="96" REF="55">
<L>But &s;trange encounters &s;trongly him oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>In his fir&s;t entrance to this great De&s;igne,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e men were mighty that again&s;t him ro&s;e,</L>
<L>And came vpon him with a Countermine,</L>
<L>That he mu&s;t now play cunningly, or lo&s;e&punc;</L>
<L>Cunning they were again&s;t him that combine,</L>
<L>Plot aboue plot, doth &s;traine aloft to tower&punc;</L>
<L>The conflict great, twixt pollicy and power,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For <HI>Humfrey</HI> Duke of <HI>Glo&s;ter,</HI> &s;til'd the good,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Amba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">our with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> onely daugh|ter.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Englands</HI> Protector &s;ought a match to make,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">th a faire Prince&s;&s;e, of as Royal blood,</L>
<L>The Daughter of the Earle of <HI>Arminake,</HI></L>
<L>And h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> crown'd Nephew&punc; but &s;tout <HI>Suffolke</HI> &s;tood&punc;</L>
<L>Still for his Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e, nor will her for&s;ake,</L>
<L>But make her <HI>Henryes</HI> Queene in &s;pight of all:</L>
<L>Or &s;he &s;hall ri&s;e, or <HI>Suffolke</HI> &s;weares to fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By the <HI>French</HI> faction when &s;he vp is cryde;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The high prai|&s;es of the Prince&s;&s;e Margarites beauty.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of all Angellique excellence the Prime,</L>
<L>Who was &s;o dull that her not Deifide,</L>
<L>To be the onely Ma&s;ter-piece of time:</L>
<L>The pray&s;e of her extended is &s;o wide,</L>
<L>As that thereon a man to heauen might clime:</L>
<L>All tongues and eares inchanted with delite,</L>
<L>When they doe talke, or heare of <HI>Margarite.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And tho&s;e whom <HI>Poole</HI> about his Prince had plac'd<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poole<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fol|lowers placed about the King to work <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> owne ends.</NOTE></L>
<L>And for his purpo&s;e taught the tricks of Court,</L>
<L>To this great King, and many a time had grac'd,</L>
<L>To make his eares more apt for their report,</L>
<L><PB N="97" REF="55"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">auing the time mo&s;t diligently trac'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;aw the&s;e things &s;ucces&s;iuely to &s;ort:</L>
<L>Strike in a hand and vp together beare,</L>
<L>To make faire <HI>Margarite</HI> Mu&s;icke in his eare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Aniou</HI> a Dutchy, <HI>Mayne</HI> a Countrey great,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The prouinces of France gi|uen to Duke Reyner for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Daughter.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of which the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> long had beene po&s;&s;e&s;t&punc;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd <HI>Mauns</HI> a city of no &s;mall receite,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o which the Duke pretended intere&s;t:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or the conclu&s;ion&punc; when they came to treate,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd things by <HI>Poole</HI> were to the vtmo&s;t pre&s;t,</L>
<L>Are to Duke <HI>Reyner</HI> reudred vp to hold,</L>
<L>To buy a <HI>Hellen,</HI> thus a <HI>Troy</HI> was &s;old.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When of an Earle, a Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Poole</HI> is made,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poole created fir&s;t from an Earle, Mar|que<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> and afte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Duke of Suffolke.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen of a Marque&s;&s;e is a Duke created,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or he at ea&s;t in Fortunes lap was layd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o glorious actions wholly con&s;ecrated:</L>
<L>Hard was the thing that he could not per&s;wade,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n the Kings fauour he was &s;o in&s;tated;</L>
<L>Without his <HI>Suffolke</HI> who could not &s;ub&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>So that he ruled all things as he li&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This with a &s;trong a&s;toni&s;hment doth &s;trike,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The people exceedingly r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the giuing a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ay of the Pro|uinces.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h'amazed world which knew not what to &s;ay,</L>
<L>What liuing man but did the act mi&s;like,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f him it did not vtterly di&s;may,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat what with blood was bought at pu&s;h of pike,</L>
<L>Got in an age, giu'n in an houre away:</L>
<L>Some largely &s;peake, and &s;ome againe are dumbe,</L>
<L>Wo~dring what would of this &s;tra~ge world become</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="98" REF="56">
<L>As when &s;ome dreadfull Comet doth appeare,</L>
<L>Athwart th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e~ tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> throws his threatning light</L>
<L>The peaceful people that at quiet were,</L>
<L>Stand with wild g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">z<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s wond'ring at the &s;ight,</L>
<L>Some War, &s;ome Pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gues, &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">in greatly feare&punc;<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simily.</NOTE></L>
<L>Some falls of Kingdomes, or of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> of mig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t:</L>
<L>The grieued people thus their iudgements &s;pend</L>
<L>Of the&s;e &s;trange Actions what &s;hould be the end&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Suffolke</HI> Procurator for the King,<NOTE PLACE="marg">S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ffolke Pro|curator for the King.</NOTE></L>
<L>Is &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">p'd for <HI>France,</HI> t'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pou&s;e the beautious Bride&punc;</L>
<L>And fitted to the full of euery thing&punc;</L>
<L>Followed with <HI>Englands</HI> Gallant<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y and pride,</L>
<L>(As fre&s;h as is the brauery of the Spring)<NOTE PLACE="marg">The marriage &s;olem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">zed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> the city of Towers.</NOTE></L>
<L>Comming to <HI>Towers,</HI> there &s;umpt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;l&punc; affide:</L>
<L>This one, who&s;e like no age had &s;eene before,</L>
<L>Who&s;e eyes out-&s;hone the Iewels that &s;he wore</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her reucrent Parents ready in the place,</L>
<L>As one<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ioy'd this happy day to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>The King and Queene the Nuptials there to grace&punc;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The great con+cour&s;e to ho+nour the So|l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">nization.</NOTE></L>
<L>On them three Dukes as then attend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nts be,</L>
<L>Seuen Earles <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Barrons in their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pace,</L>
<L>And twenty Bi&s;hops&punc; wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> that onely &s;he,</L>
<L>Like to the Ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> morning towards the ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Cheeres all the Church, as it doth cheere the ski<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">umpha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ches the glad Towne doth rai&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lts and Tur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ys are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> at Court,</L>
<L>Conceited Masks, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Banq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, witty playes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> them many a pretty &s;port,</L>
<L><PB N="99" REF="56"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ts</HI> write <HI>Prothalamions</HI> in their prai&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ntill mens eares were cloyd with the report,</L>
<L>Of either &s;exe, and who doth not delight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Margaret in French &s;igni|f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">th a Day&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e</NOTE></L>
<L>To weare the Day&s;ie for Queene <HI>Margarite.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Tryumphs ended, he to <HI>England</HI> goes</L>
<L>With this rich Gem allotted him to keepe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ill entertained with mo&s;t &s;umptuous &s;howes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene brauely ente<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|tained in pa&s;|&s;ing through Normandy.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n pa&s;sing thorough <HI>Normandy</HI> to <HI>Di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pe&punc;</HI></L>
<L>Where like the Sea the concour&s;e dayly flowes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or her departure whil&s;t &s;ad <HI>France</HI> doth weepe:</L>
<L>And that the &s;hips their crooked Anchors waide,</L>
<L>By which to <HI>England</HI> &s;he mu&s;t be conuayd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being fitted both for Winde and Tide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King &s;tayeth for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> at Port<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mouth.</NOTE></L>
<L>Out of the Harbour flyes this goodly Fleet,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd for faire <HI>Portsmouth</HI> their &s;traight cour&s;e they plyd,</L>
<L>Where the King &s;tayd his louely Bride to meete;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">onder &s;he comes when as the people cryd,</L>
<L>Bu&s;ie with Ru&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;trev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing euery &s;treete,</L>
<L>The brainele&s;&s;e Vulgar little vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>The Horrid plagues that ready were to La<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which but to &s;oone all-&s;eeing heauen foretold,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Great and fearefull Tempe&s;ts at the comming in of the Que<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne.</NOTE></L>
<L>For &s;hee was &s;car&s;ely &s;afely put a Shore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t that the skies (&ocirc; wondrous to behold)</L>
<L>Ore&s;pred with lightning hideou&s;ly doth rore,</L>
<L>The furious winds with one another &s;cold,</L>
<L>Neuer &s;uch Tempe&s;ts had beene &s;eene before,</L>
<L>With &s;udden floods who&s;e villages were drown'd</L>
<L>Steeples with earthquaks tumbled to the ground.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="100" REF="57">
<L>VVHe~ to their purpo&s;e thi~gs to pa&s;s wer broght</L>
<L>And the&s;e two brauea~bitious &s;pirits wer me</L>
<L>The Queene and Duke now frame their working though</L>
<L>Into their ha~d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Soueraignty to get:</L>
<L>For &s;oon they found the King could not be wrought</L>
<L>Vp to their ends, nature &s;o low had &s;et,</L>
<L>His humble heart; that what they would obtaine</L>
<L>Tis they mu&s;t do'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, by collour of his Raigne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for they found the grieued commons grutc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> this which <HI>Suffolke</HI> de&s;perately had done,</L>
<L>Who for the Queene had parted with &s;o much,</L>
<L>Thereby yet nothing to the Realme had wonne,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e that &s;pur'd the people on, were &s;uch,</L>
<L>As to oppo&s;e them openly begunne;</L>
<L>Therefore by them &s;ome great ones down mu&s;t go</L>
<L>Which if they mi&s;t of, they them&s;elues mu&s;t &s;o&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Yorke</HI> then which had the Regency in <HI>France,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Yor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> di&s;|charged of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Regency in France, and the Duke of Sommer&s;et in h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> place.</NOTE></L>
<L>They force the King, ignobly to di&s;place,</L>
<L>Thereto the Duke of <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> t'aduance,</L>
<L>Their friend, and one of the <HI>Lanca&s;trian</HI> Race;</L>
<L>For they betwixt them turnd the wheele of <HI>Chan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></L>
<L>Tis they cry vp tis they that doe aba&s;e,</L>
<L>He's the fir&s;t man they purpo&s;'d to remoue,</L>
<L>The onely <HI>Minion</HI> of the peoples loue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This opened wide the publike way whereby,</L>
<L>Ruine ru&s;ht in vpon the troubled Land,</L>
<L>Vnder who&s;e weight it hapned long to lye,</L>
<L>Quite ouerthrowne with their il-guiding hand;</L>
<L><PB N="101" REF="57">For their Ambition looking ouer-hie,</L>
<L>Could in no mea&s;ure aptly vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>Vpon their heads the danger that they drew,</L>
<L>Who&s;e force too &s;oone, they, and their faction knew</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For whil&s;t this braue Prince was imploid abroad,</L>
<L>Th'affaires of <HI>France</HI> his minde vp wholly tooke,</L>
<L>But being thus disburthen'd of that load,</L>
<L>Which gaue him leave into him&s;elfe to looke,</L>
<L>The cour&s;e he ranne in, euidently &s;how'd,</L>
<L>His late Allegeance that he off had &s;hooke,</L>
<L>And vnder hand his Title &s;et on foote,</L>
<L>To plucke their <HI>Red-Ro&s;e</HI> quite vp by the roote,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus hauing made a Regent of their owne,</L>
<L>By whom they meane great matters to effect,</L>
<L>For by degrees, they will a&s;cend the throane,</L>
<L>And but their owne all ayde they el&s;e neglect,</L>
<L>As with a tempe&s;t he to ground is blowne,</L>
<L>On whom their rage doth any way reflect;</L>
<L>Which good Duke <HI>Humfrey</HI> fir&s;t of all mu&s;t ta&s;te</L>
<L>Who&s;e timele&s;&s;e death intemperately they ha&s;te.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Henryes</HI> Vncle, and his next of blood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Charract<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the Duke of Gloce&s;ter&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>Was both <HI>Protector</HI> of the Realme, and King,</L>
<L>Who&s;e meekene&s;&s;e had in&s;tiled him the Good,</L>
<L>Of mo&s;t e&s;peciall tru&s;t in euery thing;</L>
<L>One to his Country con&s;tantly that &s;tood,</L>
<L>As Time &s;hould &s;ay, I foorth a man will bring,</L>
<L>So plaine and hone&s;t, as on him Ile re&s;t,</L>
<L>The age he liu'd in, as the onely be&s;t&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="102" REF="58">
<L>This graue <HI>Protector</HI> who both Realms had &s;way</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the Kings nonage his &s;ound coun&s;els crau'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>In his great wi&s;edome when he throughly way'd,</L>
<L>How this <HI>French</HI> Lady here her &s;elfe behau'd,</L>
<L>To make her Game againe, how <HI>Suffolke</HI> play'd,</L>
<L>The Realmes from ruine, hoping to haue &s;au'd,</L>
<L>Lo&s;t his deare life within a little &s;pace.</L>
<L>Which ouerthrew the whole <HI>Lanca&s;trian</HI> race&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Prince&punc; who &s;till dar'd &s;toutly to oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e whom be &s;awe&punc; all but their owne to hate,</L>
<L>Then found the league o his inueterate &s;oes,</L>
<L>To come vpon him wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h the power of Fate,</L>
<L>And things to that extremitie &s;till ro&s;e,</L>
<L>The certaine &s;igne of the declining State,</L>
<L>As that their Faction euery day grew &s;trong,</L>
<L>Perceiu'd his vertues like to &s;uffer wrong.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fierce <HI>Margarits</HI> malice propt with mighty me<NOTE PLACE="marg">The greate&s;t per&s;ons of the Queenes Fa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="5 letters">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Her darling <HI>Suffolke,</HI> who her forward drew,</L>
<L>Proud <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> of <HI>France</HI> the Regent then,</L>
<L>And <HI>Buckingham</HI> his power too well that knew,</L>
<L>The Cardinall <HI>Bewfort,</HI> and with him agen,</L>
<L><HI>Yorks</HI> great Arch-Prelate, to make vp the crue,</L>
<L>By accu&s;ations doing all their be&s;t,</L>
<L>From the good Duke all Gouernment to wre&s;t&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who then compell the peacefull King to call,</L>
<L>Parliament their grieuances to heare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the Duke that to inforce his fall,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">y might haue &s;omething that might Collour be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L><PB N="103" REF="58"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut then they doubt his an&s;were, and withall,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he murmuring people they farre more doe feare,</L>
<L>As their owne liues, who lou'd him, therefore they,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t ca&s;t to make him &s;ecretly away,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And therefore with the Parliament proceed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Parlia|mentat Saint Edmunds-Bury.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aint&punc; Edmunds-bury</HI> the appointed place,</L>
<L>Whereas they ment to doe the fatall deed,</L>
<L>Which with much quickne&s;&s;e &s;hould decide the ca&s;e</L>
<L>The cruell manner &s;oone they had de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">reed,</L>
<L>And to the Act they ha&s;ten them apace,</L>
<L>On this good Prince their purpo&s;e ro effect,</L>
<L>Then, when the people nothing &s;hould &s;u&s;pect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No &s;ooner was this great a&s;&s;embly met,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Glo&s;ter are&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+ed by the high Mar&s;hall of England.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut the high Mar&s;hall doth the Duke arre&s;t,</L>
<L>And on his per&s;on &s;uch a guard they &s;et,</L>
<L>That they of him were certainely po&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>His &s;eruants were from their attendance lett,</L>
<L>And either &s;ent to pri&s;on or &s;uppre&s;t;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke murthered.</NOTE></L>
<L>So that their Lord lef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in this piteous plight,</L>
<L>Lay'd in his bed, was &s;trangled in the night.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then giue they out, that of meere griefe he dyde,</L>
<L>To couer what they cruell, had done,</L>
<L>But this blacke deede, when once the day di&s;cride,</L>
<L>The frantique people to his Lodging runne,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome rayle, &s;ome cur&s;e, yea little children chide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> mutiny.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which forc'd that faction the faire &s;treets to &s;hun,</L>
<L>Some wi&s;h proud <HI>Suffolke</HI> &s;unke into the ground,</L>
<L>Somebid a plague the cruell Queene confound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="104" REF="59">
<L>Thus their Ambition would not let them &s;ee,</L>
<L>How by his death they ha&s;tened their decay&punc;</L>
<L>Nor let them know that this was only he,</L>
<L>Who kept the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> euermore at bay,</L>
<L>But of this man they mu&s;t the murtherers be,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The death o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Duk was the vtter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">row of the hou&s;e of L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ca&s;ter.</NOTE></L>
<L>Vpon who&s;e life their &s;afety onely lay,</L>
<L>But his deare blood, them nothing could &s;uffice,</L>
<L>When now began Queene <HI>Margarites</HI> Mi&s;erie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In either Kingdome all things went to wracke&punc;</L>
<L>Which they had thought they could haue made to thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The affaires of England fall t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ruin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pon the death of the Duke.</NOTE></L>
<L>His noble Cou~&s;ells when they came to lacke,</L>
<L>Which could them with facility contriue,</L>
<L>Nor could they &s;tay them in their going backe,</L>
<L>One mi&s;chie&s;e &s;till another doth reuiue;</L>
<L>As heauen had &s;ent an ho&s;t of horrors out:</L>
<L>Which all at once incompa&s;t them about.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Out flie the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and with &s;word and fire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Iri&s;h re|bell&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>Vnmercied hauocke of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> made,</L>
<L>They di&s;contented here at home con&s;pire,</L>
<L>To &s;tirre the <HI>Scot</HI> the borders to inuade:</L>
<L>The faithle&s;&s;e <HI>French</HI> then hauing their de&s;ire,</L>
<L>To &s;ee vs thus in Seas of troubles wade,</L>
<L>In euery place outragiou&s;ly rebell,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The French <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re vp in A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">s.</NOTE></L>
<L>As out of <HI>France</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> to expell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;turdy <HI>Normans</HI> with high pride in flamd,</L>
<L>Shake off the yoke of thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ubi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ction quite.</L>
<L>Nor will with patience heare the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> nam'd,</L>
<L>Except of tho&s;e that &s;peake of them in &s;pight,</L>
<L><PB N="105" REF="59">But as their foes them publikely proclaim'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Norman r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uolt.</NOTE></L>
<L>And their Alyes to open Armes excite;</L>
<L>In euery place thus <HI>Englands</HI> right goes downe,</L>
<L>Nor will they leaue the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men a Towne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>New-ca&s;tle, Con&s;tance, Maleon,</HI> and <HI>Saint lo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Town<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> in Normandy y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elded to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> enemy. There had been a form<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; contract be|twene the King and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Earle of Ar+minacks on|ly Daughter but being by&punc; the Duke o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Suffolke an|nulled, cau&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Earle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> after to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> vowed ene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Engli&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>With <HI>Ca&s;tel-Galliard, Argenton,</HI> and <HI>Roane,</HI></L>
<L><HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nteu-de-mer</HI> with Forts and Cities moe,</L>
<L>Then which that Country &s;tronger holds had none,</L>
<L>Set ope their gates and bad the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> goe,</L>
<L>For that the <HI>French</HI> &s;hould then p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;&s;e their owne,</L>
<L>And to the Armies vp the Forts they yeeld,</L>
<L>And turne the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> out into the Field.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And that great Earle of <HI>Arminacke</HI> againe,</L>
<L>A pui&s;tant peere, and mighty in e&s;tate,</L>
<L>Vpon iu&s;t cau&s;e, who tooke in high di&s;daine,</L>
<L>To haue his Daughter &s;o repudiate,</L>
<L>(His countreys bordering vpon <HI>Aquitane,</HI>)</L>
<L>Pur&s;ues the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> nation with &s;uch hate,</L>
<L>As that he entred with his Armed powers,</L>
<L>And from that Dutchy, draue all that was o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The com|mons charg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Duke of Sommer&s;et&punc; with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; lo&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Normand&punc;</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Th'inraged commons ready are to ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Vpon the Regent, to his charge and layd,</L>
<L>That from his &s;lackne&s;&s;e and ba&s;e cowardize,</L>
<L>The&s;e Townes were lo&s;t, by his neglect of ayde,</L>
<L>Then follow <HI>Suffolke</HI> with confu&s;ed cryes,</L>
<L>With <HI>Maine,</HI> and <HI>Aniou,</HI> and doe him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pbrayd,</L>
<L>And vow his life &s;hall for their lo&s;&s;es pay,</L>
<L>Or at the &s;take their goods and liues to lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="106" REF="60">
<L>In th'open Se&s;sion and Articulate,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Articles of Trea&s;on put into the Par+liament a|gain&s;t the Dukes o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sommer&s;et <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Suffolke.</NOTE></L>
<L>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uen <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">uerall Trea&s;ons vrg'd again&s;t them both,</L>
<L>As mo&s;t p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">tious members of the State,</L>
<L>Which was confirmed by the commons oath,</L>
<L>So that the King who &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the peoples hate,</L>
<L>(In his owne&s;elfe though he were very loath)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o both the hou&s;es la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ly doth a&s;&s;ent,</L>
<L>To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et on <HI>Suffolke</HI> fiue yeares bani&s;hment.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Suf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">olke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ea for &s;ine y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">res.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Soueraigne Lady <HI>Suffolke</HI> thus mu&s;t leaue,</L>
<L>And &s;he her &s;eruant to her &s;oule &s;o deare,</L>
<L>Yet mu&s;t they both conceale what they conceiue,</L>
<L>Which they would <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ot if any h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lpe there were,</L>
<L>Yet of all comfort they c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nnot bereaue,</L>
<L>Her, but his hope her pen&s;iue h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">art doth cheere,</L>
<L>That he in <HI>France</HI> &s;hall haue his mo&s;t re&s;ort,</L>
<L>And liue &s;ecurely in her Fathers Court.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His mighty minde nor can this doome mole&s;t,</L>
<L>But kicks the earth in a di&s;da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">full &s;corne,</L>
<L>If any thing do corro&s;iue his bre&s;t</L>
<L>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> was, that he was in ba&s;e <HI>England</HI> borne,</L>
<L>He cur&s;t the King and Kingdome, but he ble&s;t,</L>
<L>The Queene, but if in any thing forlorne,</L>
<L>Twas that he &s;hould her happ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> pre&s;ence mi&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>The endle&s;&s;e Summe of all his earthly bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Sentence &s;car&s;e in Parliament had pa&s;t,</L>
<L>But that the ra&s;call multitude ari&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The extreame hate the peo|ple had to the Duke.</NOTE></L>
<L>Plucke downe his hou&s;es, lay his Lord&s;hips wa&s;t,</L>
<L>And &s;earch how they his per&s;on may &s;urprize,</L>
<L><PB N="107" REF="60">That he from <HI>England</HI> in&s;tantly mu&s;t ha&s;t,</L>
<L>Coue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'d by night, or by &s;ome &s;trange di&s;gui&s;e,</L>
<L>And to &s;ome &s;mall Port &s;ecretly retyre,</L>
<L>And there &s;ome poore Boate for his pa&s;&s;age hire,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>Harwitch</HI> Hauen, and embarqu'd for <HI>France,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">This &s;hip was (as our hy|&s;tories report) called the Ni|cholas o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> tower, a &s;hip that belongd to the Duke of Exce&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r, of whom <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Water was the Captaine.</NOTE></L>
<L>As he for <HI>Callice</HI> his &s;traight cour&s;e doth &s;teere,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">O here behold a mo&s;t disa&s;trous chance,)</L>
<L>A man of Warre the Seas that &s;coured there,</L>
<L>One at his actions that &s;till look't a&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nce,</L>
<L>And to this Duke did deadly hatred beare,</L>
<L>After a long cha&s;e tooke this little Cra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Which he &s;uppo&s;'d him &s;afely &s;hould conuay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And from the fi&s;her taking him by force,</L>
<L>He vnder Hatches &s;traightly him be&s;tow'd,</L>
<L>And towards his country &s;teering on his cour&s;e,</L>
<L>He runnes his ve&s;&s;ell into <HI>Douer</HI> roade,</L>
<L>Where rayling on him without all remor&s;e,</L>
<L>Him from the &s;hip to all the people &s;how<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">,</L>
<L>And when no more they could the Duke de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">e,</L>
<L>They cut his head off on the Cock-boat-&s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>SVffolke</HI> thus dead and <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> di&s;grac'd,</L>
<L>His title <HI>Yorke</HI> more freely might preferre,</L>
<L>The Commons loue, when cunningly to ta&s;te,</L>
<L>Le&s;t ouerweening he perhaps might erre,)</L>
<L>He fir&s;t &s;ubbornes a villane that imbrac'd,</L>
<L>The Nobler name of March borne <HI>Mortimer,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;ub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ll policie of the Duke of Yorke.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which in the title of the hou&s;e of <HI>Yorke,</HI></L>
<L>Might &s;et the mon&s;trous multitude a worke,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="108" REF="61">
<L>His name was <HI>Cade,</HI> his natiue country <HI>Kent,</HI></L>
<L>Who, though of birth, and in e&s;tate but poore,</L>
<L>Yet for his courage he was eminent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The charac|ter of Iacke Cads.</NOTE></L>
<L>(Which the wi&s;e Duke well vnder&s;tood before,)</L>
<L>He had a minde was of a large extent,</L>
<L>The &s;igne whereof on his bould brow he bore,</L>
<L>Sterne of behauiour, and of body &s;trong,</L>
<L>Witty, well &s;poken, cautilous, though yong.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But for th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Duke his title mu&s;t deriue,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deriuing his title from Phillip the onely Daugh|ter and heire of Lyonel Duke of Cla|rence the third &s;onne of Ed the 3 wed+ded to Ed|mund Morti|mur Earle of March.</NOTE></L>
<L>Out of the blood which beare that honored name,</L>
<L>Therefore mu&s;t ca&s;t and cunningly contriue,</L>
<L>To &s;ee how people reli&s;hed the &s;ame,</L>
<L>And if he found it fortuned to thriue,</L>
<L>Then at the marke he had a further ayme,</L>
<L>To &s;how him&s;elfe his title good to make,</L>
<L>And rai&s;e him friends and power, his part to take</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All oppo&s;ition likewi&s;e to preuent,</L>
<L>The crafty Duke his meaning doth conceale,</L>
<L>And <HI>Cade</HI> doth ri&s;e t'informe the gouernment,</L>
<L>And ba&s;e abu&s;es of the Publique Weale,</L>
<L>To which he knew the commons would con&s;ent,</L>
<L>Which otherwi&s;e his Trea&s;on might reueale:</L>
<L>Which rightly tooke, for by this collour hee,</L>
<L>Drew twenty thou&s;and on his part to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>Su&s;&s;ex, Surry,</HI> and from <HI>Kent</HI> that ro&s;e,</L>
<L>Whom hope of &s;poyle doth to this Act per&s;wade,</L>
<L>Which &s;till increa&s;e his Army as it goes,</L>
<L>And on Blacke Heath his Rendauous he made,</L>
<L><PB N="109" REF="61">Where in &s;hort time it to that va&s;tne&s;&s;e growes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s it at once the Kingdome would inuade,</L>
<L>And he him&s;elfe the Conque&s;t could a&s;&s;ure,</L>
<L>Of any power King <HI>Henry</HI> could procure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And did in fight that generall force defeate,</L>
<L>Sent by the King that Rebell to pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>When vnder collour of a fram'd retreat,</L>
<L>He made as though he from the Army flew,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Stafford<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;laine by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Rebels&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>The &s;laughter of the &s;ouldiers mu&s;t be great,</L>
<L>When he tho&s;e <HI>Staffords</HI> mi&s;erably &s;lew,</L>
<L>Captaines &s;elect and cho&s;en by the Queene,</L>
<L>To lead the powers that &s;hould haue wreakt her teene.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When for a Siege he to the city came,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;aults the Bridge with his emboldned power,</L>
<L>And after oft repul&s;ed takes the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Makes him&s;elfe Ma&s;ter of the towne and Tower,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iacke Cade takes London&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>Doing &s;uch things as might the Deuill &s;hame,</L>
<L>De&s;troyes Records, and Virgines doth deflower,</L>
<L>Robs, ran&s;acks, &s;poyles, and after all this &s;tirre,</L>
<L>La&s;tly beheaded the Lord Trea&s;urer,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e things by <HI>Yorke</HI> being plotted vnderhand,</L>
<L>Wi&s;e as he was, as one that had not knowne,</L>
<L>Ought of the&s;e Trea&s;ons, ha&s;ts to <HI>Ireland,</HI></L>
<L>To tame tho&s;e<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Vulgar&punc;</NOTE> <HI>Kerne,</HI> rebellious that were growne,</L>
<L>He knew it was not in the barren Sand,</L>
<L>That he this &s;ubtill poy&s;onous &s;eed had &s;owne,</L>
<L>Which came it on (as very well it might)</L>
<L>It would make way for his pretended right.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="110" REF="62">
<L>Whil&s;t the&s;e rebellions are in <HI>England</HI> broac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</L>
<L>As though the Fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es &s;hould enujo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ly con&s;pire,</L>
<L>Our vtter Ruine; which too fa&s;t approacht,</L>
<L>About our eares, was <HI>Aquitaine</HI> a fire,</L>
<L>Their Conque&s;t &s;o vpon our Townes incroach't,</L>
<L>That <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>French</HI> King then had his de&s;ire.</L>
<L>To &s;ee the&s;e troubles tyre vs here within,</L>
<L>That he the whil&s;t in <HI>France</HI> from vs might winn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To add to <HI>Margarites</HI> mi&s;eries againe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Valiant Talbot &s;laine.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Talbot</HI> in <HI>France</HI> &s;o brauely that had done:</L>
<L>Who many a yeere had aw'd proud <HI>Aquitaine,</HI></L>
<L>And many a Fort, and famous Battaile wonne,</L>
<L>At <HI>Shatiloon</HI> (O endle&s;&s;e griefe) was &s;laine,</L>
<L>With the Lord <HI>Lyle</HI> his ouer valiant Sonne,</L>
<L>When all the Townes that he had got before,</L>
<L>Yeelded, nor would for <HI>England</HI> be no more,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Yorke</HI> in the nike from <HI>Ireland</HI> comming in,</L>
<L>Finding the Kingdome cumbred in this wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Thinks with him&s;elfe twere time he did begin,</L>
<L>But by no meanes he gain&s;t the King mu&s;t ri&s;e,</L>
<L>O &s;uch a thought in any man were &s;inne,</L>
<L>But that he would proud <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> &s;urpri&s;e,</L>
<L>Yet wa~ting &s;tre~gth gain&s;t the whole &s;tate to &s;tand</L>
<L>He beares his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e with a moderate hand,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And fir&s;t to mighty <HI>Salsbury</HI> doth &s;ue,</L>
<L>And his &s;onne <HI>Warwicke,</HI> and doth them intreate,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Richard Ne|uill the Fa|ther, and Ri|chard Neuill the &s;onne.</NOTE></L>
<L>With equall eyes they would be plea&s;'d to view,</L>
<L>His rightfull Title: the&s;e two <HI>Neuils</HI> great,</L>
<L><PB N="111" REF="62"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> power, and with the people, whom he knew,</L>
<L>Deadly the Duke of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> to hate,</L>
<L>By his large offers he doth winne at la&s;t,</L>
<L>In his iu&s;t quarrell to cleaue to him fa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus his Ambition hauing &s;trongly back't,</L>
<L>With the&s;e two fatall firebrands of Warre;</L>
<L>To his de&s;ires, there very little lackt,</L>
<L>He and the Earles all three &s;o popular,</L>
<L>To aduance him&s;elfe he no occa&s;ion &s;lackt,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or nought he &s;ees him from his ends to barre,</L>
<L>Tis no &s;mall tempe&s;t that he needs to feare,</L>
<L>Whom two &s;uch Collumnes vp betwixt the~ beare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And by their &s;trengths encourag'd doth not &s;ticke</L>
<L>The others actions boldly to o'relooke,</L>
<L>And for the &s;ea&s;on that the King was &s;icke,</L>
<L>Vpon him&s;elfe the Regency he tooke,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or now his hopes vpon him came &s;o thicke,</L>
<L>His entrance doores from off the hinges &s;hooke,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e with a nodde the Realme &s;eem'd to direct,</L>
<L>Who's he but bow'd, if this great Prince but beckt</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in the Queenes great chamber doth are&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Sommer&s;et are&s;ted.</NOTE></L>
<L>Great <HI>Summer&s;et,</HI> and &s;endeth him to ward,</L>
<L>And all his followers &s;uddenly &s;uppre&s;t,</L>
<L>Such was the number of his powerfull guard,</L>
<L>With the proud Queene, this Prince as proud con|te&s;ts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or for her frowne one friend of hers he &s;par'd,</L>
<L>Lucks on his &s;ide, while &s;uch &s;tand by to bett,</L>
<L>Heel'e throw at all that any one dares &s;et,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="112" REF="63">
<L>THe Queen who &s;aw, which way the factio~ we</L>
<L>And that the&s;e wrongs mu&s;t &s;til reflect on he</L>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> to her de&s;truction bent,</L>
<L>Thought with her &s;elfe it was full time to &s;tirre,</L>
<L>And if his plots &s;he euer would preuent,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t with the wi&s;e&s;t of her friends conferre,</L>
<L>Their bu&s;ie braynes and mu&s;t together beate,</L>
<L>To le&s;&s;en him&punc; like el&s;e to grow too great.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His pride a while yet patiently endure,</L>
<L>The Kings&punc; recouery only to attend,</L>
<L>Of which them&s;elues they hardly could a&s;&s;ure,</L>
<L>Who once they thought had ha&s;tned to his end,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">uired of a dangerous &s;ickne&s;&s;e.</NOTE></L>
<L>But when they found his Phy&s;icke to procure,</L>
<L>His former health, then doth the Queene extend,</L>
<L>Her vtmo&s;t &s;trength, to let the world to know,</L>
<L>Queene <HI>Margarite</HI> yet mu&s;t not be ma&s;tred &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With &s;miles and ki&s;&s;es when &s;he woes the King</L>
<L>That of his place the Duke he would di&s;charge,</L>
<L>Which being done, the next e&s;peciall thing,</L>
<L>She doth the Duke of <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> inlarge,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene preuailing again&s;t the Duke of York.</NOTE></L>
<L>And him of <HI>Callice</HI> giues the gouerning,</L>
<L>Whither his friends &s;he cau&s;'d him to imba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dge,</L>
<L>Doubting the loue and &s;afeguard of the Towne,</L>
<L>Thus doth the Queen turne al things vp&s;ide dow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which &s;o incen&s;t the angry Duke to ire,</L>
<L>With tho&s;e two Earles vpon his part that take,</L>
<L>Kindling in all that fierce reuenge full fire,</L>
<L>Which the deare blood of <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> mu&s;t &s;lake,</L>
<L><PB N="113" REF="63"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">at into <HI>Wales</HI> they in&s;tantly retire:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Yorke <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&s;eth an army in the Marches of Wales.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nd in the Marches vp an Army make,</L>
<L>And there by Oath were to each other tyde,</L>
<L>By dint of &s;word the quarrell to decide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And whil&s;t the&s;e Lords be bu&s;ied in the We&s;t,</L>
<L>Of March-men mu&s;tring a rebelling Band,</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">enry</HI> againe his Southerne people pre&s;t:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;ettles there their forces to with&s;tand:</L>
<L>Then Bowes and Bills were only in reque&s;t:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uch rage and madne&s;&s;e doth po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Land,</L>
<L>Set vpon &s;poyle, on either part they were,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the Weale&punc; publique they in pieces teare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>On either part when for this Warre prepard,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pon their March they at <HI>Saint Albans</HI> met,</L>
<L>Where drums and En&s;ignes one the other dar'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t Bat|taile at Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> Albans.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whil&s;t they in order their Battalions &s;et,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd with his fellow euery &s;ouldier &s;har'd,</L>
<L>Brauely re&s;olu'd to death to pay his debts:</L>
<L>When if that euer horrour did appeare,</L>
<L>On th' <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> earth, it certainely was there,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That day the Queenes-lou'd <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> was &s;laine</L>
<L>There tooke the &s;tout <HI>Northumberland</HI> his end:</L>
<L>There <HI>Staffords</HI> bloud the pauement did di&s;taine:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Humfrey Earle of Stafford, el|de&s;t &s;onne to the Duke of Buckingham.</NOTE></L>
<L>There <HI>Clifford</HI> fell, King <HI>Henryes</HI> con&s;tant friend,</L>
<L>The Earle of <HI>Warwicke</HI> who brought on the Mayne:</L>
<L>All downe before him to pale Death doth &s;end,</L>
<L><HI>Antwe&s;&s;ell, Bapthorpt, Zouch,</HI> and <HI>Curwen,</HI> all,</L>
<L>King <HI>Henryes</HI> friends before the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> fall,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="114" REF="64">
<L>Whil&s;t this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed mi&s;erable King,</L>
<L>Amazed with &s;uch fury of the fight,</L>
<L>And perill &s;till his per&s;on menacing:</L>
<L>His liuing friends inforc't to take their flight,</L>
<L>He as a needle&s;&s;e and neglected thing&punc;</L>
<L>In a poore Cottage hides him out of &s;ight:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King crept into a poore Cottage</NOTE></L>
<L>Who found by <HI>Yorke</HI> was as a pri&s;oner led,</L>
<L>Though with milde words the Duke him coforted</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And of his per&s;on being thus po&s;&s;e&s;t</L>
<L>They in his name a Parliament procure,</L>
<L>For with his Regall power they will inue&s;t</L>
<L>Them&s;elues, &s;uppo&s;ing to make all things &s;ure,</L>
<L>That if their violent actions &s;hould be pre&s;t,</L>
<L>In after time they better might endure,</L>
<L>The cen&s;uring, the wor&s;t, and &s;o preuent,</L>
<L>To &s;how them done by Act of Parliament,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And cau&s;e the King to take into his hands,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The lawle&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;urpation of the York<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>What to the Crowne did anciently pertaine,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides all Honors&punc; Offices and Lands,</L>
<L>Granted &s;ince the beginning of his Raigne;</L>
<L>And not a Fee, though <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e'r &s;o little &s;tands;</L>
<L>And are call'd in, and let who will complaine,</L>
<L>And all his friends from coun&s;aile are remou'd,</L>
<L>None mu&s;t &s;it there, but tho&s;e of them belou'd,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;illy King a &s;ipher &s;et a&s;ide&punc;</L>
<L>What was in him, that in great <HI>Yorke</HI> was not&punc;</L>
<L>Among&s;t them&s;elues all places they diuide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Salsbury made Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>And to be Chancellor <HI>Salsbury</HI> hath got,</L>
<L><PB N="115" REF="64">Hee is the man mu&s;t take the Law to guide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwicke Captaiue of Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ce.</NOTE></L>
<L>And <HI>Callice</HI> falls to warlike <HI>Warwickes</HI> lot,</L>
<L>And not a man at the&s;e mu&s;t looke awry.</L>
<L>They make an Act their acts to iu&s;tifie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This done the Duke had more to doe then this,</L>
<L>Something it &s;eem'd more &s;ecretly to lurke,</L>
<L>In which &s;uch power (though from appearance) is,</L>
<L>As yet once more would fret the Duke of <HI>Yorke,</HI></L>
<L>And let him know, he of his ends might mi&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>For now the Queene doth &s;et her wits to worke.</L>
<L>To play the Game that mu&s;t renowne her skill,</L>
<L>And &s;hew the Law that re&s;ted in her will.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And from the roote of <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> late &s;laine,</L>
<L>Another &s;tem to &s;tand for her aro&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> for <HI>Edmond&punc;</HI> of his Fathers &s;traine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Henry Beu|fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Duke of Summer&s;et, after the de|cea&s;e of his&punc; father Ed|mond.</NOTE></L>
<L>(One of who&s;e life &s;he knew &s;he could di&s;po&s;e)</L>
<L>Of a &s;trong iudgement, and a working braine,</L>
<L>Great <HI>Buckingham</HI> and <HI>Exce&s;ter</HI> are tho&s;e,</L>
<L>She meanes to worke by, and by the&s;e re&s;tore,</L>
<L>Her to that height from whence &s;he fell before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e were the men to whom &s;hee tru&s;ted mo&s;t,</L>
<L>To whom that faction much de&s;pight had done,</L>
<L>For at <HI>Saint Albans Summer&s;et</HI> had lo&s;t,</L>
<L>His loued Sire, and <HI>Buckingham</HI> his Sonne:</L>
<L>And <HI>Exce&s;ter</HI> pur&s;ude from Coa&s;t to Coa&s;t;</L>
<L>From them enforc'd to Sanct'ary to runne:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Exce&s;ter ta|ken out of the Sanctuary a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> We&s;tmin&s;ter.</NOTE></L>
<L>Fetcht thence by them&punc; and to cold <HI>Pumfret</HI> &s;ent,</L>
<L>And in a dungeon mi&s;erably pent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="116" REF="65">
<L>Equall in enuie, as in pride and power,</L>
<L>With eu'ry ayde to their di&s;ignement fraught,</L>
<L>Taking their turnes at eu'ry fitting houre;</L>
<L>They on the Kings much ea&s;ine&s;&s;e &s;o wrought,</L>
<L>As that they &s;eem'd him wholly to deuoure,</L>
<L>Vntill to pa&s;&s;e their purpo&s;es they brought,</L>
<L>Lifting vp &s;till his &s;pirit that was &s;o poore,</L>
<L>Once more to doe as he had done before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For which at <HI>Greenewich</HI> he a Councell held,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Yorke, the Earles of Salsbury and Warwicke put out of office.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where with th'opinion of tho&s;e friends &s;upplide,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e three which late with glorious titles &s;weld,</L>
<L>Are from their &s;eu'rall places put a&s;ide;</L>
<L>Yet more to &s;eeke their &s;afety are compeld,</L>
<L>At this prodigious turning of the tide:</L>
<L>For now the wind was &s;trangely come about,</L>
<L>And brings them in who lately were &s;hut out.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The cruell Queene and cunningly had ca&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene had plotted to haue the Duke murthe+red at Couen|try,</NOTE></L>
<L>At <HI>Couentry</HI> to cau&s;e them to appeare,</L>
<L>With &s;hew to pardon all that had beene pa&s;t,</L>
<L>If they (but then) would their Allegiance &s;weare&punc;</L>
<L>Which had they done, that day had beene their la&s;t</L>
<L>For &s;he had plotted to de&s;troy them there:</L>
<L>Of which forewarnd, immediatly they fled,</L>
<L>Which then their &s;afety only promi&s;ed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet whil&s;t one wrong, thus from another ro&s;e,</L>
<L>Twixt them at la&s;t a meeting was ordain'd,</L>
<L>All former &s;trife and quarrels to compo&s;e,</L>
<L>Which but too long betwixt them had remain'd,</L>
<L><PB N="117" REF="65">Which to the world though hand&s;omely it &s;howes,</L>
<L>Yet in plaine truth, all was but meerely fain'd,</L>
<L>To outward &s;eeming, yet are perfect friends,</L>
<L>"But diueli&s;h folke, haue &s;till their diueli&s;h ends.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in proce&s;sion &s;olemnly they goe,</L>
<L>In generall ioy one &s;miling on the other,</L>
