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<NAME>Olivia Bottum</NAME>
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<P>LONDONS ARTILLERY, BRIEFLY CONTAINING The noble practi&s;e of that wothie Societie: WITH THE MODERNE AND AN|cient martiall exerci&s;es, natures of armes, vertue of Magi&s;trates, Antiquitie, Glorie and Chronography of this ho|nourable Cittie.</P>
<P><HI>Praemia virtutis no&s;trae, non &s;tirpis honores.</HI></P>
<P>By R.N. Oxon.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Thomas Creede,</HI> and <HI>Bernard All&s;opp,</HI> for <HI>William Welby,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his &s;hop in Paules Church-yard at the &s;igne of the Swan. 1616.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR <HI>IOHN IOLLES,</HI> KNIGHT, LORD Maior, and to the right VVor&s;hipfull the Aldermen and Senate of the <HI>famous cittie of London.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AS no riches doe better enrich the &s;oule of man, then learning, and no learning doth better in&s;truct the life of man, then Hi&s;torie; &s;o (right Honorable) no Hi&s;torie can bet|ter be&s;eeme your knowledge, then that of this noble Cittie; and &s;ince examples pre|uaile more then precepts as patternes to follow, I haue broken &s;ome &s;leepe to awake from &s;leepe the worthie deedes of many your Honourable prede|ce&s;&s;ors, who before you haue &s;wayd the &s;word of Iu&s;tice in Londons Tribunall, which with her Hi&s;|torie of auncient and moderne times, Chronogra|phicall de&s;cription, polliticall gouernment, milita|rie exerci&s;es and natures of armes all taking begin|ning from the worthie practi&s;e of your now hope|full Infantrie, I haue publi&s;hed as the map of my natiue Lo~dons glory, before neuer delineated in the like form or method: the cau&s;e why I haue con&s;e|crated
<PB REF="3"> it vnto your Honor is my naturall loue and duty to my natiue Countrie and your proper inte|re&s;t in my worke as gouerning that Cittie, who&s;e Hi&s;torie is my &s;ubiect; and though I know, that &s;uch a Cittie-&s;ubiect cannot want enuie in court and countrie: yet if your honour vouch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">afe it your gra|tious acceptance, I craue no further fauour of pro|tection, then within the liberty of my natiue London to liue.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honours mo&s;t humbly deuoted, <HI>Richard Niccolls.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD><HI>TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL FAVOV|RERS OF ARTES AND</HI> FOLLOWERS OF ARMES, the Captaines of the late Mu&s;ters and to the re&s;t of the Societie of Lon|dons hopefull <HI>Infantrie.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen on that plot of ground I you beheld,</L>
<L>(Braue brood of Mars) where Mars of yore did lead</L>
<L>The <HI>^a</HI> Romane troopes, me thought,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">For this &s;ee the <HI>10.</HI> &amp; <HI>13.</HI> pag.</NOTE> ye &s;tood in field</L>
<L>As &s;ouldiers from their a&s;hes newly bred,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That thought to &s;ing your pray&s;e in&s;pir'd my Mu&s;e</L>
<L>And fir&s;t gaue life to this heroique &s;ong,</L>
<L>Which ye that vnder&s;tand can not abu&s;e;</L>
<L>Braue minded Mars the Mu&s;es will not wrong:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Phillips</HI><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Alexander the great.</NOTE> great &s;onne, great &s;ouldier of his time,</L>
<L>Who wepte, becau&s;e poore <HI>Homer</HI> did not liue</L>
<L>To &s;ing his life, to<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Cherillus.</NOTE> one, that could but rime</L>
<L>Yet good regard for each good ver&s;e did giue:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thinke what he did and what that Monarch was,</L>
<L>So &s;hall my ver&s;e not vnregarded pa&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Euer well-wi&s;hing to you and your noble exerci&s;e,</HI> Richard Nicolls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>TO THE MOST WORTHIE GENTLEMAN CAPTAINE EDMVND Panton Captaine and Leader to our Londons hopefull <HI>Infantrie.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>COnceit not (Worthie Sir) that &s;elfe conceit</L>
<L>Did giue my humble Mu&s;e a&s;piring wings,</L>
<L>To mount your &s;pheare of <HI>Mars,</HI> affection great</L>
<L>To your great worth, is cau&s;e of what &s;he &s;ings,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To you prime Mouer of that martiall &s;pheare,</L>
<L>Wherein &s;o many &s;parkes of hope do &s;hine,</L>
<L>She fir&s;t doth &s;ing, in hope your gentle eare</L>
<L>Will giue free way to the&s;e <HI>E&s;&s;ayes</HI> of mine:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where if you finde ought good, or ought ami&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Will to doe well in either I haue &s;howne;</L>
<L>If good, or bad, or both, I craue but this,</L>
<L>That as you find it, you will make it knowne:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But (gentle Sir) fir&s;t deigne to reade: then iudge,</L>
<L>And what your cen&s;ure is, I will not grudge.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours to be commanded <HI>R. N.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_SInce in this vncharitable age, mo&s;t men in &s;u&s;pending their iudgements, do more often &s;hoote their arrowes of cen&s;ure out of the bow of pa&s;sion, then rea&s;on, I do here &s;et foorth this <HI>E&s;&s;ay</HI> of my Poem, as a common Butt, with a re&s;olution expecting more arrowes of enuie then loue; yet if any ingenuous, more out of their owne mo|de&s;tie, then perhaps my de&s;ert, &s;hall here thinke any thing well done; let them know that I haue endeuoured to doe well, as one that loues doing well for it &s;elfe, more then for thankes; If the enuious who thinke any thing ab&s;urd in another, which they ac|count excellent in them&s;elues, &s;hall condemne this my endeauor, to honour my natiue London, and that exerci&s;e of Armes, main|tained by the indu&s;trie a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d expence of her hopefull <HI>Infantrie</HI> as vaine: yet can they