<L>A <HI>Yorki&s;t</HI> and <HI>Lanca&s;trian</HI> make vp two,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;olemne proce&s;sion in Pauls by both the faction<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Enuie and mallice, brother, like to brother,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n mind farre &s;undred, although coupled &s;o,</L>
<L>Bloody reuenge, and in their bre&s;ts they &s;mother;</L>
<L>Ill's the proce&s;sion (and fore runs much lo&s;&s;e,)</L>
<L>"Wherein men &s;ay, the Deuill beares the Cro&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e Rites of peace religiou&s;ly perform'd,</L>
<L>To all mens thinking the enraged Queene,</L>
<L>At <HI>Warwicks</HI> greatne&s;&s;e inwardly yet &s;torm'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene inwardly g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uching at Warwickes greatne&s;&s;e&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>&punc;Which euery day &s;till more and more was &s;eene,)</L>
<L>Again&s;t the King, who <HI>Callice</HI> &s;o had Arm'd,</L>
<L>As it his owne inheritance had beene,</L>
<L>Which towne &s;he &s;aw that if he &s;till &s;hould hold&punc;</L>
<L>That &s;he by him mu&s;t hourely be controul'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For which his murther &s;hee pur&s;u'd &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>As that &s;he &s;oone and &s;ecretly had layd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">h to a&s;&s;ault him as the &s;treets he pa&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwick in perill to hau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> bin &s;laine&punc; pa&s;sing th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;treet.</NOTE></L>
<L>As if his braue name had not brought him ayd,</L>
<L>He of her vengeance had beene &s;ure to ta&s;t,</L>
<L>The Tragique Sceane &s;o furiou&s;ly was playd,</L>
<L>That he from <HI>London</HI> was inforc't to fly,</L>
<L>Like a rough <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> her malice grew &s;o hye,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="118" REF="66">
<L>And towards the Duke his &s;peedy iour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y takes&punc;</L>
<L>Who then at <HI>Middleham</HI> made his mo&s;t aboad,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Salsbury</HI> his habitation makes,</L>
<L>Whereas their time together they be&s;tew'd,</L>
<L>Who&s;e courages the Earle of <HI>Warwicke</HI> wakes,</L>
<L>When he to them his &s;uddaine danger &s;how'd,</L>
<L>With a pale v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;age, and doth there di&s;clo&s;e,</L>
<L>Her brands &s;et on him both in wounds &amp; blowe</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This wrong in coun&s;ell when they had di&s;cu&s;t,</L>
<L>And way'd the danger wherein &s;till they were,</L>
<L>Continuall Trea&s;ons &s;hrouded in their tru&s;t,</L>
<L>Nor other hopes el&s;e likely to appeare,</L>
<L>They find that this might make a war &s;eeme iu&s;t,</L>
<L>And giue their cau&s;e vp to the world &s;o cleare,</L>
<L>To ri&s;e in Armes when they re&s;olue at la&s;t,</L>
<L>To rai&s;e them force, and wi&s;ely thus foreca&s;t,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To mu&s;ter vp their Tenants and their friends,</L>
<L>Not as a War vpon the land to bring,</L>
<L>Nor to aduance their owne &s;ini&s;ter ends,</L>
<L>Nor wrong a Subiect in the &s;malle&s;t thing,</L>
<L>Onely to guard them (as their ca&s;e then &s;tands)</L>
<L>Till they had &s;how'd their grieuance to the King,</L>
<L>And giue their power to <HI>Salsbury</HI> to guide,</L>
<L>That wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h the King the bus'ne&s;&s;e &s;hould decide</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With this di&s;tinction <HI>Salsbury</HI> is &s;ent&punc;</L>
<L><HI>Warwi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke</HI> to <HI>Callice</HI> (with what ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> he may,)</L>
<L>By his much &s;peed a mi&s;chiefe to preuent,</L>
<L>Fearing the Towne might el&s;e be giuen away,</L>
<L><PB N="119" REF="66">The Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> by generall con&s;ent,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t <HI>Middleham</HI> Ca&s;tell they allot to &s;tay;</L>
<L>To rai&s;e a &s;econd power (if need &s;hould be)</L>
<L>To reinforce them, or to &s;et them free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Queene who heard by &s;uch as were her own)</L>
<L>With that fal&s;e Earle how tho&s;e of <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> &s;ided,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s in &s;hort time how powerfull he was growne,</L>
<L>Thinks with her &s;elfe the &s;hire might be diuided,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f that her loue to &s;ome of them were knowne,</L>
<L>Which eas'ly might be, were her plea&s;ure guided,</L>
<L>By &s;ome &s;uch per&s;on, of who&s;e valour they,</L>
<L>Had an opinion, which &s;he thus doth lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Cau&s;ing the King to giue a large command,</L>
<L>To <HI>Iames</HI> Lord <HI>Awdley,</HI> powerfull in tho&s;e parts,</L>
<L>To Rai&s;e him force tho&s;e Rebels to with&s;tand;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uch to their Soueraigne as had loyall hearts,</L>
<L>And to make Captaines ouer eu'ry band&punc;</L>
<L>Men of the be&s;t blood, as of be&s;t de&s;arts,</L>
<L>Which he &s;o laboured till that he had brought,</L>
<L>That th'halfe of one hou&s;e gain&s;t the other fought</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So that two men ari&s;ing from one bed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The men of Che&s;hire <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n the quarre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Falling to talke, from one another flye:</L>
<L>This weares a white Ro&s;e, and that weares a Red;</L>
<L>And this a <HI>Yorke,</HI> that <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> doth cry:</L>
<L>He wi&s;ht to &s;ee that <HI>Awdley</HI> well had &s;ped:</L>
<L>He prayes againe to pro&s;per <HI>Salsbury:</HI></L>
<L>And for their farewel when their leaues they take</L>
<L>They their &s;harpe &s;words at one another &s;hake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="120" REF="67">
<L>This fire in euery family thus &s;et,</L>
<L>Ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> go the Brown bills with the well &s;trung bow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Till a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc;<HI>Blore heath</HI> the&s;e boy &s;trous &s;ouldiers met,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>For there <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> chanc'd the Armies then to clo&s;e,</L>
<L>This <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> not liue if that hee &s;troue to let;</L>
<L>Neuer &s;uch friends yet ere became &s;uch &s;oes,</L>
<L>With down-right &s;trokes they at each other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>No word for <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> was, but kill and &s;lay,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Sonne (as &s;ome report) the Father flue,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>In oppo&s;ition as they &s;toutly &s;tood,</L>
<L>The Nephew &s;eene the Vnckle to pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>Bathing his &s;word in his owne naturall blood,</L>
<L>The Brother in his brothers gore imbrue</L>
<L>His guilty hands, and at this deadly food:</L>
<L>Kinsman kills Kinsman, and together fall,</L>
<L>As helli&s;h fury had po&s;&s;e&s;t them all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There noble <HI>Tutch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t</HI> the Lord <HI>Audl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y</HI> dyde,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lord A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>(Who&s;e Father wan him &s;uch renowne in <HI>Franc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L>And many a <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> Gentleman be&s;ide,</L>
<L>Fell at this field by warres vncertaine chance:</L>
<L>The&s;e mi&s;eries Queene <HI>Margarite</HI> mu&s;t abide,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the proud <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> doe them&s;elues aduance</L>
<L>And poore King <HI>Henry</HI> on a pallet lay,</L>
<L>And &s;carcely ask'd which &s;ide had got the day</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus valiant <HI>Audl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y</HI> at this Battaile &s;laine,</L>
<L>And all tho&s;e friends to the <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> lo&s;t:</L>
<L><HI>Che&s;hire</HI> by her &s;uch d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mage to &s;u&s;taine:</L>
<L>So much deere blood had this late Conflict co&s;t:</L>
<L><PB N="121" REF="67">Wherfore the grieued Queene with might &amp; main</L>
<L>Labours for life to rai&s;e a &s;econd Ho&s;t:</L>
<L>No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> time therein &s;he meaneth to fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;low,</L>
<L>Either &s;hee'll get all, or will all forgoe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And whil&s;t their friends them forces gathering were&punc;</L>
<L>The neighbouring Realmes of this great bus'ne&s;&s;e ring,</L>
<L>The Duke &amp; tho&s;e, that to his part adhere,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">roclaimed Traytors; pardon promi&s;ing,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e at <HI>Blore</HI> that Armes did lately beare:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o they would yet cleaue to their lawfull King,</L>
<L>Which driue in many to their part againe,</L>
<L>To make their full, they <HI>York<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ts</HI> in their wane.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Yorke</HI> who perceiu'd the pui&s;&s;ant Ho&s;t prepar'd,</L>
<L>With his deare <HI>Neuils,</HI> Coun&s;els what to doe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or it behou'd him to make good his guard,</L>
<L>With both their &s;trengths and all too little too,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in the Marches he no labour &s;par'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o winne his friends along with him to goe:</L>
<L>With expedition which he could not g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t,</L>
<L>On the Kings &s;ide the Commons were &s;o &s;et.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being to meete &s;o ab&s;olute a power,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">t wanting much his party good to make;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d <HI>Henryes</HI> proclamations euery houre:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">s Souldiers win their Generall to for&s;ake,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&s;ides the &s;torme which rais'd this &s;udden &s;hower:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">m all in &s;under likely was to &s;hake:</L>
<L>He &s;aw his &s;afety to con&s;i&s;t in flight,</L>
<L>Thus e'r he wi&s;t, o'rma&s;tred in his might,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="122" REF="68">
<L>All on the &s;purre for li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> away they po&s;t,</L>
<L>Their homes too <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> nor there they might abide&punc;<NOTE PLACE="marg">E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">rd Earl of March, el|de&s;t &s;onne to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> Duke t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> and Warwicke.</NOTE></L>
<L>The thre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">aue Earls &s;oon reacht the we&s;tern coa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> whe~ce to <HI>Callice</HI> their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">raight cour&s;e they pli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>The Duke to <HI>Wales</HI> being there befriended mo&s;t:</L>
<L>Yet for more &s;afety, he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>Ireland</HI> hyde:</L>
<L>So others &s;hip them&s;elues from eu'ry bay,</L>
<L>And happie&s;t he that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oon'&s;t could get away,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As when a Route of raue'nous wolues are met&punc;</L>
<L>T'a&s;&s;ey<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ome Heard the de&s;art p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;turing neare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simily.</NOTE></L>
<L>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> watchfull Clownes which ouer them are &s;et,</L>
<L>Of<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> taught before their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iranny to feare.</L>
<L>With dogges, with &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and &s;houts together g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> neuer leaue till they their Cattell cleare:</L>
<L>So the Kings power the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> &s;till pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>Which like&punc; tho&s;e wolues before tho&s;e Heard&s; m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They gone the King at <HI>Couentry</HI> begun,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Parli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ent at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>A Parliament, by good aduice, wherein,</L>
<L>The Duke of <HI>Yorke,</HI> with th'Earle of <HI>March</HI> his &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>With <HI>Sal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bury</HI> and <HI>Warwicke</HI> who had bin</L>
<L>Con&s;pirators, much mi&s;chiefe and had done,</L>
<L>And by who&s;e helpe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e hapt &s;o much to win:</L>
<L>He there attaints&punc; of Trea&s;on, and be&s;towes,</L>
<L>All that was theirs, vpon his friends, their foes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When now tho&s;e Earles in <HI>Callice</HI> &s;till that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>The charge whereof proud <HI>Warwicke</HI> on him too<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>In their intended bus'ne&s;&s;e neuer &s;lept:</L>
<L>Nor yet their former enterpri&s;e for&s;ooke,</L>
<L><PB N="123" REF="68">In t'<HI>Henryes</HI> Coun&s;ailes who had tho&s;e that crept,</L>
<L>And did each day his actions ouerlooke,</L>
<L>From whom as their aduerti&s;ements &s;till are,</L>
<L>So they their &s;trengths accordingly prepare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in meane time the Kingdome to embroyle,</L>
<L>That with le&s;&s;e noi&s;e their frie~ds might rai&s;e an ho&s;t,</L>
<L>They pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gue the &s;eas with Piracy and &s;poyle:</L>
<L>And rob the Hauens all along the Coa&s;t:</L>
<L>They ne'r take pitty of their Natiue &s;oyle:</L>
<L>For that they knew this would auayle them mo&s;t,</L>
<L>That whil&s;t the State was bu&s;ied there about&punc;</L>
<L>Armes might be rais'd within, by tho&s;e without.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;laughtring many that were &s;et toward,</L>
<L>Th'e&s;peciall Ports; th'vnweldy Anchors wayde,</L>
<L>Of the Kings &s;hips, who&s;e fraught as prize they &s;harde</L>
<L>And them to <HI>Callice</HI> carefully conuayd,</L>
<L>With their &s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Fleet, and his great Nauy darde,</L>
<L>As late by land, &s;o now by Sea they &s;way'd:</L>
<L>All in Combu&s;tion, and their bloody rage,</L>
<L>Nor Sea, nor Land, can po&s;&s;ibly a&s;&s;wage.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then haue they Forces rais'd for them in <HI>Kent,</HI></L>
<L>Their next and mo&s;t conuenien place to land,</L>
<L>(Where &s;hould the aduer&s;e power their hopes preue~t</L>
<L>In <HI>Douer</HI> Road yet were their &s;hips at hand)</L>
<L>And by their Po&s;ts &s;till too and fro that went,</L>
<L>They certainly were let to vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>That <HI>Kent</HI> was &s;urely theirs, and onely &s;tayd&punc;</L>
<L>To ri&s;e in Armes the <HI>Yorki&s;ts&punc;</HI> power to ayde,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="124" REF="69">
<L>When <HI>Falconbridge,</HI> who &s;econd Brother was</L>
<L>To <HI>Salsbury,</HI> they &s;end away before,</L>
<L>To &s;ee no &s;hips &s;hould out of <HI>Sandwich</HI> pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>To hinder them from comming to the &s;hore,</L>
<L>There of Munition tooke a wondrous Ma&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Heapt in that Towne, that with abundant &s;tore,</L>
<L>He Armed many at their comming in,</L>
<L>Which on their &s;ide would &s;carcely el&s;e haue bin&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That they no &s;ooner &s;etled were on land,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The men of Kent ri&s;e with the Torki&s;ts.</NOTE></L>
<L>But that in Armes th'rebellious <HI>Kenti&s;h</HI> ro&s;e,</L>
<L>And the Lord <HI>Cobham</HI> with a mighty band,</L>
<L>With their <HI>Calicians</HI> pre&s;ently doth clo&s;e,</L>
<L>That now they &s;way'd all with a powerfull hand,</L>
<L>And in &s;mall time &s;o great their Armie growes,</L>
<L>From <HI>Su&s;&s;ex, Surry,</HI> and tho&s;e parts about,</L>
<L>That of her &s;afety, <HI>London</HI> well might doubt,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But yet at la&s;t the Earies &s;hee in doth let,</L>
<L>To whom the Clergy comming day by day,</L>
<L>From further &s;heers them greater forces get,</L>
<L>Whe~ towards <HI>Northampton</HI> making forth their way</L>
<L>Where the &s;ad King his Army downe had &s;et,</L>
<L>And for their comming onely made his &s;tay,</L>
<L>With all the force his friends could him afford,</L>
<L>And for a fight with all things fitly &s;tor'd</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who in his march the Earle doth oft mole&s;t,</L>
<L>(By their Vauntcurrers hearing how he came)</L>
<L>In many a &s;traight, and often him di&s;tre&s;t,</L>
<L>By &s;takes and trenches that his Hor&s;e might lame,</L>
<L><PB N="125" REF="69">But the &s;tout <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> &s;till vpon them pre&s;t:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The name of Warwicke fearefull to hu enemies.</NOTE></L>
<L>And &s;till &s;o fearefull was great <HI>Warwicks</HI> name,</L>
<L>That being once cryde on, put them oft to flight</L>
<L>On the Kings Army till at length they light.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When th'Earle of <HI>March</HI> the~ in the pride of blood</L>
<L>His Virgin valour on that day be&s;towes,</L>
<L>And furious <HI>Warwicke</HI> like a raging flood,</L>
<L>Beares downe before him all that dare oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>Old <HI>Salsbury</HI> &s;o to his tackling &s;tood,</L>
<L>And <HI>Fauconbridge</HI> &s;o &s;ayes among&s;t his foes,</L>
<L>That euen like leaues, the poore <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> fall,</L>
<L>And the proud <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> beare away the Ball.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There <HI>Humphrey</HI> Duke of <HI>Buckingham</HI> expir'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A great pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the Nobi|lity &s;laine at Nerthampton</NOTE></L>
<L>King <HI>Henrys</HI> comfort and his cau&s;es friend,</L>
<L>There <HI>Shrewsbury</HI> (euen of his foes admir'd,</L>
<L>For his high courage) his la&s;t breath doth &s;pend,</L>
<L>Braue <HI>Beamout</HI> there, and <HI>Egremount</HI> lay tyr'd</L>
<L>To death, there&punc; <HI>Lucy</HI> had his luckle&s;&s;e end,</L>
<L>And many a noble Gentleman that day,</L>
<L>Weltring in gore, on the wild Champion lay,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The wretched King, as Fortunes onely &s;onne,</L>
<L>His &s;ouldiers &s;laine, and he of all for&s;aken,</L>
<L>Left in his Tent; of men the mo&s;t forlorne;</L>
<L>(The &s;econd time) a pri&s;oner there is taken;</L>
<L>The wofull Queene out of the Battaile borne,</L>
<L>In a deepe &s;wound; and when &s;he doth awaken,</L>
<L>Nothing about her heares, but howles, and cryes,</L>
<L>Was euer Queenes like <HI>Margarites</HI> mi&s;eries?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="126" REF="70">
<L><HI>YOrke</HI> comming in from <HI>Ireland</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n the end,</L>
<L>And to his hands thus finds the Battaile won<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>By the high Prowe&s;&s;e of his faithfull friend,</L>
<L>Great <HI>Warwicke,</HI> and that valiant <HI>March</HI> his &s;on,</L>
<L>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s pre&s;ent hopes the former &s;o tran&s;cend,</L>
<L>That the proud Duke immediatly begun,</L>
<L>By his bold Actions to expre&s;&s;e his thought,</L>
<L>Through &s;o muc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> blood, which he &s;o long had &s;ought&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Kings Command'ment daring to deny,</L>
<L>His Soueraigne Lord being cal'd to waite vpon,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Yorke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in&s;o|lence.</NOTE></L>
<L>And on his Fortune beares him&s;elfe &s;o hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>That he in State pre&s;umes t'a&s;cond his Throane;</L>
<L>From the Kings lodgings puts his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s by,</L>
<L>And placeth in them &s;uch as were his owne:</L>
<L>So infinitely in&s;olent the growes,</L>
<L>As he the Crowne at plea&s;ure would di&s;po&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When he procures a Parliament with &s;peed,</L>
<L>In which him&s;elfe Protector he doth make,</L>
<L>And only Heire apparent to &s;ucce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</L>
<L>The King&punc; when death him from the world doth take</L>
<L>And what had bene at <HI>Couentry</HI> decreed,</L>
<L>He there Annulls, from him and his to &s;hake</L>
<L>The &s;eruile yoke of all &s;ubiection quite,</L>
<L>Downe goes the red Ro&s;e, and vp goes the white&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And he with Fortune that this while doth &s;port,</L>
<L>Seeing the Southern&punc; to him &s;till were &s;ure;</L>
<L>Thinks to the North, if he &s;hould but re&s;ort,</L>
<L>He to his part the Northerne &s;hould procure,</L>
<L><PB N="127" REF="70">Seeking all wayes his greatne&s;&s;e to &s;upport;</L>
<L>Nor would an equall willingly endure:</L>
<L>Downe into <HI>York&s;hire</HI> doth to <HI>Sandall</HI> ride,</L>
<L>Who&s;e lofty &s;cyte well &s;uted with his plide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The vexed Queene who&s;e very &s;oule forgot,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Quee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> impatient <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Dukes pride.</NOTE></L>
<L>That &s;uch a thing as patience it had knowne,</L>
<L>And but &s;hee found her friends for&s;ooke her not,</L>
<L>As madde as euer <HI>Hecuba</HI> had grovvne,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t both her wrongs, and her reuenge were hot,</L>
<L>Her mighty mind &s;o downe could not be throvvne,</L>
<L>But that once more the bloody &s;et &s;heele play,</L>
<L>With <HI>Yorke,</HI> ere &s;o he beare the Crovvne away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And dovvne to <HI>Sandall</HI> doth the Duke pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>With all the povver her friends could her prouide,</L>
<L>Led by tho&s;e Lords that euer had been true,</L>
<L>And had &s;tood fa&s;t vpon King <HI>Henryes</HI> &s;ide,</L>
<L>With that mo&s;t valiant and &s;elected crue,</L>
<L>This brau'&s;t of Queenes, &s;o vvell her bu&s;ine&s;&s;e plide,</L>
<L>That comming &s;oone to <HI>Sandals</HI> lofty &s;ight,</L>
<L>Into the Field &s;he dares him foorth to fight&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for this Conflict there came on with her,</L>
<L>Her hope Prince <HI>Henry,</HI> her deare only Sonne,</L>
<L>Stout <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> and noble <HI>Exce&s;ter,</HI></L>
<L>Dukes that for <HI>Margarite</HI> mighty things had done,</L>
<L><HI>Devon</HI> and <HI>Wilt&punc;</HI> Earles v&s;ing to conferre,</L>
<L>With this vvi&s;e Queene, when danger &s;he vvould &s;hun,</L>
<L>Vndaunted <HI>Clifford, Ro&s;&s;e</HI> in vvar vp brought,</L>
<L>Barrons as braue as ere in battaile fought&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="128" REF="71">
<L>When this &s;tout Duke who in his Ca&s;tle &s;tood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Dukes oft <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> ruine.</NOTE></L>
<L>With <HI>Salsbury</HI> (who beat them all at <HI>Blore,</HI>)</L>
<L>Both which were fle&s;ht abundantly with blood,</L>
<L>In tho&s;e three But a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">les they had wonne before,</L>
<L>Thought in their pride, it would be euer Flood,</L>
<L>No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> gain&s;t Queen <HI>Margarite</HI> that they needed more</L>
<L>For they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d&punc; Fortune chain'd with them about,</L>
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t of the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> conque&s;t none but fooles could doubt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for the Field &s;oone Mar&s;halling their force,</L>
<L>All poore delayes they &s;cornefully defie,</L>
<L>Nor will the Duke &s;tay for tho&s;e troupes of Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>With which his Sonne him promi&s;t to &s;upply,</L>
<L>In&s;pight of Fate they'll giue their foe the wor&s;e,</L>
<L>On their owne valour they &s;o much rely,</L>
<L>And with fiue thou&s;and mar&s;hald well they come,</L>
<L>Meaning to charge the Queenes maine Battaile home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But in her Ho&s;t &s;he hauing tho&s;e that were&punc;</L>
<L>Expert in all the Stratagems of Warre,</L>
<L>To fight with him doe cau&s;e her to forbeare,</L>
<L>Till from his Ca&s;tle &s;he had got him farre,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t in an ambu&s;h &s;hee had placed there,</L>
<L><HI>Wilt&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Clifford</HI> with their &s;trengths to barre,</L>
<L>Him from his home, in off'ring to retire,</L>
<L>Or wound his backe euen as they would de&s;ire,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When too't they fell vpon an ea&s;ie plaine,</L>
<L>At the hill foote, where furiou&s;ly they fought,</L>
<L>Vpon both &s;ides where there were many &s;laine:</L>
<L>But for the Queene, foure to his one had brought:</L>
<L><PB N="129" REF="71">The Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> for all his pride was faine.</L>
<L>Backe to recoyle were hee was finely caught,</L>
<L>For <HI>Wilt</HI> and <HI>Clifford</HI> that in Ambu&s;h were,</L>
<L>The Van thus rowted, ouerthrew the Reare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where <HI>Yorke</HI> him&s;elfe, who proudly but of late,</L>
<L>With no le&s;&s;e hope then of a kingdome fed,</L>
<L>Vpon this field before his Ca&s;tle gate,</L>
<L>Mangled with wounds on his owne earth lay dead,</L>
<L>Vpon who&s;e body <HI>Clifford</HI> downe him &s;ate,</L>
<L>Stabbing the corpes, and cutting off his head,</L>
<L>Crown'd it with paper, (and to wreake his teene)</L>
<L>Pre&s;ents it &s;o to his victorious Queene,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Ba&s;tard Vnckles both couragious Knights,</L>
<L>Sir <HI>Iohn</HI> and Sir <HI>Hugh Mortimer</HI> &s;o &s;ped,</L>
<L><HI>Hall, Ha&s;tings&punc; Neuill&punc;</HI> who in &s;undry Eights,</L>
<L>Had &s;how'd their valour, on the field found dead:</L>
<L>And <HI>Salsbury</HI> among&s;t the&s;e Tragicke &s;ights,</L>
<L>Who at <HI>Blore-heath</HI> &s;o much deere blood had &s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Salsbury b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> heade<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>Taken aliue, to <HI>Pomfret</HI> &s;ent with &s;peed,</L>
<L>And for their bloods, him&s;elfe there made to bleed</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some climbe vp Rocks, through hedges other run</L>
<L>Their foes &s;o roughly execute their rage,</L>
<L>Where th'Earle of <HI>Rutland</HI> the Dukes yonge&s;t &s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The end of young Rut|land.</NOTE></L>
<L>Then in his childhood and of tender age,</L>
<L>Comming in hope to &s;ee the Battaile wonne,</L>
<L><HI>Clifford</HI> who&s;e wrath no rigour could a&s;&s;wage.</L>
<L>Takes, and whil&s;t there he doth for mercy kneele,</L>
<L>In his &s;oft bo&s;ome &s;heathes his &s;harpned &s;teele.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="130" REF="72">
<L><HI>Edward</HI> of <HI>March,</HI> the Duke his Father &s;laine,</L>
<L>Succeeding him&punc; whil&s;t things thus badly &s;ort,</L>
<L>Gathering an Army, but yet all in vaine,</L>
<L>To ayde his Father, for he came too &s;hort,</L>
<L>Hearing that <HI>Penbrooke</HI> with a Warlike trayne,</L>
<L>Was comming tow'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ds him, touch'd with the report,</L>
<L>His valiant Marchers for the field prepares,</L>
<L>To meet the Earle, if to approach he dares.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Iae&s;per</HI> by birth halfe Brother to the King,</L>
<L>On bright Queene <HI>Katherine</HI> got by <HI>Owen Tether&punc;</HI></L>
<L>Whom <HI>Henrys</HI> loue did to this Earledome bring,</L>
<L>And as from <HI>Wales</HI> de&s;cended &s;ent him thither,</L>
<L>And of <HI>South-wales</HI> gaue him the gouerning,</L>
<L>Where in &s;hort time he got an Ho&s;t together,</L>
<L>Cleauing to <HI>Henry</HI> who did him preferre,</L>
<L>As an Alye to th'Hou&s;e of <HI>Lanca&s;ter.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vpon their March when as they la&s;tly mer,</L>
<L>Neere to the Cro&s;&s;e that <HI>Mortimer</HI> is nam'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Battaile <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Morti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">s Cro&s;&s;e.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where they in order their Battalions &s;et,</L>
<L>The Duke and Earle with equall rage enflam'd,</L>
<L>With angry eyes they one the other threat&punc;</L>
<L>Their deadly Arrowes at each other aym'd:</L>
<L>And there a fierce and deadly fight begin,</L>
<L>A bloodier Battell yet there had not bin&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Earle of <HI>Ormond,</HI> an A&s;&s;ociate then,</L>
<L>With this young <HI>Tudor,</HI> for the King that &s;tood&punc;</L>
<L>Came in the Vanguard with his <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> men&punc;</L>
<L>With Darts, and Skaines&punc; tho&s;e of the Britti&s;h blood</L>
<L><PB N="131" REF="72">With Shaftes and Gleaues them &s;econding againe,</L>
<L>And as they fall, &s;till make their places good,</L>
<L>That it amaz'd the marchers to behold,</L>
<L>Men &s;o ill arm'd vpon their Bowes &s;o bold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now th'<HI>Welch</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> &s;o their weapons weeld,</L>
<L>As though them&s;elues they conquerors meant to c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l</L>
<L>Then are the Marchers ma&s;ters of the field,</L>
<L>With their browne Bills the <HI>Welchmen</HI> &s;o they mall,</L>
<L>Now th&punc;one&punc; now th'other likely were to yeeld,</L>
<L>The&s;e like to fly, then tho&s;e were like to fall,</L>
<L>Vntill at length (as fortune pleas'd to guide)</L>
<L>The Conque&s;t turn'd vpon the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> &s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Three Suns were &s;eem that in&s;tant to appeare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Three &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ey &s;eene&punc; at one time.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which &s;oone againe &s;hut vp them&s;elues in one,</L>
<L>Ready to buckle as the Armies were,</L>
<L>Which this braue Duke tooke to him&s;elfe alone,</L>
<L>His drooping hop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s which &s;omwhat &s;eemd to cheere</L>
<L>By his mi&s;haps&punc; neere lately ouerthrowne.</L>
<L>So that thereby encouraging his men,</L>
<L>Once more he &s;ets the white Ro&s;e vp agen.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Penbrooke,</HI> and <HI>Ormond,</HI> &s;aue them&s;elues by &s;light,</L>
<L>Foure thou&s;and &s;ouldiers of both Armies dead,</L>
<L>But the great lo&s;&s;e on the <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> light,</L>
<L>So <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">riends of poore King <HI>Henry</HI> &s;ped;</L>
<L>Where <HI>Owen Tudor</HI> taken in the flight,</L>
<L>This yong Earles father by Queene <HI>Katherines</HI> bed<NOTE PLACE="marg">Owen Tudor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> end.</NOTE></L>
<L>At <HI>Hereford</HI> not farre away from thence,</L>
<L>Where others with him dyde for their offence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="132" REF="73">
<L>THis while the Queen, the gole at <HI>Sandal</HI> gain</L>
<L>Leades on tow'rds <HI>London</HI> her victorious H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Who&s;e blades &s;he &s;howes, with blood of <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> &s;tain'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Nor of her Co~que&s;t can &s;he leaue to boa&s;t,</L>
<L>But to her &s;ide, whil&s;t lucky fortune lean'd,</L>
<L>Come, what can come, &s;he means to cleare the co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Of tho&s;e &s;he knew in <HI>Yorks</HI> reuenge would ri&s;e&punc;</L>
<L>Found &s;he not meanes, their Forces to &s;urpri&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And at <HI>Saint Albans</HI> finding on her way,</L>
<L><HI>Iohn</HI> Duke of <HI>Norfolke,</HI> and her diueli&s;h foe:</L>
<L>Fierce <HI>Warwicke</HI> who there with an Army lay,</L>
<L>Which two, decea&s;ed <HI>Yorke</HI> when he &s;hould goe<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Henry left before to the keeping of the Duke of Norfolke, and the Earle of Warwicke.</NOTE></L>
<L>To <HI>Sandall,</HI> left them as his onely kay,</L>
<L>To keepe King <HI>Henry</HI> (which they not fore&s;low)</L>
<L>Le&s;t by the Queene &amp; hers he might be wroug&punc;</L>
<L>T'annull their late pa&s;t Parliament for nought&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For which to Coun&s;ell, calling vp her Lords,</L>
<L>Well to con&s;ider what was to be done,</L>
<L>Who cheere her vp with comfortable words,</L>
<L>And would in no wi&s;e &s;he her&punc; way &s;hould &s;hunne:</L>
<L>For they would make her entra~ce with their &s;wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Here what was lo&s;t, might here againe be wunn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;uring her their minds them &s;trongly gaue&punc;</L>
<L>That of this Field the glory &s;he &s;hould haue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;oone their Army ordering for the grou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Whereof a view they e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'ry way doe take:</L>
<L>When for A&s;&s;ault they bid their Trumpets &s;ound,</L>
<L>And &s;o their entry on the Towne they make:</L>
<L><PB N="133" REF="73"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut comming to the market place they found,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hower of &s;hafts, as from a cloud it brake,</L>
<L>Which backe againe made them &s;o fa&s;t to beare,</L>
<L>As that their Van, was like to route their Reare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But thus repul&s;'d, another way they prooue,</L>
<L>How in vpon their enemy to get,</L>
<L>Which maks their foes, that they their force remoue</L>
<L>To &s;top that pa&s;&s;age wherein they were &s;et,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat whil&s;t, they&punc; &s;hafts into each other &s;houe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or a long while it was an euen bet,</L>
<L>Death being thus dealt, and both &s;o deepely in,</L>
<L>Whether proud <HI>Warwicke,</HI> or the Queene &s;hould winne</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But by the Queene con&s;trained to recoyle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">heir ground from them they ab&s;olutely wonne,</L>
<L>When they the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> mi&s;erably &s;poyle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in with them on their mayne Battaile runne:</L>
<L>Which being greatly &s;traitned by the &s;oyle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hey could not doe what el&s;e they might haue done:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene getteth the day at Saint Albans.</NOTE></L>
<L>Through thick &amp; thin, o'r hedge &amp; ditch that take,</L>
<L>And happie&s;t he the greate&s;t ha&s;t could make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t <HI>Warwicke</HI> cryes, ye Southerne cowards &s;tay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd once more turne your faces to your foes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is feare, not danger doth yee thus di&s;may:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> proue the former fortune of your Bowes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hinke but vpon the late-wonne glorious day,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ot in this place; the fame whereof you lo&s;e,</L>
<L>By your ba&s;e flight; but he his breath might &s;pare</L>
<L>He might as well haue call'd vpon the Ayre&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="134" REF="74">
<L>Scatter'd like &s;heep by wolues that had bin &s;car'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Yorki&s;ts Army di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">omfited at this &s;econd Batt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll at Saint Albans</NOTE></L>
<L>So runne the <HI>Yorki&s;ts;</HI> which, when <HI>Norfolke</HI> &s;aw,</L>
<L>He calls to <HI>Warwicke</HI> &s;carcely then prepar'd,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe out of this danger to withdraw:</L>
<L>My Lord (quoth he) you &s;ee that all is mard:</L>
<L>Fortune hath &s;worne to keepe vs in her awe:</L>
<L>Our liues are gone if longer here wee &s;tay,</L>
<L>Loo&s;e not your &s;elfe, though we haue lo&s;t the d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for they found the Foe came on &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>The King by them to this lo&s;t battell brought,</L>
<L>And vnder guard in his pauillion plac't,</L>
<L>Th'are forc'd to leaue (which late they little thoug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>For ther were tho&s;e which made the~ make &s;uch ha&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>They could not &s;tay to haue their Soueraign &s;ough<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">King Henry of no account</NOTE></L>
<L>But &s;ince the Battell had &s;uch ill &s;ucce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That lo&s;t, they thought their lo&s;&s;e of him the le&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The foe thus fled, they quickly found the King,</L>
<L>From whom a &s;peedy me&s;&s;enger is &s;ent,</L>
<L>His Wife and Sonne, away to him to bring,</L>
<L>Who with their Lords arriuing at his Tent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">et<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> with the Queene and her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="5 letters"></NOTE></L>
<L>Where after many a fall, and many a&s;pring,</L>
<L>Of teares of ioy vpon each other &s;pent,</L>
<L>With &s;trict embraces they each other &s;traine,</L>
<L>No one had need a gladne&s;&s;e there to faine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like as you &s;ee when Partriges are flowne,</L>
<L>(In Falconers termes which we the Couy call)<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>By the &s;harpe Hawke, and into thickets throwne,</L>
<L>There drops downe one, there doth another fall,</L>
<L><PB N="135" REF="74"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et when they heare the que&s;ting Spaniels gone,</L>
<L>They in the euening get together all&punc;</L>
<L>With pretty iugging and each other greet.</L>
<L>Glad as it were they once againe &s;hould meete.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But the fierce Queene, her full reuenge to take,</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e &s;he thought the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> well that meant.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;tout Lord <HI>Bonvile</HI> for King <HI>Henry,</HI> &s;ake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The cruelty of the Queen</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd <HI>Thomas Kerrill,</HI> a braue Knight of <HI>Kent,</HI></L>
<L>Who the Kings Guard &s;troue euer long to make,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll threatning perill thereby to preuent,</L>
<L>And for their &s;afety had his Soueraigne word,</L>
<L>That cruell woman putteth to the &s;word.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This wel might warne great <HI>Warwick</HI> not to tru&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oo much to Fortune, which &s;o &s;oone reueales,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er whori&s;h lightne&s;&s;e, like an Auer&s;e gu&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd on the &s;uddaine makes him &s;trike his Sayles,</L>
<L>Which when he mo&s;t beleeued her to be iu&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is forward hopes then mo&s;t of all &s;he fayles</L>
<L>All his accounts, and teach him thus to &s;umme,</L>
<L>&punc;None ouercomes, but may be ouercome,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some thinke that <HI>Warwicke</HI> had not lo&s;t the day,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut that the King into the Field he brought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or with the wor&s;e, that &s;ide &s;till went away,<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Henry mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>Which had King <HI>Henry</HI> with the~ when they fought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pon his birth &s;o &s;ad a cur&s;e they lay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s that he neuer pro&s;pered in ought,</L>
<L>The Queene wan two, among&s;t the lo&s;&s;e of many&punc;</L>
<L>Her husband ab&s;ent, pre&s;ent, neuer any&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="136" REF="75">
<L>But whil&s;t her &s;elfe with further hopes &s;hee fed,</L>
<L>The Queene &s;till watchfull, wi&s;ely vnder&s;tands,</L>
<L>That <HI>Warwicke</HI> late, vvho at Saint <HI>Albans</HI> fled&punc;</L>
<L>(Whereas his heeles &s;eru'd better then his hands)</L>
<L>Had met the Duke of <HI>Yorke,</HI> and made a head,</L>
<L>Of many fre&s;h, and yet vnfought-with bands,</L>
<L>At <HI>Chipping-norton</HI> for more forces &s;tay'd,</L>
<L>From whence towards <HI>London</HI> they their mar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> had lay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><NOTE PLACE="marg">The London|ers deny the Queene victu+aile for her Army.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for &s;hee &s;aw the <HI>Southerne</HI> to adhere,</L>
<L>Still to the <HI>Yorki&s;ts,</HI> who againe relyde,</L>
<L>Much on their ayde, as <HI>London</HI> &s;he doth feare,</L>
<L>A &s;mall reliefe which lately her denyde,</L>
<L>She can (at all conceiue) no comfort there,</L>
<L>With any &s;uccours, nor to be &s;upply'd,</L>
<L>But to the North her &s;peedy cour&s;e directs,</L>
<L>From whence fre&s;h aydes &s;he euery day expect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not foure dayes march yet fully on her way,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Yorke entreth London with applau&s;e of the people.</NOTE></L>
<L>But <HI>Yorke</HI> to <HI>London</HI> with his Army comes,</L>
<L>And neere the walles his En&s;ignes doth di&s;play,</L>
<L>Deaffing the city with his clamoorus Drummes,</L>
<L>His Title &s;o the multitude doth &s;way,</L>
<L>That for his &s;ouldiers they prouide him Summes,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e proui&s;io~s they Queene <HI>Margarite</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Taken from hers, they on the Duke be&s;tow'de.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Gates &s;et open to receiue him in,</L>
<L>They with applau&s;e his gracious entrance greet,</L>
<L>His pre&s;ence &s;o the Peoples hearts doth vvinne,</L>
<L>That they come flocking in from euery &s;treet,</L>
<L><PB N="137" REF="75">Kneeling before him, as he Crownd had bin,</L>
<L>And as he rode along they ki&s;t his feete,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t good King <HI>Henry</HI> towards the North is gone,</L>
<L>The poore <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> damn'd by euery one.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whither (at once) doe pre&s;ently repaire,</L>
<L>The &s;pirituall Lords, &amp; Temporal, who would haue,</L>
<L>Him take the Crowne, who farre more ready are,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o giue, then he their &s;uffrages to craue:</L>
<L>The Commons take him &s;o into their care,</L>
<L>Vpon his name that dotingly they raue,</L>
<L>And being ask'd who &s;hould their Soueraigne be,</L>
<L>They cry King <HI>Edward</HI> and no man but hee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus to his height this pui&s;&s;ant Prince they heaue,</L>
<L>The &s;eate Imperiall; where then &s;itting downe,</L>
<L>Their fealty they force him to receaue,</L>
<L>Which on his head might firmely fixe his Crowne,</L>
<L>And in his hand the Regall Scepter leaue:</L>
<L><HI>Edward</HI> the fourth proclaim'd in eu'ry Towne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Edward m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> King by the &s;uffrage of the Commons&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L>With all the pompe that they could thinke vpon,</L>
<L>They then adorne his Coronation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THis newes too quickly in Queene <HI>Margarites</HI> eare,</L>
<L>What by the Lords at <HI>London</HI> had beene done,</L>
<L>Euen at the point to fall into de&s;paire,</L>
<L>Ready &s;he was on her owne death to runne;</L>
<L>With her faire fingers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ents her golden haire,</L>
<L>Cur&s;ing that houre when fir&s;t &s;he &s;aw the Sunne.</L>
<L>With rage &s;he faints; reuiuing and doth call,</L>
<L>Vpon high heauen for vengeance on them all,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="138" REF="76">
<L>To ayde her right yet &s;till excites her friends,</L>
<L>By her faire &s;peech inchanted (as by charmes)</L>
<L>Scarce any man on any Lord depends,</L>
<L>That followes her, that ri&s;eth not in Armes:</L>
<L>The &s;pacious North &s;uch plenteous &s;uccour &s;ends,</L>
<L>That to her &s;ide the &s;ouldiers come in &s;warmes:</L>
<L>Thus day by day &s;he addeth more and more,</L>
<L>To that full Army, which &s;he had before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not long it was but <HI>Edward</HI> vnder&s;tood,</L>
<L>Of this great power prepared in the North,</L>
<L>When he to make his Coronation good,</L>
<L>Calls to his ayde his friends of greate&s;t worth,</L>
<L>With whom then ri&s;ing like a raging flood:<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Edward <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>This forward King breakes violently foorth,</L>
<L>That with the helpe of Tributary flowes,</L>
<L>Extends his breadth &s;till onward as he goes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor <HI>Henryes</HI> Army needed to be &s;ought,</L>
<L>For euery man could tell him where it lay,</L>
<L>In twelue dayes march which <HI>Edward</HI> eas'ly rough</L>
<L>Without re&s;i&s;tance keeping on his way,</L>
<L>Neere fifty thou&s;and in his Ho&s;t he brought,</L>
<L>Who&s;e brandi&s;h'd En&s;ignes &s;eem'd to braue the day</L>
<L>And vnder <HI>Pomfret</HI> his proud Tents he pight&punc;</L>
<L>Prouiding hourely for a deadly fight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of <HI>Henrys</HI> Ho&s;t, when they who had command,</L>
<L>On whom the Queene impo&s;ed had the care,</L>
<L>Great <HI>Sommer&s;et,</HI> and &s;tout <HI>Northumberland,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Clifford,</HI> whom no danger yet could dare:</L>
<L><PB N="139" REF="76">The walles of <HI>Yorke</HI> fir&s;t hauing throughly man'd,</L>
<L>There plac'd the King, when quickly they prepare,</L>
<L>To range their Battell which con&s;i&s;ted then,</L>
<L>Of three&s;core thou&s;and valiant Northerne men.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>Edwards</HI> Ho&s;t the Lord <HI>Fitzwater</HI> went,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lord Fitzwater and Ba&s;tard Neuill &s;lam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE></L>
<L>And valiant <HI>Neuill, Warwickes</HI> Ba&s;tard brother,</L>
<L>At <HI>Ferry-bridge</HI> the pa&s;&s;age to preuent,</L>
<L>From comming ouer <HI>Eyre,</HI> to keepe the other;</L>
<L>Gain&s;t whom the aduer&s;e, the Lord <HI>Clifford</HI> &s;ent,</L>
<L>Who taking night his enterpri&s;e to &s;mother:</L>
<L>The dawne yet dusky, pa&s;sing through a Ford,</L>
<L>Puts them, and all their &s;ouldiers to the &s;word&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At the &s;hrill noy&s;e, when <HI>Warwicke</HI> comming in,</L>
<L>And finds his Brother and <HI>Fitzwater</HI> dead,</L>
<L>Euen as a man di&s;tracted that had bin:</L>
<L>Out of his face the liuely colour fled,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwicke <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> to re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">snge his bro|thers death.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oth cruell <HI>Clifford</HI> thus (quoth he) begin,</L>
<L>For eu'ry drop of blood that he hath &s;hed,</L>
<L>This day I'le make an enemy to bleed,</L>
<L>Or neuer more in Battaile let me &s;peed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And to the King returning in this mood,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Liege (quoth he) all mercy now defie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elay no longer to reuenge their blood;</L>
<L>Who&s;e mangled bodies breathle&s;&s;e yonder lye:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd let the man that meanes King <HI>Edwards</HI> good,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">and fa&s;t to <HI>Warwicke,</HI> who no more &s;hall flie:</L>
<L>Re&s;olu'd to winne, or bid the world a due,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwickes de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">era<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">luti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></NOTE></L>
<L>Which &s;poke, the Earle his &s;prightly cour&s;er &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="140" REF="77">
<L>This re&s;olution &s;o extremely wrought,</L>
<L>Vpon King <HI>Edward</HI> that he gaue command,<NOTE PLACE="marg">No quarter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t at Tow|ton.</NOTE></L>
<L>That on his &s;ide who willingly not fought,</L>
<L>Should haue his leaue, to quit him out of hand;</L>
<L>That eu'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y one &s;hould kill the man he cought,</L>
<L>To keepe no Quarter, and who meant to &s;tand,</L>
<L>In his iu&s;t cau&s;e, rewarded he would &s;ee,</L>
<L>This day hee'll ri&s;e, or this day ruin'd be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When neere to <HI>Towton</HI> on the &s;pacious playne&punc;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Towton field.</NOTE></L>
<L>The&s;e pui&s;&s;ant Armies on Palme-Sunday me&punc;</L>
<L>Wher down right &s;laughter angry heaue~ doth rain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>With clouds of rage the Element is &s;et:</L>
<L>The wind<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s breath fury, and the earth againe,</L>
<L>With the hot gore of her owne Natiues wet,</L>
<L>Sends vp a &s;moke&punc; which makes the mall &s;o mad,</L>
<L>Of neither part that mercy could be had.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One horrid &s;ight another doth appall:</L>
<L>One fearefull cry another doth confound,</L>
<L>Murthers &s;o thicke vpon each other fall,</L>
<L>That in one &s;hreeke anothers &s;hreeke is drownd,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t blood for blood <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nce&s;&s;antly doth call,</L>
<L>From the wide mouth of many a gaping wound;</L>
<L>Slaughter &s;o &s;oone grows big, that co~mn to birt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>The mon&s;trous burthen ouer-loads the earth&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This bloody Tempe&s;t ten long houres doth la&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t neither &s;ide could to it &s;elfe a&s;&s;ure</L>
<L>The victory; but as their lot was ca&s;t,</L>
<L>With wounds and death they &s;toutly it indure,</L>
<L><PB N="141" REF="77">Vntill the valiant <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> at the la&s;t,</L>
<L>Although in number neere ten thou&s;and fewer:</L>
<L>In their long fight their forces manage &s;o,</L>
<L>That they before them lay their conquer'd foe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Couragious <HI>Clifford</HI> fir&s;t here fell to ground,</L>
<L>Into the throat with a blunt Arrow &s;trucke:<NOTE PLACE="marg">A mi&s;erable defect of the Queenes friends.</NOTE></L>
<L>Here <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> receiu'd his deadly wound:</L>
<L>Here dy'd the &s;tout <HI>Northumberland</HI> that &s;tuck</L>
<L>Still to his Soneraigne; <HI>Wells,</HI> and <HI>Dacres</HI> found,</L>
<L>That they had lighted on King <HI>Henrys</HI> luck:</L>
<L><HI>Trowluph &amp; Horne,</HI> two braue commanders dead</L>
<L>Whil&s;t <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> and <HI>Exce&s;ter</HI> were fled.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thirty two thou&s;and in this battaile flaine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The greate<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;laughter in all that ciui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Warre.</NOTE></L>
<L>Many in &s;trayts lye heap'd vp like a wall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>The re&s;tlye &s;catter'd round about the playne,</L>
<L>And <HI>Cocke</HI> a Riuer, though but very &s;mall,</L>
<L>Fill'd with tho&s;e flying doth &s;o deepely &s;taine,</L>
<L>The Riuer <HI>Wharfe,</HI> int'which this <HI>Cocke</HI> doth fall,</L>
<L>As that the fountaine which this flood doth feed,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides their blood, had &s;eem'd for them to bleed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>King <HI>Henrys</HI> hopes thus vtterly forlorne,</L>
<L>By the late lo&s;&s;e of this vnlucky day:</L>
<L>He feeles the Crown (euen) from his temples torn,</L>
<L>On his &s;word point, which <HI>Edward</HI> beares away:</L>
<L>And &s;ince his fall the angry Fates had &s;worne,</L>
<L>He findes no comfort longer here to &s;tay:</L>
<L>But leauing <HI>Yorke,</HI> he po&s;t to <HI>Barwicke</HI> goes,</L>
<L>With's Queene &amp; Son, true partners in his woes&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="142" REF="78">
<L>The King for <HI>Scotland,</HI> and for <HI>France</HI> the Queene,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King and Queen forced to for&s;ake the Land</NOTE></L>
<L>Diuided hence, &s;ince them thus Fortune thwarts,</L>
<L>Before this time there &s;eldome had beene &s;eene,</L>
<L>Two to be &s;euer'd with &s;o heauy hearts,</L>
<L>The Prince their &s;on then &s;tanding them betweene,</L>
<L>Their &s;ong is &s;orrow&punc; and they beare their parts:</L>
<L>He to the King of <HI>Scots,</HI> to get &s;upplies&punc;</L>
<L>She to the <HI>French</HI> King, and her Father flies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which well might &s;hew a Princes &s;lippery &s;tate,</L>
<L>For when &s;he hither at the fir&s;t came in,</L>
<L><HI>England</HI> and <HI>France</HI> did her congratulate,</L>
<L>Then in two battailes &s;he had Conqueror bin,</L>
<L>Seeming to tread vpon the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> hate,</L>
<L>As from that day &s;he had beene borne to winne:</L>
<L>Now to &s;ayle backe with mi&s;eries farre more,</L>
<L>Then were her Tryumphs landing here before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This cruell blow to the <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> lent,</L>
<L>At fatall <HI>Towton</HI> that Palme-Sunday fight,</L>
<L>Where &s;o much blood they prodigally &s;pent,</L>
<L>To <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> as inforc'd their flight,</L>
<L>Lifts vp the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> to their large extent,</L>
<L>And <HI>Edward</HI> now to &s;ee his Crowne &s;et right,</L>
<L>Pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d in his &s;poyles, to <HI>London</HI> doth repaire,</L>
<L>And re-annoynted mounts th'Imperiall Chaire,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where he a &s;peedy Parliament doth pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>T'annull tho&s;e Lawes which had beene made before&punc;</L>
<L>Gain&s;t his &s;ucce&s;sion, and di&s;&s;olue the Ma&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Of Trea&s;ons heapt on his, them to re&s;tore:</L>
<L><PB N="143" REF="78">Whereby King <HI>Henry</HI> &s;o much le&s;ned was,</L>
<L>As after that he &s;hould &s;ub&s;i&s;t no more,</L>
<L>Little then thinking <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> againe,</L>
<L>Now but an exile ouer him &s;hould raigne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where he attaints as Traitors to his Crowne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Earle of Oxford and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Sonne at|tainted.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Iohn</HI> Earle of <HI>Oxford</HI> and h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s valiant &s;onne,</L>
<L><HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">brey De &V;ere,</HI> with whom likewi&s;e went downe</L>
<L><HI>Mountgomery, Terrill, Tudenham</HI> who were done,</L>
<L>To death; &s;o Heau'n on <HI>Henry</HI> &s;eemes to frowne,</L>
<L>And <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> King <HI>Edwards</HI> wrath to &s;hunne,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe &s;ubmitting is receiu'd to grace,</L>
<L>Such is Queene <HI>Margarites</HI> mi&s;erable ca&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> in <HI>Scotland&punc;</HI> the &s;ad Queene the while,</L>
<L>Is left to <HI>France,</HI> to <HI>Lewis</HI> there to &s;ue,</L>
<L>To lend her &s;uccour; &s;corning her exile,</L>
<L>In &s;pight of Fate &s;he will the warre renew,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queene Mar|garit a woma~ of an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ndain|ted spirit.</NOTE></L>
<L>She will tempt Fortune till againe &s;he &s;mile&punc;</L>
<L>In &s;uch a pitch her mighty &s;pirit &s;till flew;</L>
<L>That &s;hould the world oppo&s;e her, yet that &s;trengh,</L>
<L>She hopes &s;hall worke vp her de&s;ires at length.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And with fiue thou&s;and valiant Volunteers,</L>
<L>Of natiue <HI>French,</HI> put vnder her command,</L>
<L>With Armes well &s;itted &s;he towards <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;teeres</L>
<L>With which before &s;he po&s;&s;ibly could land,</L>
<L>The wrath of Heauen vpon this Queene appeares,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene in euery en|terpri&s;e mo&s;t vnfor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">nate.</NOTE></L>
<L>And with fierce Tempe&s;ts &s;triue her to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>The winds make warre again&s;t her with her Foe,</L>
<L>Which Ioin'd together worke her ouerthrowe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="144" REF="79">
<L>Her Forces thus infortunatly lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Which &s;he in <HI>Scotland</HI> hop'd to haue encrea&s;t,</L>
<L>And in this tempe&s;t &s;he her&s;elfe &s;o to&s;t,</L>
<L>As neuer Lady; yet &s;he here not coa&s;t,</L>
<L>But &s;ince &s;he found her enterpri&s;e thus cro&s;t,</L>
<L>She to the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> her faire cour&s;e adre&s;t,</L>
<L>Nor would de&s;i&s;t till &s;he had rai&s;'d agen,</L>
<L>Ten thou&s;and valiant well-appointed men.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in vpon <HI>Northumberland</HI> doth breake,</L>
<L>Rowzing the Siuggi&s;h villages from fleepe,</L>
<L>Bringing in <HI>Henry</HI> though a helpe but weake,</L>
<L>But leaues her Son in <HI>Barwicke</HI> &s;afe to keepe;</L>
<L>Her ratling Drums &s;o rough a language &s;peakes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queene Mar|garite rai&s;eth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> new Army.</NOTE></L>
<L>The ruffling <HI>Scots,</HI> and all the Country &s;weepe;</L>
<L>Which rumour run &s;o fa&s;t with through the ayre,</L>
<L>That <HI>Edward</HI> thought it &s;hooke his very Chaire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> receiu'd to grace before,</L>
<L>With Sir <HI>Raulph Percy</HI> from that fatall day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">me that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad &s;ubmitted them&s;elues to King Edward <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">olt at king Henrys com|ming.</NOTE></L>
<L>At <HI>Towton;</HI> found each minute more and more,</L>
<L>How &s;ad <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fate on the <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> lay,</L>
<L>Y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> hoping now King <HI>Henry</HI> to re&s;tore,</L>
<L>Who they &s;uppo&s;'d had new found out the way,</L>
<L>Reuolt from <HI>Edward,</HI> and in <HI>Henrys</HI> name,</L>
<L>Call in their friends, to ayde him as he came.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THis noy&s;e of Warre ari&s;ing from the North,</L>
<L>In <HI>Edwards</HI> eares re-ecchoing bidds him &s;tirre,</L>
<L>And rumour <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ells him if he made not foorth,</L>
<L>Queene <HI>Margarite</HI> comm'n he mu&s;t re&s;igne to her,</L>
<L><PB N="145" REF="79">For they were Captaines of e&s;peciall worth,</L>
<L>On whom &s;he did this mighty charge conferre,</L>
<L>For that her En&s;ignes &s;he at large di&s;plai'd,</L>
<L>And as &s;he came, &s;o &s;till came<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n her ayd,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For which his much lou'd <HI>Mountacute</HI> he &s;ends,</L>
<L>With <HI>Englands</HI> valiant Infantry his Pheres:</L>
<L>To who&s;e wi&s;e guidance, he this Warre commends,</L>
<L>His &s;ouldiers expert pickt in &s;undry &s;heeres,</L>
<L>His vtmo&s;t &s;trength King <HI>Edward</HI> now extends,</L>
<L>Which he mu&s;t doe, or drag'd downe by the eares,</L>
<L>From his late-gotten, &s;car&s;ely-&s;etled Thro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>And on his &s;houlders &s;he remount thereon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And <HI>Mountacute</HI> had &s;car&s;ely march'd away,</L>
<L>But he him&s;elfe &s;ets forward with an Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>And a &s;trong Nauy likewi&s;e doth puruay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Kin Edward prouideth to re&s;i&s;t Queen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Margarites comming in.</NOTE></L>
<L>To &s;coure the Seas and keepe the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> coa&s;t,</L>
<L>Fearing from <HI>France</HI> fre&s;h &s;uccours euery day,</L>
<L>To ayd Queene <HI>Margarit</HI> which perplext him mo&s;t</L>
<L>For he perceiu'd his Crowne &s;ate not &s;o &s;ure,</L>
<L>But might be &s;hak'd &s;hould &s;he her Powers pro|cure&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now is the Northfild with refulgent Armes,</L>
<L><HI>Edwards</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h Scots</HI> Queene <HI>Margarit</HI> brings,</L>
<L>The Norths co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">reat con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">our&s;e warms</L>
<L>Their Quarrell <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">f two great Kings,</L>
<L>Which oft b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> wrought each others harms,</L>
<L>And from that R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> horrour dayly &s;prings,</L>
<L>And though <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">od <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ey both had &s;pe~t before</L>
<L>Yet not &s;o much, but that there mu&s;t be more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="146" REF="80">
<L>At <HI>Hegly-heath</HI> their skirmi&s;hes begin,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Conflict at Hegly-More.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where two bold Barrons <HI>Hungerford</HI> and <HI>Re&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>With Sir <HI>Ralph Percy,</HI> he who had lately bin&punc;</L>
<L>Leagu'd with King <HI>Edward,</HI> but then gotten lo&s;e,</L>
<L>(Striues by all meanes to expiate that &s;inne)</L>
<L>To the <HI>Lanca&s;trian</HI> faction cleaues &s;o clo&s;e,</L>
<L>That when tho&s;e Barrons from that conflict fly,</L>
<L>In <HI>Henrys</HI> right, he brauely dares to dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which leades along as Tragicall an Act,</L>
<L>As &s;ince the Warres had euer yet beene playd,</L>
<L>For <HI>Mountacute</HI> b'ing fortunately backt,</L>
<L>By braue King <HI>Edwards</HI> comming to his ayde:</L>
<L>As of their force King <HI>Henry</HI> little lackt,</L>
<L>The plaine call'd <HI>Liuells</HI> where the &s;ceane was layd:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aile&punc; of Exh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Not farre from <HI>Exham</HI> neere to <HI>Dowills</HI> flood,</L>
<L>That day di&s;colloured with <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> blood,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There &s;truck they battell, Bowmen Bowmen plide&punc;</L>
<L>Northerne to Southerne, &s;laughter cea&s;eth all;</L>
<L>Long the Fight la&s;ted e'r that either &s;ide,</L>
<L>Could tell to which the Victory would fall:</L>
<L>But to the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> fortune is &s;o tide,</L>
<L>That &s;he mu&s;t come when they &s;hall plea&s;e to call,</L>
<L>And in his Cradle <HI>Henry</HI> had the cur&s;e,</L>
<L>That where he was, that &s;ide had &s;till the wor&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This luckle&s;&s;e day by the <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Was <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> &s;urprized in his flight,</L>
<L>And in pur&s;uing of this &s;cattered Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>On <HI>Mullins, Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Hungerford</HI> they light,</L>
<L><PB N="147" REF="80">Which this dayes worke e'r long full dearely co&s;t&punc;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queene Mar+garites <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> goes &s;till <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">wrack<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd with the&s;e Lords were taken many a Knight,</L>
<L>Nor from their hands could <HI>Henry</HI> hardly &s;hift,</L>
<L>Had not his guide beene as his Hor&s;e was &s;wift.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Still mu&s;t Queene <HI>Margarites</HI> mi&s;eries endure,</L>
<L>This Ma&s;&s;e of &s;orrow markt out to &s;u&s;taine:</L>
<L>For all the aydes this time &s;he &s;hould procure,</L>
<L>Are either taken, put to flight, or &s;laine;</L>
<L>Of nothing el&s;e &s;he can her &s;elfe a&s;&s;ure,</L>
<L>That &s;he will leaue her lo&s;&s;es to complaine:</L>
<L>For &s;ince &s;he &s;ees that &s;till her friends goe downe,</L>
<L>She will cur&s;e Fortune if &s;he doe not frowne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> to flye to <HI>Scotland</HI> backe is faine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Henry and the Queane <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"></NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o get to <HI>France,</HI> the wofull Queene is glad,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">here with her Sonne inforced to remaine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill other aydes might thence againe be had;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o them that hard nece&s;sities con&s;traine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;et them downe that it doth make me &s;ad,</L>
<L>Neuer &s;o thicke came mi&s;eries I weene,</L>
<L>Vpon a poore King&punc; and a woefull Queene.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This done King <HI>Edward&punc;</HI> his &s;trong Army &s;ends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o take tho&s;e Ca&s;tles which not long before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad beene deliuered to King <HI>Henrys</HI> friends,</L>
<L>Which he by &s;ieges makes them to re&s;tore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd on the borders watchfully attends,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>Henryes</HI> ayde that there &s;hould come no more,</L>
<L>But &ocirc; behold as one ordain'd to ill,</L>
<L>The Fate that followes haple&s;&s;e <HI>Henry</HI> &s;till&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="146" REF="81">
<L>At <HI>Hegly-heath</HI> their skirmi&s;hes begin,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Conflict at Hegly-More.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where two bold Barrons <HI>Hungerford</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>With Sir <HI>Ralph Percy,</HI> he who had lately bin,</L>
<L>Leagu'd with King <HI>Edward,</HI> but then gotten lo&s;e,</L>
<L>(Striues by all meanes to expiate that &s;inne)</L>
<L>To the <HI>Lanca&s;trian</HI> faction cleaues &s;o clo&s;e,</L>
<L>That when tho&s;e Barrons from that conflict fly,</L>
<L>In <HI>Henrys</HI> right, he brauely dares to dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which leades along as Tragicall an Act,</L>
<L>As &s;ince the Warres had euer yet beene playd,</L>
<L>For <HI>Mountacute</HI> b'ing fortunately backt,</L>
<L>By braue King <HI>Edwards</HI> comming to his ayde:</L>
<L>As of their force King <HI>Henry</HI> little lackt,</L>
<L>The plaine call'd <HI>Liuells</HI> where the &s;ceane was layd:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aile. of Exham.</NOTE></L>
<L>Not farre from <HI>Exham</HI> neere to <HI>Dowills</HI> flood,</L>
<L>That day di&s;colloured with <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> blood,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There &s;truck they battell, Bowmen Bowmen plide</L>
<L>Northerne to Southerne, &s;laughter cea&s;eth all;</L>
<L>Long the Fight la&s;ted e'r that either &s;ide,</L>
<L>Could tell to which the Victory would fall:</L>
<L>But to the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> fortune is &s;o tide,</L>
<L>That &s;he mu&s;t come when they &s;hall plea&s;e to call,</L>
<L>And in his Cradle <HI>Henry</HI> had the cur&s;e,</L>
<L>That where he was, that &s;ide had &s;till the wor&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This luckle&s;&s;e day by the <HI>Lanca&s;trians</HI> lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Was <HI>Summer&s;et</HI> &s;urprized in his flight,</L>
<L>And in pur&s;uing of this &s;cattered Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>On <HI>Mullins, Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Hungerford</HI> they light,</L>
<L><PB N="147" REF="81">Which this dayes worke e'r long full dearely co&s;t;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queene Mar+garites perty goes &s;till to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> wracke.</NOTE></L>
<L>And with the&s;e Lords were taken many a Knight,</L>
<L>Nor from their hands could <HI>Henry</HI> hardly &s;hift,</L>
<L>Had not his guide beene as his Hor&s;e was &s;wift.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Still mu&s;t Queene <HI>Margarites</HI> mi&s;eries endure,</L>
<L>This Ma&s;&s;e of &s;orrow markt out to &s;u&s;taine:</L>
<L>For all the aydes this time &s;he &s;hould procure,</L>
<L>Are either taken, put to flight, or &s;laine;</L>
<L>Of nothing el&s;e &s;he can her &s;elfe a&s;&s;ure,</L>
<L>That &s;he will leaue her lo&s;&s;es to complaine:</L>
<L>For &s;ince &s;he &s;ees that &s;till her friends goe downe,</L>
<L>She will cur&s;e Fortune if &s;he doe not frowne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> to flye to <HI>Scotland</HI> backe is faine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Henry and the Queene par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE></L>
<L>To get to <HI>France,</HI> the wofull Queene is glad,</L>
<L>There with her Sonne inforced to remaine,</L>
<L>Till other aydes might thence againe be had;</L>
<L>So them that hard nece&s;sities con&s;traine,</L>
<L>To &s;et them downe that it doth make me &s;ad,</L>
<L>Neuer &s;o thicke came mi&s;eries I weene,</L>
<L>Vpon a poore King, and a woefull Queene.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This done King <HI>Edward,</HI> his &s;trong Army &s;ends</L>
<L>To take tho&s;e Ca&s;tles which not long before,</L>
<L>Had beene deliuered to King <HI>Henrys</HI> friends,</L>
<L>Which he by &s;ieges makes them to re&s;tore,</L>
<L>And on the borders watchfully attends,</L>
<L>To <HI>Henryes</HI> ayde that there &s;hould come no more,</L>
<L>But &ocirc; behold as one ordain'd to ill,</L>
<L>The Fate that followes haple&s;&s;e <HI>Henry</HI> &s;till,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="148" REF="82">
<L>For out of &s;ome deepe melancholly fit,<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Henry&punc; comming di&s;, gui&s;ed into England, is di&s;couered and taken pri&s;oner.</NOTE></L>
<L>Or otherwi&s;e, as falne into de&s;paire,</L>
<L>Or that he was not rightly in his wit,</L>
<L>Being &s;afe in <HI>Scotland</HI> and &s;till &s;uccour'd there;</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;uddaine he abandons it,</L>
<L>And into <HI>England</HI> Idly entring, where</L>
<L>He is &s;urprizd, and (in his enemies power)</L>
<L>Is by King <HI>Edward</HI> &s;hut vp in the Tower.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This hap had <HI>Henry,</HI> who when he was borne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Henry was borne the greate&s;t of Chri&s;tian Kings.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of Chri&s;tian Kings the greate&s;t then aliue,</L>
<L>Now he the Crowne full forty yeeres had worne,</L>
<L>Doth all his Regall Soueraignety &s;uruiue;</L>
<L>Of all men liuing and the mo&s;t forlorne,</L>
<L>So &s;trange a thing can de&s;tiny contriue:</L>
<L>So many &s;undry mi&s;eries as he,</L>
<L>No King before, had euer liu'd to &s;ee.</L>
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<LG>
<L>To heare all this Queene <HI>Margarite</HI> mu&s;t end<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Yet &s;adly to her fathers Court confin'de,</L>
<L>And now King <HI>Edward</HI> held him&s;elfe &s;ecure,</L>
<L>When things fell out &s;o fitly to his minde,</L>
<L>But when of re&s;t he did him&s;elfe a&s;&s;ure,</L>
<L>Vpon a &s;uddaine ro&s;e &s;o rough a wind,</L>
<L>In his &s;trong hand, which &s;hooke his Scepter mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Then all the &s;tormes that ere had blowne before</L>
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<LG>
<L>For then in minde to league him&s;elfe with <HI>Fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The pollicie of King Ed|ward.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which he perceiu'd would be the &s;ure&s;t way,</L>
<L>His que&s;tiond Tytle highly to aduance:</L>
<L>And at his need &s;hould &s;erue him for a kay,</L>
<L><PB N="149" REF="82"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o open him their policies; vvho&s;e chance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">as then in ca&s;ting, and the next to play,</L>
<L>For <HI>Margarite</HI> &s;till the <HI>French</HI> King <HI>Lewis</HI> pre&s;t,</L>
<L>For &s;econd aydes, nor would &s;he let him re&s;t,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Wherefore he &s;ends a marri'ge to entreat,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith beautious <HI>Bona</HI> (with who&s;e rich report,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ame was oppre&s;t with, and a taske too great)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>French</HI> Queenes &s;i&s;ter, and with her in Court,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwick &s;ent into France to intreat for a marriage betwixt King Edward and Bona the French Queens &s;i&s;ter. The Dutch|e&s;&s;e of Bed|ford after Iohn her hus|bands decea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> was w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dded<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&punc; Sir Richard Wooquile. Knight, who&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> daughter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> Lady was.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arwicke</HI> the man cho&s;e foorth to worke the feat,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> is &s;ent thither in &s;uch &s;umptuous &s;ort,</L>
<L>And in &s;hort time &s;o well his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e plyes,</L>
<L>That &s;he was like to proue an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> prize,</L>
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<LG>
<L>In the meane while this youthful King by chance</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">omming to <HI>Grafton</HI> where the Dutche&s;&s;e lay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen &s;til'd of <HI>Bedford;</HI> his eye haps to glance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> her bright Daughter the faire Widdow <HI>Gray,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&s;e beauties did his &s;en&s;es &s;o intrance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;tole his heart &s;o &s;uddainly away,</L>
<L>That mu&s;t he lo&s;e his Crowne, comeweale, come woe,</L>
<L>She mu&s;t be his, though all the world &s;ay no,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Her lookes like <HI>Lethe</HI> make him to forget,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on what bu&s;ine&s;&s;e he had <HI>Warwicke</HI> &s;ent,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> this Lady he his loue &s;o &s;et,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">at &s;hould his Crowne from off his head be rent,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">his rebellious people ri&s;e, to let,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s choy&s;e of his, they &s;hould it not preuent,</L>
<L>For tho&s;e pure eyes his bo&s;ome that had pierc'd,</L>
<L>Had writ alaw there, not to be reuer&s;'d,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="150" REF="83">
<L>What le&s;&s;e amends this Lady can I make,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Her husband &s;lain at Saint Albans on the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> part.</NOTE></L>
<L>For her deere husband in my quarrell &s;laine;</L>
<L>Then lawfull marri'ge which for iu&s;tice &s;ake,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t performe (quoth hee) le&s;t &s;he complaine,</L>
<L>For a iu&s;t Prince, &s;o me the world &s;hall take:</L>
<L>Soothing him&s;elfe vp in this amorous vaine,</L>
<L>With his affections in this &s;ort doth play,</L>
<L>Till he a Queene made the faire Lady <HI>Gray.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Act of <HI>Edwards</HI> com'n to <HI>Warwicks</HI> eare,</L>
<L>And that the &s;equell &s;how'd it to be true,</L>
<L>In his &s;terne eyes, it eas'ly might appeare,</L>
<L>His heart too great for his &s;trait bo&s;ome grew,</L>
<L>He his Commi&s;sion doth in piece-meale <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eare,</L>
<L>Breakes the broad Seale, and on the ground it th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And prayes ble&s;t heau'n may cur&s;e him if that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>For this di&s;grace reuenged would not be,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Haue I (quoth hee) &s;o lifted thee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>That to thy greatue&s;&s;e I the &s;corne am growne,</L>
<L>Haue I for thee aduentur'd beene &s;o oft&punc;</L>
<L>In this long Warre, as to the world is knowne,</L>
<L>And now by thee thus ba&s;ely am I &s;coft,</L>
<L>By this di&s;grace vpon me thou ha&s;t throwne:</L>
<L>If the&s;e thy wrongs vnpuni&s;h'd &s;lightly pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Hold <HI>Warwicke</HI> ba&s;e, and falne from what he was,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Know tw'as the <HI>Nevills</HI> forthy Title &s;tood,</L>
<L>El&s;e long e'r this, layd lower then the ground,</L>
<L>And in thy cau&s;e my Father &s;hed his blood,</L>
<L>None of our hou&s;e, for thee, but beares a wound,</L>
<L><PB N="151" REF="83">And now at la&s;t to recompence this good,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> for me this Guerdon ha&s;t thou <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ound;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> proud head, this h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;hal pluck thy crown,</L>
<L>Or if thou &s;tand then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Warwick</HI> down.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Yet he to <HI>England</HI> peaceably repaires,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwicke deeply di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">|bles his di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE></L>
<L>And with a &s;mooth browe &s;mother<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> his intent,</L>
<L>And to the King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the <HI>French</HI> affaires,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> what in Court had pa&s;t there &s;ince he went:</L>
<L>His &s;pleene he for a fitter &s;ea&s;on &s;pares,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> he the &s;ame more liberally might vent:</L>
<L>Calme was his countenance, and his language faire</L>
<L>But in his bre&s;t a deepe revenge he bare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>MEane while Queene <HI>Margarit</HI> (a poore exile heares,)</L>
<L>How things in <HI>England</HI> (in her ab&s;ence) went,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> halfe bur&s;t heart, which but a little cheeres:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> from her head &s;he felt the Crowne was rent,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et though fare off a little glimp&s;e appeares,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;eeming hope&punc; and though it fain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly lent,</L>
<L>It might hau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aid had not the F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">es &s;aid no,</L>
<L>The&s;e &s;tormes at home, might her &s;ome profit blow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> heares how <HI>Warwicke</HI> cunningly had wrought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Duke of <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">George &s;e|cond brother to King Ed|ward, and by him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Duke of Cla|rence.</NOTE> <HI>Clarence</HI> from his brothers &s;ide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> that braue Youth at <HI>Callice</HI> hauing caught,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> elde&s;t daughter had to him affide,</L>
<L><PB N="152" REF="84">How to rebell, the <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Warwicke by his Agents had &s;tirred vp this rebellion in the North, he him&s;elfe be|ing at Calli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> it might &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> not to be done by him, they had to their Cap|taines, Henry Fitz-Hugh Henry Neuil and Sir Iohn Coniers.</NOTE> Northerne men were brou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And who by <HI>Warwicke</HI> poynted was their guide&punc;</L>
<L>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> on the <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">The Ear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e of Penbroke and h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> bro|ther Richard Herbert ouer|throwne at Banbury field</NOTE> <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h</HI> he had a mighty hand,</L>
<L>By <HI>Edward</HI> rais'd tho&s;e rebels to with&s;tand,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of new <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">The&s;e R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ls had to their Captain one whom they termed Robin of Rid&s; dale.</NOTE> Rebellions at <HI>Northampton</HI> rais'd,</L>
<L>And to de&s;pight the King, what they had done,</L>
<L>How they at <HI>Grafton</HI> the Earle <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Earle Riuers was Father to the Lady Gray, then Queene of England.</NOTE> <HI>Riuers</HI> &s;eas'd,</L>
<L>And Sir Iohn <HI>Wooduile</HI> his mo&s;t hopefull Sonne,</L>
<L>Who with their heads could hardly be appeas&punc;d,</L>
<L>And of the fame by pui&s;&s;ant <HI>Warwicke</HI> wonne:</L>
<L>Who hauing taken <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">The Earle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aketh the King pri&s;oner at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lney in Warwicke&s;hir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, entring open this campe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ght.</NOTE> <HI>Edward</HI> in his Tent,</L>
<L>His King his pri&s;oner into <HI>York<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;ent.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then heares againe how <HI>Edward</HI> had e&s;capt&punc;</L>
<L>And by his friends a greater power had got,</L>
<L>How he the men of <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">They had to their Captaine Robert W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lls, &s;onn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to the Lord W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lles, T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> field.</NOTE> <HI>Lincolne&s;hire</HI> intrapt,</L>
<L>Who neere to <HI>Stamford</HI> pay'd a bloody &s;hot,</L>
<L>And when the Earle his cour&s;e for <HI>Callice</HI> &s;hapt,</L>
<L>When <HI>England</HI> la&s;tly grew for him to hot,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">The Lord Vaucleere a Ga&s;coyne borne.</NOTE> <HI>Vaucleere</HI> who there his Deputy he put,</L>
<L>The Ports again&s;t his late grand Captaine &s;hut.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="153" REF="84">
<L>La&s;tly, &s;hee heares that he at <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">A knowne Port Towne of Normandy</NOTE> <HI>Deepe</HI> ariues&punc;</L>
<L>And lately com'n to <NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">A Towne where the French King lay.</NOTE> <HI>Amboyes</HI> to the Court,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ereas King <HI>Lewis</HI> to his vtmo&s;t &s;triues,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o entertaine him in mo&s;t Princely &s;ort:</L>
<L>When the wi&s;e Queene her bu&s;ine&s;&s;e &s;o contriues,</L>
<L>That &s;he comes thither, &s;mall what though her port,</L>
<L>Yet brings along the &s;weet yong Prince her &s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>To proue what good with <HI>Warwick</HI> might be done</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wen both in <NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> Court, and pre&s;ence of the King,</L>
<L>Their due re&s;pect to both of them that gaue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> will'd them in &s;o pertinent a thing,</L>
<L>That they the like &s;hould of each other haue&punc;</L>
<L>The teares began from both their eyes to &s;pring,</L>
<L>That each from other Pitty &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'d to craue,</L>
<L>In gracefull manner when the grieued Queene,</L>
<L>Thus to that great Earle, gently breaths her &s;pleene.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Warwicke,</HI> &s;aith &s;hee, how mercile&s;&s;e a Foe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> speech to the Earle in the &s;oure follow|ing Stanzaes&punc;</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t thou beene &s;till to my poore child and mee,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat villaine <HI>Yorke</HI> which ha&s;t aduanced &s;o,</L>
<L>Which neuer could haue ri&s;en but for thee,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat Valour thou on <HI>Edward</HI> did&s;t be&s;tow,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> had&s;t thou &s;how'd for him, thou here do&s;t &s;ee,</L>
<L>Our Damaske Ro&s;es had adorn'd thy Cre&s;t,</L>
<L>And with their wreathes thy ragged Staues bene dre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t at Saine <HI>Albans,</HI> at <HI>Northampto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> then,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> fatall <HI>Towt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> that mo&s;t fearefull fight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> many, nay, what multitudes of men,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> fierce <HI>Warwicke</HI> &s;laine and put to flight;</L>
<L><PB N="154" REF="85">O if thy Sword that euer &s;tood for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en,</L>
<L>Had but beene drawne for <HI>Henry</HI> and his right,</L>
<L>He &s;hould haue built thee Trophyes euery wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Wrought with our Crowne&punc; &s;upported by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What glory had it wonne the <HI>Neuils</HI> name,</L>
<L>To haue vpheld the right &s;ucceeding race,</L>
<L>Of that fift <HI>Henry,</HI> hee that was of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ame,</L>
<L>The onely Mineon; whom thou now do&s;t trace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Barron <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ul|co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> bringe was brother to Richard Ne|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ll Earle of Salsbury, and Richard Earl of Warwicke, &amp; Iohn Mar|que&s;&s;e Moun|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">acute were Sonnes to the &s;ayd Earle.</NOTE></L>
<L>But <HI>Salsbury</HI> the fir&s;t again&s;t vs came&punc;</L>
<L>Then <HI>Falconbridge,</HI> and <HI>Mount<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cute,</HI> &ocirc; ba&s;e,</L>
<L>To aduance a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tor to his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oueraigne thus,</L>
<L>But to our Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ne your name is ominous,</L>
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<LG>
<L>How many a braue Peere thy too-neere Allies&punc;</L>
<L>(Who&s;e lo&s;&s;e the Babe that's yet vnborne &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</L>
<L>Haue&punc;made them&s;elues a willing Sacrifice;</L>
<L>In our iu&s;t quarrell who it rightly knevv,</L>
<L>Who&s;e blood gainst <HI>Yorke</HI> and his adherents cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es</L>
<L>(Whom many a &s;ad cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e euer &s;hall pur&s;ue:)</L>
<L>O <HI>Warwicke&punc; Warwicke,</HI> expiat this gilt,</L>
<L>By &s;hedding their<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for whom our blood was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
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<LG>
<L>When in like language, this great Earle agai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Regreets the Queene, and vvoes her to forbeare,</L>
<L>Of former gree<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e one thought to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ntertaine&punc;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwickes reply in the two following Stanzaes.</NOTE></L>
<L>Things are not now quoth he, as once they were,</L>
<L>To talke of the&s;e pa&s;t helpe, it is in vaine,</L>
<L>What though it ea&s;e your heart; &amp; plea&s;e your ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>This is not it&punc; no&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t mu&s;t be our Swords,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t right our vvrongs (deare Lady) not our w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="155" REF="85">
<L>Madam (quoth he) by this my vexed heart,</L>
<L>On <HI>Edwards</HI> head, which oft hath wi&s;h'd the Crown</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t but Queene <HI>Margarit</HI> cleaue to <HI>VVarwicks</HI> part,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">his hand that heau'd him vp &s;hall hew him downe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd if from <HI>Henry, Richard Neuill</HI> &s;tart,</L>
<L>Vpon my hou&s;e let Heauen for euer frowne,</L>
<L>Of backe the Crown to this yong Prince ile bring,</L>
<L>Or not be <HI>VVarwicke</HI> if he be not King,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When they accord, Prince <HI>Edward</HI> &s;hould affye,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prince Ed|ward affyed to Anne the Earle of War+wicks daugh|ter.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Anne</HI> the Earles Daughter, to confirme it more,</L>
<L>By Sacrament them&s;elues they &s;trictly tye,</L>
<L>By Armes againe King <HI>Henry</HI> to re&s;tore,</L>
<L>Or in the Quarrell they would liue and dye,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">pti&s;ing likewi&s;e in the oath they &s;wore,</L>
<L>That th'Earle and <HI>Clarence</HI> &s;hould Protectors be,</L>
<L>When they King <HI>Henry</HI> and the Prince &s;hould free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;oone great <HI>VVarwicke</HI> into <HI>England</HI> &s;ends,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwicke makes prepa|ration for a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">w Warre.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o warne his friends that they for Warre prepare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">g <HI>Henrys</HI> Title, and to them commends,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">at they &s;hould take his cau&s;e into their care,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow is the time that he mu&s;t try his friends,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen he him&s;elfe gain&s;t <HI>Edward</HI> mu&s;t declare;</L>
<L>And vvhen much &s;trife among&s;t the co~mons ro&s;e,</L>
<L>Whom they &s;hould ayde, and whom they &s;hould oppo&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Furni&s;h'd with all things well be fitting Warre,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> great King <HI>Lewis</HI> to Queene <HI>Margarite</HI> lent,</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arwicke</HI> (vvho&s;e name Fame &s;ounded had &s;o far,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">t men with Wonder view'd him as he went,</L>
<L><PB N="156" REF="86">Of all men liuing the mo&s;t popular,)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwicke &s;o famous that he was &s;eene with wonder.</NOTE></L>
<L>Thought eu'ry houre to be but idely &s;pent,</L>
<L>On <HI>Englands</HI> troubled earth vntill he were,</L>
<L>To view the troupes attending for him there.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in his Army tooke with him along,</L>
<L><HI>Oxford,</HI> and <HI>Penbrooke,</HI> who had beene de&s;troy'd&punc;</L>
<L>By <HI>Edward,</HI> &s;worne now to reuenge their wrong,</L>
<L>By <HI>Burgoyne</HI> the <HI>French</HI> Admirall conuoy'd,</L>
<L>At who&s;e A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iue the &s;hores with people throng:</L>
<L>At &s;ight of <HI>Warwicke,</HI> and &s;o ouerioy'd,</L>
<L>That eu'ry one, a <HI>VVarwicke, VVarwicke</HI> cryes,</L>
<L>Well may the <HI>Red-Ro&s;e</HI> by great <HI>VVarwicke</HI> ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like &s;ome black cloud, which houering lately hu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Thru&s;t on at la&s;t by th'windes impetuouspower,</L>
<L>The groues and fields, comes raging in among,</L>
<L>As though both foules and flockes it would deuoure<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Simile.</NOTE></L>
<L>That tho&s;e abroad make to the &s;helters &s;trong,</L>
<L>To &s;aue them&s;elues from the outragious &s;hower;</L>
<L>Sofly the <HI>Yorki&s;ts</HI> before <HI>VVarwicks</HI> Drummes,</L>
<L>Like a &s;terne Tempe&s;t roaring as he comes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Edward</HI> late who wore the co&s;tly Crowne,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe &s;o high and on his Fortunes bore,</L>
<L>Then heard him&s;elfe in euery place cry'd downe,</L>
<L>And made much le&s;&s;e, then he was great before,</L>
<L>Nor dares he tru&s;t him&s;elfe in any Towne,</L>
<L>For in the In-lands as along the &s;hore,</L>
<L>Their Proclamations him a Traytor make,</L>
<L>And each man charg'd again&s;t him Armes to tak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="157" REF="86">
<L>For which the <HI>VVa&s;hes</HI> he is forc'd to wade,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwick dri|ueth King Edward out of the King|dome.</NOTE></L>
<L>And in much perill la&s;tly gets to <HI>Lin,</HI></L>
<L>To &s;aue him&s;elfe &s;uch &s;hift King <HI>Edward</HI> made,</L>
<L>For in more danger he had neuer bin,)</L>
<L>Where finding three Dutch Hulkes which lay for trade,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he great'&s;t of them he hires to take him in;</L>
<L><HI>Richard</HI> his brother, <HI>Ha&s;tings</HI> his true friend,</L>
<L>Scar&s;e worth one &s;word their per&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to defend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>VVarwicke</HI> now the only Prince of power,</L>
<L><HI>Edward</HI> the fourth out of the Kingdome fled,</L>
<L>Commands him&s;elfe free entrance to the Tower,</L>
<L>And &s;ets th'Imperiall wreath on <HI>Henrys</HI> head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwicke takes Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Henry the T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>Brings him through <HI>London</HI> to the Bi&s;hops bower,</L>
<L>By the applanding people followed,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill re-ecchoing &s;houts re&s;ounds from far,</L>
<L>A <HI>VVarwicke, VVarwicke,</HI> long liue <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And pre&s;ently a Parliament they call,<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Edward and his adhe|rents ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|ted by act of Parliament.</NOTE></L>
<L>In which they attaint King <HI>Edward</HI> in his blood,</L>
<L>The lands and goods made forf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">itures of all,</L>
<L>That in this quarrell, with proud <HI>Yorke</HI> had&punc; &s;tood,</L>
<L>Their friends in their old honours they in&s;tall,</L>
<L>Which they had lo&s;t now by an act made good,</L>
<L>Intayle the Crovvne, on <HI>Henry</HI> and his heyres,</L>
<L>The next on <HI>Clarence</HI> &s;hould they fayle in theirs,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t <HI>VVarwicke</HI> thus King <HI>Henry</HI> doth aduance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee but the Fate &s;till following the &s;ad Queene,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uch Stormes and Tempe&s;ts in that &s;ea&s;on chance,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">efore that time as &s;eldome had bin &s;eene,</L>
<L><PB N="158" REF="87">That twice from Sea &s;he was forc'd back to <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>As angry Heauen had put it &s;elfe betvvene</L>
<L>Her and her loyes, and would a witne&s;&s;e be,</L>
<L>That naugh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> but &s;orrow, this &s;ad Queene mu&s;t &s;ee</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This might haue lent her comfort yet at la&s;t,</L>
<L>So many troubles hauing vndergone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queene Mar|garite neuer &s;ees any thing that might giue her comfort.</NOTE></L>
<L>And hauing through &s;o many perils pa&s;t,</L>
<L>T'haue &s;eene her husband &s;etled on his Throne,</L>
<L>Yet &s;till the skies with clowds are ouerca&s;t,</L>
<L>Well might &s;hee heare, but of this &s;ees &s;he none,</L>
<L>Which from far off, as flying newes doth greet her</L>
<L>Naught but mi&s;chance, when &s;he comes in, mu&s;t meet her,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But all this while King <HI>Edward</HI> not di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ay'd,</L>
<L>His brother <HI>Charles</HI> of <HI>Burgondy</HI> &s;o plyes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of Burgondy bro|ther in Law to King Ed|ward, &s;o was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> King Henry by his Grand mother being the daughter of Iohn of Gaunt.</NOTE></L>
<L>That though the &s;ubtill Duke on both &s;ide play'd,</L>
<L><HI>Edward</HI> and <HI>Henry</HI> both his neere Allies;</L>
<L>Vpon the Duke King <HI>Edward</HI> yet &s;o layd,</L>
<L>(Hauing his &s;i&s;ters furtherance, who was wi&s;e,)</L>
<L>That Vnderhand&punc; his &s;trength he &s;ore&s;tores,</L>
<L>As that he dar'd t'attempt the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;hores.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With foureteene Ships from th'<HI>Ea&s;terlings</HI> being hir'd,</L>
<L>And foure <HI>Burgonians</HI> excellently man'd,</L>
<L>After &s;ome time with &s;tormes and tempe&s;ts tyr'd,</L>
<L>He neere the mouth of <HI>Humber</HI> haps to land,</L>
<L>Where though the Beacons at his &s;ight were fir'd,</L>
<L>Yet few or none his entrance doe with&s;tand,</L>
<L>For that his friends had giuen it out before,</L>
<L>He &s;ought the Dukedome, and he would no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="159" REF="87">
<L>Vpon his march when forward as he came,</L>
<L>Re&s;olu'd to trye the very wor&s;t of Warre,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Torke yeelded vp to King Edward.</NOTE></L>
<L>He Summons <HI>Yorke</HI> (where of he bare the name)</L>
<L>To him her Duke, her Gates that doth vnbarre,</L>
<L>And comming next to Rocke-rear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Nottingham,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mountgomery, Borough, Harrington</HI> and <HI>Par,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Succours<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ing into Ed+ward.</NOTE></L>
<L>Bring him their power&punc; at <HI>Lece&s;ter</HI> againe,</L>
<L>Three thou&s;and came, to <HI>Ha&s;tings</HI> that retaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To <HI>Couentry</HI> and keeping on his way,</L>
<L>(Sets downe his Army in the Cities &s;ight,)<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Edward &s;ets downe h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Army be&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Couentry, da+ring Warwicke to the field.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whereas that time the Earle of <HI>Warwicke</HI> lay,</L>
<L>To whom he &s;ends to dare him out to fight,</L>
<L>Which &s;till the Earle deferrs from day to day,</L>
<L>Perceiuing well, that all things went not right,</L>
<L>For with his &s;uccours <HI>Clarence</HI> came not in,</L>
<L>Whom to &s;u&s;pect he greatly doth beginne,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And not in vaine, for that di&s;loyall Lord,</L>
<L>Taking tho&s;e forces, he had leuied, leaues</L>
<L>The Earle, and with his Brother doth accord,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Clarence <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> his father in Law the Earle of Warwicke.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which of all hope braue <HI>VVarwicke</HI> &s;o bere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat now King <HI>Edward</HI> hopes to be re&s;tor'd,</L>
<L>Which then too late the credulous Earle perceiues,</L>
<L><HI>Edward</HI> towards <HI>London</HI> with an Army &s;ped,</L>