not, if they will &s;ay it is great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anitie, but euen out of enuie wih all &s;ay it is great loue, my loue to them their worth, and practi&s;e, hauing beene the fir&s;t c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;e that gaue life to this labour. To tho&s;e that except against the title of my worke which I call <HI>Londons Artillerie,</HI> becau&s;e it is an impropriety of &s;peech, not communicable to tho&s;e of this prai&s;e worthie So|cietie, I an&s;wer, that I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m constrained to impo&s;e this terme vp|pon the, both becau&s;e by the ignorant vulgar, they are generally &s;o called, and the French word <HI>Infantrie</HI> with other more &s;ig|nificant &amp; proper <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re &s;car&s;e intelligible to any common Reader. The &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iect or matter o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">m take thus: armes being none of my profe&s;&s;ion of that I haue onely la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e downe the&s;e few po|&s;itions Fir&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> nor &s;houl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> v&s;e armes for his art or tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e: that euery &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ate or commonwealth &s;hould rather im|ploy and traine vp their owne natiue people in martiall di&s;cipline
<PB REF="5"> for their defence, then &s;trangers: That practi&s;e and time doe produce both &s;tronger men and better &s;oldiers, then nature &amp;.c. Of London, if any de&s;ire to know the aptene&s;&s;e of &s;cituation, good|ne&s;&s;e of &s;oyle, hole&s;omnes of aire, Antiquitie, deriuation of name, honour of Armes, dignitie and vertue of Magi&s;trates, martiall Exerci&s;es, natures of v&s;uall armes both auncient and moderne, in this little worke, as through a gla&s;&s;e they may behold all the&s;e reflected fro~ the light of auncient &amp; authentike authors The order and maner into which I haue dige&s;ted this little labor is thus, I haue grounded an Inductio~ to the en&s;uing Cantoes, on certain reliques of Roman Antiquity, found in the feild, adioyning to this hopefull Companies Campus Martius, vulgarly called the Artillerie garden, among&s;t which the Image of <HI>Minerua</HI> being one, I haue made her, beeing Pre&s;ident of arts and armes, the Author of my Poem, deuided into ten <HI>Cantoes,</HI> to which <HI>I</HI> haue adioyned certain notes of Illu&s;tration in Pro&s;e, not out of af|fected &s;ingularity, it being a thing not v&s;uall, but both to explain &s;uch places, which to the ignorant and perhaps to &s;ome, who think them&s;elues no common Readers, may &s;eeme difficult, and al&s;o to confirme &s;uch points of hi&s;torie, by the te&s;timonie of approoued Authors, which in my Poem may &s;eeme doubtfull: For thy better instruction (gentle Reader) I intreate thee to ob&s;erue, that this marke "again&s;t any ver&s;e &s;tands as a note of direction to the &s;ame ver&s;e in the Illu&s;trations. Thus hoping a charitable cen&s;ure, I craue no other reward for my paines, but that thou feeding on the fruite of my labor mai&s;t well di&s;ge&s;t it.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. N.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="1" REF="5">
<HEAD>LONDONS ARTILLERIE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="introduction">
<HEAD>Induction.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen the daies King, our Sommer once begun,</L>
<L>In <HI>Leo's</HI> Inne had lodg'd his golden Sun,</L>
<L>And had, to &s;port him&s;elfe &s;ome little &s;pace,</L>
<L>Heau'ns Dog-&s;tarre loo&s;d, to giue the <HI>Lion</HI> chace;<NOTE PLACE="marg">A De&s;crip|tion of the late drie Summer.</NOTE></L>
<L>The eager Dogge &s;o hotly did pur&s;ue</L>
<L>The panting <HI>Lyon,</HI> that the breath, which &s;lew</L>
<L>Before his no&s;thrils, kindled in our aire</L>
<L>A fire vn&s;eene, which made the mountains bare,</L>
<L>Sing'd vales and plaines, lickt vp the dewes &s;weet drops,</L>
<L>Suckt the trees &s;ap out at their leauy tops:</L>
<L>Yet &s;till the &s;tarry Curre &s;o thir&s;tie grew,</L>
<L>That lakes, ponds, pooles, all pla&s;hes drie he drew;</L>
<L>The &s;iluer Brookes beneath their banks did &s;hrinke,</L>
<L>Earth gap't at heau'n with open mouth for drinke:</L>
<L>Riuers, halfe lapt vp by his blaring tong,</L>
<L>Scarce quencht the thir&s;t, which his hot &s;tomacke &s;tong</L>
<L>By his fierce heate, that humour hid within</L>
<L>Our humane bodies, through the porie skin,</L>
<L>He did attract &s;o fa&s;t in drops of &s;weate,</L>
<L>That men did faint beneath his fierie heate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="2" REF="6">
<L>And I, that &s;hut vp in my carefull cell,</L>
<L>His burning fury by effects could tell,</L>
<L>Ro&s;e with the Larke, the morns cloud-climing &s;inger,</L>
<L>To take the aire, the hot bloods-cold breath-bringer;</L>
<L>And on the Ea&s;t of that greene plot of ground,</L>
<L>Which Londons<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Artil|lerie yard.</NOTE> <HI>Campus Martius</HI> may be crownd,</L>
<L>Where that free troope all voluntary led,</L>
<L>Each <HI>Mars</HI> his day, the war-gods dance do tread,</L>
<L>I from my natiue (London) walked forth</L>
<L>Into that field of yore cald<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Spittle field.</NOTE> <HI>Lole&s;worth:</HI></L>
<L>Where the fre&s;h aire by winds to&s;t to and fro,</L>
<L>Which keepe it vncorrupt, me thought, did &s;how</L>
<L>That heau'ns afflictions euer purge the minde</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e, that vnto vertue are inclinde:</L>
<L>The Larke, that left her food, her ne&s;t, her yong,</L>
<L>And early mounting, fir&s;t with her &s;weet &s;ong,</L>
<L>Saluted heau'n, did &s;eeme to bid vs win</L>
<L>Helpe from aboue, ere our dayes worke begin;</L>
<L>The Strawburie and &s;ent-&s;weete Violet,</L>
<L>Which abiect grew, before mine eyes did &s;et</L>
<L>That vnknowne worth, which oftentimes doth dwell</L>
<L>With meane&s;t fortunes in a homely cell:</L>