<L>To take the Crown once more from <HI>Henrys</HI> head.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Queene in <HI>France</HI> this woful newes that heard</L>
<L>How farre through <HI>England&punc; Edward</HI> thus had pa&s;t;</L>
<L>As how by <HI>Glarence</HI> (whom &s;he euer fear'd,)</L>
<L><HI>VVarwicke</HI> behind-hand mightily was ca&s;t&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="160" REF="88">This mo&s;t vndaunted Queene her hopes yet cheer'd,</L>
<L>By tho&s;e great perills &s;he had lately pa&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>And from King <HI>Lewis</HI> doth three thou&s;and pre&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>To ayde her friends in <HI>England</HI> in di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t &s;he is bu&s;ie gathering vp tho&s;e aydes,</L>
<L>(In &s;o &s;hort time) as <HI>France</HI> could her afford,</L>
<L>Couragious <HI>VVarwicke</HI> ba&s;ely thus betray'd,</L>
<L>By <HI>Clarence</HI> lewdly fal&s;ifying his word,</L>
<L>The mo&s;t couragious Earle no whit di&s;mayd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwicke followes the King towards London.</NOTE></L>
<L>But tru&s;ting &s;till to his &s;ucce&s;&s;efull Svvord,</L>
<L>Follovves the King towards <HI>London</HI> march'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> be+fore,</L>
<L>Each day his Power increa&s;ing more and more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But <HI>Edward</HI> by the <HI>Londoners</HI> let in,</L>
<L>Who in their Gates his Army tooke to guard,</L>
<L><HI>VVarwicke</HI> this while that trifling had not bin,</L>
<L>But with a povver &s;ufficiently prepar'd,</L>
<L>T'approach the City brauely doth begin,</L>
<L>To dare the King, vvho lately him had dar'd,</L>
<L>Who then from <HI>London</HI> his Arm'd forces leades,<NOTE PLACE="marg">King Edward <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ts <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> of London <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Towards where his march ambitious <HI>VVarwicke</HI> tread<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From <HI>London</HI> this, that from Saint <HI>Albans</HI> &s;et,</L>
<L>The&s;e two gra~d &s;ouldiers &s;houl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ring for the Crown,</L>
<L>They in the mid-way are at <HI>Barnet</HI> met,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Armies meet at Bar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where then they &s;et their pui&s;&s;ant Armies downe,</L>
<L><HI>VVarwicke</HI> as neere as euer hee could get,</L>
<L>But <HI>Edward</HI> onely taketh vp the Towne;</L>
<L>Betwixt who&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ents a Heath call'd <HI>Gladmore</HI> lyes,</L>
<L>Where they prepare to act this bloody prize.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="161" REF="88">
<L>With Drums and Trumpets they awake the day,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uffled in mi&s;ts her lowring &s;elfe that &s;howes,</L>
<L>To &s;top their madne&s;&s;e doing all it may,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">howing what blood her light was like to lo&s;e:</L>
<L>But hope of &s;laughter beares &s;o great a&s;way,</L>
<L>That with the Sunne their rage &s;till higher growes,</L>
<L>Full were their hands of death, &s;o freely dealt,</L>
<L>That the mo&s;t mortal wounds, the lea&s;t were felt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The aduer&s;e En&s;ignes to each other waue,</L>
<L>(As t'were) to call them forward to the field,</L>
<L>The King the Earle, The Earle the King doth braue,</L>
<L>Nor cares he for the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Armes of England.</NOTE> Leopards in his &s;hield,</L>
<L>And whil&s;t one friend another &s;triues to &s;aue,</L>
<L>He's &s;laine him&s;elfe if not enforc'd to yeeld,</L>
<L>In either Army there is not one eye,</L>
<L>But is &s;pectator of &s;ome Tragedy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho&s;e wrongs the King had from the Earle re|ceiu'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">pul&s;t the Kingdome onely by his power,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">en to the height his powerfull hand vp heau'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or full'reuenge in this vnhappy houre,</L>
<L>And by the King the Earle his hopes bereau'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">heltred by him from many a bloody &s;hower,</L>
<L>Spurres vp reuenge, and with that violent rage,</L>
<L>That &s;car&s;ely blood their fury could a&s;&s;wage.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>VVarwicke</HI> who &s;ees his Souldiers had the wor&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warwickes high <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>And at a neere point to be put to flight,</L>
<L>Throwing him&s;elfe from o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Armed Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>Thru&s;ts in on foote into the deadlie&s;t fight,</L>
<L><PB N="162" REF="89"><HI>Edward</HI> againe with an vnu&s;uall force,</L>
<L>In his owne per&s;on in the Armies &s;ight,</L>
<L>Puts for the Garland, which if now he lo&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Warwicke</HI> his Crowne at plea&s;ure would di&s;po&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To <HI>Edwards</HI> &s;ide, but fortune doth encline,</L>
<L><HI>Warwickes</HI> high valour then was but in vaine;</L>
<L>His noble &s;oule there de&s;tin'd to re&s;igne,</L>
<L>Braue <HI>Mountacute</HI> his valiant Brother &s;laine;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Earle of Warwicke &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is brother Marque&s;&s;e Mountacute <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aine.</NOTE></L>
<L>Here <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> (with them that did combine)</L>
<L>Forced to flye, and <HI>Exce&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> is faine,</L>
<L>To &s;aue him&s;elfe by Sanctuary; this day</L>
<L><HI>Edward's</HI> victorious, and beares all away,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THis fatall field vnluckily thus lo&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat very day <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat Warwick <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">as &s;laine the Queene <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ands.</NOTE></L>
<L>That very day &s;o De&s;tiny contriues,</L>
<L>That the grieu'd Queene at Sea turmoyl'd and to&s;t,</L>
<L>Neere twenty dayes, in <HI>Weymouth</HI> Road ariues,</L>
<L>Where &s;carcely landed, but Po&s;t after Po&s;t,</L>
<L>Brings her this ill newes, vvhich &s;o farre depriues&punc;</L>
<L>Her of all comfort, that &s;hee cur&s;t and band,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e plaguy winds that &s;uffered her to land:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wert thou (quoth &s;hee) &s;o fortunate in fight,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Queenes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eech hea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ng of War|wicks defeat <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the three <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ollowing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">anzaes.</NOTE></L>
<L>O noble <HI>VVarwicke,</HI> when thou wert our foe,</L>
<L>And now thou &s;tood'&s;t in our indoubted right,</L>
<L>And &s;hould'&s;t for <HI>Henry</HI> thy high valour &s;how,</L>
<L>Thus to be &s;laine; what power in our de&s;pight,</L>
<L>Watcheth from heau'n vpon our ouerthrow?</L>
<L>Th'vnlucky Starres haue certainly made lawes&punc;</L>
<L>To marke for death the fauourers of our cau&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="163" REF="89">
<L>O vvhat infernall brought that <HI>Edward</HI> backe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> late expel'd by <HI>VVarwickes</HI> powerfull hand,</L>
<L>Was there no way his rotten Ship to wracke&punc;</L>
<L>Was there no Rock? was there no &s;wallowing &s;and?</L>
<L>And too, the wretched Subiects were &s;o &s;lacke,</L>
<L>To &s;uffer him &s;o traiterou&s;ly to land;</L>
<L>Surely whole heau'n again&s;t vs haue con&s;pir'd,</L>
<L>Or in our troubles they had el&s;e beene tyr'd,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Was I for this &s;o long detayn'd in <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>From ragefull Tempe&s;ts, and re&s;eru'd till now,</L>
<L>That I &s;hould land, to meete with this mi&s;chance:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t mu&s;t needes be the Powers haue made a vowe,</L>
<L>Vp to that height my &s;orrowes to aduance,</L>
<L>That before mine all mi&s;eries &s;hall bowe:</L>
<L>That all the &s;orrow mortalls can &s;urmi&s;e,</L>
<L>Shall fall far &s;hort o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Margarites</HI> mi&s;eries.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e vvords &s;car&s;e &s;poke, her halfe-&s;laine heart to ea&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t the lea&s;t breath of comfort to preuent,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he next ill newes, in ru&s;hing after the&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">as that King <HI>Henry</HI> to the Tower was &s;ent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cau&s;e of new &s;orrow to the Queene.</NOTE></L>
<L>As though it &s;elfe (euen) De&s;tiny &s;hould plea&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> wretched <HI>Margarites</HI> heauy di&s;content,)</L>
<L>Thrunging &s;o thick as like them&s;elues to &s;mother,</L>
<L>Or as one ranne to ouertake another,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho&s;e &s;cattered Troopes from <HI>Barnet</HI> that e&s;cap'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The remnant of the Ar|my which e&s;caped a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Barnet re|&s;ort to the Queene.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">earing the Queene thus landed with her power,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ugh much di&s;may'd with what had lately hapt,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Gore&punc; drown'd <HI>Gladmore</HI> in that bloody &s;hower</L>
<L><PB N="164" REF="90">And fearing by the foe to be entrapt:</L>
<L>Through vntrod grounds&punc; in many a tedious how<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Flocke to her dayly, till that by her ayde,</L>
<L>Equall with <HI>Edwards</HI> they her Army made,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> and <HI>Devon&s;hire</HI> came in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene encouraged by her friends</NOTE></L>
<L>To the &s;ad Queene, and bad her not di&s;paire,</L>
<L>Though they of late infortunate had bin,</L>
<L>Yet there vvas helpe that Ruine to repaire,</L>
<L>What they had lo&s;t they hop'd againe to win,</L>
<L>And that the way lay open yet, and faire,</L>
<L>For that the We&s;t would wholly with her ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides from <HI>VValles</HI> a&s;&s;ur'd her of Supplyes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And euery day &s;till adding to their Force,</L>
<L>As on their Ho&s;t tow'rds <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> they guide,</L>
<L>When <HI>Edward</HI> finding their intended cour&s;e,</L>
<L>Againe for Battell &s;trongly doth prouide,</L>
<L>Both Armies they &s;upply vvith Foote and Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>By both their friends, as they affect the &s;ide,</L>
<L>And in their march at <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">wkesbury</HI> they met,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Armies meete at Tukesbury.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where they in Order their Battalions &s;et.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ill was her choy&s;e of this vneuen ground,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A place ill <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;en on the Queenes part</NOTE></L>
<L>Luckle&s;&s;e the place, vnlucky vvas the howre,</L>
<L>The Heauens vpon her &s;o extreamely frownd,</L>
<L>As on her head their plagues at once to powre;</L>
<L>As in a Deluge here her hopes were drown'd,</L>
<L>Here &s;ees &s;he death her faithfull friends deuoure,</L>
<L>The earth is fil'd with grones, the aire with cry<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Horrour on each &s;ide doth enclo&s;e her eyes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="165" REF="90">
<L>Neuer did death &s;o terribly appeare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e fir&s;t their Armes the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> learnt to weeld,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho would &s;ee &s;laughter, might behold it heere;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the true &s;hape vpon this fatall field,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> vaine was valour, and in vaine was feare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A bloody battell.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> vaine to fight, in vaine it was to yeeld,</L>
<L>In vayne to flye; for de&s;tiny di&s;cu&s;t,</L>
<L>By their owne hands, or others, dye they mu&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here her deare <HI>Deuon&s;hire</HI> noble <HI>Courtney</HI> dyde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er faithfull friend great <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> here fell,</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lnes, Leukn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r, Hamden, Whittingham</HI> be&s;ide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Army ouer|throwne.</NOTE></L>
<L>O <HI>Margarite,</HI> who thy mi&s;eries can tell,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">harp were tho&s;e &s;words which made their wounds &s;o, wide</L>
<L>Who&s;e blood the &s;oy<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e did with abundance &s;well,</L>
<L>Other her friends into the Towne that fled,</L>
<L>Taken, no better then the former &s;ped.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But the amazing mi&s;ery of all,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> heauen the great'&s;t vntill the la&s;t had kept.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> it would &s;ay, that after this none &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> mortall eyes be worthy to be wept,</L>
<L>The Prince her &s;onne who &s;ees his friends thus fall,</L>
<L>And on each &s;ide their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arka&s;es lye heapt,</L>
<L>Making away in this mo&s;t piteous plight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prince Ed+ward taken pri&s;oner. Vpon the Kings Pro|clamation of a great re|ward to him that could bring him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">s taken pri&s;oner in his tardy flight,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And forth by <HI>Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fts&punc;</HI> before the con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> or brought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is Proclamation cleering euery doubt&punc;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">he youths &s;afety&punc; liuing where he caught,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> a reward to him &s;hould bring him out,</L>
<L><PB N="165" REF="91">But when they once had found him who~ they &s;oug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"><NOTE PLACE="marg">As al&s;o of the Princes &s;afety, Sir Richard Cro&s;ts is won to di&s;couer his pri&s;oners. Prince Ed|ward &s;tabd to death.</NOTE></L>
<L>Hearing his an&s;weres, Princely, wi&s;e, and &s;tout,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e bloody brothers, <HI>Ha&s;tings</HI> and the re&s;t,</L>
<L>Sheath'd their &s;harpe ponyards in his many br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Queene <HI>Margarite</HI> thus of mortalls mo&s;t forlo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Her &s;onne now &s;laine, her army ouerthrowne,</L>
<L>Left to the world, as fortunes only &s;corne,</L>
<L>And not one friend to whom to make her moane,</L>
<L>(To &s;o much wo was neuer woman borne)</L>
<L>This wretched Lady wandring all alone,</L>
<L>Gets to a homely Cell not farre away,</L>
<L>If po&s;sibly to hide her from the day.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queene Mar+garite gets into a poore Cell.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But wretched woman quickly there bewray'd,</L>
<L>She thence is taken and to Pri&s;on &s;ent,</L>
<L>Meanely attended, mi&s;erably array'd,</L>
<L>The people wondring at her as &s;he went,</L>
<L>Of whom the mo&s;t malicious her vpbray'd,</L>
<L>With good Duke <HI>Humphries</HI> death, her heart to rent</L>
<L>Whil&s;t her milde lookes, and Gracefull ge&s;ture drue&punc;</L>
<L>Many a &s;ad eye, her mi&s;eries to rue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Till by Duke <HI>Rayner</HI> Ran&s;omed at la&s;t,</L>
<L>Her tender Father, who a Prince but poore,</L>
<L>Borrow'd great Summes of <HI>Lewis,</HI> with much wa&s;t<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lewis of France.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which for he was not able to re&s;tore,</L>
<L><HI>Prouince</HI> and both the <HI>Cicils,</HI> to him pa&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Duke Rayner <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">th him|&s;elfe to ran|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> his Daughter.</NOTE></L>
<L>With fruitfull <HI>Naples</HI> which was all his &s;tore;</L>
<L>To bring her backe from earthly ioyes exil'd,</L>
<L>The vndon Father helpes the vndone Child.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="167" REF="91">
<L>And though enlarg'd ere &s;he could leane the land.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">king a long yeere of each &s;hort-liu'd houre,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e heares that by Duke <HI>Richards</HI> murthering hand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Earle of Glo&s;ter after Richard the third.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he King her husband &s;uffers in the Towre,</L>
<L>As though high heauen had layd a &s;trict command,</L>
<L>Vpon each &s;tarre, &s;ome plague on her to powre:</L>
<L>And vntill now that nothing could &s;uffice,</L>
<L>Nor giue a period to her mi&s;eries.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB N="165" REF="92">
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<PB N="167" REF="92">
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</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="168" REF="93">
<HEAD>NIMPHIDIA THE COVRT OF <HI>FAYRIE.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_OLde <HI>Chaucer</HI> doth of <HI>Topas</HI> tell,</L>
<L>Mad <HI>Rablais</HI> of <HI>Pantagruell,</HI></L>
<L>A latter third of <HI>Dow&s;abell,</HI></L>
<L>With &s;uch poore trifles playing:</L>
<L>Others the like haue laboured at</L>
<L>Some of this thing, and &s;ome of that,</L>
<L>And many of they know not what,</L>
<L>But that they mu&s;t be &s;aying,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Another &s;ort there be that will,</L>
<L>Be talking of the Fayries &s;till,</L>
<L>Nor neuer can they haue their fill,</L>
<L>As they were wedded to them;</L>
<L>No tales of them their thir&s;t can &s;lake,</L>
<L>So much delight in them they take,</L>
<L>And &s;ome &s;trange thing they faine would make,</L>
<L>Knew they the way to doe them,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then &s;ince no Mu&s;e hath bin &s;o bold,</L>
<L>Or of the Latter, or the old,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Elui&s;h &s;ecrets to vnfold,</L>
<L>Which ly from others reeding,</L>
<L><PB N="169" REF="93"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y actiue Mu&s;e to light &s;hall bring,</L>
<L>The court of that proud Fayry King,</L>
<L>And tell there of the Reuelling</L>
<L><HI>Ioue</HI> pro&s;per my proceeding,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thou <HI>Nimphidia</HI> gentle Fay,</L>
<L>Which meeting me vpon the way,</L>
<L>The&s;e &s;ecrets did&s;t to me bewray,</L>
<L>Which now I am in teiling:</L>
<L>My pretty light fanta&s;ticke mayde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">here inuoke thee to my ayde,</L>
<L>That I may &s;peake what thou ha&s;t &s;ayd,</L>
<L>In numbers &s;moothly &s;welling,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Pallace &s;tandeth in the ayre,</L>
<L>By Negromancy placed there,</L>
<L>That it no Tempe&s;ts needes to feare,</L>
<L>Which way &s;o ere it bloweth,</L>
<L>And &s;omewhat Southward tow'rd the Noone,</L>
<L>Whence lyes a way vp to the Moone,</L>
<L>And thence the <HI>Fayrie</HI> can as &s;oone,</L>
<L>Pa&s;&s;e to the earth below it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Walles of Spiders legges are made,</L>
<L>Well mortized and finely layd,</L>
<L>He was the ma&s;ter of his Trade,</L>
<L>It curiou&s;ly that builded:</L>
<L>The Windowes of the eyes of Cats,</L>
<L>And for the roofe, in&s;tead of Slats,</L>
<L>Is couer'd with the skinnes of Bats,</L>
<L>With Moone&s;hine that are guilded.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="170" REF="94">
<L>Hence <HI>Oberon</HI> him (port to make,</L>
<L>(Their re&s;t when weary mortalls take)</L>
<L>And none but onely <HI>Fayries</HI> wake,</L>
<L>De&s;cendeth for his plea&s;ure.</L>
<L>And <HI>Mab</HI> his merry Queene by night,</L>
<L>Be&s;trids young Folkes that lye vpright,</L>
<L>(In elder Times the <HI>Mare</HI> that height)</L>
<L>Which plagues them out of mea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hence Shaddowes, &s;eeming Idle &s;hapes,</L>
<L>Of little frisking Elues and Apes,</L>
<L>To Earth doe make their wanton skapes,</L>
<L>As hope of pa&s;time ha&s;ts them:</L>
<L>Which maydes thinkes on the Hearth they &s;ee,</L>
<L>When Fires well neere con&s;umed be,</L>
<L>Their dauncing Hayes by two and three,</L>
<L>Iu&s;t as their Fancy ca&s;ts them,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e make our Girles their &s;luttery rue,</L>
<L>By pinching them both blacke and blew,</L>
<L>And put a penny in their &s;hue,</L>
<L>The hou&s;e for cleanly &s;weeping:</L>
<L>And in their cour&s;es make that Round,</L>
<L>In Meadowes and in Mar&s;hes found,</L>
<L>Of them &s;o call'd the <HI>Fayrie</HI> ground,</L>
<L>Of which they haue the keeping.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e when a Child haps to be got,</L>
<L>Which after proues an Ideot,</L>
<L>When Folkes perceiue it thriueth not,</L>
<L>The fault therein to &s;mother,</L>
<L><PB N="171" REF="94"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome &s;illy doting brainele&s;&s;e Calfe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat vnder&s;tands things by the halfe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ay that the <HI>Fayrie</HI> left this Aulfe,</L>
<L>And tooke away the other.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But li&s;ten and I &s;hall you tell,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> chance in <HI>Fayrie</HI> that be fell,</L>
<L>Which certainely may plea&s;e you well,</L>
<L>In Loue and Armes delighting:</L>
<L>Of <HI>Oberon</HI> that iealous grew,</L>
<L>Of one of his owne <HI>Fayrie</HI> crue,</L>
<L>Too well (he fear'd) his Queene that knew,</L>
<L>His loue but ill requiting.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Pigwiggen</HI> was this <HI>Fayrie</HI> Knight,</L>
<L>One wondrous gracious in the &s;ight</L>
<L>Of faire Queene <HI>Mab,</HI> which day and night,</L>
<L>He amorou&s;ly ob&s;erued;</L>
<L>Which made King <HI>Oberon</HI> &s;u&s;pect,</L>
<L>His &s;eruice tooke too good effect,</L>
<L>His &s;aucine&s;&s;e and often checkt,</L>
<L>And could haue wi&s;ht him &s;tarued.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Pigwiggen</HI> gladly would commend,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome token to Queene <HI>Mab</HI> to &s;end,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f Sea, or Land, him ought could lend,</L>
<L>Were worthy of her wearing:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t length this Louer doth deui&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> bracelet made of Emmotts eyes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thing he thought that &s;hee would prize,</L>
<L>No whitt her &s;tate impayring.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="172" REF="95">
<L>And to the Queene a letter Writes,</L>
<L>Which he mo&s;t curiou&s;ly end<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es,</L>
<L>Con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ring her by all the rites,</L>
<L>Of loue, &s;he would be plea&s;ed,</L>
<L>To meete him her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ne Seruant, where</L>
<L>They might without &s;u&s;pect or feare,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues to one another cleare,</L>
<L>And haue their poore hearts ca&s;ed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At mid night the appointed hower,</L>
<L>And for the Queene a fiering Bower.</L>
<L>(Quoth he) is th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t faire Cow&s;lip flower,</L>
<L>On <HI>Hipcut</HI> hill that groweth,</L>
<L>In all your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">raynether's not a <HI>Fay,</HI></L>
<L>That euer went to gather May,</L>
<L>But &s;hee hath made it in her way,</L>
<L>The talle&s;t tuere that groweth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When by <HI>Tom Thum</HI> a <HI>Fayry</HI> Page,</L>
<L>He &s;ent it, and doth him engage,</L>
<L>By promi&s;e of a mighty wage,</L>
<L>It &s;ecretly to carry:</L>
<L>Which done the Queene her mayds doth call,</L>
<L>And bids them to be ready all,</L>
<L>Shee would goe &s;ee her Summer Hall,</L>
<L>She would no longer tarry,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her Chariot ready &s;traight is made,</L>
<L>Each thing therein is &s;itting layd,</L>
<L>That &s;he by nothing might be &s;tayd,</L>
<L>For naught mu&s;t her be letting,</L>
<L><PB N="173" REF="95">Foure nimble Gnats the Hor&s;es were,</L>
<L>Their Harna&s;&s;es of Co&s;&s;amere,</L>
<L>Flye <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ion her Chariottere,</L>
<L>Vp <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n the Coatch-boxe getting,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her Chariot of a Snayles fine &s;hell,</L>
<L>Which for the colours did excel:</L>
<L>The faire Queene <HI>Mab</HI> becomming well,</L>
<L>So liuely was the limming:</L>
<L>The feare the &s;oft wooll of a Bee;</L>
<L>The couer (gallantly to &s;ee)</L>
<L>The wing of a pyde butter-flee,</L>
<L>I trowe t'was &s;imple trimming.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The wheeles compo&s;'d of Crickets bones,</L>
<L>And daintily made for the nonce,</L>
<L>For feare of ratling on the &s;tones,</L>
<L>With Thi&s;tle-downe they &s;hod it;</L>
<L>For all her Maydens much did feare,</L>
<L>If <HI>Oberon</HI> had chanc'd to heare,</L>
<L>That <HI>Mab</HI> his Queene &s;hould haue beene there,</L>
<L>He would not haue aboade it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She mounts her Chariot with a trice,</L>
<L>Nor would &s;he &s;tay for no aduice,</L>
<L>Vntill her Maydes that were &s;o nice,</L>
<L>To waite on her were fitted,</L>
<L>But ranne her &s;elfe away alone;</L>
<L>Which when they heard there was not one,</L>
<L>But ha&s;ted after to be gone,</L>
<L>As &s;he had beene di&s;witted,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="174" REF="96">
<L><HI>Hop,</HI> and <HI>Mop,</HI> and <HI>Dryp</HI> &s;o cleare,</L>
<L><HI>Pip,</HI> and <HI>Trip,</HI> and <HI>Skip</HI> that were,</L>
<L>To <HI>Mab</HI> their Soueraigne euer deare:</L>
<L>Her &s;peciall Maydes of Honour.</L>
<L><HI>Fib,</HI> and <HI>Tib</HI> and <HI>Pinck</HI> and <HI>Pin,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tick,</HI> and <HI>Quick</HI> and <HI>Iill,</HI> and <HI>lin,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tit,</HI> and <HI>Nit,</HI> and <HI>Wap</HI> and <HI>Win,</HI></L>
<L>The Trayne that wayte vp on her,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vpon a Gra&s;hopper they got,</L>
<L>And what with Amble and with Trot,</L>
<L>For hedge nor ditch they &s;pared not,</L>
<L>But after her they hye them.</L>
<L>A Cobweb ouer them they throw,</L>
<L>To &s;hield the wind if it &s;hould blow,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues they wi&s;ely could be&s;tow,</L>
<L>Le&s;t any &s;hould e&s;pie them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But let vs leaue Queene <HI>Mab</HI> a while,</L>
<L>Through many a gate, o'r many a &s;tile,</L>
<L>That now had gotten by this wile,</L>
<L>Her deare <HI>Pigwiggin</HI> ki&s;sing,</L>
<L>And tell how <HI>Oberon</HI> doth fare,</L>
<L>Who grew as mad as any Hare,</L>
<L>When he had &s;ought each place with care,</L>
<L>And found his Queene was mi&s;sing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By grifly <HI>Pluto</HI> he doth &s;weare,</L>
<L>He rent his clothes and tore his haire,</L>
<L>And as he runneth here and there,</L>
<L>An Acorne cup he greeteth;</L>
<L><PB N="175" REF="96">Which &s;oone he taketh by the &s;talke,</L>
<L>About his head he lets it walke,</L>
<L>Nor doth he any creature balke,</L>
<L>But layes on all he meeteth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Thuskan</HI> Poet doth aduance,</L>
<L>The franticke <HI>Paladine</HI> of France,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e more ancient doe inhance,</L>
<L><HI>Alcides</HI> in his fury;</L>
<L>And others <HI>Aiax Telamon,</HI></L>
<L>But to this time there hath bin non,</L>
<L>So Bedlam as our <HI>Oberon,</HI></L>
<L>Of which I dare a&s;&s;ure you,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And fir&s;t encountring with a wa&s;pe,</L>
<L>He in his armes the Flye doth cla&s;pe,</L>
<L>As though his breath he foorth would gra&s;pe,</L>
<L>Him for <HI>Pigwiggin</HI> taking:</L>
<L>Where is my wife thou Rogue, quoth he,</L>
<L><HI>Pigwiggen</HI> &s;he is come to thee,</L>
<L>Re&s;tore her, or thou dy'&s;t by me,</L>
<L>Whereat the poore Wa&s;pe quaking,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Cryes, <HI>Oberon,</HI> great <HI>Fayrie</HI> King,</L>
<L>Content thee, I am no &s;uch thing,</L>
<L>I am a Wa&s;pe behold my &s;ting,</L>
<L>At which the <HI>Fayrie</HI> &s;tarted:</L>
<L>When &s;oone away the Wa&s;pe doth goe&punc;</L>
<L>Poore wretch was neuer frighted &s;o,</L>
<L>He though his wings were much too &s;low,</L>
<L>O'r ioyd, they &s;o were parted,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="176" REF="97">
<L>Hee next vpon a Glow-worme light,</L>
<L>(You mu&s;t &s;uppo&s;e it now was night,)</L>
<L>Which for her hinder part was bright,</L>
<L>He tooke to be a Deuill.</L>
<L>And furiou&s;ly doth her. a&s;&s;ayle,</L>
<L>For carrying fier in her tayle,</L>
<L>He thra&s;ht her rough coat with his flayle,</L>
<L>The mad King fear'd no euill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O quoth the <HI>Glow-worme</HI> hold thy hand,</L>
<L>Thou pui&s;&s;ant King of <HI>Fayrie</HI> land,</L>
<L>Thy mighty &s;troaks who may with&s;tand,</L>
<L>Hould, or of life de&s;paire I:</L>
<L>Together then her &s;elfe doth roule,</L>
<L>And tumbling downe into a hole,</L>
<L>She &s;eem'd as blacke as any Cole,</L>
<L>Which vext away the <HI>Fayrie.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From thence he ran into a Hiue,</L>
<L>Among&s;t the Bees he letteth driue,</L>
<L>And downe their Combes begins to riue,</L>
<L>All likely to haue &s;poyled:</L>
<L>Which with their Waxe his face be&s;mear'd,</L>
<L>And with their Hony daub'd his Beard,</L>
<L>It would haue made a man afeard,</L>
<L>To &s;ee how he was moyled,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A new aduenture him betides,</L>
<L>He met an Ant, which he be&s;trides,</L>
<L>And po&s;t thereon away he rides,</L>
<L>Which with his ha&s;t doth &s;tumble;</L>
<L><PB N="177" REF="97">And came full ouer on her &s;nowte,</L>
<L>Her heeles &s;o threw the durt about,</L>
<L>For &s;he by no meanes could get out,</L>
<L>But ouer him doth tumble,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being in this pitteous ca&s;e,</L>
<L>And all be&punc; &s;lurried head and face,</L>
<L>On runs he in his Wild, goo&s;e cha&s;e,</L>
<L>As here, and there he rambles,</L>
<L>Halfe blind, again&s;t a molehill hit,</L>
<L>And for a Mountaine taking it,</L>
<L>For all he was out of his wit,</L>
<L>Yet to the top he &s;crambles,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being gotten to the top,</L>
<L>Yet there him&s;elfe he could not &s;top,</L>
<L>But downe on th'other &s;ide doth chop,</L>
<L>And to the foote came tumbling:</L>
<L>So that the Grubs the rein that bred,</L>
<L>Hearing &s;uch turmoyle ouer head,</L>
<L>Thought &s;urely they had al bene dead,</L>
<L>So fearefull was the Iumbling,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And falling downe into a Lake,</L>
<L>Which him vp to the necke doth take,</L>
<L>His fury &s;omewhat it doth &s;lake,</L>
<L>He calleth for a Ferry;</L>
<L>Where you may &s;ome recouery note,</L>
<L>What was his Club he made his Boate,</L>
<L>And in his Oake<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cup doth float,</L>
<L>As &s;afe as in a Wherry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="178" REF="98">
<L>Men talke of the aduentures &s;trange,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Don Qui&s;hot,</HI> and of their change,</L>
<L>Through which he Armed oft did range,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Sancha Panchas</HI> trauell:</L>
<L>But &s;hould a man tell euery thing,</L>
<L>Done by this franticke <HI>Fayrie</HI> King,</L>
<L>And them in lofty Numbers &s;ing,</L>
<L>It well his wits might grauell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Scar&s;e &s;et on &s;hore, but therewithall,</L>
<L>He meeteth <HI>Pucke,</HI> which mo&s;t men call,</L>
<L><HI>Hobgoblin,</HI> and on him doth fall,</L>
<L>With words from frenzy &s;poken;</L>
<L>Hoh, hoh, quoth <HI>Hob,</HI> God &s;aue thy grace,</L>
<L>Who dre&s;t thee in this pitteous ca&s;e,</L>
<L>He thus that &s;poyld my &s;oueraignes face,</L>
<L>I would his necke were broken;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Pucke</HI> &s;eemes but a dreaming dolt,</L>
<L>Still walking like a ragged Colt,</L>
<L>And oft out of a bu&s;h doth bolt,</L>
<L>Of purpo&s;e to deceiue vs,</L>
<L>And leading vs makes vs to &s;tray,</L>
<L>Long Winters nights out of the way,</L>
<L>And when we &s;ticke in mire and clay,</L>
<L><HI>Hob</HI> doth with laughter leaue vs.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Deare <HI>Pucke</HI> (quoth he) my Wife is gone,</L>
<L>As ere thou lou'&s;t King <HI>Oberon,</HI></L>
<L>Let euery thing but this alone,</L>
<L>With vengeance, and pur&s;ue her.</L>
<L><PB N="179" REF="98">Bring her to me aliue or dead,</L>
<L>Or that vild thiefe, <HI>Pigwiggins</HI> head,</L>
<L>That villaine hath defil'd my bed,</L>
<L>He to this folly drew her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth <HI>Puck,</HI> My Liege Ile neuer lin,</L>
<L>But I will thorough thicke and thinne,</L>
<L>Vntill at length I bring her in,</L>
<L>My deare&s;t Lord nere doubt it:</L>
<L>Thorough Brake, thorough Brier,</L>
<L>Thorough Mucke, thorough Mier,</L>
<L>Thorough Water, thorough Fier,</L>
<L>And thus goes <HI>Pucke</HI> about it,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This thing <HI>Nimphidia</HI> ouer hard,</L>
<L>That on this mad King had a guard,</L>
<L>Not doubting of a great reward,</L>
<L>For fir&s;t this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e broching;</L>
<L>And through the ayre away doth goe,</L>
<L>Swift as an Arrow from the Bow;</L>
<L>To let her Soueraigne <HI>Mab</HI> to know,</L>
<L>What perill was approching.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Queene bound with Loues powerful&s;t charme,</L>
<L>Sate with <HI>Pigwiggin</HI> arme in arme,</L>
<L>Her merry May des that thought no harme,</L>
<L>About the roome were skipping:</L>
<L>A Humble-Bee their Min&s;trell playd,</L>
<L>Vpon his Hobby; euery Mayde</L>
<L>Fit for this Reuells was arayde,</L>
<L>The Horne-pipe neately tripping.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="180" REF="99">
<L>In comes <HI>Nimphidia,</HI> and doth cry,</L>
<L>My Soueraigne for your &s;afety flye,</L>
<L>For there is danger but too nie,</L>
<L>I po&s;ted to forewarne you:</L>
<L>The King hath &s;ent <HI>Hobgoblin</HI> out,</L>
<L>To &s;eeke you all the fields about,</L>
<L>And of your &s;afety you may doubt,</L>
<L>If he but once di&s;cerne you.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When like an vprore in a Towne&punc;</L>
<L>Before them euery thing went downe,</L>
<L>Some tore a Ruffe, and &s;ome a Gowne,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t one another iu&s;tling:</L>
<L>They flew about like Chaffe i'th winde,</L>
<L>For ha&s;t &s;ome left their Maskes behind,</L>
<L>Some could not &s;tay their Gloues to finde,</L>
<L>There neuer was &s;uch bu&s;tling.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Foorth ranne they by a &s;ecret way,</L>
<L>Into a brake that neere them lay;</L>
<L>Yet much they doubted there to &s;tay,</L>
<L>Le&s;t <HI>Hob</HI> &s;hould hap to find them:</L>
<L>He had a &s;harpe and piercing &s;ight,</L>
<L>All one to him the day and night,</L>
<L>And therefore were re&s;olu'd by flight,</L>
<L>To leaue this place behind them,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length one chanc'd to find a Nut,</L>
<L>In th'end of which a hole was cut,</L>
<L>Which lay vpon a Hazell roote,</L>
<L>There &s;cattered by a Squirrell,</L>
<L><PB N="181" REF="99">Which out the kernell gotten had;</L>
<L>When quoth this <HI>Fay</HI> deare Queene be glad,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Oberon</HI> be nere &s;o mad,</L>
<L>Ile &s;et you &s;afe from perill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Come all into this Nut (quoth &s;he)</L>
<L>Come clo&s;ely in, be rul'd by me,</L>
<L>Each one may here a chu&s;er be,</L>
<L>For roome ye need not wra&s;tle.</L>
<L>Nor need ye be together heapt;</L>
<L>So one by one therein they crept,</L>
<L>And lying dovvne they &s;oundly &s;lept.</L>
<L>As &s;afe as in a Ca&s;tle,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Nimphidia</HI> that this while doth watch,</L>
<L>Perceiu'd if <HI>Pucke</HI> the Queene &s;hould catch&punc;</L>
<L>That he would be her ouer-match,</L>
<L>Of which &s;hee well bethought her;</L>
<L>Found it mu&s;t be &s;ome powerfull Charme,</L>
<L>The Queene again&s;t him that mu&s;t arme,</L>
<L>Or &s;urely he would doe her harme,</L>
<L>For throughly he had &s;ough her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And li&s;tning if &s;he ought could heare,</L>
<L>That her might hinder, or might feare:</L>
<L>But finding &s;till the coa&s;t was cleare,</L>
<L>Nor creature had di&s;cride her;</L>
<L>Each circum&s;tance and hauing &s;cand,</L>
<L>She came thereby to vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L><HI>Puck</HI> would be with them out of hand,</L>
<L>When to her Charmes &s;he hide her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="182" REF="100">
<L>And fir&s;t her Ferne &s;eed doth be&s;towe,</L>
<L>The kernell of the Me&s;&s;letowe:</L>
<L>And here and there as <HI>Pucke</HI> doth goe,</L>
<L>With terrour to affright&punc; him,</L>
<L>She Night-&s;hade &s;trawes to worke him ill,</L>
<L>There with her Veruayne and her Dill,</L>
<L>That hindreth Witches of their will,</L>
<L>Of purpo&s;e to de&s;pight him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then &s;prinkles &s;he the iuce of Rue,</L>
<L>That groweth vnderneath the Yeu:</L>
<L>With nine drops of the midnight dewe,</L>
<L>From Lunarie di&s;tilling:</L>
<L>The Molewarps braine mixt therewithall;</L>
<L>And with the &s;ame the Pi&s;myres gall,</L>
<L>For &s;he in nothing &s;hort would fall;</L>
<L>The <HI>Fayrie</HI> was &s;o willing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then thrice vnder a Bryer doth creepe,</L>
<L>Which at both ends was rooted deepe,</L>
<L>And ouer it three times &s;hee leepe;</L>
<L>Her Magicke much auayling:</L>
<L>Then on <HI>Por&s;erpina</HI> doth call,</L>
<L>And &s;o vpon her Spell doth fall,</L>
<L>Which here to you repeate I &s;hall,</L>
<L>Not in one tittle fayling,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By the crooking of the Frogge;</L>
<L>By the howling of the Dogge;</L>
<L>By the crying of the Hogge,</L>
<L>Again&s;t the &s;torme ari&s;ing;</L>
<L><PB N="183" REF="100">By the Euening Curphewe Bell,</L>
<L>By the dolefull dying knell,</L>
<L>O let this my direfull Spell,</L>
<L><HI>Hob,</HI> hinder thy &s;urpri&s;ing,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By the Mandrakes dreadfull groanes,</L>
<L>By the Lubricans &s;ad moanes:</L>
<L>By the noy&s;e of dead mens bones,</L>
<L>In Charnell hou&s;es ratling:</L>
<L>By the hy&s;sing of the Snake,</L>
<L>The ru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ing of the fire-Drake,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> charge thee thou this place for&s;ake,</L>
<L>Nor of Queene <HI>Mab</HI> be pratling.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By the Whirlewindes hollow &s;ound,</L>
<L>By the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hunders dreadfull &s;tound,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ells of &s;pirits vnder ground,</L>
<L>I charge thee not to feare vs:</L>
<L>By the Screech-owles di&s;mall note,</L>
<L>By the Blacke Night-Rauens throate,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> charge thee <HI>Hob</HI> to teare thy Coate</L>
<L>With thornes if thou come neere vs.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">er &s;pell thus &s;poke &s;he &s;tept a&s;ide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nd in a Chinke her &s;elfe doth hide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&s;ee thereof what would betyde,</L>
<L>For &s;he doth onely mind him:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">hen pre&s;ently &s;he <HI>Pucke</HI> e&s;pies,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nd well &s;he markt his gloating eyes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ow vnder euery leafe he pries,</L>
<L>In &s;eeking &s;till to find them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="184" REF="101">
<L>But once the Circle got within,</L>
<L>The Charmes to worke doe &s;traight begin,</L>
<L>And he was caught as in a Gin;</L>
<L>For as he thus was bu&s;ie,</L>
<L>A paine he in his Headpeece feeles,</L>
<L>Again&s;t a &s;tubbed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ree he reeles,</L>
<L>And vp went poore <HI>Hobgoblins</HI> heeles,</L>
<L>Alas his braine was dizzie,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length vpon his feete he gets,</L>
<L><HI>Hobgoblin</HI> fumes, <HI>Hobgoblin</HI> frets,</L>
<L>And as againe he forward &s;ets,</L>
<L>And through the Bu&s;hes &s;crambles:</L>
<L>A &s;tump doth trip him in his pace,</L>
<L>Downe comes poore <HI>Hob</HI> vpon his face,</L>
<L>And lamentably tore his ca&s;e,</L>
<L>Among&s;t the Bryers and brambles.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A plague vpon Queene <HI>Mab,</HI> quoth he,</L>
<L>And all her maydes where ere they be,</L>
<L>I thinke the Deuill guided me,</L>
<L>To &s;eeke her &s;o prouoked;</L>
<L>Where &s;tumbling at a piece of Wood,</L>
<L>He fell into a ditch of mudd,</L>
<L>Where to the very Chin he &s;tood,</L>
<L>In danger to be choked.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now wor&s;e then e're he was before:</L>
<L>Poore <HI>Puck</HI> doth yell, poore <HI>Puck</HI> doth rore,</L>
<L>That wak'd Queene <HI>Mab</HI> who doubted &s;ore,</L>
<L>Some Trea&s;on had beene wrought her.</L>
<L><PB N="185" REF="101">Vntill <HI>Nimphidia</HI> told the Queene,</L>
<L>What &s;he had done, what &s;he had &s;eene,</L>
<L>Who then had well-neere crackt her &s;pleene,</L>
<L>With very extreame laughter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But leaue we <HI>Hob</HI> to clamber out:</L>
<L>Queene <HI>Mab,</HI> and all her <HI>Fayrie</HI> rout,</L>
<L>And c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">me againe to haue about,</L>
<L>With <HI>Oberon</HI> yet madding:</L>
<L>And with <HI>Pigwiggin</HI> now di&s;trought,</L>
<L>Who much was troubled in his thought,</L>
<L>That he &s;o long the Queene had &s;ought,</L>
<L>And through the fields was gadding.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And as he runnes he &s;till doth cry,</L>
<L>King <HI>Oberon</HI> I thee defie,</L>
<L>And dare thee here in Armes to trye,</L>
<L>For my deare Ladies honour:</L>
<L>For that &s;he is a Queene right good,</L>
<L>In who&s;e defence Ile &s;hed my blood,</L>
<L>And that thou in this iealous mood</L>
<L>Ha&s;t layd this &s;lander on her,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And quickly Armes him for the Field,</L>
<L>A little Cockle-&s;hell his &s;hield,</L>
<L>Which he could very brauely weeld:</L>
<L>Yet could it not be pierced:</L>
<L>His Speare, a Bent both &s;tiffe, and &s;trong,</L>
<L>And well-neere of two Inches long;</L>
<L>The Pyle was of a Hor&s;e-flyes tong,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;harpene&s;&s;e nought reuer&s;ed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="186" REF="102">
<L>And puts him on a Coat of Male,</L>
<L>Which was of a Fi&s;hes &s;cale,</L>
<L>That when his Foe &s;hould him a&s;&s;ayle,</L>
<L>No point &s;hould be preuayling:</L>
<L>His Rapier was a Hornets &s;ting,</L>
<L>It was a very dangerous thing:</L>
<L>For if he chanc'd to hurt the King,</L>
<L>It would be long in healing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Helmet was a Beetles head,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t horrible and full of dread,</L>
<L>That able was to &s;trike one dead,</L>
<L>Yet did it well become him;</L>
<L>And for a Plume a Hor&s;es hayre,</L>
<L>Which being to&s;&s;ed with the ayre,</L>
<L>Had force to &s;trike his Foe with feare,</L>
<L>And turne his weapon from him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Him&s;elfe he on an Earewig &s;et,</L>
<L>Yet &s;car&s;e he on his backe could get,</L>
<L>So oft and high he did coruct,</L>
<L>Ere he him&s;elfe could &s;ettle:</L>
<L>He made him turne, and &s;top, and bound,</L>
<L>To gallop, and to trot the Round,</L>
<L>He &s;carce could &s;tand on any ground,</L>
<L>He was &s;o full of mettle.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;oone he met with <HI>Tomalin,</HI></L>
<L>One that a valiant Knight had bin,</L>
<L>And to King <HI>Oberon</HI> of Kin;</L>
<L>Quoth he thou manly <HI>Fayrie.</HI></L>
<L><PB N="187" REF="102">Tell <HI>Oberon</HI> I come prepar'd,</L>
<L>Then bid him &s;tand vpon his guard;</L>
<L>This hand his ba&s;ene&s;&s;e &s;hall reward,</L>
<L>Let him be ue'r &s;o wary,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Say to him thus, that I defie,</L>
<L>His &s;landers and his infamie,</L>
<L>And as a mortall enemie,</L>
<L>Doe publickly proclaime him;</L>
<L>Withall, that if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> had mine owne,</L>
<L>He &s;hould not weare the <HI>Fayrie</HI> Crowne,</L>
<L>But with a vengeance &s;hould come downe,</L>
<L>Nor wee a King &s;hould name him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Tomalin</HI> could not abide,</L>
<L>To heare his Soueraigne vilefide:</L>
<L>But to the <HI>Fayrie</HI> Court him hide;</L>
<L>Full furiou&s;ly he po&s;ted:</L>
<L>With euery thing <HI>Pigwiggen</HI> &s;ayd:</L>
<L>How tit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e to the Crowne he layd,</L>
<L>And in what Armes he was arrayd,</L>
<L>As how him&s;elfe he boa&s;ted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Twixt head and foote, from poynt to poynt,</L>
<L>He told th'arming of each ioynt,</L>
<L>In euery piece, how neat and quaint,</L>
<L>For <HI>Tomalin</HI> could doe it:</L>
<L>How fayre he &s;at, how &s;ure he rid,</L>
<L>As of the cour&s;er he be&s;trid,</L>
<L>How Mannag'd, and how well he did,</L>
<L>The King which li&s;tned to it,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="188" REF="103">
<L>Quoth hee, goe <HI>Tomalin</HI> with &s;peede,</L>
<L>Prouide me Armes prouide my Steed,</L>
<L>And euery thing that I &s;hall need,</L>
<L>By thee I will be guided:</L>
<L>To &s;trait account call thou thy wit,</L>
<L>See there be wanting not a whit,</L>
<L>In euery thing &s;ee thou me fit,</L>
<L>Iu&s;t as my foes prouided.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Soone flew this newes through <HI>Fayrie</HI> land,</L>
<L>Which gaue Queene <HI>Mab</HI> to vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>The Combat that was then at hand,</L>
<L>Betwixt tho&s;e men &s;o mighty:</L>
<L>Which greatly &s;he beg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">w,</L>
<L>Perceiuing that all Fayrie kn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">w,</L>
<L>The fir&s;t occa&s;ion from her grew,</L>
<L>Of the&s;e affaires &s;o weighty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore attended with her Maydes,</L>
<L>Through fogs, and mi&s;ts, and damps, &s;hee wades,</L>
<L>To <HI>Pro&s;erpine</HI> the Queene of &s;hades,</L>
<L>To treat that it would plea&s;e her:</L>
<L>The cau&s;e into her hands to take,</L>
<L>For ancient loue and friend&s;hips &s;ake,</L>
<L>And &s;oone thereof an end to make,</L>
<L>Which of much care would ea&s;e her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A while, there let we <HI>Mab</HI> alone,</L>
<L>And come we to King <HI>Oberon,</HI></L>
<L>Who Arm'd to meete his Foe is gone,</L>
<L>For proud <HI>Pigwiggin</HI> crying:</L>
<L><PB N="189" REF="103">Who &s;ought the <HI>Fayrie</HI> King as fa&s;t,</L>
<L>And had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o well his iourneys ca&s;t,</L>
<L>That he arriued at the la&s;t,</L>
<L>His pui&s;&s;ant foe e&s;pying.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Stout <HI>Tomalin,</HI> came with the King,</L>
<L><HI>Tom Thum</HI> doth on <HI>Pigwiggin</HI> bring,</L>
<L>That perfect were in euery thing,</L>
<L>To &s;ingle fights belonging:</L>
<L>And therefore they them&s;elues ingage,</L>
<L>To &s;ee them exerci&s;e their rage,</L>
<L>With faire and comely equipage,</L>
<L>Not one the other wronging.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So like in Armes, the&s;e champions were,</L>
<L>As they had bin a very paire,</L>
<L>So that a man would almo&s;t &s;weare,</L>
<L>That either had bin either:</L>
<L>Their furious Steeds began to nay,</L>
<L>That they were heard a mighty way,</L>
<L>Their &s;taues vpon their re&s;ts they lay,</L>
<L>Yet e'r they flew together;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their Seconds mini&s;ter an oath,</L>
<L>Which was indifferent to them both&punc;</L>
<L>That on their Knightly faith aad troth,</L>
<L>No Magicke them &s;upplyed:</L>
<L>And &s;ought them that they had no charmes,</L>
<L>Wherewith to worke each others harmes,</L>
<L>But came with &s;imple open armes,</L>
<L>To haue their cau&s;es tryed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="190" REF="104">
<L>Together furiou&s;ly they ran,</L>
<L>That to the ground came hor&s;e and man,</L>
<L>The blood out of their Helmets ran,</L>
<L>So &s;harpe were their incounters:</L>
<L>And though they to the earth were throwne,</L>
<L>Yet quickly they regain'd their owne,</L>
<L>Such nimblene&s;&s;e was neuer &s;howne,</L>
<L>They were two gallant mounters&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When in a &s;econd cour&s;e againe,</L>
<L>They forward came with might and maine,</L>
<L>Yet which had better of the twaine,</L>
<L>The &s;econds could not iudge it,</L>
<L>Their &s;hields were into pieces cleft,</L>
<L>Their Helmets from their heads were reft,</L>
<L>And to defend them nothing left,</L>
<L>The&s;e Champions would not budge yet,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Away from them their &s;taues they threw,</L>
<L>Their cruell &s;words they quickly drew,</L>
<L>And fre&s;hly they the &s;ight renew;</L>
<L>They euery &s;troke redoubled:</L>
<L>Which made <HI>Pro&s;erpina</HI> take heed,</L>
<L>And make to them the greater &s;peed,</L>
<L>For feare le&s;t they too much &s;hould bleed,</L>
<L>Which wondrou&s;ly her troubled&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When to th'infernall <HI>Stix</HI> &s;he goes,</L>
<L>She takes the Fogs from thence that ro&s;e,</L>
<L>And in a Bagge doth them enclo&s;e,</L>
<L>When well &s;he had them blended,</L>
<L><PB N="191" REF="104">She hyes her then to <HI>Lethe</HI> &s;pring,</L>
<L>A bottell and thereof doth bring,</L>
<L>Wherewith &s;he meant to worke the thing.</L>
<L>Which onely &s;he intended.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now <HI>Pro&s;erpine</HI> with <HI>Mab</HI> is gone,</L>