<L>The odoriferous Ro&s;e, the gardens Queene,</L>
<L>Bout whom an hoa&s;t of thorny prickes are &s;eene,</L>
<L>Said, they mu&s;t &s;uffer paine, that &s;eeke for honor,</L>
<L>Since hard acce&s;&s;e and danger wait vpon her;</L>
<L>The bearded Corne, mong&s;t whom the fuller Eare</L>
<L>Did bow the head, when they that emptie were</L>
<L>Would waue aloft, did &s;hew that vertuous men,</L>
<L>The more they haue, the more &s;till humbled ben:</L>
<L>On euery creature, natures God hath writ,</L>
<L>In&s;tructiue noates to teach the dulle&s;t wit.</L>
<L>Thus walking on, by chance I ca&s;t mine eye</L>
<L>Vpon that ancient place, &s;hot vp on hie,</L>
<L>Which was by worthy founders rai&s;d of yore,</L>
<L>To be an<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;pitall of Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt Mari<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Spittle.</NOTE> hou&s;e of mercie to the poore,</L>
<PB N="3" REF="6">
<L>For who&s;e decay, which then I did behold,</L>
<L>Thus to my &s;elfe, my griefe I did vnfold,</L>
<L>Thou noble relique of that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Two citize~s of London, of whom &s;ee the Illu&s;trations. Decay of the Ho&s;pitall.</NOTE> nobler man,</L>
<L>And his deare &s;pou&s;e, who&s;e bounteous hands began</L>
<L>And fini&s;hed tho&s;e workes of prai&s;e in thee,</L>
<L>Who&s;e like the&s;e iron daies doth &s;eldome &s;ee;</L>
<L>Where are become tho&s;e almes deeds of the dead,</L>
<L>With which &s;o many poore in thee were fed?</L>
<L>Or where tho&s;e lodgings now, which then each night</L>
<L>Gaue harbour to &s;o many a wandring wight?</L>
<L>Do they abide? alas they all are gone,</L>
<L>And nothing left, le&s;&s;e deafer, then the &s;tone</L>
<L>Within thy walls, to hearken to the poore,</L>
<L>If they to thee their wretched ca&s;e deplore.</L>
<L>O wofull &s;tate of mi&s;erable man</L>
<L>Once dead, &s;carce any good or vertue can</L>
<L>Liue after death with vs! for &s;uch the rage,</L>
<L>And the dull blindne&s;&s;e of this enuious age,</L>
<L>That eu'n the &s;hadow of that antique good,</L>
<L>That wont to be, is now not vnder&s;tood,</L>
<L>And the good deeds them&s;elues of tho&s;e good men,</L>
<L>Are &s;wept away, as they had neuer ben:</L>
<L>Alas that vipers-like, we &s;hould deuoure</L>
<L>The liues of our deare parents, who had powre</L>
<L>To liue a leauing name to vs vnkinde</L>
<L>In tho&s;e their workes, which they haue left behinde,</L>
<L>Which to the like, might like true lights conduct vs;</L>
<L>Examples more then precepts do in&s;truct vs:</L>
<L>But that imagination may not thinke,</L>
<L>That euer good was there, vnto a &s;inke</L>
<L>Of euill we conuert that plac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, which then</L>
<L>Was the true zealous worke of vertuous men.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Abu&s;e of the &s;ame.</NOTE></L>
<L>For where the aged and the impotent,</L>
<L>Liu'd in their actions cha&s;t and innocent,</L>
<L>Th'vnbridled &s;talion, breathing furious lu&s;t,</L>
<L>Prouokes encounters in the <HI>Paphian</HI> iou&s;t</L>
<PB N="4" REF="7">
<L>And there, where many a t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ue-teare dropping eye</L>
<L>With zealous hands, once lifted vp on hie</L>
<L>Vnto the King of heau'n by prayer, were winners</L>
<L>Of &s;oules &s;aluation to repentant &s;inners,</L>
<L>Now French-&s;icke Syrens, and lewd Circe's dwell,</L>
<L>Who&s;e lookes are hookes to hale hot blods to hell:</L>
<L>O that the buds of youth, that promi&s;e much</L>
<L>Of timely fruite to follow, by the touch</L>
<L>Of Cankers here decaying, &s;hould de&s;paire,</L>
<L>Who &s;ucking &s;orth the verdure of their faire,</L>
<L>Conuert the &s;ap of their inclinde good will</L>
<L>Into the poy&s;on of dete&s;ted ill;</L>
<L>Or that the aged Chrone is &s;uffred here</L>
<L>To feed the Cockatrice, who doth appeare</L>
<L>No &s;ooner hatcht, but that &s;he runs in ha&s;t</L>
<L>To <HI>&V;enus</HI> &s;choole, where &s;he doth learne at la&s;t,</L>
<L>With pe&s;tilentiall lookes and banefull breath,</L>
<L>In youth to bla&s;t poore mode&s;tie to death.</L>
<L>To you (graue Lord) therefore, who for this yeare,</L>
<L>Do <HI>Atlas</HI>-like vpon your &s;houlders beare</L>
<L>Our <HI>Londons</HI> heau'n; the <HI>Genius</HI> of this place,</L>
<L>By me doth beg redre&s;&s;e for &s;uch di&s;grace,</L>
<L>Le&s;t <HI>Englands</HI> pearle not onely beare the &s;taine</L>
<L>Of being blemi&s;ht; but &s;eeme &s;o prophane,</L>
<L>That her concurrent enuious <HI>Rome</HI> may &s;ay,</L>
<L>Where vertue was, now vice beares &s;upreame &s;way,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No &s;ooner did my Mu&s;e, vrg'd by the wrong,</L>
<L>Of the&s;e bad dayes, end her Satyricke &s;ong,</L>
<L>But looking backe, behind me, I beheld</L>
<L>One, that had all this time him&s;elfe conceald:</L>
<L>His garbe was Souldier-like, &s;o was his gate;</L>
<L>His weeds though meane, were comely: yet his &s;tate</L>
<L>As 'tis the &s;ouldiers portion now, was poore,</L>
<L>His lookes did &s;ay his pur&s;e had little &s;tore,</L>
<L>And yet vpon his brow beneath his hat</L>
<L>Temperd with mildne&s;&s;e, manly &s;terne&s;&s;e &s;at,</L>
<PB N="5" REF="7">
<L>Denouncing peace to tho&s;e, that peace allowd,</L>
<L>And warre to tho&s;e, that would be vainly prowd;</L>
<L>Who, when within the reach of voyce he came,</L>
<L>Saluting me, his purpo&s;e thus did frame,</L>
<L>Good time of day, Sir, be it no offence,</L>
<L>That bluntly I intreate you to di&s;pence,</L>
<L>With your owne meditations for a &s;pace,</L>
<L>That I to you may tell the worlds di&s;grace</L>
<L>To men of armes; we often by di&s;cour&s;e</L>
<L>Finde ea&s;e of heart; and I do reade remor&s;e</L>
<L>Writ in your lookes, of which my wrongs reueald</L>
<L>May find &s;ome comfort: Humane griefes conceald,</L>
<L>Are in great thoughts, like &s;trong wines, that will rent</L>
<L>The caske in peeces, if they want their vent.</L>
<L>Alas Sir, an&s;werd I, what comfort can</L>
<L>Expected be from &s;uch a naple&s;&s;e man,</L>
<L>Who by the vaine worlds mocke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y is made</L>
<L>Your fellow &s;eruant vnto care? words fade,</L>
<L>Like fal&s;e friends leauing vs, and will be found</L>
<L>As fruitle&s;&s;e, to our griefes, as Mu&s;icks &s;ound</L>
<L>Is to the deafe mans care, onely they feed</L>
<L>Our humours for a time; yet after breed,</L>
<L>As do dead bodies their owne eaters, cares,</L>
<L>That do con&s;ume vs; yet no man de&s;paires,</L>
<L>That &s;ees his equall with true patience beare</L>
<L>The like bad fortune: for now euery where,</L>
<L>The Mu&s;es pupils, who&s;e profe&s;&s;ion yet,</L>
<L>(Except where Ignorance, as Iudge is &s;et,)</L>
<L>Shall ne'r giue place to armes, are made the &s;corne</L>
<L>And &s;cum of time, who though thus left forlorne;</L>
<L>Yet like the teeth, that &s;till preparing food,</L>
<L>Do hurt them&s;elues to do the body good,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Neglect of learning.</NOTE></L>
<L>In watchfull &s;tudies wa&s;ting out their prime</L>
<L>And May of youth, grow old before their time,</L>
<L>And both their health, their wealth, and wits engage</L>
<L>With golden knowledge to enrich this age,</L>
<PB N="6" REF="8">
<L>Who &s;trumpet-like, vnthankefull, with a &s;coffe,</L>
<L>Once hauing knowne their worth, doth ca&s;t them off,</L>
<L>Except they &s;toope like Panders to the time,</L>
<L>And do partake with it in euery crime:</L>
<L>If any noble wit, raui&s;ht with loue,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e diuiner my&s;teries aboue</L>
<L>His talent would apply, he mu&s;t appeale</L>
<L>To &s;ome Church-chaffring Chuffe, who will &s;o deale</L>
<L>By his Primitias, or &s;ome other meane,</L>
<L>That the poore Liuing, will be left too leane</L>
<L>To liue vpon; except &s;ome one disbur&s;e</L>
<L>The <HI>Leuits</HI> portion out of his owne pur&s;e:</L>
<L>If any &s;ound, profound, farre-reaching &s;prite,</L>
<L>Whom the deepe Politikes do mo&s;t delight,</L>
<L>Do breake his quiet &s;leepes to &s;erue the State,</L>
<L>How many tedious winters mu&s;t he waire</L>
<L>Vpon the taile of Greatne&s;&s;e, and yet finde</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe like him, that &s;eekes to gra&s;pe the winde;</L>
<L>Mockt and deluded with vaine words &s;o long,</L>
<L>Till in olde age death con&s;ummate his wrong?</L>
<L>(O haple&s;&s;e brood of great <HI>Apolloes</HI> braine)</L>
<L>To what &s;hifts do the&s;e times your wits con&s;traint.</L>
<L>Some forc't by want to lay by learnings worth,</L>
<L>Turne Liuerie men; others, who&s;e yonger birth</L>
<L>But little better fortune doth affoord,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t Pedagogize at &s;ome great mans boord,</L>
<L>And learne true Congeis of &s;ome trencher boy,</L>
<L>Wherewith to plea&s;e their Patrons painted toy:</L>
<L>Others ill v&s;ing their Dramatike pens</L>
<L>To grace the Stage, and promi&s;e plea&s;ing Sceans,</L>
<L>With the &s;weete honey of their golden &s;tile,</L>
<L>Feed others fat, and &s;terue them&s;elues the while.</L>
<L>Thus then you &s;ee, that in the &s;elfe &s;ame fate,</L>
<L>Both men of arts and armes participate,</L>
<L>Which may yeeld comfort, &s;ince 'tis &s;ome releefe</L>
<L>To wretched men, t'haue partners in their greefe.</L>
<PB N="7" REF="8">
<L>To this, the &s;ouldiour &s;ighing, thus reply'd,</L>
<L>Ayme, would God, that I in armes had dy'd,</L>
<L>Since being poore, and therefore deemd a &s;laue</L>
<L>By the times worldlings, in di&s;tre&s;&s;e I haue</L>
<L>No other &s;alue to cure my wound of care,</L>
<L>But onely what forc't patience can prepare:</L>
<L>For &s;ince the due of armes we are bereft,</L>
<L>What hope of helpe, is to the &s;ouldiour left?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Neglect of armes.</NOTE></L>
<L>Pride-pampring ea&s;e, &s;ecure of after harmes,</L>
<L>Inchants the warre. God in her wanton armes,</L>
<L>And from his helme, now hung vp by the walls,</L>
<L>In who&s;e darke concaue Spiders weaue their cauls,</L>
<L>His plume is pluckt away, which euery where,</L>
<L>Cowards and martiall men alike do were;</L>
<L>Who in the &s;teed of Gorget made of &s;teele,</L>
<L>Bout their phanta&s;tike neckes do fondly wheele</L>
<L>That ba&s;e deuice of yeallow fall and ruffe,</L>
<L>As if the patterne of that fierie &s;tuffe,</L>
<L>In the true perfect colour, they would take,</L>
<L>Which pride &s;hall put on in the burning lake.</L>
<L>But &s;oft, I &s;eeme too bitter gain&s;t the times,</L>
<L>And &s;ome perhaps, who patronize &s;uch crimes,</L>
<L>Will taxe my plaint<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, as vtterd in de&s;pight,</L>
<L>Out of a warre-thir&s;t gain&s;t the &s;weet delight</L>
<L>Of ble&s;&s;ed peace, which heau'n doth &s;till be&s;tow</L>
<L>Vpon our &s;tate; but let &s;uch fondlings know,</L>
<L>I to my countrie, wi&s;h no wounds of &s;teele,</L>
<L>But &s;uch, as now our fruitfull furrowes feele,</L>
<L>Onely it grieues my &s;oule to &s;ee th'increa&s;e</L>
<L>And fruite of plentie, which our happie peace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pride chiefe author of e|uill in our State.</NOTE></L>
<L>So long enioyd, could carefully proulde,</L>
<L>Deuour'd and eate vp by their wanton pride,</L>
<L>Who, like a treacherous: Peere, that bearing &s;way</L>
<L>In &s;tate affaires, makes euery one giue way</L>
<L>To his de&s;ignes, fights for our foes at home,</L>
<L>That &s;o our &s;elues, our &s;elues may ouercome.</L>
<PB N="8" REF="9">
<L>Tis that (alas) that with &s;elfe-&s;poyling hand</L>
<L>Exhau&s;ts the golden trea&s;ures of our land,</L>
<L>Wa&s;tes townes and cities, makes our people bare,</L>
<L>Turnes rich men poore, brings poore men to de&s;paire:</L>
<L>It is that <HI>Omphale,</HI> that by her charmes,</L>
<L>Makes our <HI>Herculean</HI> youth, neglecting armes,</L>
<L>Put on the habit, lookes, lockes, pace and face,</L>
<L>Of tender women, to their beards di&s;grace:</L>
<L>It is that Harlot, who by lu&s;t at length</L>
<L>Cuts of the lockes of our young <HI>Samp&s;ons</HI> &s;trength,</L>
<L>Giuing the golden gulls of the&s;e our dayes</L>
<L>An heart, but of an Hart, in bold a&s;&s;ayes</L>
<L>Fitter &s;wift flight, then fight to vndergoe,</L>
<L>Who for them&s;elues do no true valour know,</L>
<L>Sleight the poore &s;ouldiour, as debo&s;ht and ba&s;e:</L>
<L>Yet if grim-vi&s;ag'd warre &s;hould &s;hew his face,</L>