<L>Vnto the place where <HI>Oberon</HI></L>
<L>And proud <HI>Pigwiggen</HI> one to one,</L>
<L>Both to be &s;laine were likely:</L>
<L>And there them&s;elues they clo&s;ely hide,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they would not be e&s;pide;</L>
<L>For <HI>Pro&s;erpine</HI> meant to decide</L>
<L>The matter very quickly.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;uddainly vntyes the Poke,</L>
<L>Which out of it &s;ent &s;uch a &s;moke,</L>
<L>As ready was them all to choke,</L>
<L>So grieuous was the pother.</L>
<L>So that the Knights each other lo&s;t,</L>
<L>And &s;tood as &s;till as any po&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Tom Thum,</HI> nor <HI>Tomalin</HI> could boa&s;t,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues of any other.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when the mi&s;t gan &s;omewhat cea&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Pro&s;erpina</HI> commandeth peace:</L>
<L>And that a while they &s;hould relea&s;e,</L>
<L>Each other of their perill,</L>
<L>Which here (quoth &s;hee) I doe proclaime,</L>
<L>To all in dreadfull <HI>Plutoes</HI> name,</L>
<L>That as yee will e&s;chew his blame,</L>
<L>You let me heare the quarrell,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="192" REF="105">
<L>But here your &s;elues you mu&s;t engage,</L>
<L>Somewhat to coole your &s;pleeni&s;h rage,</L>
<L>Your grieuous thir&s;t and to a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>That fir&s;t you drinke this liquor,</L>
<L>Which &s;hall your vnder&s;tanding cleare,</L>
<L>As plainely &s;hall to you appeare;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e things from mee that you &s;hall heare,</L>
<L>Conceiuing much the quicker,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Lethe</HI> water you mu&s;t know,</L>
<L>The memory de&s;troyeth &s;o,</L>
<L>That of our weale, or of our woe,</L>
<L>It all remembrance blotted:</L>
<L>Of it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> can you euer thinke,</L>
<L>For th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ooner tooke this drinke,</L>
<L>But nought into their braines could &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nke,</L>
<L>Of what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad them be&s;otted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>King <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eron</HI> forgotten <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad,</L>
<L>That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;ie ranne madd:</L>
<L>But of his Queene was wonderous glad,</L>
<L>And ask'd how he came thither;</L>
<L><HI>Pigwiggen</HI> likewi&s;e doth forget,</L>
<L>That he Queene <HI>Mab</HI> had euer mett</L>
<L>Or that they were &s;o hard be&s;et,</L>
<L>When they were found together.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor neither of them both had thought,</L>
<L>That e'r they had each other &s;ought,</L>
<L>Much le&s;&s;e that they a Combat fought,</L>
<L>But &s;uch a dreame were lothing;</L>
<L><PB N="193" REF="105"><HI>Tom Thum</HI> had got a little &s;up,</L>
<L>And <HI>Tomalin</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ar&s;e ki&s;t the Cup,</L>
<L>Yet had their braines &s;o &s;ure lockt vp,</L>
<L>That they remembred nothing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Queene <HI>Mab</HI> and her light Maydes the while,</L>
<L>Among&s;t them&s;elues doe clo&s;ely &s;mile,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the King caught with a wile,</L>
<L>With one another ie&s;ting:</L>
<L>And to t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Fayrie</HI> Court they went,</L>
<L>With mickle i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y and merriment,</L>
<L>Which thing was done with good intent,</L>
<L>And thus I left them fea&s;ting.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="194" REF="106">
<HEAD>THE QVEST OF CYNTHIA.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_WHat time the groues were clad in greene,</L>
<L>The fields dre&s;t all in flovvers,</L>
<L>And that the &s;leeke-hayrd Nimphs were &s;eene,</L>
<L>To &s;eeke them Sommer Bowers.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Foorth rou'd I by the &s;liding Rills,</L>
<L>To find where <HI>Cynthia</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">,</L>
<L>Who&s;e name &s;o often from the hilles,</L>
<L>The Ecchos wondred at.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When me vpon my Que&s;t to bring,</L>
<L>That plea&s;ure might excell,</L>
<L>The Birds &s;troue which &s;hould &s;weetlie&s;t &s;ing,</L>
<L>The flowers which &s;weet'&s;t &s;hould &s;mell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Long wandring in the Woods (&s;ayd I)</L>
<L>Oh whther's <HI>Cynthia</HI> gone?</L>
<L>When &s;oone the Eccho doth reply,</L>
<L>To my la&s;t word, goe on.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="195" REF="106">
<L>At length vpon a lofty Firre,</L>
<L>It was my chance to finde,</L>
<L>Where that deare name mo&s;t due to her,</L>
<L>Was caru'd vpon the rynde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which whil&s;t with Wonder I beheld,</L>
<L>The Bees their hony brought,</L>
<L>And vp the carued letters fild,</L>
<L>As they with gold were wrought,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And neere that trees more &s;pacious roote,</L>
<L>Then looking on the ground,</L>
<L>The &s;hape of her mo&s;t dainty foote,</L>
<L>Imprinted there I found.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which &s;tucke there like a curious &s;eale,</L>
<L>As though it &s;hould forbid,</L>
<L>Vs wretched mortalls, to reueale,</L>
<L>What vnder it was hid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;ides the flowers which it had pre&s;t,</L>
<L>Appeared to my view,</L>
<L>More fre&s;h and louely then the re&s;t,</L>
<L>That in the meadowes grew:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The cleare drops in the &s;teps that &s;tood,</L>
<L>Of that delicious Girle,</L>
<L>The Nimphs among&s;t their dainty food,</L>
<L>Drunke for di&s;&s;olued pearle,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="196" REF="107">
<L>The yielding &s;and, where &s;he had troad,</L>
<L>Vnt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cht yet with the Winde,</L>
<L>By the faire po&s;ture playnely &s;how'd,</L>
<L>Where he might <HI>Cynthi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> finde,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When on vpon my wayle&s;&s;e walke,</L>
<L>As my de&s;ires me draw,</L>
<L>I like a madman fell to talke,</L>
<L>With euery thing I &s;aw:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I ask'd &s;ome Lillyes why &s;o white,</L>
<L>They from their fellowes were;</L>
<L>Who an&s;wered me that <HI>Cynthia's</HI> &s;ight,</L>
<L>Had made them looke &s;o cleare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I ask'd a nodding Violet why</L>
<L>It &s;adly hung the head,</L>
<L>It told me <HI>Cynthia</HI> late pa&s;t by,</L>
<L>Too &s;oone from it that fled:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A bed of Ro&s;es &s;aw I there,</L>
<L>Bewitching with their grace,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides &s;o wonderous &s;weete they were,</L>
<L>That they perfum'd the place;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I of a Shrub of tho&s;e enquir'd,</L>
<L>From others of that kind,</L>
<L>Who with &s;uch vertue them en&s;pir'd,</L>
<L>It an&s;wer'd (to my mind&punc;)</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="197" REF="107">
<L>As the ba&s;e Hemblocke were we &s;uch,</L>
<L>The poy&s;ond' weed that growes,</L>
<L>Till <HI>Cynthia</HI> by her good-lucke tuch</L>
<L>Transform'd vs to a Ro&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since when tho&s;e Fro&s;ts that winter brings,</L>
<L>Which candy euery greene,</L>
<L>Renew vs like the Teeming Springs,</L>
<L>and wee thus fre&s;h are &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ene.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length I on a Fountaine light,</L>
<L>who&s;e brim with Pincks was platted;</L>
<L>The Bank with Daffadillies dight,</L>
<L>with gra&s;&s;e like Sleaue was matted,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I demanded of that Well,</L>
<L>What power frequented there;</L>
<L>De&s;iring, it would plea&s;e to tell</L>
<L>What name it v&s;'d to beare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It told me it was <HI>Cynthias</HI> owne,</L>
<L>Within who&s;e cheerefull brimmes,</L>
<L>That curious Nimph had oft bin knowne,</L>
<L>To bath her &s;nowy Limmes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since when that water had the power,</L>
<L>Lo&s;t Mayden-heads to re&s;tore,</L>
<L>And make one Twenty in an howre,</L>
<L>of <HI>E&s;ons</HI> Age before,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="198" REF="108">
<L>And told me that the bottome cleere,</L>
<L>Now layd with many a fett</L>
<L>Of &s;eed-pearle, ere &s;he bath'd her there;</L>
<L>Was knowne as blacke as Iet,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when &s;he from the water came,</L>
<L>Where fir&s;t &s;he toucht the mould,</L>
<L>In balles the people made the &s;ame</L>
<L>For Pomander, and &s;old.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When chance me to an Arbour led,</L>
<L>Whereas I might behold</L>
<L>Two ble&s;t <HI>Elizeums</HI> in one &s;ted,</L>
<L>The le&s;&s;e the great enfold,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The place which &s;he had cho&s;en out,</L>
<L>Her &s;elfe in to repo&s;e;</L>
<L>Had they com'n down the gods nodoubt</L>
<L>The very &s;ame had cho&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The wealthy &s;pring yet neuer bore,</L>
<L>That &s;weet, nor dainty flower,</L>
<L>That damask'd not the chequer'd flore</L>
<L>Of <HI>Cynthias</HI> Summer Bower.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Birch, the Mirtle, and the Bay,</L>
<L>Like friends did all embrace;</L>
<L>And their large branches did di&s;play,</L>
<L>To Canopy the place,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="199" REF="108">
<L>Where &s;hee like <HI>Venus</HI> doth appeare,</L>
<L>Vpon a Ro&s;ie bed;</L>
<L>As Lillyes the &s;oft pillowes were,</L>
<L>Whereon &s;hee layd her head.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Heau'n on her &s;hape &s;uch co&s;t be&s;tow'd,</L>
<L>And with &s;uch bounties ble&s;t,</L>
<L>No lim of hers but might haue made</L>
<L>A godde&s;&s;e at the lea&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Flyes by chance me&s;ht in her hayr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>By the bright Radience throwne,</L>
<L>From her cleare eyes, rich Iewels were,</L>
<L>They &s;o like Diamonds &s;hone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The meane&s;t weed the &s;oyle there bare,</L>
<L>Her breath did &s;o refine,</L>
<L>That it with Woodbynd dur&s;t compare,</L>
<L>And beard the Eglanti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The dew which on the tender gra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>The Euening had di&s;till'd,</L>
<L>To pure Ro&s;e-water turned was,</L>
<L>The &s;hades with &s;weets that fild.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The winds were hu&s;ht, no leafe &s;o &s;mall,</L>
<L>At all was &s;eene to &s;tirre:</L>
<L>Whil&s;t turning to the waters fall,</L>
<L>The &s;mall Birds &s;ang to her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="200" REF="109">
<L>Where &s;hee too quickly mee e&s;pies,</L>
<L>When I might plainely &s;ee,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and <HI>Cupids</HI> from her eyes,</L>
<L>&s;hoote all at once at mee&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Into the&s;e &s;ecret &s;hades (quoth &s;he)</L>
<L>How dar'&s;t thou be &s;o bold,</L>
<L>To enter, con&s;ecrate to me;</L>
<L>Or touch this hallowed mold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho&s;e words (quoth &s;he) I can pronounce,</L>
<L>Which to that &s;hape can bring,</L>
<L>Thee, which the Hunter had, who once</L>
<L>Saw <HI>Dian</HI> in the &s;pring,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Bright Nimph againe I thus replye,</L>
<L>This cannot me affright:</L>
<L>I had rather in thy pre&s;ence dye,</L>
<L>Then liue out of thy &s;ight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I fir&s;t vpon the mountaines hie,</L>
<L>Built Altars to thy name,</L>
<L>And grau'd it on the Rocks thereby,</L>
<L>To propagate thy Fame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I taught the Shepheards on the downes,</L>
<L>Of thee to frame their Layes:</L>
<L>T'was I that fill'd the neighboring Townes,</L>
<L>With Ditties of thy pray&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="109">
<L>Thy collours I deuis'd with care;</L>
<L>Which were vnknowne before:</L>
<L>Which &s;ince that, in their brayded hayre,</L>
<L>The Nimphs and Siluans wore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Transforme me to what &s;hape you can,</L>
<L>I pa&s;&s;e not what it bee,</L>
<L>Yea what mo&s;t hatefull is to man:</L>
<L>So I may follow thee,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which when &s;hee heard, full pearly floods</L>
<L>I in her eyes might view:</L>
<L>(Quoth &s;he) mo&s;t vvelcome to the&s;e Woods,</L>
<L>Too meane for one &s;o true,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here from the hatefull world wee'll liue,</L>
<L>A den of meere de&s;pight,</L>
<L>To Ideots onely that doth giue,</L>
<L>Which be her &s;ole delight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To people the infernall pit,</L>
<L>That more and more doth &s;triue,</L>
<L>Where onely Villany is wit:</L>
<L>And Diuels onely thriue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who&s;e vildne&s;&s;e vs &s;hall neuer awe:</L>
<L>But here our &s;ports &s;hall be;</L>
<L>Such as the golden world fir&s;t &s;aw,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t innocent and free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="202" REF="110">
<L>Of Simples in the&s;e Groues that grow,</L>
<L>Wee'll learne the perfect skill;</L>
<L>The nature of each Herbe to know,</L>
<L>Which cures, and which can kill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The waxen Pallace of the Bee,</L>
<L>Wee &s;eeking will &s;urpri&s;e,</L>
<L>The curious workeman&s;hip to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Of her full laden thighes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wee'll &s;uck the &s;weets out of the Combe,</L>
<L>And make the gods repine:</L>
<L>As they doe fea&s;t in <HI>Ioues</HI> great roome,</L>
<L>To &s;ee with what we dine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet when there haps a honey fall,</L>
<L>Wee'll licke the &s;irupt leaues;</L>
<L>And tell the Bees that their's is gall,</L>
<L>To this vpon the Greaues,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The nimble Squirrell noting here,</L>
<L>Her mo&s;&s;y Dray that makes,</L>
<L>And laugh to &s;ee the lu&s;ty Deere</L>
<L>Come bounding ore the brakes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;piders Web to watch weele &s;tand,</L>
<L>And when it takes the Bee,</L>
<L>Weele helpe out of the Tyrants hand,</L>
<L>The Innocent to free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="110">
<L>Sometime weele angle at the Brooke,</L>
<L>The freckled Trout to take,</L>
<L>With &s;ilken Wormes, and bayte the hooke,</L>
<L>Which him our prey &s;hall make,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of medling with &s;uch &s;ubtill tooles,</L>
<L>Such dangers that enclo&s;e,</L>
<L>The Morrall is that painted Fooles,</L>
<L>Are caught with &s;ilken &s;howes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when the Moone doth once appeare,</L>
<L>Weele trace the lower grounds,</L>
<L>When <HI>Fayries</HI> in their Ringlets there,</L>
<L>Doe dance their nightly Rounds,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And haue a Flocke of Turtle Doues,</L>
<L>A guard on vs to keepe,</L>
<L>As witne&s;&s;e of our hone&s;t loues,</L>
<L>To watch vs till wee &s;leepe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which &s;poke I felt &s;uch holy fires,</L>
<L>To ouer&s;pred my brea&s;t,</L>
<L>As lent life to my cha&s;t de&s;ires,</L>
<L>And gaue me endle&s;&s;e re&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By <HI>Cynthia</HI> thus doe I &s;ub&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>On earth Heauens only pride,</L>
<L>Let her be mine, and let who li&s;t,</L>
<L>Take all the world be&s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="204" REF="111">
<HEAD>THE SHEPHEARDS SIRENA.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>_DOrilus</HI> in &s;orrowes deepe,</L>
<L>Autumne waxing old and chill,</L>
<L>As he &s;ate his Flocks to keepe,</L>
<L>Vnderneath an ea&s;ie hill;</L>
<L>Chanc'd to ca&s;t his eye a&s;ide,</L>
<L>On tho&s;e fields, where he had &s;eene,</L>
<L>Bright <HI>Sirena,</HI> Natures pride,</L>
<L>Sporting on the plea&s;ant greene:</L>
<L>To who&s;e walkes the Shepheards oft,</L>
<L>Came her god-like foote to finde,</L>
<L>And in places that were &s;oft,</L>
<L>Ki&s;t the print there left behind,</L>
<L>Where the path which he had troad,</L>
<L>Hath thereby more glory gayn'd,</L>
<L>Then in Heau'n that milky rode,</L>
<L>Which with Nectar <HI>Hebe</HI> &s;tain'd:</L>
<L>But bleake Winters boy&s;trous bla&s;ts,</L>
<L>Now their fading plea&s;ures chid,</L>
<L>And &s;o fill'd them with his wa&s;ts,</L>
<L>That from &s;ight her &s;teps were hid.</L>
<L>Silly Shepheard &s;ad the while,</L>
<L><PB N="205" REF="111">For his &s;weet <HI>Syrena</HI> gone,</L>
<L>All his plea&s;ures in exile:</L>
<L>Layd on the cold earth alone,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t his game&s;ome cur-tayld Curre,</L>
<L>With his mirthle&s;&s;e Ma&s;ter playes,</L>
<L>Striuing him with &s;port to &s;tirre,</L>
<L>As in his more youthfull dayes;</L>
<L><HI>Dorilus</HI> his Dogge doth chide,</L>
<L>Layes his well-tun'd Bagpipe by,</L>
<L>And his Sheepe-hooke ca&s;ts a&s;ide,</L>
<L>There (quoth he) together lye,</L>
<L>When a Letter foorth he tooke,</L>
<L>Which to him <HI>Syrena</HI> writ,</L>
<L>With a deadly downe-ca&s;t looke,</L>
<L>And thus fell to reading it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Dorilus</HI> my deare (quoth &s;hee)</L>
<L>Kind companion of my woe,</L>
<L>Though we thus diuided be,</L>
<L>Death cannot diuorce vs &s;o:</L>
<L>Thou who&s;e bo&s;ome hath beene &s;till</L>
<L>Th'only clo&s;et of my care,</L>
<L>And in all my good and ill;</L>
<L>Euer had thy equall &s;hare:</L>
<L>Might I winne thee from thy Fold,</L>
<L>Thou &s;hould&s;t come to vi&s;ite mee,</L>
<L>But the Winter is &s;o cold,</L>
<L>That I feare to hazzard thee:</L>
<L>The wild waters are waxt hie,</L>
<L>So they are both deafe and dumbe,</L>
<L>Lou'd they thee &s;o well as I,</L>
<L>They would ebbe when thou &s;hould&s;t come,</L>
<L><PB N="206" REF="112">Then my coate with light &s;hould &s;hine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">urer then the Ve&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll fire:</L>
<L>Nothing here but &s;hould be thine,</L>
<L>That thy heart can well de&s;ire:</L>
<L>Where at large wee will relate,</L>
<L>From what cau&s;e our friend&s;hip grew,</L>
<L>And in that the varying Fate,</L>
<L>Since we fir&s;t each other knewe:</L>
<L>Of my heauy p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ed plight,</L>
<L>As of many a future feare,</L>
<L>Which except the &s;ilent night,</L>
<L>None but onely thou &s;halt heare;</L>
<L>My &s;ad heart it &s;hall releeue,</L>
<L>When my thoughts I &s;hall di&s;clo&s;e,</L>
<L>For thou can&s;t not chu&s;e but greeue,</L>
<L>When I &s;hall recount my Woes;</L>
<L>There is nothing to that friend,</L>
<L>To who&s;e clo&s;e vncranied bre&s;t,</L>
<L>Wee our &s;ecret thoughts may &s;end.</L>
<L>And there &s;afely let it re&s;t:</L>
<L>And thy faithfull coun&s;ell may</L>
<L>My di&s;tre&s;&s;ed ca&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>Sad af<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">liction el&s;e may &s;way</L>
<L>Me a woman as it li&s;t:</L>
<L>Hither I would haue thee ha&s;te,</L>
<L>Yet would gladly haue thee &s;tay,</L>
<L>When tho&s;e dangers I foreca&s;t,</L>
<L>That may meete thee by the way,</L>
<L>Doe as thou &s;halt thinke it be&s;t,</L>
<L>Let thy knowledge be thy guide,</L>
<L>Liue thou in my con&s;tant b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><PB N="207" REF="112">What&s;oeuer &s;hall betide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He her letter hauing red,</L>
<L>Puts it in his Scrip againe,</L>
<L>Looking like a man halfe dead,</L>
<L>By her kindne&s;&s;e &s;trangely &s;laine;</L>
<L>And as one who inly knew,</L>
<L>Her di&s;tre&s;&s;ed pre&s;ent &s;tate,</L>
<L>And to her had &s;till beene true,</L>
<L>Thus doth with him&s;elfe delate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I will not thy face admire,</L>
<L>Admirable though it be,</L>
<L>Nor thine eyes who&s;e &s;ubtile fire,</L>
<L>So much wonder winne in me:</L>
<L>But my maruell &s;hall be now,</L>
<L>(And of long it hath bin &s;o,)</L>
<L>Of all woman kind that thou</L>
<L>Wert ordain'd to ta&s;t of vvoe;</L>
<L>To a beauty &s;o diuine,</L>
<L>Paradi&s;e in little done,</L>
<L>O that fortune &s;hould a&s;signe,</L>
<L>Ought, but what thou wel might&s;t &s;hun,</L>
<L>But my coun&s;ailes &s;uch mu&s;t bee,</L>
<L>(Though as yet I them conceale)</L>
<L>By their deadly wound in me,</L>
<L>They thy hurt mu&s;t only heale,</L>
<L>Could I giue what thou doo'&s;t craue,</L>
<L>To that pa&s;&s;e thy &s;tate is growne,</L>
<L>I thereby thy life may &s;aue,</L>
<L>But am &s;ure to loo&s;e mine owne,</L>
<L>To that ioy thou do'&s;t conceiue.</L>
<L>Through my he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> the way doth lye,</L>
<L><PB N="208" REF="113">Which in two for thee mu&s;t cleaue,</L>
<L>Le&s;t that thou &s;hould&s;t goe awry,</L>
<L>Thus my death mu&s;t be a toy,</L>
<L>Which my pen&s;iue bre&s;t mu&s;t couer;</L>
<L>Thy beloued to enioy,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t be taught thee by thy Louer,</L>
<L>Hard the choi&s;e I haue to chu&s;e,</L>
<L>To my &s;elfe if friend I be,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t my <HI>Syrena</HI> loo&s;e,</L>
<L>If not &s;o, &s;hee loo&s;eth mee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus whil&s;t he doth ca&s;t about,</L>
<L>What therein were be&s;t to doe,</L>
<L>Nor could yet re&s;olue the doubt,</L>
<L>Whether he &s;hould &s;tay or goe,</L>
<L>In tho&s;e Fields not farre away,</L>
<L>There was many a frolike Swaine,</L>
<L>In fre&s;h Ru&s;&s;ets day by day,</L>
<L>That kept Reuells on the plaine,</L>
<L>Nimble <HI>Tom,</HI> &s;urnam'd the <HI>Tup,</HI></L>
<L>For his Pipe without a peere:</L>
<L>And could tickle <HI>Trenchmore</HI> vp,</L>
<L>As t'would ioy your heart to heare,</L>
<L><HI>Ralph</HI> as much renownd for skill,</L>
<L>That the <HI>Taber</HI> touch'd &s;o well:</L>
<L>For his <HI>Gittern,</HI> little <HI>Gill,</HI></L>
<L>That all other did excell,</L>
<L><HI>Rocke</HI> and <HI>Rollo</HI> euery way,</L>
<L>Who &s;till led the Ru&s;ticke Ging,</L>
<L>And could troule a <HI>Roundelay,</HI></L>
<L>That would make the Fields to ring,</L>
<L><HI>Collin</HI> on his <HI>Shalme</HI> &s;o cleere,</L>
<L><PB N="209" REF="113">Many a high&punc;pit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ht note that had,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd could make the Ecchos neere,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hout as they were waxen mad,</L>
<L>Many a lu&s;tie Swaine be&s;ide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat for nought but plea&s;ure car'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">auing <HI>Dorilus</HI> e&s;py'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd with him knew how it far'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hought from him they would remoue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">his &s;trong melancholy fitt,</L>
<L>Or &s;o, &s;hould it not behoue,</L>
<L>Quite to put him out of's wit;</L>
<L>Hauing learnt a Song, which h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ometime to <HI>Sirena</HI> &s;ent,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ull of Iollity and glee,</L>
<L>When the Nimph liu'd neere to <HI>Trent,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hey behind him &s;oftly got,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ying on the earth along,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd when he &s;u&s;pected not,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hus the Iouiall Shepheards &s;ong,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>NEare to the Siluer <HI>Trent,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Syrena</HI> dwelleth,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hee to whom Nature lent</L>
<L>All that excelleth:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y which the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> late,</L>
<L>And the neate <HI>Graces,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aue for their greater &s;tate,</L>
<L>Taken their places:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">wi&s;ting an <HI>Anadem,</HI></L>
<L>Wherewith to Crowne her,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s it belong'd to them</L>
<L><PB N="210" REF="114">Mo&s;t to renowne her.</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Bancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swannes &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Along let them bring her.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Tagus</HI> and <HI>Pact<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lus</HI></L>
<L>are to thee Debter,</L>
<L>Nor for their gould to vs,</L>
<L>are they the better:</L>
<L>Hencefoorth of all the re&s;t,</L>
<L>be thou the Riuer,</L>
<L>Which as the daintie&s;t,</L>
<L>puts them downe euer,</L>
<L>For as my precious one,</L>
<L>o'r thee doth trauell,</L>
<L>She to Pearle Paragon</L>
<L>turneth thy grauell.</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Bancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swanns &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke</HI></L>
<L><HI>along let them bring her,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our mournefull <HI>Philomell,</HI></L>
<L>that rare&s;t Tuner,</L>
<L>Hencefoorth in <HI>Aperi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></L>
<L>&s;hall wake the &s;ooner,</L>
<L>And to her &s;hall complaine,</L>
<L>from the thicke couer,</L>
<L><PB N="211" REF="114">Redoubling euery &s;traine</L>
<L>ouer and ouer:</L>
<L>For when my Loue too long</L>
<L>her chamber keepeth;</L>
<L>As though it &s;uffered wrong,</L>
<L>the morning weepeth,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">o: <HI>On thy Banke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swannes &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>along let them bring her.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Oft haue I &s;eene the Sunne,</L>
<L>to doe her honour,</L>
<L>Fix him&s;elfe at his noone,</L>
<L>to looke vpon her,</L>
<L>And hath guilt euery Groue,</L>
<L>euery Hill neare her,</L>
<L>With his flames from aboue,</L>
<L>&s;triuing to cheere her,</L>
<L>And when &s;he from his &s;ight</L>
<L>hath her &s;elfe turned,</L>
<L>Hee as it had beene night,</L>
<L>In Clouds hath mourned:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">o: <HI>On thy Bancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swannes &s;ing her</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>along let them bring her,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Verdant Meades are &s;eene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>when &s;he doth view them,</L>
<L><PB N="212" REF="115">In Fre&s;h and gallant Greene,</L>
<L>&s;traight to renew them,</L>
<L>And euery little Gra&s;&s;e</L>
<L>broad it &s;elfe &s;preadeth,</L>
<L>Proud that this bony La&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>vpon it treadeth:</L>
<L>Nor flower is &s;o &s;weete</L>
<L>In this large Cincture,</L>
<L>But it vpon her feete</L>
<L>Leaueth &s;ome Tincture,</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Bancke</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swanes &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke</HI></L>
<L><HI>along let them bring her.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fi&s;hes in the Flood,</L>
<L>when &s;he doth Angle,</L>
<L>For the hooke &s;triue a good</L>
<L>Them to intangle;</L>
<L>And leaping on the Land,</L>
<L>from the cleare water,</L>
<L>Their Scales vpon the &s;and</L>
<L>laui&s;hly &s;catter;</L>
<L>Therewith to paue the mould</L>
<L>whereon &s;hee pa&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>So her &s;elfe to behold,</L>
<L>as in her gla&s;&s;es.</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Banke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Ranke,</HI></L>
<L><PB N="213" REF="115"><HI>Let thy Swanns &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>along let them bring her,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;hee lookes out by night,</L>
<L>The Starres &s;tand gazing,</L>
<L>Like Comets to our &s;ight,</L>
<L>Fearefully blazing,</L>
<L>As wondring at her eyes,</L>
<L>with their much brightne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Which &s;o amaze the skies,</L>
<L>dimming their lightne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>The raging Tempe&s;ts are Calme,</L>
<L>when &s;he &s;peaketh,</L>
<L>Such mo&s;t delight&s;ome ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">me,</L>
<L>from her lips breaketh.</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Banke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Ranck,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swanns &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In all our <HI>Brittany</HI></L>
<L>ther's not a fayrer,</L>
<L>Nor can you fitt any:</L>
<L>&s;hould you compare her.</L>
<L>Angels her eye-lids keepe;</L>
<L>all harts &s;urprizing,</L>
<L>Which looke whil&s;t &s;he doth &s;leepe</L>
<L>like the Sunnes ri&s;ing:</L>
<L>She alone of her kinde,</L>
<L>knoweth true mea&s;ure,</L>
<L><PB N="214" REF="116">And her vnmatched mind</L>
<L>is Heauens trea&s;ure:</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Bancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swannes &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Along let them bring her.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fayre <HI>Done</HI> and <HI>Darwine</HI> cleere</L>
<L>boa&s;t ye your beauties,</L>
<L>To <HI>Trent</HI> your Mi&s;tres here</L>
<L>yet pay your duties,</L>
<L>My loue was higher borne</L>
<L>tow'rds the full Fountaines,</L>
<L>Yet &s;he doth <HI>Mooreland</HI> &s;corne,</L>
<L>and the <HI>Peake</HI> Mountaines;</L>
<L>Nor would &s;he none &s;hould dreame,</L>
<L>vvhere &s;he abideth,</L>
<L>Humble as is the &s;treame,</L>
<L>Which by her &s;lydeth,</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Bancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swanns &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke</HI></L>
<L><HI>along let them bring her,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet my poore Ru&s;ticke <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>nothing can moue her,</L>
<L>Nor the meanes I can v&s;e,</L>
<L><PB N="215" REF="116">though her true Louer,</L>
<L>Many a long Winters night</L>
<L>haue I wak'd for her.</L>
<L>Yet this my piteous plight,</L>
<L>nothing can &s;tirre her,</L>
<L>All thy Sands &s;iluer <HI>Trent</HI></L>
<L>downe to the <HI>Humber,</HI></L>
<L>The &s;ighs that I haue &s;pent</L>
<L>Neuer can number.</L>
<L>Cho: <HI>On thy Bancke</HI></L>
<L><HI>In a Rancke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let thy Swans &s;ing her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with their Mu&s;icke</HI></L>
<L><HI>along let them bring her.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Taken with this &s;uddaine Song,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t for mirth when he doth looke,</L>
<L>His &s;ad heart more deepely &s;tong,</L>
<L>Then the former care he tooke,</L>
<L>At their laughter and amaz'd,</L>
<L>For a while he &s;ate agha&s;t,</L>
<L>But a little hauing gaz'd,</L>
<L>Thus he them be&s;pake at la&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Is this time for mirth (quoth he)</L>
<L>To a man with griefe oppre&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">infull wretches as you be,</L>
<L>May the &s;orrowes in my brea&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ight vpon you one by one,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd as now you mocke my woe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen your mirth is turn'd to moane,</L>
<L><PB N="216" REF="117">May your like then &s;erue you &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When one Swaine among the re&s;t,</L>
<L>Thus him merrily be&s;pake,</L>
<L>Get thee vp thou arrant bea&s;t,</L>
<L>Fits this &s;ea&s;on loue to make?</L>
<L>Take thy Sheephooke in thy hand,</L>
<L>Clap thy Curre and &s;et him on,</L>
<L>For our fields ti's time to &s;tand,</L>
<L>Or they quickly will be gon.</L>
<L>Rougi&s;h Swinheards that repine,</L>
<L>At our Flocks, like bea&s;tly Clownes,</L>
<L>Sweare that they will bring their Swine,</L>
<L>And will wroote vp all our Downes:</L>
<L>They their Holly whips haue brac'd,</L>
<L>And tough Hazell goades haue gott;</L>
<L>Soundly they your &s;ides will ba&s;te,</L>
<L>If their courage faile them not,</L>
<L>Of their purpo&s;e if they &s;peed,</L>
<L>Then your Bagpipes you may burne,</L>
<L>It is neither Droane nor Reed</L>
<L>Shepheard, that will &s;erue your turne,</L>
<L>Angry <HI>Olcon</HI> &s;ets them on,</L>
<L>And again&s;t vs part doth take,</L>
<L>Euer &s;ince he was out-gone,</L>
<L>Offring Rymes with vs to make,</L>
<L>Yet if &s;o our Sheep-hookes hold,</L>
<L>Dearely &s;hall our Downes be bought,</L>
<L>For it neuer &s;hall be told.</L>
<L>Wee our Sheepe-walkes &s;old for naught,</L>
<L>And we here haue got vs dogges,</L>
<L><PB N="217" REF="117">Be&s;t of all the We&s;terne breed,</L>
<L>Which though Whelps &s;hall lug their Hogges,</L>
<L>Till they make their eares to bleed:</L>
<L>Therefore Shepheard come away;</L>
<L>When as <HI>Dorilus</HI> aro&s;e,</L>
<L>Whi&s;tles Cut-tayle from his play,</L>
<L>And along with them he goes.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="218" REF="118">
<HEAD>THE MOONE-<HI>CALFE.</HI></HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q>Stultorum plena &s;unt omnia.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<LG>
<L>_HElpe Neighbors helpe, for Gods &s;ake need&punc;</L>
<L>come with &s;peed,</L>
<L>For of your helpe there neuer was &s;uch</L>
<L>Midwiues ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; ha&s;t &amp; dres ye as ye run,</L>
<L>Either come quickly, or w'are al vndon,</L>
<L>The World's in labour, her throwes come &s;o thick,</L>
<L>That with the pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gs &s;he's waxt &s;tarke lunntick:</L>
<L>But whither, whither, one was heard to crye:</L>
<L>Shee that call'd thus, doth pre&s;ently reply;</L>
<L>Doe yee not &s;ee in eu'ry &s;treet and place,</L>
<L>The generall world now in a piteous ca&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vp got the Go&s;sips, and for very ha&s;t,</L>
<L>Some came without &s;hoes, &s;ome came all vnlac'd,</L>
<L>As &s;he had fir&s;t appointed them, and found</L>
<L>The World in labour, dropt into a &s;wound;</L>
<L>Wallowing &s;he lay, like to a boy&s;trous hulke,</L>
<L>Drop&s;ied with ryots, and her big-&s;wolne balke,</L>
<L>Stuff'd with infection, rottenne&s;&s;e, and &s;tench;</L>
<L>Her blood &s;o fierd, that nothing might it quench,</L>
<L>But the A&s;pes poy&s;on, which &s;tood by her &s;till,</L>
<L><PB N="219" REF="118">That in her drought &s;he often v&s;'d to &s;will;</L>
<L>Clothed &s;he was in a Fooles coate, and cap,</L>
<L>Of rich imbroydered Silks, and in her lap,</L>
<L>A &s;ort of paper Puppets, Gawdes and Toyes,</L>
<L>Trifles &s;carce good enough for Girles and Boyes,</L>
<L>Which &s;he had dandled, and with them had playd,</L>
<L>And of this tra&s;h her only God had made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Out and ala&s;&s;e (quoth one) the re&s;t among,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> doubt me Neighbours, we haue &s;tayd too long:</L>
<L>Plucke off your Rings, lay me your bracelets by;</L>
<L>Fall to your bus'ne&s;&s;e, and that &s;peedily,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e I doubt, her &s;pirits con&s;ume &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>That e'r the birth, her &s;trength will quite be pa&s;t:</L>
<L>But when more wi&s;tly they did her behold,</L>
<L>There was not one (that once) dur&s;t be &s;o bold</L>
<L>As to come neere her, but &s;tood all amaz'd,</L>
<L>Each vpon other &s;ilently and gaz'd:</L>
<L>When as her belly they &s;o bigge doe &s;ee,</L>
<L>As if a Tunne within the &s;ame &s;hould be,</L>
<L>And heard a noy&s;e and rumbling in her wombe,</L>
<L>As at the in&s;tant of the generall doome:</L>
<L>Thunder and Earthquakes raging, and the Rocks</L>
<L>Tubling down from their &s;cyts, like mighty blocks,</L>
<L>Rowl'd fro~ huge mountains, &s;uch a noi&s;e they make,</L>
<L>As though in &s;under heau'ns huge Axtree brake;</L>
<L>They either Poles, their heads together pa&s;ht,</L>
<L>And all againe into the <HI>Chaos</HI> da&s;ht;</L>
<L>Some of &s;light iudgement that were &s;tanding by,</L>
<L>Sayd, it was nothing but a Timpany:</L>
<L>Others &s;ayd, &s;ure &s;he humane helpe did want,</L>
<L>And had conceiued by an Elephant;</L>
<L><PB N="220" REF="119">Or &s;ome Sea-mon&s;ter, of a horrid &s;hape,</L>
<L>Committed with her by &s;ome violent rape:</L>
<L>Others more wi&s;e, and noting very well,</L>
<L>How her huge wombe did pa&s;t all compa&s;&s;e &s;well,</L>
<L>Said certainly (if that they might confe&s;&s;e her)</L>
<L>It would be found &s;ome Diuell did po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus while they &s;tood, and knew not what to doe,</L>
<L>Women (quoth one) why doe you trifle &s;o:</L>
<L>I pray you thinke but wherefore ye came hether,</L>
<L>Shall wombe and burthen peri&s;h both together:</L>
<L>Bring foorth the Birth-&s;toole, no, let it alone,</L>
<L>She is &s;o farre beyond all compa&s;&s;e growne:</L>
<L>Some other new deui&s;e vs needs mu&s;t &s;ted,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e &s;he neuer can be brought to bed.</L>
<L>Let one that hath &s;ome execrable &s;pell,</L>
<L>Make pre&s;ently her entrance into hell:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Furies fetcha from hell to bring the World to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d.</NOTE></L>
<L>Call <HI>Hecate,</HI> and the damn'd Furies hether,</L>
<L>And try if they will vndertake together:</L>
<L>To helpe the &s;icke World; one is out of hand</L>
<L>Di&s;patch'd for hell, who by the dread command</L>
<L>Of powerfull Charmes, brought <HI>Hecate</HI> away,</L>
<L>Who knowing her bus'ne&s;&s;e from her&s;elfe doth lay</L>
<L>That &s;ad a&s;pect, &s;hee wont to put on there,</L>
<L>In that blacke Empire; and doth now appeare,</L>
<L>As &s;hees <HI>Lucina</HI> giuing &s;trength and ayde,</L>
<L>In birth to women; mild as any Mayde,</L>
<L>Full of &s;weet hope her brow &s;eem'd, and her eyes</L>
<L>Darting fre&s;h comfort, like the morning skies.<NOTE PLACE="marg">A de&s;cription of the furies</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then came the Furies with their bo&s;omes bare,</L>
<L>Saue &s;omewhat couer'd with their Snaky hayre,</L>
<L>In wreathes contorted, mumbling helli&s;h Charmes,</L>
<L><PB N="221" REF="119">Vp to the elbowes naked were their Armes,</L>
<L><HI>Megera</HI> eld'&s;t of this damn'd Femall Fiends,</L>
<L>Gnawing her wri&s;ts, biting her fingers ends,</L>
<L>Entred the fir&s;t; <HI>Ti&s;iphone</HI> the next,</L>
<L>As to reuenge her &s;i&s;ter throughly vext,</L>
<L>In one hand bare a whip, and in the other,</L>
<L>A long &s;harpe knife; the third which &s;eeme to &s;mo|ther,</L>
<L>Her manner of reuenge, ca&s;t &s;uch an eye,</L>
<L>As well neere turn'd to &s;tone all that &s;tood by,</L>
<L>Her name <HI>Alecto,</HI> which no plague doth rue,</L>
<L>Nor neuer leaues them whom &s;he doth pur&s;ue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The women pray the godde&s;&s;e now to &s;tand,</L>
<L>Au&s;picious to them, and to lend her hand</L>
<L>To the &s;ick World, which willingly &s;he granted;</L>
<L>But at the &s;ight, as altogether danted,</L>
<L>From her cleare face the &s;prightly vigour fled,</L>
<L>And but &s;he &s;aw the Women hard be&s;ted</L>
<L>Out &s;hee had gone, not one glance backe had &s;hot,</L>
<L>Till heauen or hell &s;he o'r her head had got,</L>
<L>Yet &s;hee her &s;elfe retires, next to the doore,</L>
<L>The Go&s;&s;ips wor&s;e then e'r they were before,</L>
<L>At their wits end, know not which way to take,</L>
<L>At length the World beginning to awake,</L>
<L>Out of the trance, in which &s;he lay as dead,</L>
<L>And &s;omewhat rai&s;ing her vnweeldy head,</L>
<L>To bright <HI>Lucina</HI> call'd for helpe, that &s;hee,</L>
<L>Now in her trauell would propitious be,</L>
<L>The Godde&s;&s;e not from feeling of her woe,</L>
<L>Onely to &s;ee with what the World might goe,</L>
<L>As &s;he is draded <HI>Hicate,</HI> hauing power,</L>
<L>Of all that keepe hells vgly&punc; Balefull Bower,</L>
<L><PB N="222" REF="120">Commands the Furies to &s;tep in and ayd her,</L>
<L>And be the Midwiues, till they &s;afe had layd her,</L>
<L>To doe who&s;e plea&s;ure as they were about,</L>
<L>A &s;turdy Huswife pertly &s;tepping out,</L>
<L>Cryes hold a while, and let the queane alone,</L>
<L>It is no matter let her lye and groane:</L>
<L>Hold her &s;till to't wee'l doe the be&s;t we can,</L>
<L>To get out of her, certainely the man,</L>
<L>Which ownes the Ba&s;tard, for ther's not a Nation,</L>
<L>But hath with her committed fornication:</L>
<L>And by her ba&s;e and common pro&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ution,</L>
<L>Shee came by this vnnaturall pollution;</L>
<L>There is a meane for women thus abus'd.</L>
<L>Which at this time may very well be vs'd:</L>
<L>That in this ca&s;e when people doe de&s;ire,</L>
<L>To know the trueth, yet doubtfull of the Sire,</L>
<L>When as the woman mo&s;t of life doth doubt her,</L>
<L>In grieuous throwes; to tho&s;e that are about her,</L>
<L>He that is then at the la&s;t ca&s;t di&s;clos'd,</L>
<L>The naturall Father is to be &s;uppos'd:</L>
<L>And the iu&s;t law doth faithfully decide,</L>
<L>That for the nur&s;ing he is to prouide:</L>
<L>Therefore let's &s;ee, what in her pangs &s;hee'll &s;ay,</L>
<L>Le&s;t that this Ba&s;tard on the Land we lay:</L>
<L>They lik'd her coun&s;ell, and their helpe denyde,</L>
<L>And bad her lye and langui&s;h till &s;he dyde;</L>
<L>Vnle&s;&s;e to them &s;he truly would confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Who fill'd her belly with this foule exce&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alas (quoth &s;hee) the Deuill dre&s;t mee thus,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e Moone|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lfe beg <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t the diuell.</NOTE></L>
<L>A mid&s;t my Ryot, whil&s;t that <HI>Incubus</HI></L>
<L>Wrought on my weakene&s;&s;e, and by him beguilde,</L>
<L><PB N="223" REF="120">Hee onely is the Father of the childe.</L>
<L>His In&s;trument my Api&s;h imitation,</L>
<L>Of ev'ry mon&s;trous and prodigeous fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>Abus'd my weakene&s;&s;e: women it was &s;he,</L>
<L>Who was the Bawd betwixt the Fiend and me:</L>
<L>That this is true, it on my death I take,</L>
<L>Then helpe me women euen for pitties &s;ake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The prodigi|ous &s;igns that foreran the birth of the Moone-Calfe.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When ominus &s;ignes to &s;hew them&s;elues began,</L>
<L>That now at hand this mon&s;trous birth fore-ran:</L>
<L>About at noone flew the affrighted Owle,</L>
<L>And dogs in corners &s;et them downe to howle:</L>
<L>Bitches and Wolues the&s;e fatall &s;ignes among,</L>
<L>Brought foorth mo&s;t mon&s;trous &amp; prodigious yong</L>
<L>And from his hight the earth refre&s;hing Sunne,</L>
<L>Before his houre his golden head doth runne,</L>
<L>Farre vnder vs, in doubt his glorious eye,</L>
<L>Should be polluted with this Prodigy,</L>
<L>A <HI>Panique</HI> feare vpon the people grewe,</L>
<L>But yet the cau&s;e, there was not one that knew,</L>
<L>When they had heard this; a &s;hort tale to tell,</L>
<L>The <HI>Furies</HI> &s;traight vpon their bus'ne&s;&s;e fell,</L>
<L>And long it was not ere there came to light,</L>
<L>The mo&s;t abhorrid, the mo&s;t fearefull &s;ight,</L>
<L>That euer eye beheld, a birth &s;o &s;trange,</L>
<L>That at the view, it made their lookes to change;</L>
<L>Women (quoth one) &s;tand off, and come not neere it</L>
<L>The Diuell if he &s;aw it, &s;ure would feare it;</L>
<L>For by the &s;hape, for ought that I can gather,</L>
<L>The childe is able to affright the Father;</L>
<L>Out cryes another, now for Gods &s;ake hide it,</L>
<L>It is &s;o vgly we may not abide it:</L>
<L><PB N="224" REF="121">The birth is double, and grows &s;ide to &s;ide,</L>
<L>That humane hand it neuer can diuide;<NOTE PLACE="marg">A de&s;cription of the Moon&punc; Calfe.</NOTE></L>
<L>And in this wonderous &s;ort as they be Twins;</L>
<L>Like Male and Female they be <HI>Androgines,</HI></L>
<L>The Man is partly Woman, likewi&s;e &s;hee</L>
<L>Is partly Man, and yet in face they bee,</L>
<L>Full as prodigious, as in parts; the Twinne,</L>
<L>That is mo&s;t man, yet in the face and skinne,</L>
<L>Is all meere vvoman, that which mo&s;t doth take</L>
<L>From weaker woman: Nature &s;eemes to make</L>
<L>A man in &s;how, thereby as to define,</L>
<L>A Fem'nine man, a woman Ma&s;culine;</L>
<L>Before bred, nor begot: a more &s;trange thing,</L>
<L>Than euer <HI>Nile</HI> yet into light could bring,</L>
<L>Made as Creation meer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly to de&s;pight,</L>
<L>Nor man, nor woman, &s;car&s;e <HI>Hermophradite,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Affricke</HI> that's &s;aid, Mother of Mon&s;ters is,</L>
<L>Let her but &s;hew me &s;uch a one as this,</L>
<L>And then I will &s;ub&s;cribe (to doe her due)</L>
<L>And &s;weare, that what is &s;aid of her is true,</L>
<L>Quoth one, tis mon&s;trous, and for nothing fitt,</L>
<L>And for a Mon&s;ter, quicke let's bury it:</L>
<L>Nay quoth another, rather make proui&s;ion.</L>
<L>If po&s;sibly, to part it by inci&s;ion,</L>
<L>For were it parted, for ought I can &s;ee,</L>
<L>Both man, and woman it may &s;eeme to bee:</L>
<L>Nay quoth a third, that mu&s;t be done with co&s;t,</L>
<L>And were it done, our labour is but lo&s;t,</L>
<L>For when w'haue wrought the vtmo&s;t that we can,</L>
<L>Hees too much woman, and &s;hee's too much man;</L>
<L>Therefore, as'tis a mo&s;t prodigious birth,</L>
<L><PB N="225" REF="121">Let it not liue here to pollute the earth:</L>
<L>Go&s;sip (quoth th'la&s;t) your rea&s;on I deny,</L>
<L>Tis more by law, then we can iu&s;tifie;</L>
<L>For Syer, and Dam, haue certainly decreed&punc;</L>
<L>That they will haue more comfort of their &s;eed:</L>
<L>For he begot it, and t'was borne of her,</L>
<L>And out of doubt, they will their owne prefer:</L>
<L>Therefore good women, better be aduis'd,</L>
<L>"For precious things &s;hould not be lightly priz'd,</L>
<L>This <HI>Moon-Calfe</HI> borne vnder a lucky Fate,</L>
<L>May powerfull proue in many a wealthy State,</L>
<L>And taught the tongues about &s;ome few yeers hence</L>
<L>As now vv'are all tongue, and but little &s;ence:</L>
<L>It may fall out for any thing you know,</L>
<L>This <HI>Moon-Calfe</HI> may on great imployments goe:</L>
<L>When learned men for noble action fit.</L>
<L>Idly at home (vnthought of once) may &s;it;</L>
<L>A Bawd, or a Proiector he may proue,</L>
<L>And by his pur&s;e &s;o purcha&s;ing him loue,</L>
<L>May be exalted to &s;ome thriuing Roome,</L>
<L>Where &s;eldome good men &s;uffred are to come:</L>
<L>What will you &s;ay, hereafter when you &s;ee</L>
<L>The times &s;o gracele&s;&s;e and &s;o mad to be;</L>
<L>That men their perfect humane &s;hape &s;hall flie,</L>
<L>To imitate this Bea&s;ts deformitie:</L>
<L>Nay, when you &s;ee this Mon&s;ter, which you novv</L>
<L>Will hardly breath vpon the earth alow;</L>
<L>In his caroch with foure vvhite Freezelands drawn,</L>
<L>And he as pyde and gari&s;h as the Pavvne,</L>
<L>With a &s;et face; in which as in a booke,</L>
<L>He thinks the World for grounds of &s;tate &s;hould looke,</L>
<L><PB N="226" REF="122">Whe~ to &s;o~e greater one, who&s;e might doth awe him</L>
<L>He's known a verier iade, then tho&s;e that draw him,</L>
<L>Nay at the la&s;t, the very killing &s;ight,</L>
<L>To &s;ee this <HI>Calfe</HI> (as vertue to de&s;pight)</L>
<L>Aboue iu&s;t hone&s;t men his head to reare,</L>
<L>Nor to his greatne&s;&s;e may they once come neere,</L>
<L><HI>Each ignorant Sott to Honour &s;eekes to ri&s;e;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But as for vertue who did fir&s;t deui&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>That title a reward for, hee's to be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As mo&s;t contemned and despi&s;ed &s;hee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Goes vnregarded, that they who &s;hould owne her,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dare not take notice euer to haue knowne her;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And but that vertue, when &s;he &s;eemeth throwne</HI></L>
<L><HI>Lower then Hell, hath power to rai&s;e her owne.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Aboue the World and this her mon&s;trous birth!</HI></L>
<L><HI>She long e'r this had peri&s;h'd from the earth:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Her Fautors bani&s;h'd by her foes &s;o hie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which looke &s;o bigge as they would &s;cale the skie:</HI></L>
<L>But &s;eeing no helpe, why &s;hould I thus complaine,</L>
<L>Then to my <HI>Moone-Calfe</HI> I returne againe,</L>
<L>By his deare Dam the World, &s;o choicely bred,</L>
<L>To whom there is &s;uch greatne&s;&s;e promi&s;ed;</L>
<L>For it might well a perfect man amaze,</L>
<L>To &s;ee what meanes the Syer and Dam will rai&s;e,</L>
<L>T'exalt their <HI>Moon-Calfe,</HI> and him &s;o to cheri&s;h,</L>
<L>That he &s;hall thriue, when vertuous men &s;hal peri&s;h&punc;</L>
<L><HI>The Drunkard, Glutton, or who doth apply,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Him&s;elfe to bea&s;tly &s;en&s;uallity,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shall get him many friends, for that there be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Many in euery place iu&s;t &s;uch as hee;</HI></L>
<L><HI>The euill loue them that delight in ill,</HI></L>
<L><PB N="127" REF="122"><HI>Like haue clean'd to their like, and euer will:</HI></L>
<L><HI>But the true vertuous man (God knowes) hath fewe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They that his &s;traite and harder &s;teps pur&s;ue,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Are a &s;mall number, &s;carcely knowne of any;</HI></L>
<L><HI>"God hath few friends, the Deuill hath &s;o many,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But to returne that yee may plainly &s;ee,</L>
<L>That &s;uch a one he likely is to be,</L>
<L>And that my words for trueth that ye may trie,</L>
<L>Of the Worlds Babe thus doe I prophecy,</L>
<L>Marke but the more man of the&s;e mon&s;trous Twins,</L>
<L>From his fir&s;t youth, how tow'rdly he begins,</L>
<L>Whe~ he &s;hould learn, being learnd to leaue the &s;chole</L>
<L>This arrant <HI>Moon-Calfe,</HI> this mo&s;t bea&s;tly foole,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t to our Engli&s;h Prouerbe &s;hall be &s;eene,</L>
<L>"Scarcely &s;o wi&s;e at fifty, as fifteene:</L>
<L>And when him&s;elfe hee of his home can free,</L>
<L>He to the City comes, where then if he,</L>
<L>And the familiar butterflye his Page,</L>
<L>Can pa&s;&s;e the Streete, the Ord'nary and Stage,</L>
<L>It is enough, and he him&s;elfe thinks then,</L>
<L>To be the only ab&s;olut'&s;t of men:</L>
<L>Then in his Cups you &s;hall not &s;ee him &s;hrinke,</L>
<L>To the grand diuell a carow&s;e to drinke.</L>
<L>Next to his whore he doth him&s;elfe apply,</L>
<L>And to maintaine his goti&s;h luxurie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ates Capons Cookt at fifteene Crownes a peece,</L>
<L>With their fat bellies, &s;tuff'd with Amber greece,</L>
<L>And being to trauell he &s;ticks not to lay,</L>
<L>His Po&s;t Caroches &s;till vpon his way:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in &s;ome &s;ixe dayes iourney doth con&s;ume,</L>
<L>Ten pounds in Suckets and the <HI>Indian</HI> Fume:</L>
<L><PB N="228" REF="123">For his Attire, then Forraigne parts are &s;ought,</L>
<L>He holds all vile in <HI>England</HI> that is wrought,</L>