<L>Such Fops to meane&s;t &s;ouldiours, arm'd in &s;teele,</L>
<L>As vnto Gods for helpe would ba&s;ely kneele;</L>
<L>Tis not &s;weete peace (which is and hath bene giuen</L>
<L>Onely to tho&s;e, that are belou'd of heauen,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t which the vulgar vainly doth inuay)</L>
<L>That is the cau&s;e of martiall mens decay;</L>
<L>For &s;ince their &s;words do purcha&s;e peace from farre,</L>
<L>Wi&s;e peace &s;hould keepe them &s;till, to keepe out warre:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e lazie <HI>Lozels,</HI> that on &s;oft downe beds,</L>
<L>Till noone day laying their phanta&s;ticke heads</L>
<L>Vnto the pillow, &s;tudy and deui&s;e</L>
<L>On &s;ome quaint Engli&s;h, French, or Tu&s;can gui&s;e,</L>
<L>Who to maintaine &s;trange fa&s;hions, and new cuts,</L>
<L>Do wring their poore racke-rented tenants guts;</L>
<L>Who kindling lu&s;t at euery females eye,</L>
<L>Fell forre&s;ts, woods, make lands and lord&s;hips flie,</L>
<L>T'incen&s;e cha&s;t Matrons to vncha&s;t de&s;ier,</L>
<L>And burne their beauties vp in <HI>Paphian</HI> fier;</L>
<L>Who greedy after gaine, turne peopled townes</L>
<L>Vnto poore &s;heepe-coates, to increa&s;e their crownes,</L>
<PB N="9" REF="9">
<L>Are they, whom our long happy peace doth pricke</L>
<L>With &s;uch luxurious plenty, that they kicke</L>
<L>At heau'n forgot, and in &s;uch gluttonies</L>
<L>Loath peace it &s;elfe; yet men at armes de&s;pi&s;e;</L>
<L>The&s;e are our kingdomes troubled &s;eas, wherein</L>
<L>To&s;t by blacke vice, waue hunteth waue of &s;inne,</L>
<L>Nought ca&s;ting on our coa&s;t of Brittannie,</L>
<L>But weeds and froth of &s;oule impietie;</L>
<L>O, that &s;uch &s;ubiects (&s;ince vpon the throne</L>
<L>Kings &s;it as lights, for vs to looke vpon)</L>
<L>In decent habit, and right v&s;e of things,</L>
<L>Would imitate the glory of all kings,</L>
<L>Our learned Soueraigne, v&s;ing his increa&s;e</L>
<L>With mode&s;t hand, in calme of this our peace!</L>
<L>Who (our true <HI>Solomon</HI> to peace inclinde,</L>
<L>Who&s;e royall<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Beati Paci|fici.</NOTE> Motto &s;hewes his royall minde)</L>
<L>Sayes to the world by his world-wondred name,</L>
<L>Vnto my kingdome,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Iames Ste|wart. <HI>Anagram.</HI> A &s;weet re&s;t I am.</NOTE> <HI>A &s;weet re&s;t I am.</HI></L>
<L>But cea&s;e my bootle&s;&s;e plaints, and let me liue</L>
<L>Safe to mine owne thoughts, le&s;t I hap to giue</L>
<L>(Seeking to cure my carele&s;&s;e countries crimes)</L>
<L>Pils farre too bitter for the&s;e &s;inne-&s;icke times;</L>
<L>I know rude &s;ouldiers are too rough to plea&s;e</L>
<L>This dainty age, the darling of &s;oft ea&s;e;</L>
<L>And be&s;t it is in &s;ilence to lament</L>
<L>That euill, which our plaints cannot preuent.</L>
<L>This &s;aid, we heard through ecchoes &s;hrill rebound</L>
<L>The drums dull &s;pirit-animating &s;ound,</L>
<L>And volleyes of thicke &s;hot, in thunder &s;pending</L>
<L>Their fiery &s;pleene, through clouds of &s;moke a&s;ce~ding;</L>
<L>At which amaz'd, the &s;ouldier &s;tartled &s;tood</L>
<L>As out of pa&s;&s;ions dreame, wakt with the good</L>
<L>Of happy tidings, and with greedy eye</L>
<L>Searching about, askt whence it was, and why;</L>
<L>To whom, I thus; this is that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The field lying on the Ea&s;t &s;ide of the Artillery yard.</NOTE> famous field,</L>
<L>VVhich once her bo&s;ome did for buriall yeeld</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="10" REF="10">
<L>To Romane Victors, after that the power</L>
<L>Of ciuill warre, which doth it &s;elfe deuoure,</L>
<L>Had brought the Brittaine by the fatall &s;troke</L>
<L>Of <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> &s;word, beneath the Romane yoke:</L>
<L>For here olde Rome (the worlds proud mi&s;tres) brought</L>
<L>Her youth vp in the &s;leights of warre, and taught</L>
<L>Euen in this place, the &s;ouldiers bloody game,</L>
<L>For which they grew &s;o farre renownd in fame,</L>
<L>Where &s;he hath kept in many a &s;acred vrne</L>
<L>The Romane reliques, which the pile did burne</L>
<L>In funerall flame, before tho&s;e bloody dayes,</L>
<L>That great <HI>&V;e&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ian</HI> wore th'imperiall bayes,</L>
<L>When his braue &s;onne, that heau'n-&s;ent raging Lion</L>
<L>Pitcht his prowd Eagles on the walls of Sion.</L>
<L>And as the King of Prophets did fore&s;ee,</L>
<L>There left no &s;tone vpon a &s;tone to bee;</L>
<L>And &s;ince that time, vntill the&s;e later dayes,</L>
<L>Which do neglect all monuments of pray&s;e,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Romane reliques here re&s;eru'd haue beene,</L>
<L>Though now of them no &s;ignes are to be &s;eene:</L>
<L>But re&s;t, ye wronged gho&s;ts of Rom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns gone,</L>
<L>And &s;ince the fatall flood, where euery one</L>
<L>As w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aried, leaues his mortall loade at la&s;t,</L>
<L>Ye long agoe t'<HI>Eli&s;ium</HI> plaines haue pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Let not that wrong late done, alas therefore,</L>
<L>Vnto your graues, now grieue you any more:</L>
<L>Englands<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">London &s;o c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ld by the Romans, of which in the <HI>7.</HI> Canto.</NOTE> <HI>Augu&s;ta,</HI> our fame-farre &s;pread citty</L>
<L>Out of your &s;catterd a&s;hes, as in pitty</L>
<L>Of your dead memory, with her kinde hand</L>
<L>Hath rai&s;d a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The compa|ny of the Ar|tillery, of who~ &s;ee to the <HI>2.</HI> Canto.</NOTE> <HI>Phoenix</HI>-like faire martiall band,</L>
<L>Who in that field, where your could graues hau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ben</L>
<L>So long conceald from knowledge of all men,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Cadmus</HI> bone-bred broode in braue aray,</L>
<L>As borne in armes do march each <HI>Mars</HI> his day.</L>
<L>To this, the &s;ouldier &s;miling, &s;ilence brake,</L>
<L>And knowing not their worth, of whom he &s;pake,</L>
<L>Said, can &s;oft &s;lakes of wooll, or tennis balles,</L>
<PB N="11" REF="10">
<L>Like iron bullets, batter &s;tronge&s;t walles?</L>
<L>Or can the dull &s;word, made of lead, preuaile</L>
<L>Like temperd &s;teele, to pierce the iron male?</L>
<L>Or can your cittie people tender bred,</L>
<L>Who in the lap of ea&s;e are dayly fed,</L>
<L>Like &s;ouldiers, who to no afflictions yeeld,</L>
<L>Brooke the &s;harpe brunts of warre in bloody field!</L>
<L>O, that tho&s;e auncient Romans, vnto whom</L>
<L>The bo&s;ome of this field did &s;erue for tombe,</L>
<L>Suruiu'd to &s;ee, how you this place extoll,</L>
<L>Some <HI>Remus</HI> &s;ure, would leape the lo&s;tie wall</L>
<L>Of this your cittie, and would laugh to &s;ee</L>
<L>The di&s;cipline of her Artillerie.</L>
<L>To heare the&s;e bitter words of proud di&s;daine,</L>
<L>I mou'd in minde, no longer could refraine</L>
<L>To checke his errour; but before I &s;pake,</L>
<L>The earth beneath our feet began to quake,</L>
<L>The heau'ns did thunder, and the cheerefull light</L>
<L>Of the noone day did turne to darke&s;ome night,</L>
<L>At which, as we amazed &s;tood, from farre</L>
<L>"<HI>Ioues</HI> braine-borne <HI>Pallas,</HI> Pre&s;ident of warre,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A de&s;cription of Pallas.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whom heau'ns &s;wift whirl-windes on their wings did beare,</L>
<L>Leapt on the earth, and &s;hooke her lengthfull &s;peare;</L>
<L>A mightie &s;hield, &s;he bore in her left hand,</L>
<L>Two <HI>Gorgon</HI>-like grim heads embo&s;t, did &s;tand</L>
<L>Vpon her brea&s;t-plate, proofe gain&s;t dangers doubt,</L>
<L>With curious skill engrauen all about;</L>
<L>Beneath her helmet, horrid all with gold,</L>
<L>Her virgin face, mo&s;t goodly to behold;</L>
<L>Betwixt the golden trammels of her haire,</L>
<L>On either &s;ide downe flowing, did appeare</L>
<L>As <HI>Sol,</HI> that day, when rough winds he foregoes,</L>
<L>Twixt two hils we&s;t a ruddy count'nance &s;howes:</L>
<L>Her dreadfull lookes the lightnings fla&s;h re&s;embling,</L>
<L>She fixt on vs, and as we both &s;tood trembling;</L>
<L>Being almo&s;t &s;tricken dead with feare and wonder,</L>
<L>At la&s;t &s;he thus brake foorth in voyce of thunder.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="12" REF="11">
<HEAD>Illu&s;tration.</HEAD>
<P>ENdeauour in a Writer to plea&s;e and winne prai&s;e, without re&s;pect to the truth, carrying with it the fowle note of &s;eruilitie, I here di&s;claime: and that my Mu&s;e was not in&s;pired with a furie to flatter her natiue London, let the te&s;timony of &s;uch Authors (by whom re|gard hath bene taken, how po&s;teritie &s;hould be truely in|formed) make iu&s;tifiable that here in plaine pro&s;e, which may &s;eeme que&s;tionable before in my Poem, and &s;o to the fir&s;t note.</P>
<Q><L>Thou noble relique of that nobler man</L>
<L>And his deare &s;pou&s;e&mdash;</L></Q>
<P>The fir&s;t obiect, note-worthie, which fals vnder the eye of my Mu&s;e in her mornings walke, is that place, which we vulgarly call the <HI>Spittle;</HI> of which I finde recorded in that indu&s;trious Antiquarie (M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ter <HI>Iohn Stowe</HI>) that it was an Ho&s;pitall of &s;uch reliefe to poore people,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In his Sur|uay. p. <HI>168.</HI></NOTE> that at the &s;uppre&s;sion of the &s;ame, with the Priory in that place, in the reign of <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight, it was valued to d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pend <HI>478.</HI> pounds: in which, be&s;ides the ornaments of the Church, and goods pertaining to the hou&s;e, there were <HI>180.</HI> beds well furni&s;hed: It was founded by that worthy Citizen <HI>VValter Brune</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;ia</HI> his wife, <HI>anno 1235.</HI> in the reigne of <HI>Henrie</HI> the third, and cal|led by the name of Saint <HI>Marie Spittle.</HI></P>
<Q><PB N="13" REF="11">
<L>Which once her bo&s;ome did for buriall yeeld</L>
<L>To Romane victors, &mdash;</L></Q>
<P>When the Romans were Lords of Brittain, in this field (as in al other places, according to the law of their <HI>12.</HI> tables which you may reade at large in<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">De legibus lib. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cicero</HI>) they did bury their dead hard by the cittie, as in a publicke or militarie place. Of which, that great<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Camden in Trino. p. <HI>380.</HI></NOTE> Dictator of Antiquitie, &s;aith thus, <HI>In quorum campis, dum haec &s;criberemus, eru|ta&s;unt multa va&s;a &s;epulchralia, &s;igilla &amp; vrnae, in qui|bus Claudij, Neronis, Ve&s;pa&s;iani &amp;c. nummuli:</HI> That is, in the&s;e fields, while wee were writing the&s;e things, many funerall ve&s;&s;els, litle images, and vrns were taken vp, in which the moneys of <HI>Claudius, Nero, Ve|&s;pa&s;ia~,</HI> &amp; others were fou~d. It was a cu&s;tome the~ amo~g&s;t the Romans to burne the bodies of their dead, and to pre|&s;erue the a&s;hes in an vrne or funerall pot, as we reade in<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Annal. l. <HI>2.</HI> &amp; <HI>3.</HI> pag. <HI>67.</HI> &amp; <HI>63.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Tacitus</HI> of the burning <HI>Germanicus</HI> body in Anti|och: who&s;e a&s;hes, his wife <HI>Agrippina</HI> carried to Rome in a funerall pot; of <HI>Seuerus</HI> funerals at Yorke in<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">In Brigant. pag. <HI>627.</HI></NOTE> Ma&s;ter <HI>Camden,</HI> who&s;e a&s;hes in a golden vrne (&s;ome &s;ay in a ve&s;&s;ell of Marble or Porphyrie) were conueyed to Rome by his wife <HI>Iulia</HI> and his &s;onnes <HI>Antoninus</HI> and <HI>Geta.</HI> But of the finding the&s;e Roman reliques, which was, whe~ this field was broken vp for clay to make bricke, <HI>anno E|liza. 22.</HI> you may reade at large in Ma&s;ter<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">In his Sur|uay. pag. <HI>130.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Stowe,</HI> to whom I the rather referre you, becau&s;e he was pre&s;ent at the digging vp of the &s;ame.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;and taught</L>