<L>And into <HI>Flanders</HI> &s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eth for the nonce,</L>
<L>Twelue dozen of Shirts prouiding him at once,</L>
<L>Layd in the &s;eames vvith co&s;tly Lace that be,</L>
<L>Of the Smocke fa&s;hion whole below the knee,</L>
<L>Then bathes in milke, in which when he hath bin,</L>
<L>He lookes like one for the prepo&s;trous &s;inne,</L>
<L>Put by the wicked and rebellious Iewes,</L>
<L>To be a Pathique in a Malekind Stevves.</L>
<L>With the ball of's foot the ground he may not feel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>But he mu&s;t tread vpon his toe and heele&punc;</L>
<L>Dublet and Cloake, vvith Plu&s;h, and Veluet linde,</L>
<L>Onely his head. piece, that is fil'd with Winde,</L>
<L>Rags, running Hor&s;es, Dogs, Drabs, Drink &amp; dice,</L>
<L>The onely things that he doth hold in price:</L>
<L>Yet more then the&s;e, naught doth him &s;o delight,</L>
<L>As doth his &s;mooth-chind, plump-thigh'd, Catami<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Sodome <HI>for her great &s;inne that burning &s;anke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which at one draught the pit infernall dranke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which that iu&s;t God on earth could not abide,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hath &s;hee &s;o much the Deuils terrifide:</HI></L>
<L><HI>As from their &s;eate, them well neere to exile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hath Hell new spew'd her vp after this while:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Is &s;he new ri&s;en, and her &s;inne agen,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Imbrac'd by bea&s;tly and outragious men.</HI></L>
<L>Nay more he ie&s;ts at Ince&s;t, as therein,</L>
<L>There were no fault, counts &s;acriledge no &s;in:</L>
<L>His bla&s;phemies he v&s;eth for his grace;</L>
<L>Wherewith he trueth doth often times outface:</L>
<L>He termeth vertue madne&s;&s;e, or meere folly,</L>
<L><PB N="229" REF="123">He hates all high things, and prophanes all holly.</L>
<L><HI>Where is thy thunder god, art thou a&s;leepe?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Or to what &s;uff'ring hand giu'&s;t thou to keepe</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy wrath and vengeance; where is now the &s;trength</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of thy Almighty arme, failes it at length?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Turne all the Starres to Comets, to out &s;tare</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Sunne at noone-tide, that he &s;hall not dare</HI></L>
<L><HI>To looke but like a G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oworme, for that hee</HI></L>
<L><HI>Can without melting the&s;e damnations &s;ee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>But this Ile leaue, le&s;t I my pen defile:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet to my</HI> Moon-Calfe <HI>keepe I clo&s;e the while,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who by &s;ome knaue, per&s;waded he hath wit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>When like a braue Foole, he to vtter it,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dare with a de&s;perate boldne&s;&s;e roughly pa&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>His cen&s;ure on tho&s;e bookes, which the poore A&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>Can neuer reach to, things from darkene&s;&s;e &s;ought,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That to the light with blood &amp; &s;weat were brought:</HI></L>
<L><HI>And takes vpon him tho&s;e things to controule,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which &s;hould the brainele&s;&s;e Ideot &s;ell his &s;oule,</HI></L>
<L><HI>All his dull race, and he can neuer buy</HI></L>
<L><HI>With their ba&s;e pelfe, his glorious indu&s;try;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Knowledge with him is idle, if it &s;traine</HI></L>
<L><HI>Aboue the compa&s;&s;e of his ye&s;tie braine:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nor knowes mens worths but by a &s;econd hand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For he him&s;elfe doth nothing vnder&s;tand;</HI></L>
<L><HI>He would haue &s;omething, but what tis hee &s;howes not</HI></L>
<L><HI>What he would &s;peake, nay what to think he knowes not</HI></L>
<L><HI>He nothingmore the~ truth &amp; knowledg loaths</HI></L>
<L><HI>And nothing he admires of mans but cloathes.</HI></L>
<L>Now for that I thy dotage dare mi&s;like&punc;</L>
<L>And &s;eeme &s;o deepe, into thy &s;oule to &s;trike;</L>
<L><PB N="230" REF="124">Becau&s;e I am &s;o plaine thou likd'&s;t not me,</L>
<L>Why know, poore Slaue, I no more thinke of thee,</L>
<L>Then of the Ordure that is ca&s;t abroad,</L>
<L>I hate thy vice more then I doe a Toade,</L>
<L>Poore is the &s;pirit that fawnes on thy applau&s;e;</L>
<L>Or &s;eekes for &s;uffrage from thy Barbarous Iawes.</L>
<L>Misfortune light on him, that ought doth way,</L>
<L>Yee &s;onnes of <HI>Beliall,</HI> what yee thinke or &s;ay:</L>
<L>Who would haue thought whil&s;t wit &s;ought to aduance,</L>
<L>It &s;elfe &s;o high, damn'd bea&s;tly ignorance</L>
<L>Vnder the cloake of knowledge &s;hould creepe in,</L>
<L>And from de&s;ert &s;hould &s;o much credit win:</L>
<L>But all this poy&s;onous froth Hell hath let flie,</L>
<L>In the&s;e la&s;t dayes, at noble Poe&s;ie,</L>
<L>That which hath had both in all times and places,</L>
<L>For her much worth, &s;o &s;undry &s;oueraigne graces;</L>
<L>The language, which the Spheares and Angels &s;peake,</L>
<L>In which their minde they to poore Mortals breake,</L>
<L>By Gods great power, into rich &s;oules infus'd,</L>
<L>By euery <HI>Moone-Calfe</HI> lately thus abus'd:</L>
<L>Should all hells blacke inhabitants con&s;pire,</L>
<L>And more vnheard of mi&s;chiefe to them hyer,</L>
<L>Such as high Heau'n were able to affright,</L>
<L>And on the noone &s;ted bring a double night:</L>
<L>Then they haue done, they could not more di&s;grace her,</L>
<L>As from the earth (euen) vtterly terace her:</L>
<L>What Princes lou'd, by Pea&s;ants now made hatefull,</L>
<L>In this our age &s;o damnably ingratefull:</L>
<L>And to giue open pa&s;&s;age to her fall,</L>
<L>It is deuis'd to blemi&s;h her withall,</L>
<L>That th'hideous braying of each Barbarous A&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><PB N="231" REF="124">In Printed Letters freely now mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>In Accents &s;o vntuneable and vile,</L>
<L>With other Nations was might damne our Ile,</L>
<L>If &s;o our tongue they truely vnder&s;tood,</L>
<L>And make them thinke our braines were meerely m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a,</L>
<L>To make her vile, and vgly to appeare,</L>
<L>Who&s;e naturall beauty is Diuinely cleare;</L>
<L>That on the Stationers Stall, who pa&s;sing lookes,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the multiplicity of Bookes,</L>
<L>That pe&s;ter it, may well beleeue the Pre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Sicke of a &s;urfet &s;pu'd with the exce&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Which breedeth &s;uch a dulne&s;&s;e through the land,</L>
<L>Mong&s;t tho&s;e one tongue which onely vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>Which did they reade tho&s;e &s;inewie Poems writ,</L>
<L>That are materiall reli&s;hing of wit:</L>
<L>Wi&s;e pollicie, Morallity, or Story,</L>
<L>Well purtraying the Ancients and their glory,</L>
<L>The&s;e blinded Fooles, on their ba&s;e Carrion feeding,</L>
<L>Which are (in trueth) made ignorant by reading,</L>
<L>In little time would growe to be a&s;ham'd,</L>
<L>And blu&s;h to heare the&s;e lowzie Pamphlets nam'd,</L>
<L>Which now they &s;tudie, naught but folly learning,</L>
<L>Which is the cau&s;e that they haue no di&s;cerning,</L>
<L>The good from bad, this ill, that well to know,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e in ignorance they are nouri&s;h'd &s;o:</L>
<L>Who for this hatefull tra&s;h &s;hould I condemne</L>
<L>They that doe vtter, or Authorize them:</L>
<L>O that the Ancients &s;hould &s;o carefull be,</L>
<L>Of what they did impre&s;&s;e, and only wee</L>
<L>Loo&s;ely at randome, &s;hould let all things flie,</L>
<L>Though gain&s;t the Mu&s;es it be bla&s;phemy:</L>
<L><PB N="232" REF="125">But yet to happy spirits, and to the wi&s;e,</L>
<L>All is but fooli&s;h that they can deui&s;e,</L>
<L>For when contempt of Poe&s;ie is proude&s;t,</L>
<L>Then haue the Mu&s;es euer &s;ung the lowde&s;t,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But to my <HI>Calfe,</HI> who to be counted prime,</L>
<L>According to the fa&s;hion of the time,</L>
<L>Him to a&s;&s;ociate &s;ome Buffoon doth get,</L>
<L>Who&s;e braines he &s;till with much expence mu&s;t whet,</L>
<L>And euer beare about him as his gue&s;t,</L>
<L>Who comming out with &s;ome ridiculous ie&s;t,</L>
<L>Of one (perhaps) a god that well might be,</L>
<L>If but compar'd with &s;uch an A&s;&s;e as hee,</L>
<L>His Patron rores with laughter, and doth cry,</L>
<L>Take him away, or pre&s;ently I dye,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t that Knaue-foole which well him&s;elfe doth know</L>
<L>Smiles at the Coxecombe, which admires him &s;o:</L>
<L>His time and wealth, thus lewdly that doth &s;pend,</L>
<L>As it were lent him to no other end:</L>
<L>Vntill this <HI>Moone-Calfe,</HI> this mo&s;t drunken puffe,</L>
<L>Euen like a Candle burnt vnto the &s;nuffe:</L>
<L>Fierd with &s;urfet, in his owne greace fries,</L>
<L>Sparkles a little, and then &s;tinking dies.</L>
<L><HI>The wealth his Father by extortion wonne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus in the spending helps to damne the Sonne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And &s;o falls out indifferently to either,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whereby in hell they iu&s;tly meete together;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And yet the World much ioyes in her behalfe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And takes no little plea&s;ure in her</HI> Calfe,</L>
<L><HI>Had this declining time the Freedome now,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which the braue Romane once did it allowe:</HI></L>
<L><PB N="233" REF="125"><HI>With wyer and Whipcord yee &s;hould &s;ee her payd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till the luxurious Whore &s;hould be afraid</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of pro&s;titution and &s;uch la&s;hes giuen,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To make her blood &s;pirt in the face of Heauen;</HI></L>
<L><HI>That men by looking vpward as they goe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Should &s;ee the plagues layd on her here below,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now proceed we with the other Twin,</L>
<L>Which is mo&s;t woman who &s;hall &s;oone begin</L>
<L>To &s;hew her &s;elfe; no &s;ooner got the Teenes,</L>
<L>But her owne naturall beauty &s;he di&s;daines,</L>
<L>With Oyles and Broathes mo&s;t venomous and ba&s;e,</L>
<L>She plai&s;ters ouer her well-fauoured face;</L>
<L>And tho&s;e &s;weet veines by nature rightly plac'd,</L>
<L>Wher with &s;he &s;eem'd that white skin to haue lac'd</L>
<L>She &s;oone doth alter; and with fading blew,</L>
<L>Blanching her bo&s;ome, &s;he makes others new,</L>
<L>Blotting the curious workeman&s;hip of nature;</L>
<L>That e're &s;he be arriu'd at her full &s;tature,</L>
<L>E're &s;he be dre&s;t, &s;he &s;eemeth aged growne,</L>
<L>And to haue nothing on her of her owne:</L>
<L>Her black, browne, aburne or her yellow hayre,</L>
<L>Naturally louely, &s;he doth &s;corne to weare,</L>
<L>It mu&s;t be white to make it fre&s;h to &s;how,</L>
<L>And with compounded meale &s;he makes it &s;o:</L>
<L>With fumes and powdrings rai&s;ing &s;uch a &s;moke,</L>
<L>That a whole Region able were to choke:</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;tench might fright a Dragon from his den;</L>
<L>The &s;unne yet ne're exhal'd from any Fen</L>
<L>Such pe&s;tilentious vapours as ari&s;e,</L>
<L>From their French powderings and their Mer|curies,</L>
<L><PB N="234" REF="126">Ireland, <HI>if thou wilt able be alone,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of thine owne power to driue out thy</HI> Tyrone&punc;</L>
<L><HI>By heaping vp a ma&s;&s;e of Coyne together&punc;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sheere thy olde Wolues, and &s;end their Fle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ces hether,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy white Goates hayre,</HI> Wales, <HI>dearer will be &s;olde,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then &s;ilks of</HI> Naples, <HI>or then Threed of gold,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Our Water-dogs, and &s;lands here are &s;horne;</HI></L>
<L><HI>White haeyre &s;o much of Women here is worne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nay more then this, they'll any thing endure,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And with large &s;ummes they &s;ticke not to procure</HI></L>
<L><HI>Haire from the dead yea and the mo&s;t vncleane,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To helpe their pride they nothing will di&s;daine.</HI></L>
<L>Then in attyring her, and in her &s;leepe,</L>
<L>The dayes three parts &s;he exercis'd doth keepe,</L>
<L>And in ridiculous vi&s;its &s;he doth &s;pend,</L>
<L>The other fourth part to no other end;</L>
<L>But to take note how &s;uch a Lady lyes,</L>
<L>And to gleane from her &s;ome deformities,</L>
<L>Which for a grace &s;he holds and till &s;he get,</L>
<L>She thinks her &s;elfe to be but counterfet.</L>
<L>Our Merchants from all parts twixt either <HI>Inde,</HI></L>
<L>Cannot get &s;ilke to &s;atisfie her minde:</L>
<L>Nor natures perfect'&s;t patterne can &s;uffice,</L>
<L>The curious draughts for her embroderies:</L>
<L>She thinkes her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">onour vtterly is lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Except tho&s;e things doe infinitely co&s;t,</L>
<L>Which &s;hee doth weare; nor thinke they can her dre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Except &s;he haue them in mo&s;t &s;trange exce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And in her fa&s;hion &s;he is likevvi&s;e thus,</L>
<L>In euery thing &s;he mu&s;t be mon&s;trous:</L>
<L><PB N="235" REF="126">Her Picadell aboue her crowne vp beares,</L>
<L>Her Fardingale is &s;et aboue her eares:</L>
<L>Which like a broad &s;ayle with the wind doth &s;well,</L>
<L>To driue this faire Hulke headlong into hell.</L>
<L>After againe, note, and you &s;hall her &s;ee,</L>
<L>Shorne like a man, and for that &s;he will be</L>
<L>Like him in all, her congies &s;he will make,</L>
<L>With the mans curt&s;ie, and her hat off take,</L>
<L>Of the <HI>French</HI> fa&s;hion, and weare by her &s;ide,</L>
<L>Her &s;harpe Stillato in a Ryband tyde,</L>
<L>Then gird he &s;elfe clo&s;e to the paps &s;he &s;hall,</L>
<L>Shap'd, brea&s;t and buttocke, but no wa&s;te at all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But of this &s;hee Calfe now to cea&s;e all &s;trife,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">le by example lim her to the life,</L>
<L>Not long agone it was my chance to meete,</L>
<L>With &s;uch a Fury, &s;uch a female &s;pright,</L>
<L>As neuer man &s;aw yet, except twere &s;hee,</L>
<L>And &s;uch a one as I'may neuer &s;ee</L>
<L>Againe I pray: but where I will not name,</L>
<L>For that the place might &s;o partake her &s;hame:</L>
<L>But when I &s;aw her rampant to tran&s;cend</L>
<L>All womenhead, I thought her (&s;ure) a friend,</L>
<L>And to my &s;elfe my thoughts &s;ugge&s;ted thus,</L>
<L>That &s;he was gotten by &s;ome <HI>Incubus,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;o remembring an old womans tale,</L>
<L>As &s;hee &s;ate dreaming o'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a pot of Ale,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat on a time &s;he did the Deuill meete,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd knew him only by his clouen feete:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o did I looke at hers, where &s;he did goe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;ee if her feete, were not clouen &s;o&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="236" REF="127">Ten long-tongu'd Tap&s;ters in a common Inne,</L>
<L>When as the Gue&s;ts to flocke apace begin,</L>
<L>When vp-&s;taire one, downe-&s;taire another hyes,</L>
<L>With &s;queaking clamours, and confu&s;ed cryes;</L>
<L>Neuer did yet make &s;uch a noy&s;e as &s;he,</L>
<L>That I dare boldly iu&s;tifie, that he,</L>
<L>Who but an howre her loud clacke can endure,</L>
<L>May vndi&s;turbed, &s;afely and &s;ecure,</L>
<L>Sleepe vnder any Bells, and neuer heare,</L>
<L>Though they were rung the clappers at his eare,</L>
<L>And the long'&s;t night with one &s;weet &s;leepe be guile</L>
<L>As though he dreamt of Mu&s;icke all the while.</L>
<L>The very &s;ight of her, when &s;he doth rore,</L>
<L>Is able to &s;trike dumbe the bolde&s;t Whore,</L>
<L>That euer traded: &s;hee'll not &s;ticke to tell,</L>
<L>All in her life that euer her befell;</L>
<L>How &s;he hath layne, with all degrees, and ages,</L>
<L>Her Plow-boyes, Scullians; Lackies, and &s;ome Pages&punc;</L>
<L>And &s;weare when we haue &s;aid all that we can,</L>
<L>That there is nothing worth a pin in man,</L>
<L>And that ther's nothing doth &s;o plea&s;e her mind,</L>
<L>As to &s;ee Mares, and Hor&s;es, doe their kind;</L>
<L>And when &s;hee's Tip&s;ey, how &s;o e'r t'offend,</L>
<L>Then all her &s;peech to Bawdry doth intend:</L>
<L>In womens &s;ecrets, and &s;hee'll name ye all</L>
<L>Read to the Midwiues at the Surgeons Hall.</L>
<L>Were the poore Coxecombe, her dull husband de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>He that dur&s;t then this female <HI>Moone-Calfe</HI> wed&punc;</L>
<L>Should quite put down the Roman which once leep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Into the burning Gulfe, thereby to keepe</L>
<L><PB N="237" REF="127">His Country from deuouring with the flame:</L>
<L>Thus leaue we her, of all her &s;exe the &s;hame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Among&s;t the re&s;t, at the Worlds labour there,</L>
<L>For good old Women, mo&s;t e&s;peciall were,</L>
<L>Which had bene iolly Wenches in their dayes,</L>
<L>Through all the Pari&s;h, and had borne the pray&s;e,</L>
<L>For merry Tales: one Mother <HI>Red-Cap</HI> hight,</L>
<L>And Mother <HI>Howlet</HI> &s;omewhat ill of &s;ight,</L>
<L>For &s;he had hurt her eyes with watching late;</L>
<L>Them Mother <HI>Bumby</HI> a mad iocund Mate</L>
<L>As euer Go&s;sipt, and with her there came</L>
<L>Olde Gammer <HI>Gurton,</HI> a right ple&s;ant Dame,</L>
<L>As the be&s;t of them; being thus together,</L>
<L>The bus'ne&s;&s;e done for which they had come thither:</L>
<L>Qaoth Iolly Mother <HI>Red-Cap</HI> at the la&s;t,</L>
<L>I &s;ee the night is quickly like to wa&s;te,</L>
<L>And &s;ince the World &s;o kindly now is layd,</L>
<L>And the child &s;afe, which made vs all afrayde:</L>
<L>Let's haue a night on't Wenches, hang vp &s;orrow,</L>
<L>And what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">leepe wants now, take it vp to morrow,</L>
<L>Stirre vp the fire, and let vs haue our Ale,</L>
<L>And o'r our Cups, let's each one tell her Tale:</L>
<L>My hone&s;t Go&s;sips, and to put you in,</L>
<L>Ile breake the Ice, and thus doth mine begin.</L>
<L>There was a certaine Prophe&s;ie of old,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mother Red-Cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> tal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which to an Ile had anciently beene told,</L>
<L>That after many yeeres were com'n and gone,</L>
<L>Which then came out, and the &s;et time came on;</L>
<L>Nay, more it told the very day and howre,</L>
<L>Wherein &s;hould fall &s;o violent a &s;howre;</L>
<L><PB N="238" REF="128">That it new Riuers in the earth &s;hould weare,</L>
<L>And Dorps and Bridges quite away &s;hould beare:</L>
<L>But where this Ile is, that I cannot &s;howe,</L>
<L>Let them enquire that haue de&s;ire to know:</L>
<L>The Story leaues out that, let it alone;</L>
<L>And Go&s;sip with my Tale I will goe on:</L>
<L>Yet what was wor&s;e the Prophecy this &s;pake,</L>
<L>(As to warne men defence for it to make)</L>
<L>That vpon whom one drop &s;hould chance to light,</L>
<L>They &s;hould of rea&s;on be depriued quite,</L>
<L>This Prophecy had many an Age beene heard,</L>
<L>But not a man did it one pin regard;</L>
<L>For all to folly did them&s;elues di&s;po&s;e,</L>
<L>(On veryer Calues the Sunne yet neuer ro&s;e)</L>
<L>And of their laughter made it all their Theame,</L>
<L>By terming it the drunken Wizards dreame:</L>
<L>There was one hone&s;t man among&s;t the re&s;t,</L>
<L>That bare more perfect knowledge in his brea&s;t;</L>
<L>And to him&s;elfe his priuat houres had kept,</L>
<L>To talke with God, whil&s;t others drunke or &s;lept,</L>
<L>Who in his mercy to this man reueal'd&punc;</L>
<L>That which in Iu&s;tice he had long conceal'd</L>
<L>From the rude Heard but let them &s;till run on</L>
<L>The ready way to their de&s;truction.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This hone&s;t man the Prophecy that noted,</L>
<L>And things therein more curiou&s;ly had quoted,</L>
<L>Found all tho&s;e &s;ignes were truely come to pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That &s;hould fore&punc;&s;howe this raine, and that it was</L>
<L>Neerely at hand; and from his depth of skill,</L>
<L>Had many a time fore-warn'd them of their ill,</L>
<L><PB N="239" REF="128"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d Preach'd to them this Deluge (for their good)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">to th'old world <HI>Noe</HI> did before the Flood,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t lo&s;t his labour, and &s;ince t'was in vaine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o talke more to tho&s;e Ideots of the raine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e let them re&s;t: and &s;ilent &s;ought about,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">here he might finde &s;ome place of &s;afety out,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;hroud him&s;elfe in, for right well he knew,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat from this &s;hower, which then began to brew,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">o roofe of Tyle, or thatch he could come in,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ould &s;erue him from being wet to the bare skin.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> length this man bethought him of a Caue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> a huge Rocke which likely was to &s;aue</L>
<L>Him from the &s;hower, vpon a hill &s;o &s;teepe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s vp the &s;ame a man could hardly creepe;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o that except <HI>Noahs</HI> flood &s;hould come againe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e neuer could be raught by any raine;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hither at length, though with much toyle he clome</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;tning to heare what would thereof become.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It was not long e'r he perceiu'd the skies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">etled to raine, and a blacke cloud ari&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e foggy gro&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;o oppos'd the light,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s it would turne the noone-&s;ted into night,</L>
<L>When the winde came about with all his povver,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nto the tayle of this approaching &s;hovver,</L>
<L>And it to lighten pre&s;ently began;</L>
<L>Quicker then thought, from Ea&s;t to We&s;t that ran:</L>
<L>The Thunder following did &s;o fiercely raue,</L>
<L>And through the thick clouds vvith &s;uch fury draue</L>
<L>As Hell had beene &s;et open for the nonce,</L>
<L>And all the Diuels heard to rore at once:</L>
<L><PB N="240" REF="129">And &s;oone the Tempe&s;t &s;o outragious grew,</L>
<L>That it whole hedgerowes by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> rootes vp threw</L>
<L>So wondrou&s;ly prodigious was the weather,</L>
<L>As heauen and earth had meant to goe together:</L>
<L>And downe the &s;hower impetuou&s;ly doth fall,</L>
<L>Like that which men the <HI>Hurricano</HI> call:</L>
<L>As the grand Deluge had bene come againe,</L>
<L>And all the world &s;hould peri&s;h by the raine,</L>
<L>And long it la&s;ted; all which time this man</L>
<L>Hid in the Caue doth in his iudgement &s;can,</L>
<L>What of this inundation would en&s;ue,</L>
<L>For he knew well the Prophecie was true:</L>
<L>And when the &s;hower was &s;omewhat ouerpa&s;t;</L>
<L>And that the skie began to cleare at la&s;t:</L>
<L>To the Caues mouth he &s;oftly put his eare,</L>
<L>To li&s;ten if he any thing could heare:</L>
<L>What harme this &s;torm had done, and what became</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e that had beene &s;ow&s;ed in the &s;ame,</L>
<L>No &s;ooner he that nimble Organ lent,</L>
<L>To the Caues mouth; but that incontinent</L>
<L>There was a noy&s;e as if the Garden beares</L>
<L>And all the Dogs together by the eares,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e of <HI>Bedlam</HI> had enlarged bin,</L>
<L>And to behold the bayting had come in:</L>
<L>Which when he heard, he knevv too well alas,</L>
<L>That what had beene fore-told, was come to pa&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Within him&s;elfe good man, he rea&s;oned thus:</L>
<L>Tis for our &s;innes, this plague is falne on vs.</L>
<L>Of all the re&s;t, though in my wits I be,</L>
<L>(I thanke my Maker) yet it grieueth mee,</L>
<L><PB N="241" REF="129"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;ee my Country in this piteous ca&s;e;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oe's me that euer they &s;o wanted grace,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t vvhen as man once ca&s;ts off vertue quite,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd doth in &s;in and bea&s;tline&s;&s;e delight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;ee how &s;oone God turnes him to a Sot:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;how my &s;elfe yet a true Patriot,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e in among&s;t them, and if &s;o that they</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e not a cur&s;t of God, yet, yet I may,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y whole&s;ome coun&s;ell (if they can but heare)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ake them as perfect as at fir&s;t they vvere,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd thus re&s;olu'd goes this good poore man downe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen at the entrance of the neighboring Towne,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e meets 2 woman with her buttocks bate,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ot vp a &s;tride vpon a wall eyd Mare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orunne a Hor&s;e-race and was like to ride</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uer the goodman; but he &s;tept a&s;ide;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd after her, another that be&s;troad</L>
<L>Hor&s;e of &s;eruice, with a Lance &s;he rode,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rm'd, and behind her on a Pillian &s;att</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er frantique husband, in a broad brim'd Hat,</L>
<L>Maske and Safeguard; and had in his hand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s mad Wiues Di&s;taffe for a rvding Wand:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ar&s;e from the&s;e mad folke, had he gone &s;o farre,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;trong man will eas'ly pitch a Barre:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t that he found a Youth in Ti&s;&s;ue braue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> daintier man one would not wi&s;h to haue)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">as courting of a loath&s;ome meazeled Sow,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d in his iudgement &s;wore he mu&s;t alowe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s the prime Beauty, that he euer &s;aw,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s was &s;he &s;ued to (by that prating Daw)</L>
<L><PB N="242" REF="130">Who, on a Dunghill in the loath&s;ome gore</L>
<L>Had farrowed ten Pigs &s;carce an houre before,</L>
<L>At which this man in melancholly deepe,</L>
<L>Bur&s;t into laughter, like before to weepe,</L>
<L>Another foole, to fit him for the Weather,</L>
<L>Had arm'd his heeles with Corke his head with feather</L>
<L>And in more &s;trange and &s;undry collours clad,</L>
<L>Then in the Raine-bowe euer can be had,</L>
<L>Stalk'd through the &s;treets, preparing him to flie,</L>
<L>Vp to the Moone vpon an Emba&s;sie,</L>
<L>Another &s;eeing his drunken Wife di&s;gorge</L>
<L>Her pamperd &s;tomacke, got her to a Forge,</L>
<L>And in her throat the Feauerous heat to quench</L>
<L>With the Smiths horne, was giuing her a Drench:</L>
<L>One his next neighbour haltred had by force,</L>
<L>So frantique, that he tooke him for a Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>And to a Pond was leading him to drinke;</L>
<L>It went beyond the wit of man to thinke,</L>
<L>The &s;undry frenzies that he there might &s;ee,</L>
<L>One man would to another married be:</L>
<L>And for the Curate taking the Towne Bull,</L>
<L>Would haue him knit the knot: another Gull</L>
<L>Had found an Ape was chained to a Stall,</L>
<L>Which he to wor&s;hip on his knees doth fall;</L>
<L>To doe the like and doth his Neighbours get,</L>
<L>Who in a Chaire this ill-fac'd Munky &s;et,</L>
<L>And on their &s;houlders lifting him on hie,</L>
<L>They in Proce&s;sion beare him with a cry,</L>
<L>And him a Lord will haue at lea&s;t if not,</L>
<L>A greater man; another &s;ort had got</L>
<L><PB N="243" REF="130"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bout a Pedlar, vvho had lately heard,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow with the mad men of this Ile it far'd:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd hauing nothing in his Packe but toyes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich none except meere mad men, and fond boyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ould euer touch; thought verily that hee</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mong&s;t the&s;e Bedlams, would a gayner be,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r el&s;e loo&s;e all: &s;carce had he pitcht his packe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re he could &s;carcely &s;ay, what doe yee lacke:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t that they throng'd about him with their money,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s thicke as Flyes about a pot of hony:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">me of the&s;e Lunaticks, the&s;e frantique A&s;&s;es,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ue him Spurryalls for his farthing Gla&s;&s;es:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">here &s;hould you &s;ee another of the&s;e Cattell,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e him a pound of filuer for a rattle;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd there another that would need&s;ly &s;cor&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">co&s;tly Iewell for a Hobby&punc; Hor&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r Bells, and Babyes, &s;uch as children &s;mall,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e euer vs'd to &s;olace them withall:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e they did buy at &s;uch a co&s;tly rate,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat it was able to &s;ubuert a State;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hich when this wi&s;e and &s;ober man beheld,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> very griefe his eyes with teares were &s;weld.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, that ere I &s;aw this day (quoth he)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">at I my Natiue country-men &s;hould &s;ee</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> this &s;tate; when out of very zeale</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">th to his natiue earth, and common weale,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thru&s;t among&s;t them, and thus frames his &s;peech.</L>
<L>Dea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Country&punc; men, I humbly yee be&s;eech,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> a little, and but marke me well,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> not long &s;ince fir&s;t yee fell,</L>
<L><PB N="244" REF="131">Into this frenzie, the&s;e outragious fits,</L>
<L>Be not I pray ye &s;o out of your wits:</L>
<L>But call to mind th'ineuitable ill</L>
<L>Mu&s;t fall on yee, if ye continue &s;till</L>
<L>Thus mad and frantique: therefore be not wor&s;e,</L>
<L>Then your bruite bea&s;ts to bring thereby a Cur&s;e</L>
<L>Vpon your Nephewes, &s;o to taynt their blood,</L>
<L>That twenty Generations &s;hall be woo'd,</L>
<L>And this braue Land for wit that hath bin fam'd,</L>
<L>The Ile of Ideots after &s;hall be nam'd:</L>
<L>Your braines are not &s;o craz'd, but leaue this ryot,</L>
<L>And tis no que&s;tion, but with Temperate Dyet,</L>
<L>And coun&s;aile of wi&s;e men, when they &s;hall &s;ee</L>
<L>The de&s;perate e&s;tate wherein you bee:</L>
<L>But with &s;uch med'cines as they will apply,</L>
<L>They'll quickly cure your grieuous malady,</L>
<L>And as he would proceed with his Oration,</L>
<L>One of the chiefe&s;t of this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">edlam Nation:</L>
<L>Layes hold on him, and askes who he &s;hould bee,</L>
<L>Thou fellow (quoth this Lord) where had we thee,</L>
<L>Com'&s;t thou to preach to vs that be &s;o wi&s;e,</L>
<L>What wilt thou take vpon thee to adui&s;e</L>
<L>Vs of whom all now vnderneath the skie,</L>
<L>May well be &s;eene to learne frugalitie:</L>
<L>Why &s;urely hone&s;t fellow thou art mad,</L>
<L>Another &s;tanding by, &s;wore that the had</L>
<L>Seene him in Bedlam foureteene yeeres agoe:</L>
<L>O quoth a third this fellow doe I know,</L>
<L>This is an arrant Coxecomb, a meere Dizzard,</L>
<L>If yee remember, this is the &s;ame Wizzard,</L>
<L><PB N="245" REF="131">Which tooke vpon him wi&s;ely to fore tell</L>
<L>The &s;hower &s;o many yeeres before it fell:</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;trong effects being &s;o &s;trange and rare,</L>
<L>Hath made vs &s;uch braue creatures as we are:</L>
<L>When of this Nation all the frantique Route,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ell into laughter the poore man about,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ome made mouthes at him, others as in &s;corne</L>
<L>With their forkt fingers pointed him the Horne:</L>
<L>They call'd him A&s;&s;e, and Dolt, and bad him goe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">mong&s;t &s;uch Fooles, as he him&s;elfe was, who</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ould not teach them: at which this hone&s;t man,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">inding that naught, but hate and &s;corne he wan</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">mong&s;t the&s;e Ideots, and their bea&s;tly kinde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">he poore &s;mall remnant of his life behinde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">etermineth to Solitude to giue.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The morali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y of mother Red-Caps tale.</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nd a true Hermite afterward to liue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The tale thus ended, Go&s;sip by your leaue;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">oth Mother <HI>Bumby,</HI> I doe well perceiue</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">he morrall of your Story, which is this;</L>
<L>Correct me Dame, if I doe iudge ami&s;&s;e)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> fir&s;t Ile tell you by this hone&s;t Ale,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">my conceit this is a pretty Tale;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">d if &s;ome han&s;ome players would it take,</L>
<L>(&s;ure) a pretty interlude would <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ake,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">t to the Morrall, this &s;ame mig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">y &s;hower</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">a plague &s;ent by &s;upernaturall power,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">pon the wicked: for when God intends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">lay a cur&s;e on mens vngodly ends,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> vnder&s;tanding he doth them depriue;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">hich taken from them vp them&s;elues they giue</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> bea&s;tline&s;&s;e, nor will he let them &s;ee&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="246" REF="132">The mi&s;erable e&s;tate wherein they be.</L>
<L>The Rocke to which this man for &s;afety climes,</L>
<L>The contemplation is of the &s;ad times</L>
<L>Of the declining World; his coun&s;ailes told</L>
<L>To the mad Route, to &s;poyle and ba&s;ene&s;&s;e &s;olde,</L>
<L>Showes that from &s;uch no goodne&s;&s;e can proceede,</L>
<L>Who coun&s;ailes fooles, &s;hall never better &s;peede.</L>
<L>Quoth Mother <HI>Red-Cap,</HI> you haue hit it right:</L>
<L>(Quoth &s;he) I know it Go&s;sip, and to quite</L>
<L>Your tale; another you of me &s;hall haue,</L>
<L>Therefore a while your patience let me craue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Out in the North tow'rds <HI>Greeneland</HI> farre away,</L>
<L>There was a Witch (as ancient Stories &s;ay)</L>
<L>As in tho&s;e parts there many Witches be:</L>
<L>Yet in her craft aboue all other, &s;hee</L>
<L>Was the mo&s;t expert, dwelling in an Ile,</L>
<L>Which was in compa&s;&s;e &s;carce an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mile,</L>
<L>Which by her cunning &s;hee could make to floate</L>
<L>Whither &s;he li&s;t, as though it were a Boate:</L>
<L>And where againe &s;he meant to haue it &s;tay,</L>
<L>There could &s;he fixe it in the deepe&s;t Sea:</L>
<L>Shee could &s;ell Windes to any one that would</L>
<L>Buy them for money, forcing them to hold</L>
<L>What time &s;he li&s;ted, tye them in a thrid,</L>
<L>Which euer as the Sea-farer vndid,</L>
<L>They ro&s;e or &s;cantled, as his Sayles would driue,</L>
<L>To the &s;ame Port whereas he would ariue:</L>
<L>She by her Spels could make the Moone to &s;tay,</L>
<L>And from the Ea&s;t &s;he could keepe backe the day,</L>
<L>Ray&s;e Mi&s;ts and Fogs that could Eclip&s;e the light,</L>
<L>And with the noone-&s;ted &s;he could mixe the night</L>
<L><PB N="247" REF="132">Vpon this Ile whereas &s;he had abode,</L>
<L>Nature (God knowes) but little co&s;t be&s;tow'd:</L>
<L>Yet in the &s;ame, &s;ome Ba&s;tard creatures were,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">eldome yet &s;eene in any place but there;</L>
<L>Halfe men, halfe Goate there was a certaine kinde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">uch as we Satyres purtray'd out doe finde,</L>
<L>Another &s;ort of a mo&s;t vgly &s;hape;</L>
<L>A Beare in body and in face an Ape:</L>
<L>Other like Bea&s;ts yet had the feete of Fowles,</L>
<L>That Demy-Vrchins were, and Demy-Owles:</L>
<L>Be&s;ides there were of &s;undry other &s;orts,</L>
<L>But wee'll not &s;tand too long on the&s;e reports.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of all the re&s;t that mo&s;t re&s;embled man,</L>
<L>Was an o'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> worne ill-fauoured <HI>Babian;</HI></L>
<L>Which of all other, for that onely he</L>
<L>Was full of tricks, as they are vs'd to bee</L>
<L>Him in her craft, &s;o &s;eriou&s;ly &s;he taught,</L>
<L>As that in little time &s;he had him brought,</L>
<L>That nothing could before this Ape bee &s;et,</L>
<L>That pre&s;ently he could not counterfet;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">he learnt him medicines in&s;tantly to make</L>
<L>Him any thing who&s;e &s;hape he pleas'd to take:</L>
<L>And when this skill &s;hee had on him be&s;tow'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">he &s;ent him for intelligence abroad.</L>
<L>Thus fully furni&s;h'd, and by her &s;ent out,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ee went to practi&s;e all the World about,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">e like a Iip&s;ey oftentimes would goe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ll kind of Gibb'ri&s;h he had learnt to know,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nd with a &s;ticke, a &s;hort &s;tring and a noo&s;e,</L>
<L>Would &s;how the people tricks at fa&s;t and loo&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ell folkes their Fortunes, for he would finde out</L>
<L><PB N="248" REF="133">By &s;lye enquirie, as he went about,</L>
<L>What chance this one he, or that &s;he had prou'd</L>
<L>Whom they mo&s;t hated, or whom mo&s;t they lou'd,</L>
<L>And looking in their hands, as there he knew it,</L>
<L>Out of his skill would counterfet to &s;hew it:</L>
<L>Sometimes he for a Mountebanke would pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;hew you in a Cru&s;ible, or Gla&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Some rare extraction, pre&s;ently and runne,</L>
<L>Through all the cures that he therewith had done,</L>
<L>An A&s;pick &s;till he carried in a poke,</L>
<L>Which he to bite him often would prouoke,</L>
<L>And with an oyle when it began to &s;well,</L>
<L>The deadly poy&s;on quickly could expell:</L>
<L>And many times a iugler he would be,</L>
<L>(A craftier knaue there neuer was then he;)</L>
<L>And by a mi&s;t deceiuing of the &s;ight,</L>
<L>(As knauery euer fal&s;ifies the light)</L>
<L>He by his actiue nimblene&s;&s;e of hand,</L>
<L>Into a Serpent would transforme a Wand,</L>
<L>As tho&s;e Egyptians, which by Magicke thought,</L>
<L>Farre beyond <HI>Moy&s;es</HI> wonders to haue wrought,</L>
<L>There neuer was a &s;ubtilty deuis'd,</L>
<L>In which this villaine was not exercis'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now from this Region where they dwelt, not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>There was a wi&s;e and learn'd A&s;tronomer,</L>
<L>Who skilfull in the Planetary hovvres,</L>
<L>The working knew of the Cele&s;tiall powers,</L>
<L>And by their ill, or by their good a&s;pect,</L>
<L>Men in their actions wi&s;ely could direct,</L>
<L>And in the blacke and gloomy Arts &s;o skild,</L>
<L>That he (euen) Hell in his &s;ubiection hild;</L>
<L><PB N="249" REF="133">He could command the Spirits vp from below,</L>
<L>And bind them &s;trongly, till they let him know</L>
<L>All the dread &s;ecrets that belong'd them to,</L>
<L>And what tho&s;e did, with whom they had to do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Wizzard in his knowledge mo&s;t profound,</L>
<L>Sitting one day the depth of things to &s;ound;</L>
<L>For that the World was brought to &s;uch a pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That it well neere in a confu&s;ion was,</L>
<L>For things &s;et right, ran quickly out of frame,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e awry to rare perfection came:</L>
<L>And matters in &s;uch &s;ort about were brought,</L>
<L>That States were pu&s;led almo&s;t beyond thought,</L>
<L>Which made him thinke (as he might very well)</L>
<L>There were more Diuels then he knew in hell.</L>
<L>And thus re&s;olues that he would ca&s;t about</L>
<L>In his be&s;t skill, to find the Engine out,</L>
<L>That wrought all this, and put him&s;elfe therein:</L>
<L>When in this bus'ne&s;&s;e long he had not bin;</L>
<L>But by the Spirits which he had &s;ent abroad,</L>
<L>And in this worke had euery way be&s;tow'd;</L>
<L>He came to know this Foule Witch, and her factor,</L>
<L>The one the Plotter, and the other th'Actor,</L>
<L>Of all the&s;e &s;tirres, which many a State had &s;poyl'd,</L>
<L>Whereby the World &s;o long had bene turmoyl'd,</L>
<L>Wherefore he thought it much did him behoue,</L>
<L>Out of the vvay this couple to remoue;</L>
<L>Or (out of que&s;tion) halfe the World e're long,</L>
<L>Would be diuided, hers, and his among,</L>
<L>When turning ouer his mo&s;t my&s;tique bookes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nto the &s;ecrets of his Art he lookes,</L>
<L>And th'earth, and th'Ayre doth with his Magiques fill,</L>
<L><PB N="250" REF="134">That euery place was troubled by his skill;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t in his minde he many a thing reuolues,</L>
<L>Till at the la&s;t he with him&s;elfe re&s;olues;</L>
<L>One Spirit of his &s;hould take the Witches &s;hape,</L>
<L>Another, in the per&s;on of the Ape,</L>
<L>Should be ioyn'd with him, &s;o to proue by this,</L>
<L>Whether their power were le&s;&s;e or more then his;</L>
<L>Which he performes, and to their taske them &s;ets,</L>
<L>When &s;oon that Spirit, the Witch that counterfets,</L>
<L>Watch'd till he found her farre abroad to be,</L>
<L>Into a place then of her home gets he:</L>
<L>And when the <HI>Babian</HI> came the newes to bring</L>
<L>What he had done abroad, and eu'ry thing</L>
<L>Which he had plotted, how their bus'ne&s;&s;e went,</L>
<L>And in the re&s;t to know her dread intent,</L>
<L>Where &s;he was wont to call him her deare &s;onne,</L>
<L>Her little play-feere and her pretty Bun:</L>
<L>Hug him, and &s;weare he was her only ioy;</L>
<L>Her very <HI>Hermes,</HI> her mo&s;t dainty Boy,</L>
<L>O mo&s;t &s;trange thing&punc; &s;he chang'd her wonted cheare</L>
<L>And doth to him mo&s;t terrible appeare:</L>
<L>And in mo&s;t fearefull &s;hapes &s;he doth him threaten</L>
<L>With eager lookes, as him &s;he would haue eaten,</L>
<L>That from her pre&s;ence he was forc't to flye,</L>
<L>As from his death, or deadly enemy.</L>
<L>When now the &s;econd which the &s;hape doth take</L>
<L>Of the Baboon, determining to make,</L>
<L>The like &s;port with him, his be&s;t time doth watch,</L>
<L>When he alone the cur&s;ed Witch might catch;</L>
<L>And when her Factor farthe&s;t was remote,</L>
<L>Then he began to change his former note,</L>
<L><PB N="251" REF="134">And where he wont to tell her plea&s;ing &s;tories,</L>
<L>Ful of their Conque&s;ts, Triumphs&punc; and their glories,</L>
<L>He turnes his Tale, and to the Witch relates,</L>
<L>The &s;trange reuolts of Tributary States,</L>
<L>Things go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ten backe, which late they had for prize,</L>
<L>With new di&s;coueries of their policies;</L>
<L>Di&s;gu&s;ts and dangers that had cro&s;t their cunning,</L>
<L>With &s;ad portents, their ruine &s;till forerunning;</L>
<L>That thus the Witch and the Baboon deceiu'd</L>
<L>Of all their hopes, of all their ioyes bereau'd,</L>
<L>As in deipaire doe bid the world adue,</L>
<L>When as the Ape which weake and &s;ickly grew,</L>
<L>On the cold earth his &s;curuy caryion layes,</L>
<L>And worne to nothing, ends his wretched dayes:</L>
<L>The filthy Hagg abhorring of the light,</L>
<L>Into the North pa&s;t <HI>Thule</HI> takes her flight,</L>
<L>And in tho&s;e deepes, pa&s;t which no Land is found,</L>
<L>Her wretched &s;elfe &s;he mi&s;erably drownd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The tale thus ended, mother <HI>Owle</HI> doth take</L>
<L>Her turne, and thus to mother <HI>Bumby</HI> &s;pake;</L>
<L>The tale our Go&s;sip <HI>Red-cap</HI> told before</L>
<L>You &s;o well ridled that there can no more</L>
<L>Be &s;ayd of it, and therefore as your due,</L>
<L>What haue you done for her, Ile doe for you.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The morallity of mother Bumbyes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus it is, that &s;ame notorious Witch,</L>
<L>Is the ambition men haue to be rich,</L>
<L>And Great, for which all faith a&s;ide they lay,</L>
<L>And to the Deuill giue them&s;elues away,</L>
<L>The floating Ile where &s;he is &s;ayd to wonne,</L>
<L>The various cour&s;es are through which they ronne,</L>
<L>To get their endes, and by the Ape is ment,</L>
<L><PB N="252" REF="135">Tho&s;e damned Villaines made the in&s;trument</L>
<L>To their de&s;ignes, that wondrous man of skill,</L>
<L>Sound coun&s;ell is, or rather if you will,</L>
<L>The Diuine Iu&s;tice, which doth bring to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ight,</L>
<L>The wicked plots not raught by common <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ight,</L>
<L>For though they neuer haue &s;o clo&s;ely wrought,</L>
<L>Yet to confu&s;ion la&s;tly they are brought,</L>
<L>Go&s;sip, indeed, you haue hit it to a haire,</L>
<L>And &s;urely your Morality is rare,</L>
<L>Quoth Mother <HI>Bumby:</HI> Mother <HI>Owle</HI> replyde,</L>
<L>Come, come, I know I was not very wide,</L>
<L>Wherefore to quit your Tales, and make them three</L>
<L>My hone&s;t Go&s;sips li&s;ten now to me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There was a man&punc; not long &s;ince dead&punc; but he</L>
<L>Rather a Diuell might accounted be:</L>
<L>For Iudgement at her be&s;t could hardly &s;can,</L>
<L>Whither he were more Deuill, or more man;</L>
<L>And as he was, he did him&s;elfe apply</L>
<L>T'all kind of Witchcraft, and blacke Sorcery:</L>
<L>And for his humour naturally &s;tood,</L>
<L>To Theft&punc; to Rapine, and to &s;hedding blood,</L>
<L>By tho&s;e damn'd Hags with whom he was in grace,</L>
<L>And v&s;d to meet in many a &s;ecret place:</L>
<L>He learnt an hearbe of &s;uch a wondrous power,</L>
<L>That were it gather'd at a certaine hower,</L>
<L>(For nature for the &s;ame did &s;o prouide,</L>
<L>As though from knowledge gladly it to hide,</L>
<L>For at Sun&s;et it&s;elfe it did di&s;clo&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;hut it&s;elfe vp, as the morning ro&s;e)</L>
<L>That with thrice &s;aying a &s;trange Magique &s;pell,</L>
<L>Which but to him, to no man they would tell,</L>
<L><PB N="253" REF="135">When as &s;o e'r that &s;imple he would take,</L>
<L>It him a War-vvoolfe in&s;tantly would make,</L>
<L>Which put in practi&s;e he mo&s;t certaine proou'd,</L>
<L>When to a Forre&s;t he him&s;elfe remou'd,</L>
<L>Through which there lay a plaine and common rode</L>
<L>Which he the place cho&s;e for his chiefe abode,</L>
<L>And there this mon&s;ter &s;et him downe to theeue,</L>
<L>Nothing but &s;tolne goods might this fiend releeue;</L>
<L>No &s;illy woman, by that way could pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>But by this Woolfe &s;he &s;urely raui&s;ht was,</L>
<L>And if he found her fle&s;h was &s;oft and good,</L>
<L>What &s;eru'd for Lu&s;t, mu&s;t al&s;o &s;erue for food,</L>
<L>Into a Village he &s;ometime would get,</L>
<L>And watching there (as for the purpo&s;e &s;et)</L>
<L>For little children when they came to play,</L>
<L>The fatt&s;t he euer bore with him away;</L>
<L>And as the people oft were wont to ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Following with Hubbubs and confu&s;ed cryes:</L>
<L>Yet was he &s;o well breathed, and &s;o light,</L>
<L>That he would &s;till out&s;trip them by his flight:</L>
<L>And making &s;traight to the tall Forre&s;t neere,</L>
<L>Of the &s;weet fle&s;h would haue his Iunkets there.&punc;</L>
<L>And let the Sheepheards doe the be&s;t they could,</L>
<L>Yet would he venture oft vpon the fold:</L>
<L>And taking the fatt'&s;t &s;heepe he there could finde:</L>
<L>Beare him away, and leaue the dogs behind:</L>
<L>Nor could men keepe, &s;o much as Pig or Lamb,</L>
<L>But it no &s;ooner, could drop from the Dam,</L>
<L>By hooke or crooke, but he would &s;urely catch,</L>
<L>Though with their weapons all the Towne &s;hould watch,</L>
<L>Among&s;t the re&s;t there was a &s;illy A&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><PB N="254" REF="136">That on the way by Fortune chanc'd to pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Yet (it was true) he in his time had bin</L>
<L>A very perfect man in &s;hape&punc; and skin:</L>
<L>But by a Witch enuying his e&s;tate,</L>
<L>That had borne to him a mo&s;t deadly hate,</L>
<L>Into this &s;hape he was transform'e, and &s;o,</L>
<L>From place to place, he wandred to and fro,</L>
<L>And often times was taken for a &s;tray,</L>
<L>And in the Pinfold many a time he lay;</L>
<L>Yet held he &s;till the rea&s;on that he had</L>