<L>Euen in this place the So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ldiers bloody game.</L></Q>
<P>To my coniecture (I doe not importune your beliefe) yet &s;ince Londo~, not greatly famous by the name of a Colony which are the expre&s;&s;e words of<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Annal. l. <HI>14.</HI> cap. <HI>10.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Tacitus,</HI> was called
<PB N="14" REF="12"> <HI>Augu&s;ta,</HI> and as &s;ome thinke, of the Legion <HI>Augu&s;ta,</HI> which there &s;oiourned:<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Raph. Hol|len. in his <HI>2.</HI> booke of the de&s;cription of Brittaine.</NOTE> this Field may &s;eeme to haue bin their <HI>Campus Martius,</HI> or place of military exerci&s;e; both, becau&s;e in the &s;ame &s;uch Monuments of theirs haue beene lately found, and they, as I before noted, according to the law of their twelue Tables, did burne their dead in military places.</P>
<Q>"<HI>Ioue's</HI> braine-borne <HI>Pallas,</HI> Pre&s;ident of Warre.</Q>
<P>Though this fiction of <HI>Pallas</HI> be warranted, both by the rules of Poe&s;ie, and examples of &s;uch, the imitation of whom may iu&s;tifie it, without exception: yet I haue layd the ground of it vpon the truth: for in this Field, where I began this Induction to my en&s;uing di&s;cour&s;e, the I|mage of <HI>Pallas,</HI> (no meane Dietie among&s;t men of Artes and Armes) was taken vp at the &s;ame time among&s;t o|ther Romane Reliques, as <HI>Stow</HI> &s;aith, in the place before quoated.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="song">
<PB N="15" REF="12">
<HEAD>CANTO. I.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>True Di&s;cipline they doe abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Who for their Art, their Armes do v&s;e.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>WHat Serpent &s;pits his poy&s;on of defame</L>
<L>Gain&s;t Engla~ds Londo~, who&s;e illu&s;trate name,</L>
<L>If t'other cities we the &s;ame compare,</L>
<L>Shines like a <HI>Phoebus</HI> to another &s;tarre?</L>
<L>Or if to any of this Sea-&s;ieg'd land,</L>
<L>It, like a Cedar among&s;t &s;hrubs doth &s;tand?</L>
<L>Or who is this, that Cur-like barking bites</L>
<L>The good endeauour of tho&s;e worthie &s;prites,</L>
<L>Who by their loue to armes in martiall game,</L>
<L>And hone&s;t arts, do honor our great name?</L>
<L>Thou foe to vertue, on who&s;e viperous tong,</L>
<L>Malice hath &s;et an edge of vniu&s;t wrong</L>
<L>To wound their good de&s;ert, contend with me,</L>
<L>And let vs argue on true &s;ouldierie;</L>
<L>"The priuate man, that makes his armes, his art,<NOTE PLACE="marg">No ma~ ought to v&s;e warre, as his art.</NOTE></L>
<L>As many do, that blindly do conuert</L>
<L>True di&s;cipline of warre into a trade,</L>
<L>As by the dog, that in the pond hath plaid,</L>
<L>The water drops are &s;haken off on &s;hore,</L>
<L>When warres are hu&s;ht, is loft and v&s;de no more;</L>
<L>But he, that v&s;eth armes in time of peace,</L>
<L>Onely by practice knowledge to increa&s;e</L>
<L>In time of warre, when cau&s;e doth &s;o con&s;traine,</L>
<L>And can returne to his affaires againe,</L>
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<L>Is the true &s;ouldier of tho&s;e antique times,</L>
<L>Deprau'd with no &s;uch execrable crimes,</L>
<L>As he, that as his function v&s;eth warre,</L>
<L>Who haunted with penurious want and care,</L>
<L>Through greedy thir&s;t of gaine growes mad with rage,</L>
<L>And &s;paring neither place, nor &s;exe, nor age,</L>
<L>That he in peace may liue, when warfare ends,</L>
<L>While warre doth la&s;t, de&s;poiles both foes and friends;</L>
<L>For this, the faithle&s;&s;e varlet, turn'd prophane,</L>
<L>With &s;acrilegious hands will not refraine</L>
<L>The &s;acred &s;hrines; but with that cruell<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Hyaena, a bea&s;t coun|terfetting the voyce of man. Plin. l. <HI>8.</HI> c. <HI>30</HI></NOTE> bea&s;t,</L>
<L>That after death, doth wretched man mole&s;t,</L>
<L>Teares vp the dead mans tombe, who did &s;uppo&s;e</L>
<L>The graue a hou&s;e, &s;ecure from all his foes;</L>
<L>For this the infants braines, while it doth call</L>
<L>The mothers helpe, he da&s;hes gain&s;t the wall,</L>
<L>On which it leaues, at leauing of its breath,</L>
<L>The bloody &s;tory of its life and death;</L>
<L>For this, with murderous blade he makes his way</L>
<L>Into the wombe, where once the infant lay,</L>
<L>To &s;eeke the gold, which being before denyde,</L>
<L>He thought the mother &s;wallowing, there might hide;</L>
<L>For this, to &s;aue his life, the countrey Bore,</L>
<L>Naked is forc't to flie from his owne &s;tore,</L>
<L>And to th'oppre&s;&s;or leaues, for one dayes &s;poyle,</L>
<L>What he &s;carce got in twenty Sommers toyle:</L>
<L>All the&s;e, and many &s;uch, like &s;treames of woe,</L>
<L>As from that &s;pring of blood and &s;poyle, do flowe,</L>
<L>Which digging with their &s;words &s;uch men do make,</L>
<L>That can, in time of peace, them&s;elues betake</L>
<L>To no vocation, but thinke others harms</L>
<L>Their cheife&s;t good, and count their art their armes.</L>
<L>Thou onely<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Carthage.</NOTE> glory of that <HI>Affricke</HI> &s;hore,</L>
<L>Where once thou did&s;t thy <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dos</HI> death deplore,</L>
<L>And after &s;toutly did&s;t prowd <HI>Rome</HI> oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>Lifting thy Scepter t'her Imperiall no&s;e,</L>
<PB N="17" REF="13">
<L>Be thou a witne&s;&s;e of that wofull &s;carre,</L>
<L>Giuen by thine owne<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Matho and Spendio two rebellious Captaines. Nic. Mach. de arte bell. lib. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> &s;onnes in ciuill warre,</L>
<L>Who when they fir&s;t the Romane force did feele,</L>
<L>And brauely had repul&s;ed &s;teele with &s;teele,</L>
<L>When foes were gone, and thou had&s;t thy de&s;ier,</L>
<L>Hauing no trade, to which they &s;hould retier,</L>
<L>Did turne vpon thee, and thy &s;ides did gore</L>