<L>When he was man, although he thus was clad</L>
<L>In a poore a&s;&s;es &s;hape, wherein he goes,</L>
<L>And mu&s;t endure what Fortune will impo&s;e.</L>
<L>Him on his way this cruell Woolfe doth take,</L>
<L>His pre&s;ent pray determining to make,</L>
<L>He bray'd&punc; and ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'d to make the people heare:</L>
<L>But it fell out, no creature being neare,</L>
<L>The &s;illy A&s;&s;e when he had done his be&s;t,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t walke the common way among the re&s;t:</L>
<L>When tow'rds his den the cruell Wolfe him tugs,</L>
<L>And by the eares mo&s;t terribly him lugs,</L>
<L>But as God would, he had no li&s;t to &s;eed,</L>
<L>Wherefore to keepe him till he &s;hould haue need,</L>
<L>The &s;illy creature vtterly forlorne,</L>
<L>He brings into a Brake of Bryers and Thorne,</L>
<L>And &s;o entangles by the mane and tayle,</L>
<L>That he might pluck, and &s;truggle there, and hale,</L>
<L>Till his breath left him, vnle&s;&s;e by great chance</L>
<L>Some one might come for his deliuerance.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length the people grieuou&s;ly annoy'd</L>
<L>By this vild Woolfe, &s;o many that de&s;troy'd,</L>
<L><PB N="255" REF="136">Determined a Hunting they would make,</L>
<L>To &s;ee if they by any meanes could take</L>
<L>This rauenous War Woolfe: and with them they bring,</L>
<L>Ma&s;tiffes, and Mungrells, all that in a &s;tring</L>
<L>Could be got out, or could but lug a Hog,</L>
<L>Ball, Eateall, Cuttaile, Blackfoot, Bitch, and Dogg,</L>
<L>Bills, Batts and Clubs, the Angry men doe beare,</L>
<L>The Women eager as their husbands were</L>
<L>With Spits and Fireforks, &s;ware if they could catch him,</L>
<L>It &s;hould go hard but they would &s;oon di&s;patch him</L>
<L>This &s;ubtill Woolfe by pa&s;&s;engers that heard,</L>
<L>What forces thus again&s;t him were prepar'd,</L>
<L>And by the noy&s;e; that they were neere at hand,</L>
<L>Thinking this A&s;&s;e did nothing vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>Goes downe into a &s;pring that was hard by,</L>
<L>(Which the A&s;&s;e noted) and immediatly,</L>
<L>He came out perfect man, his Wolues &s;hape left,</L>
<L>In which &s;o long he had committed theft.</L>
<L>The &s;illy A&s;&s;e, &s;o wi&s;tly then did view him,</L>
<L>And in his fancy &s;o exactly drew him,</L>
<L>That he was &s;ure to owne this theefe agen,</L>
<L>If he &s;hould &s;ee him mong&s;t a thou&s;and men,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This woolfe turn'd man, him in&s;tantly doth &s;hrowd</L>
<L>In a neere thicket, till the boy&s;trous crowd,</L>
<L>Had &s;omewhat pa&s;t him, then he in doth fall</L>
<L>Vpon the Reare, not any of them all</L>
<L>Makes greater &s;tirre, nor &s;eemes to them to be</L>
<L>More diligent to finde the Woolfe then he:</L>
<L>They beate each brake, and tuft o'r all the ground,</L>
<L>But yet the War-Woolfe was not to be found:</L>
<L>But a poore A&s;&s;e entangled in the Bryers,</L>
<L><PB N="256" REF="137">In &s;uch &s;trange &s;ort, as euery one de&s;ires</L>
<L>To &s;ee the manner, and each one doth gather,</L>
<L>How he was fa&s;tned &s;o, how he came thither,</L>
<L>The &s;illy A&s;&s;e yet being &s;till in hold,</L>
<L>Makes all the meanes, that po&s;sibly he could,</L>
<L>To be let loo&s;e, he hummes, he kneeles, and cryes,</L>
<L>Shaketh his head, and turneth vp his eyes:</L>
<L>To moue their pitty: that &s;ome &s;ayd, t'was &s;ure</L>
<L>This A&s;&s;e had &s;ence of what he did endure:</L>
<L>And at the la&s;t among&s;t them&s;elues decreed</L>
<L>To let him loo&s;e; the A&s;&s;e no &s;ooner freed,</L>
<L>But out he goes the company among,</L>
<L>And where he &s;aw the people thick&s;t to throng,</L>
<L>There he thru&s;ts in, and looketh round about,</L>
<L>Here he runnes in, and there he ru&s;heth out;</L>
<L>That he was likely to haue throwne to ground</L>
<L>Tho&s;e in his way, which when the people found,</L>
<L>Though the poore A&s;&s;e they &s;eemed to di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">laine,</L>
<L>Follow'd him yet, to find what he &s;hould meane,</L>
<L>Vntill by chance that he this Villaine met;</L>
<L>When he vpon him furiou&s;ly doth &s;et,</L>
<L>Fa&s;tning his teeth vpon him with &s;uch &s;trength,</L>
<L>That he could not be loo&s;ed, till at length</L>
<L>Railing them in, the people make a Ring,</L>
<L>Strooke with the wonder of &s;o &s;trange a thing;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t they are cadg'd contending whither can</L>
<L>Conquer, the A&s;&s;e &s;ome cry, &s;ome cry the man:</L>
<L>Yet the a&s;&s;e drag'd him, &amp; &s;til forward drue,</L>
<L>Towards the &s;trange &s;pring, which yet they neuer knew</L>
<L>Yet to what part the &s;trugling &s;eem'd to &s;way,</L>
<L>The people made a lane, and gaue them way,</L>
<L><PB N="257" REF="137">At length the A&s;&s;e had tug'd him neere thereto,</L>
<L>The people wondring what he meant to doe;</L>
<L>He &s;eem'd to &s;how them with his foot the Well,</L>
<L>Then with an A&s;&s;e-like noy&s;e he &s;eem'd to tell</L>
<L>The Story, now by pointing to the men,</L>
<L>Then to the Theefe, then to the &s;pring agen,</L>
<L>At length waxt angry growing into pa&s;sion;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they could not find his demon&s;tration,</L>
<L>T'expre&s;&s;e it more, he l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">apes into the&s;pring,</L>
<L>When on the &s;uddaine, O mo&s;t mon&s;trous thing,</L>
<L>To change his &s;hape he pre&s;ently began,</L>
<L>And at an in&s;tant became perfect man,</L>
<L>Recouering &s;peech, and comming foorth accus'd,</L>
<L>The bloody murtherer, who had &s;o abus'd</L>
<L>The hone&s;t people, and &s;uch harme had done;</L>
<L>Before them all, and pre&s;ently begun</L>
<L>To &s;hew them in what danger he had bin,</L>
<L>And of this Woolfe, the cruelty and &s;in;</L>
<L>How he came chang'd agen as he had prou'd:</L>
<L>Whereat the people being &s;trangely moou'd,</L>
<L>Some on the head, &s;ome on the backe doe clap him,</L>
<L>And in their armes, with &s;houts and ki&s;&s;es hap him,</L>
<L>Then all at once vpon the War-woolfe flue,</L>
<L>And vp and downe him on the earth they drew;</L>
<L>Then from his bones the fle&s;h in Collops cut,</L>
<L>And on their weapons points in Triumph put;</L>
<L>Returning backe with a victorious &s;ong,</L>
<L>Bearing the man aloft with them along.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth Gammer <HI>Gurton,</HI> on my hone&s;t word,</L>
<L>You haue told a Tale doth much conceit afford:</L>
<L>Good neighbour <HI>Howlet</HI> and as ye haue done,</L>
<L><PB N="258" REF="138">Each one for other, &s;ince our Tales begunne,</L>
<L>And &s;ince our &s;tand of Ale &s;o well endures,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The morality of mother Howlets tale.</NOTE></L>
<L>As you haue morral'd <HI>Bumbyes,</HI> I will yours,</L>
<L>The fable of the War-wolfe I apply,</L>
<L>To a man, giuen to blood and cruelty,</L>
<L>And vpon &s;poyle doth onely &s;et his re&s;t;</L>
<L>Which by a Woolfes &s;hade liuely e&s;t is expre&s;t,</L>
<L>The &s;pring by which he gets his former &s;hape,</L>
<L>Is the eua&s;ion aft<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r euery rape,</L>
<L>He hath to &s;tart by; and the &s;illy A&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Which vnregard<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d, euery where doth pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Is &s;ome iu&s;t &s;oule, who though the world di&s;daine,</L>
<L>Yet hee by God is &s;trangely made the meane,</L>
<L>To bring, his damned practi&s;es to light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gammer Gurtons tale.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth mother <HI>Howlet</HI> you haue hit the white,</L>
<L>I thought as much quoth Gammer <HI>Gurton</HI> then,</L>
<L>My turne comes next, haue with you once agen,</L>
<L>A mighty Wa&s;te there in a country was,</L>
<L>Yet not &s;o great as it was poore of gra&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>T'was &s;ayd of olde, a Saint once cur&s;t the &s;oyle,</L>
<L>So barren, and &s;o hungry, that no toyle,</L>
<L>Could euer make it any thing to beare;</L>
<L>Nor would ought pro&s;per, that was planted there,</L>
<L>Vpon the earth, the &s;pring was &s;eldome &s;eene,</L>
<L>T'was winter there, when each placeel&s;e was green</L>
<L>When Summer did her mo&s;t abundance yeeld,</L>
<L>That &s;till lay browne, as any fallow field,</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;ame, &s;ome few trees &s;cattering &s;tood,</L>
<L>But it was <HI>Autumne,</HI> ere they vs'd to bud,</L>
<L>And they were crookt, and knotty, and the leaues,</L>
<L>The niggard &s;ap &s;o vtterly deceiues,</L>
<L><PB N="259" REF="138">That &s;prouting foorth, they drouping hung the head</L>
<L>And were neere withered, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re yet fully &s;pread,</L>
<L>No mirthfull Birds the boughs did euer grace,</L>
<L>Nor could be won to &s;tay vpon that place,</L>
<L>Onely the night&punc; Crow &s;ometimes you might &s;ee,</L>
<L>Croking to &s;it vpon &s;ome Rampick-tree,</L>
<L>Which was but very &s;eldome too, and then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t boded great mortality to men;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s were the trees, which on that common grew,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o were the cattell &s;taruelings, and a few,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;es, and Mules, and they were vs'd to gnaw</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he very earth to fill the hungry maw,</L>
<L>When they far'd be&s;t they fed on Ferne and brak,</L>
<L>Their leane &s;hrunke bellies cleau'd vp to their back,</L>
<L>Of all the re&s;t in that great Wa&s;te that went,</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e quicke caryons, the mo&s;t eminent,</L>
<L>Was a poore Mule vpon that common bred,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd from his foaling further neuer fed,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Summer well-neere euery yeare was pa&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re he his ragged Winter coat could ca&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd then the Iade would get him to a tree,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat had a rough bark, purpo&s;ely&punc; where he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ubbing his Buttocks, and his either &s;ide</L>
<L>Would get the old hayre from his &s;tarued hyde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d though he were as naked as my nayle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et he would whinny then, and wagge the tayle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> this &s;hort pa&s;ture one day as he &s;tood,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eady to faint among&s;t the re&s;t for food:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et the poore Bea&s;t according to his kinde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aring his no&s;trill vp into the Winde,</L>
<L>&s;weet fre&s;h feeding thought that he did vent,</L>
<L><PB N="260" REF="139">"(Nothing as hunger &s;harpneth &s;o the &s;ent)</L>
<L>For that not far there was a goodly ground,</L>
<L>Which with &s;weet gra&s;&s;e, &s;o greatly did abound,</L>
<L>That the fat &s;oyle &s;eem'd to be ouer fraught</L>
<L>Nor could be&s;tow the burthen that it brought,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides that bounteous nature did it &s;tick,</L>
<L>With &s;undry &s;orts of fragrant flowers &s;o thicke,</L>
<L>That when the warme, and Baulmy &s;outhwind blew</L>
<L>The lu&s;hyous &s;mells o're all the region flew,</L>
<L>Led by his &s;ence, at length this poore Iade found,</L>
<L>This pa&s;ture (fenc'd though with a mighty Mound)</L>
<L>A pale and quicke &s;et, circling him about,</L>
<L>(That nothing could get in, nor nothing out)</L>
<L>And with him&s;elfe thus wittily doth ca&s;t,</L>
<L>Well, I haue found good pa&s;ture yet at la&s;t,</L>
<L>If by &s;ome meanes accompli&s;ht it might be,</L>
<L>Round with the ditch immediatly walks he;</L>
<L>(And long though't was, good lucke nere comes too late)</L>
<L>It was his chance to light vpon a gate</L>
<L>That led into it, (thoug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> his hap were good)</L>
<L>Yet was it made of &s;o &s;ufficient wood,</L>
<L>And euery bar that did to it belong,</L>
<L>Was &s;o well ioynted, and &s;o wondrous &s;trong</L>
<L>Be&s;ides a greatlocke, with a double ward,</L>
<L>That he thereby of entrance was debar'd</L>
<L>And thereby hard be&s;et, yet though at length,</L>
<L>"T'was done by &s;leight, that was not don by &s;trengt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Fa&s;t in the ground his two fore-feet doth get,</L>
<L>Then his hard Buttocks to the gate he &s;et,</L>
<L>And thru&s;t, and &s;hooke, and laboured till at la&s;t,</L>
<L>The two great po&s;ts, that held the &s;ame &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L><PB N="261" REF="139">Began to loo&s;en, when a gaine he takes,</L>
<L>Fre&s;h foot-hold, and a fre&s;h he &s;hakes and &s;hakes,</L>
<L>Till the great Hinges to flye off he feeles;</L>
<L>And heard the gate fall clattering at his heeles,</L>
<L>Then nayes and brayes, with &s;uch an open throat,</L>
<L>That all the Wa&s;te re&s;ounded with his note;</L>
<L>The re&s;t that did his language vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>Knew well there was &s;ome good to them in hand,</L>
<L>And tag, &amp; rag, through thick &amp; thin came running</L>
<L>Nor dale, nor ditch, nor banke nor bu&s;hes &s;hun|ning;</L>
<L>And &s;o de&s;irous to &s;ee their good hap,</L>
<L>That with their thrunging they &s;tucke in the gap.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now they be&s;tir their teeth, and doe deuoure,</L>
<L>More &s;weetne&s;&s;e in the compa&s;&s;e of one howre,</L>
<L>Then twice &s;o many could in twice the time,</L>
<L>For now the &s;pring was in the very prime,</L>
<L>Till pri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">kt with plenty eas'd of all their lacks</L>
<L>Their pampred bellies &s;wolne aboue their backs,</L>
<L>They tread and waddle all the goodly gra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That in the field there &s;carce a corner was,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eft free by them, and what they had not &s;wallow'd</L>
<L>There they had dung'd, and layd them down and wal|lowd,</L>
<L>One with another they wouldly and play,</L>
<L>And in the deepe fog batten all the day,</L>
<L>Thus a long while, this merry life they led</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill (euen) like Lard their thickned &s;ides were fed,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut on a time the weather being fayre,</L>
<L>And &s;ea&s;on fit to take the plea&s;ant ayre,</L>
<L>To view his pa&s;ture the rich owner went,</L>
<L>To &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e what gra&s;&s;e the fruitfull yeare had &s;ent,</L>
<L>Finding the feeding for which he had toyl'd,</L>
<L><PB N="242" REF="140">To haue kept &s;afe, by the&s;e vile cattell &s;poyl'd,</L>
<L>He in a rage vpon them &s;ets his Cur,</L>
<L>But for his bawling, not a bea&s;t would &s;tir;</L>
<L>Then whoots and &s;houts, and claps his hands, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Might as well mooue the dull earth, or a tree,</L>
<L>As once but &s;tirre them, when all would not doe,</L>
<L>La&s;t with his goad among&s;t them he doth goe,</L>
<L>And &s;ome of them he girdeth in the Hanches,</L>
<L>Some in the flankes, that prickt their very pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ches</L>
<L>But when they felt that they began to &s;mart,</L>
<L>Vp on a &s;uddaine they together &s;tart,</L>
<L>And driue at him as fa&s;t as they could ding,</L>
<L>They flirt, they yerke, they backward fluce, and flin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>As though the Deuill in their heeles had bin,</L>
<L>That to e&s;cape the danger he was in,</L>
<L>He back and backe into a quagmire by,</L>
<L>Though with much perill, forced was to flie:</L>
<L>But lightly treading there-vpon doth &s;hift,</L>
<L>Out of the bog his cumbred feet to lift,</L>
<L>When they the perill that doe not fore-ca&s;t,</L>
<L>In the &s;tiffe mud, are quickly &s;tabled fa&s;t:</L>
<L>When to the Towne he pre&s;ently doth flie,</L>
<L>Ray&s;ing the Neighbours with a &s;uddaine crye:</L>
<L>With Cords and Halters that came all at once;</L>
<L>For now the Iades were fitted for the nonce:</L>
<L>For by that time th'had &s;unke them&s;elues &s;o deepe,</L>
<L>That &s;carce their heads aboue grou~d they could kee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>When pre&s;ently they by the necks them bound,</L>
<L>And &s;o they led them to the common pound,</L>
<L>Quoth Mother <HI>Red-Cap,</HI> right well haue you done</L>
<L>Good Gammer <HI>Gurton,</HI> and as we begun,</L>
<L><PB N="642" REF="140">So you conclude: tis time we parted now;</L>
<L>But fir&s;t of my morallity alowe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The common that you &s;peake of here, &s;ay I,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The morallity of Mother Gurtons</NOTE></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s nothing el&s;e but want and beggery;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> the World common, and the Bea&s;ts that goe</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;ame, which oft are fami&s;h'd &s;o:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re the poore bred in &s;carcity; the Mule</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he other Cattell that doth &s;eeme to rule,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome crafty fellow that hath &s;lily found</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> way to thriue by: and the fruit full ground</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> wealth, which he by &s;ubtilty doth win,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> his po&s;&s;e&s;sion which not long hath bin;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut he with ryot and exce&s;&s;e doth wa&s;te,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> For goods ill gotten doe con&s;ume as fa&s;t;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd with the Law they la&s;tly doe contend,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill at the la&s;t the Pri&s;on is the end.</L>
<L>Quoth Gammer <HI>Gurton,</HI> well your &s;elfe you quite,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y this the dawne v&s;urpt vpon the night;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd at the vvindow biddeth them good day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen they departed each their &s;euerall way&punc;</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="elegies">
<PB N="264" REF="141">
<HEAD>ELEGIES VP ON SVNDRY <HI>OCCASIONS</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>Of his Ladies not Comming <HI>to London.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_THat ten-yeres-trauel'd <HI>Greek</HI> return'd from Sea,</L>
<L>Ne'r ioyd &s;o much to &s;ee his <HI>Ithaca,</HI></L>
<L>As I &s;hould you, who are alone to me,</L>
<L>More then wide <HI>Greece</HI> could to that wanderer be,</L>
<L>The Winter windes &s;till Ea&s;terly doe keepe,</L>
<L>And with keene fro&s;ts haue chained vp the deepe&punc;</L>
<L>The Sun's to vs a niggard of his Rayes,</L>
<L>But reuelleth with our <HI>Antipodes;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;eldome to vs when he &s;howes his head,</L>
<L>Mu&s;led in Vapours, he &s;traight hies to bed,</L>
<L>In tho&s;e bleake mountains can you liue, where &s;no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Maketh the valles vp to the hilles to grow;</L>
<L>Whereas mens breaths doe in&s;tantly congeale,</L>
<L>And attom'd mi&s;ts turne in&s;tantly to hayle;</L>
<L>Belike you thinke, from this more temperate co&s;t,</L>
<L>My &s;ighes may haue the power to thaw the fro&s;t,</L>
<L>Which I from hence &s;hould &s;wiftly &s;end you thithe</L>
<L>Yet not&punc; &s;o &s;wift, as you come &s;lowly hither</L>
<L>How many a time hath <HI>Phebe</HI> from her wayne,</L>
<L>With <HI>Phabus</HI> fires filld vp her hornes againe;</L>
<L>Shee through her Orb, &s;till on her cour&s;e doth rang</L>
<L><PB N="265" REF="141"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut you keepe yours &s;till, nor for me will change.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Sun that mounted the &s;terne Lyons backe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hall with the Fi&s;hes &s;hortly diue the Bracke,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut &s;till you keepe your &s;tation, which confines</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ou, nor regard him trauelling the &s;ignes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e &s;hips which when you went put out to Sea,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oth to our <HI>Greeneland,</HI> and <HI>Virginia,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re now return'd, and Cu&s;tom'd haue their fraught,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et you arriue not, nor returne me ought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Thames</HI> was not &s;o frozen yet this yeare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s is my bo&s;ome, with the chilly feare,</L>
<L>Of your not comming, which on me doth light,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s on tho&s;e Climes, where halfe the world is night.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of euery tedious howre you haue made two,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll this long Winter here, by mi&s;sing you,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">inutes are months, and when the houre is pa&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> yeere is ended &s;ince the clocke &s;trooke la&s;t,</L>
<L>When your remembrance puts me on the racke,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd I &s;hould &s;wound to &s;ee an <HI>Almanacke,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o read what &s;ilent weekes away are &s;lid,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nce the dire Fates you from my &s;ight haue hid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I hate him who the fir&s;t deui&s;or was</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f this &s;ame fooli&s;h thing, the Hower&punc;gla&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd of the Watch who&s;e dribling &s;ands and wheele,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith their &s;low &s;troaks, make me too much to feele</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">our &s;lackne&s;&s;e hither, O how I doe ban,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">im that the&s;e Dialls again&s;t walles began,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e Snayly motion of the moouing hand,</L>
<L>Although it goe) yet &s;eeme to me to &s;tand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">though at <HI>Adam</HI> it had fir&s;t &s;et out,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d had beene &s;tealing all this while about,</L>
<L><PB N="266" REF="142">And when it backe to the fir&s;t point &s;hould come,</L>
<L>It &s;hall be then iu&s;t at the generall Doome.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Seas into them&s;elues retract their &s;lowes&punc;</L>
<L>The changing Winde from euery quarter blowes,</L>
<L>Declining Winter in the Spring doth call,</L>
<L>The Stars ri&s;e to vs, as from vs they fall;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Birds we &s;ee, that leaue vs in the Prime,</L>
<L>Againe in Autumne re-&s;alute our Clime,</L>
<L>Sure, either Nature you from kinde hath made,</L>
<L>Or you delight el&s;e to be Retrograde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But I perceiue by your attractiue powers,</L>
<L>Like an Inchantre&s;&s;e you haue charm'd the howers</L>
<L>Into &s;hort minutes, and haue drawne them backe,</L>
<L>So that of vs at <HI>London,</HI> you doe lacke,</L>
<L>Almo&s;t a yeare, the Spring is &s;carce begonne</L>
<L>There where you liue, and Autume almo&s;t done</L>
<L>With vs more Ea&s;tward, &s;urely you deui&s;e,</L>
<L>By your &s;trong Magicke, that the Sun &s;hall ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Where now it &s;ets, and that in &s;ome few yeares,</L>
<L>You'l alter quite the Motion of the Spheares,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yes, and you meane, I &s;hall complaine my loue</L>
<L>To grauell'd Walkes&punc; or to a &s;tupid Groue,</L>
<L>Now your companions; and that you the while</L>
<L>(As you are cruell) will &s;it by and &s;mile,</L>
<L>To make me write to the&s;e, while pa&s;&s;ers by,</L>
<L>Sleightly looke in your louely face, where I</L>
<L>See Beauties heauen, whil&s;t &s;illy blockheads, they</L>
<L>Like laden A&s;&s;es, plod vpon their way,</L>
<L>And wonder not, as you &s;hould point a Clowne,</L>
<L>Vp to the <HI>Guards,</HI> or <HI>Ariadnes</HI> Crowne;</L>
<L>Of Con&s;tellations, and his dulne&s;&s;e tell,</L>
<L><PB N="267" REF="142">Hee'd thinke your words were certainely a &s;pell;</L>
<L>Or him &s;ome piece from <HI>Creet,</HI> or <HI>Marcus</HI> &s;how,</L>
<L>In all his life which till that time ne'r &s;aw</L>
<L>Painting: except in Alehou&s;e or old Hall</L>
<L>Done by &s;ome Druzzler, of the prodigall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay doe, &s;tay &s;till, whil&s;t time away &s;hall &s;teale</L>
<L>Your youth, and beauty, and your &s;elfe conceale</L>
<L>From me I pray you, you haue now inur'd</L>
<L>Me to your ab&s;ence, and I haue endur'd</L>
<L>Your want this long, whil&s;t I haue &s;tarued bin</L>
<L>For your &s;hort Letters, as you held it &s;inne</L>
<L>To write to me, that to appea&s;e my woe,</L>
<L>I reade ore&punc; tho&s;e you writ a yeare agoe,</L>
<L>Which are to me, as though they had bene made,</L>
<L>Long time before the fir&s;t <HI>Olimpiad.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For thankes and ourt'&s;ies &s;ell your pre&s;ence then</L>
<L>To tattling Women, and to things like men,</L>
<L>And bee more fooli&s;h then the <HI>Indians</HI> are</L>
<L>For Bells, for Kniues, for Gla&s;&s;es, and &s;uch ware,</L>
<L>That &s;ell their Pearle and Gold, but here I &s;tay,</L>
<L>So would I not haue you, but come away.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD><HI>To Ma&s;ter GEORGE SANDIS</HI> Trea&s;urer for the Engli&s;h Colo|ny in <HI>Virgina.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>FRiend, if you thinke my Papers may &s;upplie</L>
<L>You, with &s;ome &s;trange omitted Nouelty,</L>
<L>Which others Letters yet haue left vntould,</L>
<L>You take me off before I can take hold</L>
<L><PB N="268" REF="143">Of you at all; I put not thus to Sea,</L>
<L>For two moneths Voyage to <HI>Virginia,</HI></L>
<L>With newes which now, a little &s;ome thing here,</L>
<L>But will be nothing ere it can come there.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I feare as I doe Stabbing; this word, State,</L>
<L>I dare not &s;peake of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI></L>
<L>Although &s;ome men make in their hourely theame,</L>
<L>And talke what's done in <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> and in <HI>Beame,</HI></L>
<L>I may not &s;o; what <HI>Spinola</HI> intends,</L>
<L>Nor with his <HI>Dutch,</HI> which way Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> bend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>To other men although the&s;e things be free,</L>
<L>Yet (<HI>George</HI>) they mu&s;t be my &s;teries to me,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I &s;car&s;e dare pray&s;e a vertuous friend that's dead,</L>
<L>Le&s;t for my lines he &s;hould be cen&s;uted,</L>
<L>It was my hap before all other men,</L>
<L>To &s;uffer &s;hipwarcke by my forward pen:</L>
<L>When King <HI>Iames</HI> entred: at which ioyfull time,</L>
<L>I taught his title to this Ile in rime:</L>
<L>And to my part did all the mu&s;es win,</L>
<L>With high pitch <HI>Paeans</HI> to applaud him in:</L>
<L>When cowardi&s;e had tyd vp euery tongue,</L>
<L>And all &s;tood &s;ilent, yet for him I &s;ung;</L>
<L>And when before by danger I was dar'd,</L>
<L>I kickt her from me, nor aiot I &s;par'd,</L>
<L>Yet had not my cleare &s;pirit in Fortunes &s;corne,</L>
<L>Mee aboue earth and her afflictions borne;</L>
<L>He next my God on whom I built my tru&s;t,</L>
<L>Had left me troden lower then the du&s;t:</L>
<L>But let this pa&s;&s;e: in the extreame&s;t ill,</L>
<L><HI>Apollo's</HI> brood mu&s;t be couragious &s;till,</L>
<L>Let Pies and Dawes &s;it Dumb before their death&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="269" REF="143">Onely the Swan &s;ings at the parting breath.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And (worthy <HI>George</HI>) by indu&s;try and v&s;e,</L>
<L>Let's &s;ee what Lines <HI>&V;irginia</HI> will produce,</L>
<L>Goe on with <HI>Ovid</HI> as you haue begun,</L>
<L>With the fir&s;t fiue bookes, let your numbers run,</L>
<L>Glib as the former, &s;o &s;hall it liue long,</L>
<L>And doe much honour to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> tongue:</L>
<L>Intice the mu&s;es thither to repaire,</L>
<L>Intreat them gently, traine them to that ayre,</L>
<L>For they from hence may thither hap to flye,</L>
<L>T'wards the &s;ad time which but to fa&s;t doth hie,</L>
<L>For Poe&s;ie is followed with &s;uch &s;pight,</L>
<L>By groueling drones that neuer raught her height,</L>
<L>That &s;he mu&s;t hence, &s;hee may no longer &s;tay,</L>
<L>The driery fates prefixed haue the day,</L>
<L>Of her departure, which is now come on,</L>
<L>And they command her &s;traightway to be gone;</L>
<L>That be&s;tiall heard &s;o hotly her pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>And to her &s;uccour, there be very few,</L>
<L>Nay none at all, her wrongs that will redre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>But &s;he mu&s;t wander in the wilderne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Like to the woman, which that holy <HI>Iohn,</HI></L>
<L>Beheld in <HI>Pathm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> in his vi&s;ion.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> now, &s;o did the &s;tiffe-neckt <HI>Iewes,</HI></L>
<L>Their noble Prophets vtterly refu&s;e,</L>
<L>And of tho&s;e men &s;uch poore opinions had,</L>
<L>They counted <HI>E&s;ay</HI> and <HI>Ezechiel</HI> mad;</L>
<L>When <HI>Ieremy</HI> his Lamentations writ,</L>
<L>They thought the Wizzard quite out of his wit,</L>
<L>Such &s;otts they were, as worthily to ly,</L>
<L>Lockt in the chaines of their captiuity,</L>
<L><PB N="270" REF="144">Knowledge hath &s;till her Eddy in her flow,</L>
<L>So it hath bene, and it will &s;till be &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That famous <HI>Greece</HI> where learning flouri&s;ht mo&s;t,</L>
<L>Hath of her Mu&s;es long &s;ince left to boa&s;t,</L>
<L>Th'vnletter'd <HI>Turke,</HI> and rude <HI>Barbarian</HI> trades,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Homer</HI> &s;ang his lofty <HI>Iliades;</HI></L>
<L>And this va&s;te volume of the vvorld hath taught,</L>
<L>Much may to pa&s;&s;e in little time be brought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As if to <HI>Symptoms</HI> wee may credit giue,</L>
<L>This very time, vvhere in vve tvvo now liue,</L>
<L>Shall in the compa&s;&s;e, wound the Mu&s;es more,</L>
<L>Then all the old <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ignorance before,</L>
<L>Ba&s;e Balatry is &s;o belou'd and &s;ought,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e braue numbers are put by for naught,</L>
<L>Which rarely read, were able to awake,</L>
<L>Bodyes from graues, and to the ground to &s;hake</L>
<L>The wandring clouds, and to our men at armes,</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t pikes and muskets were mo&s;t powerfull charmes,</L>
<L>That, but I know, in&s;uing ages &s;hall,</L>
<L>Rai&s;e her againe, who now is in her fall;</L>
<L>And out of du&s;t reduce our &s;cattered rimes,</L>
<L>Th'reiected iewels of the&s;e &s;louthfull times,</L>
<L>Who with the Mu&s;es would mi&s;pend an hower,</L>
<L>But let blind Gothi&s;h Barbari&s;me deuoure</L>
<L>The&s;e feuerous Dogdayes, ble&s;t by no record,</L>
<L>But to be euerla&s;tingly abhord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If you vouch&s;afe re&s;cription, &s;tuffe your quill</L>
<L>With naturall bounties, and impart your skill,</L>
<L>In the di&s;cription of the place, that I,</L>
<L>May be come learned in the &s;oyle thereby,</L>
<L>Of noble <HI>Wy<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> health, and let me heare,</L>
<L><PB N="271" REF="144">The Gouernour; and how our people there,</L>
<L>Increa&s;e and labour, what &s;upplyes are &s;ent,</L>
<L>Which I confe&s;&s;e &s;hall giue me much content;</L>
<L>But you may &s;aue your labour if you plea&s;e,</L>
<L>To write to me ought of your Sauages.</L>
<L>As &s;auage &s;laues be in great <HI>Britaine</HI> here,</L>
<L>As any one that you can &s;hew me there</L>
<L>And though for this, Ile &s;ay I doe not thir&s;t,</L>
<L>Yet I &s;hould like it well to be the fir&s;t,</L>
<L>Who&s;e numbers hence into <HI>Virginia</HI> flew,</L>
<L>So (noble <HI>Sandis</HI>) for this time adue.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>To. my noble friend Ma&s;ter WIL|LIAM BROWNE, <HI>of the euill time.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>DEare friend, be &s;ilent and with patience &s;ee,</L>
<L>What this mad times Cata&s;trophe will be,</L>
<L>The Worlds fir&s;t wi&s;emen certainely mi&s;tooke</L>
<L>Them&s;elues, and &s;poke things quite be&s;ide the book<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And that which they haue &s;ayd of God, vntrue,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e expect &s;trange iudgement to in&s;ue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Ile is a meere Bedlam, and therein,</L>
<L>We all lye rauing mad in euery &s;inne,</L>
<L>And him the wi&s;e&s;t mo&s;t men v&s;e to call,</L>
<L>Who doth (alone) the madde&s;t thing of all,</L>
<L>He whom the ma&s;ter of all wi&s;edome found,</L>
<L>For a marckt foole, and &s;o did him propound,</L>
<L>The time vve liue in, to that pa&s;&s;e is brought,</L>
<L>That only he a Cen&s;or now is thought:</L>
<L>And that ba&s;e Villaine, not an age yet gone,)</L>
<L><PB N="272" REF="145">Which a good man would not haue look'd vpon,</L>
<L>Now like a God&punc; with diuine wor&s;hip follow'd,</L>
<L>And all his actions are accounted hollow'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This world of ours, thus runneth vpon wheeles,</L>
<L>Set on the head, bolt vpright with her heeles,</L>
<L>Which makes me thinke of what the <HI>Ethinck&punc;</HI> told,</L>
<L>Th'opinion the <HI>Pythagori&s;ts</HI> vphold,</L>
<L>That the immortall &s;oule doth tran&s;migrate;</L>
<L>Then I &s;uppo&s;e by the &s;trong power of fate,</L>
<L>That tho&s;e which at confu&s;ed <HI>Babell</HI> were,</L>
<L>And &s;ince that time now many a lingering yeare,</L>
<L>Through fooles, and bea&s;ts, and lunaticks haue pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Are here i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bodyed in this age at la&s;t,</L>
<L>And though &s;o long we from that time be gone,</L>
<L>Yet ta&s;te we &s;til of that confu&s;ion.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For certainely ther's &s;carce one found that now,</L>
<L>Knowes what t'approue, or vvhat to di&s;alovv,</L>
<L>Al ar&s;ey var<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ey, nothing is it's owne,</L>
<L>But to our prouerbe&punc; all turn'd vp&s;ide dovvne:</L>
<L>To doe in time, is to doe out of &s;ea&s;on,</L>
<L>And that &s;peeds be&s;t, that's done the farth'&s;t from rea&s;on</L>
<L>Hee's high'&s;t that's low'&s;t, hee's &s;ure&s;t in that's out,</L>
<L>He hits the next way that goes farth'&s;t about,</L>
<L>Hee ge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">eth vp vnlike to ri&s;e at al,</L>
<L>He &s;lips to ground as much vnlike to fall:</L>
<L>Which doth enforce me partly to preferre,</L>
<L>The opinion of that mad Philo&s;opher,</L>
<L>Who taught, that tho&s;e al-framing powers aboue,</L>
<L>(As <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is &s;uppos'd) made man not out of Loue</L>
<L>To him at all, but onely as a thing,</L>
<L>To make them &s;port with, which they v&s;e to bring,</L>
<L><PB N="275" REF="145">As men doe munkeys, puppets, and &s;uch tooles,</L>
<L>Of laughter; &s;o men are but the Gods of fooles,</L>
<L>Such are by titles lifted to the sky,</L>
<L>As wherefore no man knovves, God &s;carcely why;</L>
<L>The vertuous man depre&s;&s;ed like a &s;tone</L>
<L>For that dull Sot to rai&s;e him&s;elfe vpon:</L>
<L>He who ne're thing yet worthy man dur&s;t doe,</L>
<L>Neuer dur&s;t looke vpon his countreys foe,</L>
<L>Nor dur&s;t attempt that action which might get</L>
<L>Him fame vvith men: or higher might him &s;et</L>
<L>Then the ba&s;e begger (rightly if compar'd)</L>
<L>This drone yet neuer braue attempt that dat'd,</L>
<L>Yet dares be Knighted, and from thence dares grow,</L>
<L>To any title Empire can be&s;tow;</L>
<L>For this beleeue, that impudence is now</L>
<L>A Cardinall vertue, and men it alow</L>
<L>Reuerence, nay more, men &s;tudy and inuent,</L>
<L>New vvayes&punc; nay glory to be impudent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Into the clouds the Deuill lately got,</L>
<L>And by the moi&s;ture doubting much the rot,</L>
<L>A medicine tooke to make him purge and ca&s;t;</L>
<L>Which in &s;hort time began to worke &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>That he fell too't, and from his backe&s;ide flew,</L>
<L>A rout of ra&s;call a rude ribauld crew</L>
<L>Of ba&s;e Plebeians, which no &s;ooner light,</L>
<L>Vpon the earth, but vvith a &s;uddaine flight,</L>
<L>They &s;pread this Ile, and as <HI>Deucalion</HI> once</L>
<L>Ouer his &s;houlder backe, by throwing &s;tones</L>
<L>They became men, euen &s;o the&s;e bea&s;ts became,</L>
<L>Owners of titles from an ob&s;cure name.</L>
<L>He that by ryot of a mighty rent,</L>
<L><PB N="274" REF="146">Hath his late goodly Partrimony &s;pent,</L>
<L>And into ba&s;e and wilfull beggery runne,</L>
<L>This man as hee &s;ome glorious act had done,</L>
<L>With &s;ome great pen&s;ion, or rich guift releeu'd,</L>
<L>When he that hath by indu&s;try atchieu'd</L>
<L>Some noble thing, contemned and di&s;grac'd,</L>
<L>In the forlorne hope of the times is plac'd,</L>
<L>As though that God had carele&s;&s;ely left all</L>
<L>That being hath on this tere&s;tiall ball,</L>
<L>To fortunes guiding, nor would haue to doe</L>
<L>With man, nor ought that doth belong him to,</L>
<L>Or at the lea&s;t God hauing giuen more</L>
<L>Power to the Deuill, then he did of yore,</L>
<L>Ouer this vvorld: the fiend as he doth hate</L>
<L>The vertuous man; maligning his e&s;tate,</L>
<L>All noble things, and would haue by his will,</L>
<L>To be damn'd with him v&s;ing all his skill,</L>
<L>By his blacke helli&s;h mini&s;ters to vexe</L>
<L>All worthy men, and &s;trangely to perplexe,</L>
<L>Their con&s;tancie, there by them &s;o to fright,</L>
<L>That they &s;hould yeelde them wholly to his might,</L>
<L>But of the&s;e things I vainely doe but tell,</L>
<L>Where hell is heauen, and heau'n is now turn'd he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Where that which lately bla&s;phemy hath bin,</L>
<L>Now godline&s;&s;e&punc; much le&s;&s;e accounted &s;in;</L>
<L>And a long while I greatly maruail'd why</L>
<L>Buffoons and Bawds &s;hould hourely multiply&punc;</L>
<L>Til that of late I con&s;trued it, that they</L>
<L>To pre&s;ent thrift had got the perfect way,</L>
<L>When I concluded by their odious crimes,</L>
<L>It was for vs no thriuing in the&s;e times&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="275" REF="146">
<L>As men oft laugh at little Babes when they</L>
<L>Hap to behold &s;ome &s;trange thing in their play,</L>
<L>To &s;ee them on the &s;udden &s;trucken &s;ad,</L>
<L>As in their fancie &s;ome &s;trange formes they had,</L>
<L>Which they by pointing with their fingers &s;how,</L>
<L>Angry at our capacities &s;o &s;low,</L>
<L>That by their countenance we no &s;ooner learne,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the wonder which they &s;o di&s;cerne:</L>
<L>So the cele&s;tiall powers doe &s;it and &s;mile</L>
<L>At innocent and vertuous men the while,</L>
<L>They &s;tand amazed at the world ore-gone,</L>
<L>So farre beyond imagination,</L>
<L>With &s;laui&s;h ba&s;ene&s;&s;e, that the &s;ilent &s;it</L>
<L>Pointing like children in de&s;cribing it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then noble friend the next way to controule</L>
<L>The&s;e worldly cro&s;&s;es, is to arme thy &s;oule</L>
<L>With con&s;tant patience: and with thoughts as high</L>
<L>As the&s;e belowe, and poore, winged to flie</L>
<L>To that exalted &s;tand, whether yet they</L>
<L>Are got with paine, that &s;it out of the way</L>
<L>Of this ignoble age, which rai&s;eth none</L>
<L>But &s;uch as thinke their blacke damnation</L>
<L>To be a trifle; &s;uch, &s;o ill, that when</L>
<L>They are aduanc'd, tho&s;e few poore hone&s;t men</L>
<L>That yet are liuing, into &s;earch doe runne</L>
<L>To find what mi&s;chiefe they haue lately done,</L>
<L>Which &s;o prefers them; &s;ay thou he doth ri&s;e,</L>
<L>That maketh vertue his chiefe exerci&s;e,</L>
<L>And in this ba&s;e World come what euer &s;hall,</L>
<L>Hees worth lamenting that for her doth fall.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<PB N="276" REF="147">
<HEAD>Vpon the three Sonnes of the Lord SHEFFIELD, <HI>drowned in Humber.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>LIght Sonnets hence, and to loo&s;e Louers flie,</L>
<L>And mournefull Maydens &s;ing an Elegie,</L>
<L>On tho&s;e three <HI>Sheffields,</HI> ouerwhelm'd with waues</L>
<L>Who&s;e lo&s;&s;e the teares of all the Mu&s;es craues;</L>
<L>A thing &s;o full of pitty as this was,</L>
<L>Me thinks for nothing &s;hould not &s;lightly pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Treble this lo&s;&s;e was, why &s;hould it not borrow,</L>
<L>Through this Iles treble parts, a treble &s;orrow:</L>
<L>But fate did this, to let the World to know,</L>
<L>That &s;orrowes which from common cau&s;es grow,</L>
<L>Are not worth mourning for, the lo&s;&s;e to beare,</L>
<L>But of one onely &s;onne's, not worth one teare,</L>
<L>Some tender hearted man, as I, may &s;pend</L>
<L>Some drops (perhaps) for a decea&s;ed friend,</L>
<L>Some men (perhaps) their wiues late death may r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Or wiues their husbands, but &s;uch be but few:</L>
<L>Cares that haue vs'd the hearts of men to touch</L>
<L>So oft and deepely, vvill not now bee &s;uch;</L>
<L>Who'll care for lo&s;&s;e of maintenance, or place,</L>
<L>Fame, liberty, or of the Princes grace;</L>
<L>Or &s;uites in lavv, by ba&s;e corruption cro&s;t:</L>
<L>When he &s;hall finde, that this which he hath lo&s;t;</L>
<L>Alas, is nothing to his, which did loo&s;e,</L>
<L>Three &s;onnes at once &s;o excellent as tho&s;e:</L>
<L>Nay, it is feard that this in time may breed</L>
<L>Hard hearts in men to their owne naturall &s;eed,</L>
<L><PB N="277" REF="147">That in re&s;pect of this great lo&s;&s;e of theirs,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en wil &s;carce mourne the death of their own heirs.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Through all this Ile their lo&s;&s;e &s;o publique is,</L>
<L>That euery man doth take them to be his,</L>
<L>And as a plague which had beginning there,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o catching is, and raigning euery where,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat tho&s;e the farthe&s;t off as much doe rue them,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s tho&s;e the mo&s;t familiarly that knew them;</L>
<L>Children with this disa&s;ter are waxt &s;age,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd like to men that &s;trucken are in age,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">alke what it is, three children at one time,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hus to haue drown'd, and in their very prime;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ea, and doe learne to act the &s;ame &s;o well,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat then old folke, they better can it tell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Inuention oft that Pa&s;sion vs'd to faine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;orrowes of them&s;elues but &s;light, and meane,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o make them &s;eeme great, here it &s;hall not need,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or that this Subiect doth &s;o farre exceed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll forc'd Expre&s;sion, that what Poe&s;ie &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">appily thinke to grace it &s;elfe withall,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lls &s;o below it, that it rather borrowes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">race fro~ their griefe, then addeth to their &s;or|rowes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or &s;ad mi&s;chance thus in the lo&s;&s;e of three,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;hewe it &s;elfe the vtmo&s;t it could be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">xacting al&s;o by the &s;elfe &s;ame lawe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he vtmo&s;t teares that &s;orrowe had to draw,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll future times hath vtterly preuented</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f a more lo&s;&s;e, or more to be lamented.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t in faire youth they liuely flouri&s;h'd here,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> their kind Parents they were onely deere,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t being dead, now euery one doth take,</L>
<L><PB N="278" REF="148">Them for their owne, and doe like &s;orrow make&punc;</L>
<L>As for their owne begot, as they pretended,</L>
<L>Hope in the i&s;&s;ue, which &s;hould haue di&s;cended</L>
<L>From them againe; nor here doth end our &s;orrow,</L>
<L>But tho&s;e of vs, that &s;hall be borne to morrow</L>
<L>Still &s;hall lament them, and when time &s;hall count,</L>
<L>To what va&s;t number pa&s;&s;ed yeares &s;hall mount,</L>
<L>They from their death &s;hall duly reckon &s;o,</L>
<L>As from the Deluge, former vs'd to doe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O cruell <HI>Humber.</HI> guilty of their gore,</L>
<L>I now beleeue more then I did before,</L>
<L>The <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> Story, whence thy name begun</L>
<L>Of Kingly <HI>Humber,</HI> an inuading <HI>Hun,</HI></L>
<L>By thee deuoured, for t'is likely thou</L>
<L>With blood wert Chri&s;tned, blood-thir&s;ty till now</L>
<L>The <HI>Ou&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Doue.</HI> And thou farre clearer <HI>Trent,</HI></L>
<L>To drowne the&s;e <HI>Sheffields</HI> as you gaue con&s;ent,</L>
<L>Shall cur&s;e the time, that ere you were infus'd,</L>
<L>Which haue your waters ba&s;ely thus abus'd,</L>
<L>The groueling Boore ye hinder not to goe,</L>
<L>And at his plea&s;ure Ferry to and fro,</L>
<L>The very be&s;t part of who&s;e &s;oule&punc; and blood,</L>
<L>Compar'd with theirs, is viler then your mud.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But wherefore Paper, doe I idly &s;pend,</L>
<L>On tho&s;e deafe waters to &s;o little end,</L>
<L>And vp to &s;tarry heauen doe I not looke,</L>
<L>In which, as in an euerla&s;ting booke,</L>
<L>Our ends are written, O let times rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>Their fatall lo&s;&s;e, in their &s;ad aniver&s;e.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<PB N="279" REF="148">
<HEAD>To the noble Lady, the Lady <HI>I. S. of worldly cro&s;&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MAdame, to &s;hew the &s;moothne&s;&s;e of my vaine,</L>
<L>Neither that I would haue you entertaine</L>
<L>The time in reading me, which you would &s;pend,</L>
<L>In faire di&s;cour&s;e with &s;ome knowne hone&s;t friend,</L>
<L>I write not to you. Nay, and which is more,</L>
<L>My powerfull ver&s;es &s;triue not to re&s;tore,</L>
<L>What time and &s;ickne&s;&s;e haue in you impair'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o other end my Elegie is &s;quar'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your beauty, &s;weetne&s;&s;e, and your gracefull parts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat haue drawne many eyes, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n many hearts,</L>
<L>Of me get little, I am &s;o much man,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat let them doe their vtmo&s;t that they can,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> will re&s;i&s;t their forces: and they be</L>
<L>Though great to others, yet no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o to me.</L>
<L>The fir&s;t time I beheld you, I then &s;aw,</L>
<L>That (in it &s;elfe) which had the power to draw,</L>
<L>My &s;tay'd affection, and thought to allow</L>
<L>You &s;ome deale of my heart; but you haue now</L>
<L>Got farre into it, and you haue the skill</L>
<L>For ought I &s;ee) to winne vpon me &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I doe thinke how brauely you haue borne</L>
<L>Your many cro&s;&s;es, as in fortunes &s;corne,</L>
<L>And how neglectfull you haue &s;eem'd to be,</L>
<L>Of that which hath &s;eem'd terrible to me,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thought you &s;tupid, nor that you had felt</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e griefes which (often) I haue &s;eene to melt,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nother woman into &s;ighes and teares,</L>
<L><PB N="280" REF="149">A thing but &s;eldome in your &s;exe and yeares,</L>
<L>But when in you I haue perceiued agen,</L>
<L>(Noted by me, more then by other men)</L>
<L>How feeling and how &s;en&s;ible you are</L>
<L>Of your friends &s;orrowes, and with how much ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>You &s;eeke to cure them, then my &s;elfe I blame,</L>
<L>That I your patience &s;hould &s;o much mi&s;name,</L>
<L>Which to my vnder&s;tanding maketh knowne</L>
<L>""Who feeles anothers griefe, can feele their owne</L>
<L>When &s;traight me thinks, I heare your patience &s;ay</L>
<L>Are you the man that &s;tudied <HI>Seneca:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Plinies</HI> mo&s;t learned letters; and mu&s;t I</L>
<L>Read you a Lecture in Philo&s;ophie,</L>
<L>T'auoyd the afflictions that haue vs'd to reach you,</L>
<L>I'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> learne you more Sir, then your bookes can teac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of all your &s;exe, yet neuer did I know,</L>
<L>Any that yet &s;o actually could &s;how,</L>
<L>Such rules for patience, &s;uch an ea&s;ie way,</L>
<L>That who &s;o &s;ees it, &s;hall be forc't to &s;ay,</L>
<L>Loe what before &s;eem'd hard to be di&s;cern'd,</L>
<L>Is of this Lady in an in&s;tant learn'd,</L>
<L>It is heauens will that you &s;hould wronged be</L>
<L>By the malicious, that the world might &s;ee</L>
<L>Your Doue-like meekene&s;&s;e; for had the ba&s;e &s;cum</L>
<L>The &s;pawne of fiends, beene in your &s;lander dumbe</L>
<L>Your vertue then had peri&s;h'd, neuer priz'd,</L>
<L>For that the &s;ame you had not exerci&s;'d;</L>
<L>And you had lo&s;t the Crowne you haue, and glory</L>
<L>Neuer had you beene the &s;ubiect of my Story.</L>
<L>Whil&s;t they feele Hell, being damned in their hate</L>
<L>Their thoughts like deuils them excruciate,</L>
<L><PB N="281" REF="149">Which by your noble &s;ufferings doe torment</L>
<L>Them with new paines, and giues you this content</L>
<L>To &s;ee your &s;oule an innocent, hath &s;uffered,</L>
<L>And vp to heauen before your eyes be offered:</L>
<L>Your like wee in a burning Gla&s;&s;e may &s;ee,</L>
<L>When the Sunnes rayes therein contracted be,</L>
<L>But on &s;ome obiect, which is purely white,</L>
<L>We find that colour doth di&s;perce the light,</L>
<L>And &s;tands vntainted: but if it hath got</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ome little &s;ully; or the lea&s;t &s;mall &s;pot,</L>
<L>Then it &s;oone fiers it; &s;o you &s;till remaine,</L>
<L>Free, becau&s;e in you they can finde no &s;taine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>God doth not loue them lea&s;t, on whom he layes</L>
<L>The great'&s;t afflictions; but that he will prai&s;e</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe mo&s;t in them, and will make them fit,</L>
<L>Near'&s;t to him&s;elfe who is the Lambe to fit:</L>
<L>For by that touch, like perfect gold he tryes them,</L>
<L>Who are not his, vntill the world denies them,</L>
<L>And your example may worke &s;uch effect,</L>
<L>That it may be the beginning of a Sect,</L>
<L>Of patient women; and that many a day,</L>
<L>All Husbands may for you their Founder pray.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor is to me your Innocence the le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n that you &s;triue not to &s;uppre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Their Barbarous malice; but your noble heart</L>
<L>Prepar'd to act &s;o difficult a part,</L>
<L>With vnremoued con&s;tancy is &s;till</L>
<L>The &s;ame it was, that of your proper ill,</L>
<L>Th' effect proceeds from your owne &s;elfe the cau&s;e,</L>
<L>Like &s;ome iu&s;t Prince, who to e&s;tabli&s;h lawes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uffers the breach at his be&s;t lou'd to &s;trike,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o learne the vulgar to endure the like,</L>
<L><PB N="282" REF="150">You are a Martir thus, nor can you be,</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e to the world &s;o valued by me:</L>
<L>If as you haue begun, you &s;till per&s;euer,</L>
<L>Be euer good, that I may loue you euer.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>An Elegie vpon the death of the Lady <HI>Pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elope Clifton.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MV&s;t I needes write, who&s;e hee that can refu&s;e</L>
<L>He wants a mind for her that hath no Mu&s;e,</L>
<L>The thought of her doth heau'nly rage in&s;pire,</L>
<L>Next powerfull, to tho&s;e clouen tongues of fire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since I kn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">w ought time neuer did allow</L>
<L>Mee &s;tuffe fit for an Elegie, till now;</L>
<L>When <HI>France</HI> and <HI>England's Henry's</HI> dy'd, my quill</L>
<L>Why, I know not, but it that time lay &s;til.</L>
<L>'Tis more then greatne&s;&s;e that my &s;pirit mu&s;t rai&s;e</L>
<L>To ob&s;erue cu&s;tome I v&s;e not to prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Nor the lea&s;t thought of mine yet ere depended,</L>
<L>On any one from whom &s;he was de&s;cended:</L>
<L>That for their fauour I this way &s;hould wooe,</L>
<L>As &s;ome poore wretched things (perhaps) may do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>I gaine the end, whereat I only ayme,</L>
<L>If by my freedome I may giue her fame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Walking then foorth being newly vp from bed&punc;</L>
<L>O Sir (quoth one) the Lady <HI>Cl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ffto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> dead.</L>
<L>When, but that rea&s;on my &s;terne rage with&s;tood,</L>
<L>My hand had &s;ure beene guilty of his blood,</L>
<L>If &s;hee be &s;o, mu&s;t thy rude tongue confe&s;&s;e it&punc;</L>
<L>(Quoth I) and com'&s;t &s;o coldly to expre&s;&s;e it,</L>
<L>Thou &s;hould&s;t haue giuen a &s;hreek, to make me fear the</L>
<L>That might haue &s;tain what euer had bin neere the&punc;</L>
<L>Thou &s;huld&s;t haue com'nlike time W^t^h thy &s;ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">p bar</L>
<L><PB N="283" REF="150">And in thy hands thou &s;hould&s;t haue brought thy haire,</L>
<L>Ca&s;ting vpon me &s;uch a dreadfull looke,</L>
<L>As &s;eene a &s;pirit, or th'ad&s;t beene thunder &s;trooke,</L>
<L>And gazing on mee &s;o a little &s;pace,</L>
<L>Thou &s;hould&s;t haue &s;hot thine eye-balls in my face,</L>
<L>Then falling at my feet thou &s;hould&s;t haue &s;ayd,</L>
<L>O &s;he is gone, and Nature with her dead.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With this ill newes amaz'd by chance I pa&s;t,</L>
<L>By that neere groue, whereas both fir&s;t and la&s;t,</L>
<L>I &s;aw her, not three moneths before &s;hee dy'd:</L>
<L>When (though full Summer gan to vaile her pride,</L>
<L>And that I &s;aw men lead home ripened Corne,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides aduis'd me well;) I dur&s;t haue &s;worne</L>
<L>The lingring yeare the Autumne had adiourn'd,</L>
<L>And the fre&s;h &s;pring had been againe return'd,</L>
<L>Her delicacie, loueline&s;&s;e, and grace,</L>
<L>With &s;uch a Summer brauely deckt the place:</L>
<L>But now alas, it lookt forlorne and dead;</L>
<L>And where &s;he &s;tood, the fading leaues were &s;hed,</L>
<L>Pre&s;enting onely &s;orrow to my &s;ight,</L>
<L>O God (thought I) this is her Embleme right.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;ure I thinke it cannot but bee thought,</L>
<L>That I to her by prouidence was brought:</L>
<L>For that the Fates fore-dooming &s;he &s;hould die,</L>
<L>Shewed me this wondrous Ma&s;ter-peece, that I</L>
<L>Should &s;ing her funerall, that the world &s;hould know it</L>
<L>That heauen did thinke her worthy of a Poet;</L>
<L>My hand is fatall, nor doth fortune doubt,</L>
<L>For what it writes, not fire &s;hall e'r race out,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and &s;ilken Puppets &s;hould haue died,</L>
<L>And in their ful&s;ome Coffins putrified,</L>
<L><PB N="284" REF="151">Ere in my lines, you of their names &s;hould heare</L>
<L>To tell the world that &s;uch there euer were,</L>
<L>Who&s;e memory &s;hall from the earth decay,</L>
<L>Before tho&s;e rags be worne they gaue away,</L>
<L>Had I her god-like features neuer &s;eene,</L>
<L>Poore &s;leight Report had told me &s;he had beene</L>
<L>A han&s;ome Lady, comely, very well,</L>
<L>And &s;o might I haue died an Infidell,</L>
<L>As many doe which neuer did her &s;ee,</L>
<L>Or cannot credit, what &s;he was by me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nature, her &s;elfe, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fore Art prefers</L>
<L>To goe beyond all our Co&s;mogaphers,</L>
<L>By Charts and Maps exactly that haue &s;howne,</L>
<L>All of this earth that euer can be knowne,</L>
<L>For that &s;hee would beyond them all d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;cry,</L>
<L>What Art could not by any mortall eye;</L>
<L>A Map of Heauen in her rare features drue,</L>
<L>And that &s;he did &s;o liuely and &s;o true,</L>
<L>That any &s;oule but &s;eeing it might &s;weare,</L>
<L>That all was perfect heauenly that was there.</L>
<L>If euer any Painter were &s;o ble&s;t,</L>
<L>To draw that face, which &s;o much hean'n expre&s;t,</L>
<L>If in his be&s;t of skill he did her right,</L>
<L>I wi&s;h it neuer may come in my &s;ight,</L>
<L>I greatly doubt my faith (weake man) le&s;t I</L>
<L>Should to that face commit idolatry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Death might haue tyth'd her &s;ex, but for this one</L>
<L>Nay, haue ta'n halfe to haue let her alone,</L>
<L>Such as their wrinckled temples to &s;upply,</L>
<L>Cyment them vp with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lutti&s;h <HI>Mercury,</HI></L>
<L>Such as vndre&s;t were able to affright,</L>
<L>A valiant man approching him by night;</L>
<L><PB N="285" REF="151">Death might haue taken &s;uch, her end deferd,</L>
<L>Vntill the time &s;he had beene climaterd;</L>
<L>When &s;he would haue bin at three&s;core yeres and three,</L>
<L>Such as our be&s;t at three and twenty be,</L>
<L>With enuy then, he might haue ouerthrowne her,</L>
<L>When age nor time had power to &s;ea&s;e vpon her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when the vnpittying Fates her end decreed,</L>
<L>They to the &s;ame did in&s;tantly proceed,</L>
<L>For well they knew (if &s;he had langui&s;h'd &s;o)</L>
<L>As tho&s;e which hence by naturall cau&s;es goe,</L>
<L>So many prayers and teares for her had &s;poken,</L>
<L>As certainly their Iron lawes had broken,</L>
<L>And had awak'd heau'n, who clearely would haue &s;how'd</L>
<L>That change of Kingdoms to her death it ow'd,</L>
<L>And that the World &s;till of her end might thinke,</L>
<L>It would haue let &s;ome neighboring mountain &s;inke</L>
<L>Or the va&s;t Sea it in on vs to ca&s;t,</L>
<L>As <HI>Seuerne</HI> did about &s;ome fiue yeares pa&s;t:</L>
<L>Or &s;ome &s;terne Comet his curld top to reare,</L>
<L>Who&s;e length &s;hould mea&s;ure halfe our Hemi&s;phere,</L>
<L>Holding this height, to &s;ay &s;ome will not &s;ticke,</L>
<L>That now I raue, and am growne lunaticke:</L>
<L>You of what &s;exe &s;o ere you be, you lye,</L>
<L>'Tis thou thy &s;elfe is lunatique, not I.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I charge you in her name that now is gone,</L>
<L>That may coniure you, if you be not &s;tone,</L>
<L>That you no har&s;h, nor &s;hallow rimes decline,</L>
<L>Vpon that day wherein you &s;hall read mine,</L>
<L>Such as indeed are fal&s;ely termed ver&s;e,</L>
<L>And will but &s;it like mothes vpon her her&s;e;</L>
<L>Nor that no child, nor chambermaid nor page,</L>
<L>Di&s;turbe the Rome, the whil&s;t my &s;acred rage,</L>
<L><PB N="286" REF="152">In reading is; but whil&s;t you heare it read,</L>
<L>Suppo&s;e, before you, that you &s;ee her dead,</L>
<L>The walls about you hung with mournfull blacke,</L>
<L>And nothing of her funerall to lacke,</L>
<L>And when this period giues you leaue to pau&s;e,</L>
<L>Ca&s;t vp your eyes, and &s;igh for my applau&s;e.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>Vpon the noble Lady ASTONS <HI>departure for &s;paine.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I Many a time haue greatly marueil'd why,</L>
<L>Men &s;ay their friends depart when as they die,</L>
<L>How well that word, a dying doth expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>I did not know (I truely mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e,)</L>
<L>Till her departure, for who&s;e mi&s;&s;ed &s;ight,</L>
<L>I am enforc'd this Elegie to write:</L>
<L>But &s;ince re&s;i&s;tle&s;&s;e fate will haue it &s;o,</L>
<L>That &s;he from hence mu&s;t to <HI>Iberia</HI> goe,</L>
<L>And my weake wi&s;hes can her not detaine,</L>
<L>I will of heauen in policy complaine,</L>
<L>That it &s;o long her trauell &s;hould adiourne,</L>
<L>Hoping thereby to ha&s;ten her returne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Can tho&s;e of <HI>Norway</HI> for their wage procure,</L>
<L>By their blacke &s;pells a winde that &s;hall endure</L>
<L>Till from aboard the wi&s;hed land men &s;ee,</L>
<L>And fetch the harbour, where they long to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Can they by charmes doe this, and cannot I</L>
<L>Who am the Prie&s;t of <HI>Phaebus,</HI> and &s;o hie;</L>
<L>Sit in his fauour, win the Poets god,</L>
<L>To &s;end &s;wift <HI>Hermes</HI> with a &s;naky rod,</L>
<L>To <HI>Aeolus</HI> Caue, commanding him with care,</L>
<L>His pro&s;perous winds, that he for her prepare,</L>
<L><PB N="287" REF="152">And from that houre, wherein &s;he rakes the &s;eas,</L>
<L>Nature bring on the quiet <HI>Halcion</HI> dayes,</L>
<L>And in that hower that bird begin her ne&s;t,</L>
<L>Nay at that very in&s;tant, that long re&s;t</L>
<L>May &s;eize on <HI>Neptune,</HI> who may &s;till repo&s;e,</L>
<L>And let that bird nere till that houre di&s;clo&s;e,</L>
<L>Wherein &s;he landeth, and for all that &s;pace</L>
<L>Be not a wrinckle &s;eene on <HI>Thetis</HI> face,</L>
<L>Onely &s;o much breath with a gentle gale,</L>
<L>As by the ea&s;ie &s;welling of her &s;aile,</L>
<L>May at <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The neare&s;t harbour of Spaine.</NOTE> <HI>Seba&s;tians</HI> &s;afely &s;et her downe</L>
<L>Where with her goodnes &s;he may ble&s;&s;e the towne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If heauen in iu&s;tice would haue plagu'd by thee</L>
<L>Some Pirate, and grim <HI>Neptune</HI> thou &s;hould'&s;t be</L>
<L>His Executioner, or what is wor&s;e,</L>
<L>The gripple Merchant, borne to be the cur&s;e</L>
<L>Of this braue Iland; let them for her &s;ake,</L>
<L>Who to thy &s;afeguard doth her &s;elfe betake,</L>
<L>E&s;cape vndrown'd, vnwrackt, nay rather let</L>
<L>Them be at ca&s;e in &s;ome &s;afe harbour &s;et,</L>
<L>Wher with much profit they may vent their wealth</L>
<L>That they haue got by vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lany and &s;tealth,</L>
<L>Rather, great <HI>Neptune,</HI> then when thou do&s;t raue,</L>
<L>Thou once &s;hould &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">wet her &s;aile but with a vvaue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Or if &s;ome proling Rouer &s;hall but dare,</L>
<L>To &s;eize the &s;hip wherein &s;he is to fare,</L>
<L>Let the fell fi&s;hes of the Maine appeare,</L>
<L>And tell tho&s;e Sea-thieues, that once &s;uch they were,</L>
<L>As they are now, till they a&s;&s;aild to rape;<NOTE PLACE="marg">An Ile for the abunde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of wine &s;up|po&s;ed to be the habita<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> on of B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE></L>
<L>Grape&punc; crowned <HI>Bacchus</HI> in a &s;triplings &s;hape,</L>
<L>That came aboard them, and would faine haue &s;ayld,</L>
<L>To vine &s;pread  <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">An Ile for the ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ndance <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f Wine &s;up|po&s;ed to bee the habitati|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n of Bacchus</NOTE><HI>Naxus,</HI> but that him they faild&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="288" REF="153">Which he perceiuing, them &s;o mon&s;trous made,</L>
<L>And warne them how they pa&s;&s;engers inuade.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ye South and We&s;terne winds now cea&s;e to blow</L>
<L>Atumne is come, there be no flowers to grow,</L>
<L>Yea from that place re&s;pire, to which &s;he goes,</L>
<L>And to her &s;ailes &s;hould &s;how your &s;elfe but foes,</L>
<L>But <HI>Boreas</HI> and ye E&s;terne windes ari&s;e;</L>
<L>To &s;end her &s;oone to <HI>Spaine,</HI> but be preci&s;e,</L>
<L>That in your ayde you &s;eeme not &s;till &s;o &s;terne,</L>
<L>As we a Summer &s;hould no more di&s;cerne,</L>
<L>For till that here againe, I may her &s;ee,</L>
<L>It will be winter all the yeare with me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yee &s;wan-begotten louely brother &s;tars,</L>
<L>So oft au&s;picious to poore Marriners,</L>
<L>Yee twin-bred lights of louely <HI>Leda's</HI> brood,</L>
<L><HI>Ioues</HI> egge-borne i&s;&s;ue &s;mile vpon the flood,</L>
<L>And in your mild'&s;t a&s;pect doe ye appeare</L>
<L>To be her warrant from all future feare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And if thou &s;hip that bear'&s;t her, doe proue good,</L>
<L>May neuer time but wormes con&s;ume thy wood</L>
<L>Nor ru&s;t thy iron, may thy tacklings la&s;t,</L>
<L>Till they for reliques be in Temples plac't;</L>
<L>May&s;t thou be ranged with that mighty Arke,</L>
<L>Wherein iu&s;t <HI>Noah</HI> did all the world imbarque,</L>
<L>With that which after <HI>Troyes</HI> &s;o famous wracke,</L>
<L>From ten yeeres trauell brought <HI>Vli&s;&s;es</HI> backe:</L>
<L>That Argo which to <HI>Colchos</HI> went from <HI>Greece,</HI></L>
<L>And in her bottom brought the Golden Fleece,</L>
<L>Vnder braue <HI>Ia&s;on;</HI> or that &s;ame of <HI>Drake,</HI></L>
<L>Wherein he did his famous voyage make</L>
<L>About the World, or <HI>Candi&s;hes</HI> that went</L>
<L>As farre as his about the Continent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="289" REF="153">
<L>And ye milde windes that now I doe implore,</L>
<L>Not once to rai&s;e the lea&s;t &s;and on the &s;hore,</L>
<L>Nor once on forfeit of your &s;elues re&s;pire:</L>
<L>When once the time is come of her retire,</L>
<L>If then it plea&s;e you, but to doe your due,</L>
<L>What for tho&s;e Winds I did, Ile doe for you:</L>
<L>Ile wooe you then, and if that not &s;uffice,</L>
<L>My pen &s;hall proue you to haue dietyes,</L>
<L>Ile &s;ing your loues in ver&s;es that &s;hall flo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>And tell the &s;tories of your weale and woe,</L>
<L>Ile proue vvhat profit to the earth you bring,</L>
<L>And how t'is you that vvelcome in the &s;pring,</L>
<L>Ile raise vp altars to you, as to &s;how,</L>
<L>The time &s;halbe kept holy, when you blow,</L>
<L>O ble&s;&s;ed vvinds! your will that it may be,</L>
<L>To &s;end health to her, and her home to me.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>To my mo&s;t dearely-loued friend <HI>Henry Reynolds</HI> E&s;quire <HI>of Poets and Poe&s;ie.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MY dearely beloued friend how oft haue we,</L>
<L>In vvinter euenings (meaning to be free)</L>
<L>To &s;ome well cho&s;en place vs'd to retire;</L>
<L>And there with moderate meate, and wine, and fire,</L>
<L>Haue pa&s;t the houres contentedly with chat,</L>
<L>Now talk'd of this, and then di&s;cour&s;'d of that,</L>
<L>Spoke our owne ver&s;es 'twixt our&s;elues if not,</L>
<L>Other mens lines, which we by chance had got,</L>
<L>Or &s;ome Stage pieces famous long before,</L>
<L>Of which your happy memory had &s;tore:</L>
<L>And I remember you much plea&s;ed were,</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e who liued long agoe to heare,</L>
<L><PB N="290" REF="154">As well as of tho&s;e, of the&s;e latter times,</L>
<L>Who haue inricht our language with their times,</L>
<L>And in &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, how &s;till vp they grew,</L>
<L>Which is the &s;ubiect that I now pur&s;ue;</L>
<L>For from my cradle (you mu&s;t know that) I,</L>
<L>Was &s;till inclin'd to noble Poe&s;ie;</L>
<L>And when that once <HI>Pueriles</HI> I had read,</L>
<L>And newly had my <HI>Cato</HI> con&s;trued;</L>
<L>In my &s;mall &s;elfe I greatly maruail'd then,</L>
<L>Among&s;t all other, vvhat &s;trange kind of men</L>
<L>The&s;e Poets vvere; And plea&s;ed with the name,</L>
<L>To my mild Tutor merily I came:</L>
<L>(For I was then a proper goodly page,</L>
<L>Much like a Pigmy, &s;car&s;e ten yeares of age)</L>
<L>Cla&s;ping my &s;lender armes about his thigh,</L>
<L>O my deare ma&s;ter; cannot you (quoth I)</L>
<L>Make me a Poet; doe it, if you can,</L>
<L>And you &s;hall &s;ee, Ile quickly be a man,</L>
<L>Who me thus an&s;wered &s;miling, boy quoth he,</L>
<L>If you'le not play the wag&punc; but I may &s;ee</L>
<L>You ply your learning, I will &s;hortly reade</L>
<L>Some Poets to you; <HI>Phoebus</HI> be my &s;peed,</L>
<L>Too't hard went I, when &s;hortly he began,</L>
<L>And fir&s;t read to me hone&s;t <HI>Mantuan,</HI></L>
<L>Then <HI>Virgils E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ogues,</HI> being entred thus,</L>
<L>Me thought I &s;traight had mounted <HI>Pega&s;us,</HI></L>
<L>And in his full Careere could make him &s;top,</L>
<L>And bound vpon <HI>Perna&s;&s;us</HI> by clift-top,</L>
<L>I &s;corn'd your ballet then though it were done</L>
<L>And had for Finis <HI>William Elderton,</HI></L>
<L>But &s;oft, in &s;porting with this childi&s;h ie&s;t,</L>
<L>I from my &s;ubiect haue too long digre&s;t,</L>
<L><PB N="291" REF="154">Then to the matter that we tooke in hand,</L>
<L><HI>Ioue</HI> and <HI>Apollo</HI> for the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> &s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That noble <HI>Chaucer,</HI> in tho&s;e former times,</L>
<L>The fir&s;t inrich't our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> with his rimes,</L>
<L>And was the fir&s;t of ours, that euer brake,</L>
<L>Into the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> trea&s;ure, and fir&s;t &s;pake</L>
<L>In weighty numbers, deluing in the Mine</L>
<L>Of perfect knowledge, which he could refine.</L>
<L>And coyne for currant and as much as then</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> language could expre&s;&s;e to men,</L>
<L>He made it doe; and by his wondrous skill,</L>
<L>Gaue vs much light from his abundant quill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And hone&s;t <HI>Gower,</HI> who in re&s;pect of him,</L>
<L>Had onely &s;ipt at <HI>Aganippas</HI> brimme,</L>
<L>And though in yeares this la&s;t was him before,</L>
<L>Yet fell he far &s;hort of the others &s;tore.</L>
<L>When after tho&s;e, foure ages very neare,</L>
<L>They with the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> which conuer&s;ed, were</L>
<L>That Princely <HI>Surry,</HI> early in the time&punc;</L>
<L>Of the Eight <HI>Henry,</HI> who vvas then the prime</L>
<L>Of <HI>Englands</HI> noble youth, with him there came</L>
<L><HI>Wyat;</HI> with reuerence whom we &s;till doe name</L>
<L>Among&s;t our Poets, <HI>Bryan</HI> had a &s;hare</L>
<L>With the two former, which accompted are</L>
<L>That times be&s;t makers, and the authors were</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e &s;mall Poems, which the title beare,</L>
<L>Of &s;ongs and &s;onnets, vvherein oft they hit</L>
<L>On many dainty pa&s;&s;ages of wit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Ga&s;coyne</HI> and <HI>Churchyard</HI> after them againe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n the beginning of <HI>Eliza's</HI> raine,</L>
<L><PB N="292" REF="155">Accoumpted were great Meterers many a day,</L>
<L>But not in&s;pired with braue fier, had they</L>
<L>Liu'd but a little longer, they had &s;eene,</L>
<L>Their workes before them to haue buried beene.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Graue morrall <HI>Spencer</HI> after the&s;e came on,</L>
<L>Then whom I am per&s;waded there was none</L>
<L>Since the blind <HI>Bard</HI> his <HI>Iliads</HI> vp did make,</L>
<L>Fitter a taske like that to vndertake,</L>
<L>To &s;et downe boldly, brauely to inuent,</L>
<L>In all high knowledge, &s;urely excellent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The noble <HI>Sidney,</HI> vvith this la&s;t aro&s;e,</L>
<L>That <HI>Heroe</HI> for numbers, and for Pro&s;e,</L>
<L>That throughly pac'd our language as to &s;how,</L>
<L>The plentcous <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> hand in hand might goe,</L>
<L>With <HI>Greeke</HI> and <HI>Latine,</HI> and did fir&s;t reduce</L>
<L>Our tongue from <HI>Lillies</HI> vvriting then in v&s;e&punc;</L>
<L>Talking of Stones, Stars plants, of Fi&s;hes, Flyes,</L>
<L>Playing with wordes, and idle Similes,</L>
<L>As th'<HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> Apes and very Zanies be</L>
<L>Of euery thing, that they doe heare and &s;ee,</L>
<L>So imitating his ridiculous tricks,</L>
<L>They &s;pake and Writ, all like meere lunatiques.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then <HI>Warner</HI> though his lines were not &s;o trim'd&punc;</L>
<L>Nor yet his Poem &s;o exactly lim'd</L>
<L>And neatly ioynted, but the Criticke may</L>
<L>Ea&s;ily reproue him, yet thus let me &s;ay;</L>
<L>For my old friend, &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages there be</L>
<L>In him, vvhich I prote&s;t haue taken me,</L>
<L>With almo&s;t wonder, &s;o fine, cleere and new,</L>
<L>As yet they haue beene equalled by few.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Noat <HI>Barlow</HI> bathed in the <HI>The&s;pian</HI> &s;pring<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Had in him tho&s;e braue tran&s;lunary things,</L>
<L><PB N="293" REF="155">That the fir&s;t Poets had, his raptures were,</L>
<L>All Ayre, and fire, which made his ver&s;es cleere,</L>
<L>For that fine madnes &s;till he did retaine,</L>
<L>Which rightly &s;hould po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e a Poets braine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;urely <HI>Na&s;he,</HI> though he a Pro&s;er were,</L>
<L>A branch of Laurell yet de&s;erues to beare,</L>
<L>Sharpely <HI>Satiricke</HI> was he, and that way,</L>
<L>He went, &s;ince that his being, to this day</L>
<L>Few haue attempted, and I &s;urely thinke</L>
<L>Tho&s;e words &s;hall hardly be &s;et downe with inke,</L>
<L>Shall &s;corch and bla&s;t, &s;o as his could, where he,</L>
<L>Would inflict vengeance, and be it &s;aid of thee,</L>
<L><HI>Shake&s;pere</HI> thou had&s;t as &s;mooth a Comicke vaine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">itting the &s;ocke, and in thy naturall braine,</L>
<L>As &s;trong conception, and as cleere a rage,</L>
<L>As any one that traffiqu'd with the &s;tage.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Among&s;t the&s;e, <HI>Samuel Daniel,</HI> whom if I</L>
<L>May &s;peake of, but to cen&s;ure doe denie,</L>
<L>Onely haue heard &s;ome wi&s;e men him rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>To bee too much <HI>Hi&s;torian</HI> in ver&s;e;</L>
<L>His rimes were &s;mooth, his mee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ers well did clo&s;e,</L>
<L>But yet his manner better fitted pro&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ext the&s;e, learn'd <HI>Iohn&s;on,</HI> in this Li&s;t I bring,</L>
<L>Who had drunke deepe of the <HI>Pierian</HI> &s;pring,</L>
<L>Who&s;e knowledge did him worthily prefer,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd long was Lord here of the Theater,</L>
<L>Who in opinion made our learnd'&s;t to &s;ticke,</L>
<L>Whether in Poems rightly dramatique,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">trong <HI>Seneca</HI> or <HI>Plautus,</HI> he or they,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hould beare the Buskin, or the Socke away.</L>
<L><PB N="294" REF="156">Others againe here liued in my dayes,</L>
<L>That haue of vs de&s;erued no le&s;&s;e prai&s;e</L>
<L>For their tran&s;lations, then the daintie&s;t wit,</L>
<L>Tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> on <HI>Parna&s;&s;us</HI> thinks he highe&s;t doth &s;it,</L>
<L>And for a chaire may mong&s;t the mu&s;es call,</L>
<L>As the mo&s;t curious maker of them all;</L>
<L>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> reuerent&punc; <HI>Chapman,</HI> who hath brought to vs,</L>
<L><HI>Mu&s;aeus, Homer,</HI> and <HI>He&s;iodus</HI></L>
<L>Our of the Greeke; and by his skill hath reard</L>
<L>Them to that height, and to our tongue endear'd,</L>
<L>Tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> were tho&s;e Poets at this day aliue,</L>
<L>To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e their bookes thus with vs to &s;uruiue,</L>
<L>They would thinke hauing neglected them &s;o long</L>
<L>They <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad bin written in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> tongue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And <HI>Silue&s;ter</HI> who from the <HI>French</HI> more weak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Bartas</HI> of his &s;ixe dayes labour &s;peake,</L>
<L>In naturall <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who, had he there &s;tayd,</L>
<L>He had done w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll, and neuer had bewraid,</L>
<L>His owne inuention, to haue beene &s;o poore</L>
<L>Who &s;till wrote le&s;&s;e, in &s;triuing to write more,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hen dainty <HI>Sands,</HI> that hath to <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> done,</L>
<L>Smouth &s;liding <HI>Ovid,</HI> and hath made him run,</L>
<L>With &s;o much &s;weetne&s;&s;e and vnu&s;uall grace,</L>
<L>As though the neatne&s;&s;e of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> pace,</L>
<L>Should tell the letting <HI>Latine</HI> that it came</L>
<L>But &s;lowly after, as though &s;tiffe and lame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ent vs hither, for our owne</L>
<L>That man, who&s;e name I euer would haue known<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>To &s;tand by mine, that mo&s;t ingenious Knight,</L>
<L>My <HI>Alexander,</HI> to whom in his right,</L>
<L>I want extreamely, yet in &s;peaking thus</L>
<L>I doe but &s;hew the loue, that was twixt vs,</L>
<L><PB N="295" REF="156">And not his numbers which were braue and hie,</L>
<L>So like his minde, was his cleare Poe&s;ie,</L>
<L>And my deare <HI>Drummond</HI> to whom much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> owe</L>
<L>For his much loue, and proud I was to know,</L>
<L>His Poe&s;ie, for which two worthy men,</L>
<L>I <HI>Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;try</HI> &s;till &s;hall loue, and <HI>Hauth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rne-den,</HI></L>
<L>Then the two <HI>Beamounts,</HI> and my <HI>Browne</HI> aro&s;e,</L>
<L>My deare companions whom I freely cho&s;e</L>
<L>My bo&s;ome friends <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> and in their &s;everall wayes,</L>
<L>Rightly borne Poets, and in the&s;e la&s;t dayes,</L>
<L>Men of much note, and no l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e nobler parts,</L>
<L>Such as haue freely told to me their hearts,</L>
<L>As I haue mine to them; but if you &s;hall</L>
<L>Say in your knowledge, that the&s;e be not all</L>
<L>Haue writ in numbers be inform'd that I</L>
<L>Onely my&s;elfe, to the&s;e few men doetye,</L>
<L>Who&s;e workes&punc; oft printed, &s;et on euery po&s;t,</L>
<L>To publique cen&s;ure &s;ubiect haue bin mo&s;t;</L>
<L>For &s;uch who&s;e Poems, be they nere &s;o rare,</L>
<L>In priuate chambers that incloi&s;tred are,</L>
<L>And by tran&s;cription daintily mu&s;t goe,</L>
<L>As though the world vn worthy were to know,</L>
<L>Their rich compo&s;ures, let tho&s;e men that keepe</L>
<L>The&s;e wonderous reliques in their iudgement deep,</L>
<L>And cry them vp &s;o, let &s;uch Peeces bee</L>
<L>Spoke of by tho&s;e that &s;hall come after me,</L>
<L>I pa&s;&s;e not for them: nor doe meane to runne,</L>
<L>In que&s;t of the&s;e, that them applau&s;e haue wonne,</L>
<L>Vpon our Stages in the&s;e latter dayes,</L>
<L>That are &s;o many let them haue their bayes</L>
<L>That doe de&s;erue it; let tho&s;e wits that haunt</L>
<L>Tho&s;e publique circuits, let them freely chaunt</L>
<L><PB N="296" REF="157">Their fine Compo&s;ures, and their prai&s;e pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>And &s;o my deare friend for this time adue,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>Vpon the death of his incomparable <HI>friend, Sir</HI> Henry Raynsford, <HI>of</HI> Clifford.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>COuld there be words found to expre&s;&s;e my lo&s;&s;e</L>
<L>There were &s;om hope, that this my heauy cro&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Might be &s;u&s;tained, and that wretched I</L>
<L>Might once finde comfort: but to haue him die</L>
<L>Pa&s;t all degrees that was &s;o deare to me;</L>
<L>As but comparing him with others, he</L>
<L>Was &s;uch a thing, as if &s;ome power &s;hould &s;ay</L>
<L>I'le take man on me, to &s;hew men the way</L>
<L>What a friend &s;hould be. But words come &s;o &s;hort,</L>
<L>Of him, that when I thus &s;hould him report,</L>
<L>I am vndone, and hauing nought to &s;ay,</L>
<L>Mad at my &s;elfe, I throw my penne away,</L>
<L>And beat my brea&s;t, that there &s;hould be a woe</L>
<L>So high, that words cannot attaine thereto.</L>
<L>T'is &s;trange that I from my abundant brea&s;t,</L>
<L>Who others &s;orrowes haue &s;o well expre&s;t:</L>
<L>Yet I by this in little time am growne</L>
<L>So poore, that I want to expre&s;&s;e my owne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I thinke the fates perceiuing me to beare</L>
<L>My worldly cro&s;&s;es without wit or feare:</L>
<L>Nay, with what &s;corne I euer haue derided,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e plagues that for me they haue oft prouided,</L>
<L>Drew them to coun&s;aile; nay, con&s;pired rather,</L>
<L>And in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e layd their heads together,</L>
<L>To finde &s;ome one plague, that might me &s;ubuert,</L>
<L>And at an in&s;tant breake my &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ubborne heart;</L>
<L><PB N="297" REF="157">They did indeed, and onely to this end,</L>
<L>They tooke from me this more then man, or friend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hard-hearted fates, your wor&s;t thus haue you don</L>
<L>Then let vs &s;ee what la&s;tly you haue won,</L>
<L>By this your rigour, in a cour&s;e &s;o &s;trict,</L>
<L>Why &s;ee, I beare all that you can inflict:</L>
<L>And he from heauen your poore reuenge to view;</L>
<L>Laments my lo&s;&s;e of him, but laughes at you,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t I again&s;t you execrations breath;</L>
<L>Thus are you &s;corn'd aboue, and cur&s;t beneath.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Me thinks that man (vnhappy though it bee)</L>
<L>Is now thrice happy in re&s;pect of me,</L>
<L>Who hath no friend; for that in hauing none</L>
<L>He is not &s;tirr'd as I am, to bemone</L>
<L>My mi&s;erable lo&s;&s;e, who but in vaine,</L>
<L>May euer looke to finde the like againe.</L>
<L>This more then mine owne &s;elfe; that who had &s;eene</L>
<L>His care of me where euer I had beene,</L>
<L>And had not knowne his actiue &s;pirit before,</L>
<L>Vpon &s;ome braue thing working euermore:</L>
<L>He would haue &s;worne that to no other end</L>
<L>He had beene borne; but onely for my friend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I had beene happy, if nice nature had,</L>
<L>(Since now my lucke falls out to be &s;o bad)</L>
<L>Made me vnperfect, either of &s;o &s;oft</L>
<L>And yeelding temper, that lamenting oft,</L>
<L>I into teares my mournefull &s;elfe might melt;</L>
<L>Or el&s;e &s;o dull, my lo&s;&s;e not to haue felt,</L>
<L>I haue by my too deere experience bought,</L>
<L>That fooles and mad men, whom I euer thought</L>
<L>The mo&s;t vnhappy, are indeed not &s;o:</L>
<L>And therefore I le&s;&s;e pitty can be&s;tow</L>
<L><PB N="298" REF="158">(Since that my &s;ence, my &s;orrow &s;o can &s;ound)</L>
<L>On tho&s;e I &s;ee in Bedlam that are bound,</L>
<L>And &s;carce feele &s;courging; and when as I meete free,</L>
<L>A foole by children followed in the Streete.</L>
<L>Thinke I (poore wretch) thou from my griefe art</L>
<L>Nor could&s;t thou feele it, &s;hould it light on thee;</L>
<L>But that I am a <HI>Chri&s;tian,</HI> and am taught</L>
<L>By him who with his precious blood me bought,</L>
<L>Meekely like him my cro&s;&s;es to endure,</L>
<L>El&s;e would they plea&s;e me well, that for their cure,</L>
<L>When as they feele their con&s;cience doth them brand,</L>
<L>Vpon them&s;elues dare lay a violent hand,</L>
<L>Not &s;uffering Fortune with her murdering knife,</L>
<L>Stand like a Surgeon working on the life,</L>
<L>Defecting this part, that ioynt off to cut,</L>
<L>Shewing the Artyre, ripping then that gut,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the dull bea&s;tly World with her &s;quint eye,</L>
<L>Is to behold the &s;trange Anatomy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am per&s;waded that tho&s;e which we read</L>
<L>To be man-haters, were not &s;o indeed</L>
<L>The Athenian <HI>Timon,</HI> and be&s;ide him more</L>
<L>Of which the <HI>Latines,</HI> as the <HI>Greekes</HI> haue &s;tore;</L>
<L>Nor not they did all humane manners hate,</L>
<L>Nor yet maligne mans dignity and &s;tate.</L>
<L>But finding our fraile life how euery day,</L>
<L>It like a bubble vani&s;heth away:</L>
<L>For this condition did mankind dete&s;t,</L>
<L>Farre more incertaine then that of the bea&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sure heauen doth hate this world and deadly too</L>
<L>El&s;e as i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hath done it would neuer doe,</L>
<L>For if it did not, it would ne'r permit</L>
<L>A man of &s;o much vertue, knowledge, wit,</L>
<L><PB N="299" REF="158">Of naturall goodne&s;&s;e, &s;upernaturall grace,</L>
<L>Who&s;e cour&s;es when con&s;iderately I trace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nto their ends, and diligently looke,</L>
<L>They &s;erue me for Oeconomike booke.</L>
<L>By which this rough world I not onely &s;temme,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n goodne&s;&s;e but grow learn'd by reading them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O pardon me, it my much &s;orrow is,</L>
<L>Which makes me v&s;e this long Parenthe&s;is;</L>
<L>Had heauen this world not hated as I &s;ay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n height of life it had not, tane away</L>
<L>A &s;pirit &s;o braue, &s;o actiue, and &s;o free,</L>
<L>That &s;uch a one who would not wi&s;h to be,</L>
<L>Rather then weare a Crowne, by Armes though got</L>
<L>So fa&s;t a friend, &s;o true a Patriot,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n things concerning both the worlds &s;o wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides &s;o liberall of his faculties,</L>
<L>That where he would his indu&s;trie be&s;tow,</L>
<L>He would haue done e'r one could thinke to doe.</L>
<L>No more talke of the working of the Stars,</L>
<L>For plenty, &s;carcene&s;&s;e, or for peace, or Warres.</L>
<L>They are impo&s;tures, therefore get you hence</L>
<L>With all your Planets, and their influence.</L>
<L>No more doe I care into them to looke,</L>
<L>Then in &s;ome idle Chiromantick booke,</L>
<L>Shewing the line of life, and <HI>&V;enus</HI> mount,</L>
<L>Nor yet no more would I of them account,</L>
<L>Then what that tells me, &s;ince that what &s;o ere</L>
<L>Might promi&s;e man long life: of care and feare,</L>
<L>By nature freed, a con&s;cience cleere, and quiet,</L>
<L>His health, his con&s;titution, and his diet;</L>
<L>Counting a hundred, foure &s;core at the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>Propt vp by prayers, yet more to be encrea&s;t,</L>
<L><PB N="300" REF="159">All the&s;e &s;hould faile, and in his fiftieth yeere</L>
<L>He &s;hould expire, henceforth let none be deare,</L>
<L>To me at all, le&s;t for my haple&s;&s;e &s;ake,</L>
<L>Before their time heau'n from the world them take,</L>
<L>And leaue me wretched to lament their ends</L>
<L>As I doe his, who was a thou&s;and friends.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>Vpon the death of the Lady <HI>Oliue Stanhope.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>CAn&s;t thou depart and be forgotten &s;o,</L>
<L><HI>Stanhope</HI> thou can&s;t not, no deare <HI>Stanohpe,</HI> no,</L>
<L>But in de&s;pight of death the world &s;hall &s;ee,</L>
<L>That Mu&s;e which &s;o much graced was by thee;</L>
<L>Can blacke obliuion vtterly out-braue,</L>
<L>And &s;et the vp aboue thy &s;ilent Graue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I marueil'd much the <HI>Darbian</HI> Nimphs were dumb</L>
<L>Or of tho&s;e Mu&s;es, what &s;hould be become,</L>
<L>That of all tho&s;e, the mountaines there among,</L>
<L>Not one this while thy <HI>Epicedium</HI> &s;ung;</L>
<L>But &s;o it is, when they of thee were reft,</L>
<L>They all tho&s;e hilles, and all tho&s;e riuers left,</L>
<L>And &s;ullen growne, their former feates remooue,</L>
<L>Both from cleare <HI>Darwin,</HI> and from &s;iluer <HI>Doue,</HI></L>
<L>And for thy lo&s;&s;e, they grieued are &s;o &s;ore,</L>
<L>That they haue vow'd they wil come there no more;</L>
<L>But leaue thy lo&s;&s;e to me, that I &s;hould rue thee,</L>
<L>Vnhappy man, and yet I neuer knew thee:</L>
<L>Me thou did&s;t loue vn&s;eene, &s;o did I thee,</L>
<L>It was our &s;pirits that lou'd then and not wee;</L>
<L>Therefore without prophanene&s;&s;e I may call</L>
<L>The loue betwixt vs, loue &s;pirituall:</L>
<L><PB N="301" REF="159">But that which thou affected&s;t was &s;o true,</L>
<L>As that thereby thee perfectly I knew;</L>
<L>And now that &s;pirit, which thou &s;o loud'&s;t, &s;till mine,</L>
<L>Shall offer this a Sacrifice to thine,</L>
<L>And reare this Trophe, which for thee &s;hall la&s;t,</L>
<L>When this mo&s;t bea&s;tly iron age is pa&s;t;</L>
<L>I am per&s;waded, whil&s;t we tvvo haue &s;lept,</L>
<L>Our &s;oules haue met, and to each other wept;</L>
<L>That de&s;tiny &s;o &s;trongly &s;hould forbid,</L>
<L>Our bodies to conuer&s;e as oft they did:</L>
<L>For certainly refined &s;pirits doe know,</L>
<L>As doe the Angels, and doe here below,</L>
<L>Take the fruition of that endle&s;&s;e bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>As tho&s;e aboue doe, and what each one is,</L>
<L>They &s;ee diuinely, and as tho&s;e there doe,</L>
<L>They know each others wills, &s;o &s;oules can too.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>About that di&s;mall time, thy &s;pirit hence flew,</L>
<L>Mine much was troubled, but why, I not knew,</L>
<L>In dull and &s;leepy &s;ounds, it often left me,</L>
<L>As if it &s;elfe it ment to haue bereft me,</L>
<L>I ask'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> it what the cau&s;e was, of &s;uch woe,</L>
<L>Or what it might be, that might vexe it &s;o,</L>
<L>But it was deafe, nor my demand would heare,</L>
<L>But when that ill newes came to touch mine eare,</L>
<L>I &s;traightwayes found this watchfull &s;pirit of mine,</L>
<L>Troubled had bin to take it leaue of thine,</L>
<L>For when fate found, what nature late had done,</L>
<L>How much from heauen, &s;he for the earth had won,</L>
<L>By thy deare birth; &s;aid, that it could not be</L>
<L>In &s;o yong yeares, what it perceiu'd in thee,</L>
<L>But nature &s;ure, had fram'd thee long before;</L>
<L>And as rich Mi&s;ers of their mighty &s;tore,</L>
<L><PB N="302" REF="160">Keepe the mo&s;t precious long'&s;t, &s;o from times pa&s;t,</L>
<L>She onely had re&s;eru'd thee till the la&s;t;</L>
<L>So did thy wi&s;edome, not thy youth behold,</L>
<L>And tooke thee hence, in thinking thou wa&s;t old.</L>
<L>Thy &s;hape and beauty often haue to mee</L>
<L>Bin highly prai&s;ed, which I thought might be,</L>
<L>Truely reported, for a &s;pirit &s;o braue;</L>
<L>Which heauen to thee &s;o bountifully gaue;</L>
<L>Nature could not in recompence againe,</L>
<L>In &s;ome rich lodging but to entertaine.</L>
<L>Let not the world report then, that the Peake,</L>
<L>Is but a rude place only va&s;t and bleake,</L>
<L>And nothing hath to boa&s;t of but her Lead,</L>
<L>When &s;he can &s;ay that happily &s;he bred</L>
<L>Thee, and when &s;he &s;hall of her wonders t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll,</L>
<L>Wherein &s;he doth all other tracts excell,</L>
<L>Let her account thee great'&s;t, and &s;till to time</L>
<L>Of all the re&s;t, record <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hee for the prime,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>To Mai&s;ter WILLIAM IEFFRYES, Chapleine to the Lord Amba&s;&s;a|<HI>dour in Spaine.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MY noble friend, you challenge me to write</L>
<L>To you in Ver&s;e, and often you recite,</L>
<L>My promi&s;e to you, and to &s;end you newes;</L>
<L>As 'tis a thing I very &s;eldome v&s;e,</L>
<L>And I mu&s;t write of State, if to <HI>Madrid,</HI></L>
<L>A thing our Proclamations here forbid,</L>
<L>And that word State &s;uch Latitude doth beare,</L>
<L>As it may make me very well to feare</L>
<L>To write, nay &s;peake at all, the&s;e let you know</L>
<L>Your power on me, yet not that I will &s;how</L>
<L><PB N="303" REF="160">The loue I beare you, in that lofty height,</L>
<L>So cleare expre&s;&s;ion, or &s;uch words of weight,</L>
<L>As into <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> if they were tran&s;lated,</L>
<L>Might make the Poets of that Realme amated;</L>
<L>Yet the&s;e my la&s;t were, but that you extort</L>
<L>The&s;e numbers from me, when I &s;hould report</L>
<L>In home-&s;pun pro&s;e, in good plaine hone&s;t words</L>
<L>The newes our wofull <HI>England</HI> vs affords.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Mu&s;es here &s;it &s;ad, and mute the while</L>
<L>A &s;ort of &s;wine vn&s;ea&s;onably defile</L>
<L>Tho&s;e &s;acred &s;prings, which from the by-clift-hill</L>
<L>Dropt their pure <HI>Nectar</HI> into euery quill;</L>
<L>In this with State, I hope I doe not deale,</L>
<L>This onely tends the Mu&s;es common-weale.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What can&s;t thou hope, or looke for from his pen,</L>
<L>Who liues with bea&s;ts, though in the &s;hapes of men,</L>
<L>And what a poore few are we hone&s;t &s;till,</L>
<L>And dare to be &s;o, when all the world is ill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I find this age of our markt with this Fate,</L>
<L>That hone&s;t men are &s;till precipitate</L>
<L>Vnder ba&s;e Villaines, which till th'earth can vent</L>
<L>This her la&s;t brood, and wholly hath them &s;pent,</L>
<L>Shall be &s;o, then in reuolution &s;hall;</L>
<L>Vertue againe ari&s;e by vices fall;</L>
<L>But that &s;hall I not &s;ee, neither will I</L>
<L>Maintaine this, as one doth a Prophe&s;ie,</L>
<L>That our King <HI>Iames</HI> to <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hall &s;urely goe,</L>
<L>And from his Chaire the <HI>Pope</HI> &s;hall ouerthrow.</L>
<L>But &ocirc; this world is &s;o giuen vp to hell,</L>
<L>That as the old Giants, which did once rebel,</L>
<L>Again&s;t the gods, &s;o this now liuing race</L>
<L>Dare &s;in, yet &s;tand, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eere heau'n in the face.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="304" REF="161">
<L>But &s;oft my Mu&s;e, and make a little &s;tay,</L>
<L>Surely thou art not rightly in thy way,</L>
<L>To my good <HI>Ieffrayes</HI> was not I about</L>
<L>To write, and &s;ee, I &s;uddainly am out,</L>
<L>This is pure <HI>Satire,</HI> that thou &s;peak'&s;t, and I</L>
<L>Was fir&s;t in hand to write an Elegie.</L>
<L>To tell my, countries &s;hame I not delight,</L>
<L>But doe bemoane't I am no <HI>Democrite:</HI></L>
<L>O God, though Vertue mightily doe grieue,</L>
<L>For all this world yet will I not beleeue</L>
<L>But that &s;hee's faire and louely, and that &s;hee</L>
<L>So to the period of the world &s;hall bee;</L>
<L>El&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad &s;he beene for&s;aken (&s;ure) of all,</L>
<L>For that &s;o many &s;undry mi&s;chiefes fall</L>
<L>Vpon her dayly, and &s;o many take</L>
<L>Armes vp again&s;t her, as it well might make,</L>
<L>Her to for&s;ake her nature, and behind,</L>
<L>To leaue no &s;tep for future time to find,</L>
<L>As &s;hee had neuer beene, for he that now</L>
<L>Can doe her mo&s;t di&s;grace, him they allow</L>
<L>The times chiefe Champion, and he is the man,</L>
<L>The prize, and palme that ab&s;olutely wanne,</L>
<L>For where Kings Clo&s;ets her free &s;eat hath bin,</L>
<L>Shee neere the Lodge, not &s;uffered is to Inne,</L>
<L>For ignorance again&s;t her &s;tands in &s;tate,</L>
<L>Like &s;ome great porter at a pallace gate;</L>
<L>So dull and barbarous lately are wee growne,</L>
<L>And there are &s;ome this &s;luttery that haue &s;owne,</L>
<L>That for mans knowledge it enough doth make,</L>
<L>If he can learne to read an Almanacke;</L>
<L>By whom that tra&s;h of <HI>Amadis de Gaule,</HI></L>
<L>Is held an Author mo&s;t authenticall,</L>
<L><PB N="305" REF="161" MS="y">And things wee haue like Noblemen that be</L>
<L>In little time, which I haue hope to &s;ee</L>
<L>Vpon their foot-clothes, as the &s;treets they ride,</L>
<L>To haue their hornebookes at their girdles ti'd,</L>
<L>But all their &s;uperfluity of &s;pight</L>
<L>On vertues handmayd Poe&s;y doth light,</L>
<L>And to extirpe her all their plots they lay,</L>
<L>But to her ruine they &s;hall mi&s;&s;e the way,</L>
<L>For tis alone the Monuments of wit,</L>
<L>Aboue the rage of Tyrants that doe &s;it,</L>
<L>And from their &s;trength, not one him&s;elfe can &s;ane,</L>
<L>But they &s;hall triumph o'r his hated graue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In my conceipt, friend, thou did&s;t neuer &s;ee</L>
<L>A righter Madam then thou ha&s;t of mee,</L>
<L>For now as <HI>Elegiacke</HI> I bewaile</L>
<L>The&s;e poore ba&s;e times; then &s;uddainely Ile raile</L>
<L>And I am <HI>Satiricke,</HI> not that I inforce</L>
<L>My &s;elfe to be &s;o, but euen as remor&s;e,</L>
<L>Or hate, in the proud fullne&s;&s;e of their hight</L>
<L>Ma&s;ter my fancy, iu&s;t &s;o doe I write.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But gentle friend, as &s;oone &s;hall I behold</L>
<L>That &s;tone of which &s;o many haue vs told,</L>
<L>(Yet neuer any to this day could make)</L>
<L>The great <HI>Elixar,</HI> or to vndertake</L>
<L>The <HI>Ro&s;e-Cro&s;&s;e</HI> knowledge which is much like that,</L>
<L>A Tarrying-iron for fooles to labour at,</L>
<L>As euer after I may hope to &s;ee,</L>
<L>(A plague vpon this bea&s;tly world for mee)</L>
<L>Wit &s;o re&s;pected as it was of yore,</L>
<L>And if hereafter any it re&s;tore,</L>
<L>It mu&s;t be tho&s;e that yet for many a yeere,</L>
<L>Shall be vnborne that mu&s;t inhabit here,</L>
<L><PB N="306" REF="162">And &s;uch in vertue as &s;hall be a&s;ham'd</L>
<L>Almo&s;t to heare their ignorant Grand&s;ires nam'd,</L>
<L>With whom &s;o many noble &s;pirits then liu'd;</L>
<L>That were by them of all reward depriu'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My noble friend, I would I might haue quit</L>
<L>This age of the&s;e, and that I might haue writ,</L>
<L>Before a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> other, how much the braue pen;</L>
<L>Had here bin honoured of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men;</L>
<L>Goodne&s;&s;e and knowledge, held by them in pri&s;e,</L>
<L>How hatefull to them ignorance and vice,</L>
<L>But it falls out the contrary is true,</L>
<L>And &s;o my <HI>Ieffereyes</HI> for this time adue.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="elegy">
<HEAD>Vpon the death of Mi&s;tris Elianor <HI>Fallowfield.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>ACcur&s;ed Death, what need vvas there at all</L>
<L>Of thee, or who to councell did thee call;</L>
<L>The &s;ubiect vvhere upon the&s;e lines I &s;pend</L>
<L>For thee was mo&s;t vnfit, her timele&s;&s;e end</L>
<L>Too &s;oone thou wrought'&s;t, too neere her thou did&s;t &s;tand;</L>
<L>Thou &s;hould&s;t haue lent thy leane and m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ager hand</L>
<L>To tho&s;e who oft the helpe thereof be&s;eech,</L>
<L>And can be cured by no other Leech.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In this wide world hovv many thou&s;ands be</L>
<L>That hauing pa&s;t foure&s;core, do call for thee,</L>
<L>The wretched debtor in the Iayle that lyes,</L>
<L>Yet cannot this his Creditor &s;uffice;</L>
<L>Doth woe thee oft with many a &s;igh and teare,</L>
<L>Yet thou art coy, and him thou wilt not heare.</L>
<L>The Captiue &s;laue that tuggeth at the Oares,</L>
<L>And vnderneath the Bulls tough &s;inewes rores,</L>
<L><PB N="307" REF="162">Begs at thy hand, in lieu of all his paines,</L>
<L>That thou vvould'&s;t but relea&s;e him of his chaines;</L>
<L>Yet thou a niggard li&s;tene&s;t not thereto,</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;hort ga&s;pe which thou might'&s;t ea&s;ily do,</L>
<L>But thou could&s;t come to her ere there was need,</L>
<L>And euen at once de&s;troy both flovvre and &s;eede.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But cruell death if thou &s;o barbarous bee,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e &s;o goodly, and &s;o young as &s;hee;</L>
<L>That in their teeming thou wilt &s;hew thy &s;pight;</L>
<L>Either from marriage thou wilt Maides affright,</L>
<L>Or in their Wedlocke, Widdowes liues to chu&s;e</L>
<L>Their husbands bed, and vtterly refu&s;e,</L>
<L>Fearing conception; &s;o &s;halt thou thereby</L>
<L>Extirpate mankind by thy cruelty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If after direfull Tragedy thou thir&s;t,</L>
<L>Extingui&s;h <HI>Himens</HI> Torches at the fir&s;t;</L>
<L>Build Funerall pyles, and the &s;ad pauement &s;trew,</L>
<L>With mournful Cypre&s;&s;e, and the pale-leau'd Yewe.</L>
<L>Away with Ro&s;es, Mirtle, and with Bayes;</L>
<L>En&s;ignes of mith, and iollity, as the&s;e;</L>
<L>Neuer at Nuptialls v&s;ed be againe,</L>
<L>But from the Church the new Bride entertaine</L>
<L>With Weeping <HI>Nenias,</HI> euer and among,</L>
<L>As at departings be &s;ad <HI>Requiems</HI> &s;ong</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Lucina</HI> by th'old Poets that wert &s;ayd,</L>
<L>Women in Child-birth euermore to ayde,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thine Altars, long haue layne neglected:</L>
<L>Nor as they &s;hould, thy holy fiers reflected</L>
<L>Vpon thy Temples, therefore thou doe&s;t flye,</L>
<L>And wilt not helpe them in nece&s;sity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thinking vpon thee, I doe often mu&s;e,</L>
<L>Whether for thy deare &s;ake I &s;hould a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cu&s;e</L>
<L><PB N="908" REF="163">Nature or Fortune, Fortune then I blame,</L>
<L>And doe impute it as her greate&s;t &s;hame,</L>
<L>To ha&s;t thy timele&s;&s;e end, and &s;oone agen</L>
<L>I vexe at Nature, nay I cur&s;e her then,</L>
<L>That at the time of need &s;he was no &s;tronger,</L>
<L>That wee by her might haue enioy'd thee longer.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But whil&s;t of the&s;e I with my &s;elfe debate,</L>
<L>I call to mind how flinty-hearted Fate,</L>
<L>Sea&s;eth the olde, the yong, the faire, the foule,</L>
<L>No thing of earth can De&s;tiny controule:</L>
<L>But yet that Fate which hath of life bereft thee,</L>
<L>Still to eternall memory hath lef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thee,</L>
<L>Which thou enioy'&s;t by the de&s;erued breath,</L>
<L>That many a great one hath not after death.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
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<PB REF="163" MS="y">
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