<L>With deeper wounds, then Rome had done before:</L>
<L>And thou, faire Italie, the hony &s;pot</L>
<L>Of Europes bounds, the worlds &s;weet garden plot,</L>
<L>Did not the&s;e moderne dayes thy beauty &s;taine,</L>
<L>With the deare blood of thine owne children &s;laine,</L>
<L>By thine owne &s;ouldiers, who thy peace being made,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fra. Guic. Hi&s;t. lib. <HI>20.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Except their armes, had then no other trade?</L>
<L>O that &s;uch men, &s;hould boa&s;t them&s;elues to be</L>
<L>The verie life and &s;oule of &s;ouldierie!</L>
<L>Yet by their deeds deface the &s;ouldiers name,</L>
<L>With rapine, theft, with beggery and &s;hame.</L>
<L>The<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warre makes theeues, and peace hangs them vp.</NOTE> Tu&s;can Prouerbe like an Oracle</L>
<L>Fore&s;peakes their &s;ate, and 'tis a miracle,</L>
<L>If he, that in the calme of peace &s;hall make</L>
<L>The &s;word, his &s;pade, his plough-&s;hare, forke, or rake,</L>
<L>Twi&s;t not &s;o many threds of &s;hame, who&s;e &s;trength</L>
<L>Shall be of power to &s;trangle him at length;</L>
<L>Such di&s;contented &s;pirits, euer like</L>
<L>To raging waues, with all their force, do &s;trike</L>
<L>Again&s;t our rockes of peace, and wanting might</L>
<L>To &s;wallow vp the &s;hoare, for very &s;pight</L>
<L>Spitting their furie forth in froathy matter,</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;ame them&s;elues in peeces batter;</L>
<L>But the great Captaines of tho&s;e antique dayes,</L>
<L>Who&s;e conqu'ring &s;words the Romane &s;tate did rai&s;e</L>
<L>To that proud height, that nations farre and wide,</L>
<L>Throughout the world, were va&s;&s;ailes to her pride,</L>
<L>Bright mirrours are, in whom this age may &s;ee</L>
<L>The perfect image of true &s;ouldierie,</L>
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<L>Who did atchieue their conque&s;ts in times pa&s;t,</L>
<L>With &s;uch &s;wift hand, as if they had made ha&s;t</L>
<L>In all the warres committed to their cares,</L>
<L>To make returne vnto their owne affaires:</L>
<L>He then, that when warres trumpet cea&s;eth, can</L>
<L>Returne to his owne function, is the man</L>
<L>Worthy to manage armes; and &s;uch were held</L>
<L>In former times, fit &s;ouldiers for the field;</L>
<L>Such men, like Bees make <HI>Mars</HI> his helme an hiue,</L>
<L>Where hony-combs of re&s;t they do contriue:</L>
<L>So fighting, that from fighting they may cea&s;e,</L>
<L>The end, at which good &s;ouldiers aime, is peace;</L>
<L>And &s;uch tho&s;e &s;chollers are, that do belong</L>
<L>T'our &s;choole of <HI>Mars,</HI> of whom in our next &s;ong.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="19" REF="14">
<HEAD><HI>Illu&s;trations.</HI> The priuate man, that makes his armes, his art.</HEAD>
<P>IN the youth of the Romane Monarchie, when the &s;lower of her glory began to grow to perfection, not onely, he that made &s;ouldierie, his trade; but according to that mo&s;t learned and elegant<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Sir Henrie Sauill.</NOTE> tran&s;lator of <HI>Tacitus,</HI> in his view of military mat|ters out of <HI>Diony&s;ius lib. 2. Hi&s;trionica</HI> and all of &s;edentary, mechanicall, &amp; voluptuarie arts, were di&s;abled to be Legiona|rie &s;ouldiers; among&s;t whom, none were enrolled but <HI>ciues Ro|mani, ingenui, artis Iudicrae expertes.</HI> Agriculture was chiefly allowed, as the onely nource of fit men for &s;eruice in warre, they being in peace good husbandmen, and in war good &s;ouldiers. No man in their opinion, being more dangerous to a &s;tate, then he, which maketh &s;ouldierie his occupation or trade: of this, we haue an example of that famous husbandman <HI>Lu|cius Quintius Cincinnatus,</HI> to whom being at plough, as<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Cato Ma|ior.</NOTE> <HI>Cicero</HI> &s;aith, it was &s;hewd, that he was cho&s;en Dictator: this noble Romane, hauing repul&s;ed the <HI>Tu&s;cans, Latins,</HI> and <HI>Vol&s;cia~s,</HI> ended the war within fifteen dayes, that he might (as he &s;aid) the &s;ooner returne to his tillage. The like of this I reade in that worthie Romane <HI>Regulus Attilius,</HI> of who&s;e inuiolate faith to the Carthagenians,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Offic. lib. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cicero</HI> makes noble mention, who being captaine of the Romane armies in Africa, and hauing often vanqui&s;hed the enemie, required licence of the Senate to returne home to keepe his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, fearing that in his ab|&s;ence they were neglected of his husbandmen:<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">De re Ru|&s;tica.</NOTE> <HI>Cato</HI> &s;aith, that <HI>ex agricolis viri fortes, &amp; milites &s;trenui&s;&s;imi gig|nuntur, minimeque &amp;c.</HI> Of husbandmen both &s;trong men and valiant &s;ouldiers are made, they being lea&s;t of all euill-thoughted,
<PB N="20" REF="15"> that are exerci&s;ed in that labor. <HI>Varro lib. 2. &amp; 3. de re Ru&s;tica,</HI> writeth much vpo~ this point; but &s;ince the&s;e, &amp; the like Romane writers, are &s;o farre remoued from our time, I referre you to<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">In his art of warre l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Nicholas Machiauell,</HI> a more moderne Author, who affirming, that martiall di&s;cipline cannot be iu&s;tly v&s;ed, as an art of a priuate &s;ubiect or citizen, but of a com|monwealth or kingdome, v&s;eth a large and copious di&s;cour&s;e of the &s;ame.</P>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="song">
<PB N="21" REF="15">
<HEAD>CANTO. II.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>The practice of true Souldierie,</L>
<L>By Londons hopefull Infantrie.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>THe enuious Adder, hauing &s;pent his &s;ting,</L>
<L>Partakes no more with any poy&s;onous thing;</L>
<L>But th'enuious man, when he can do no harme,</L>
<L>An others mind with mi&s;chiefe &s;eekes to arme.</L>
<L>Their exerci&s;e of armes, who&s;e worth I &s;ing,</L>
<L>Enuie doth &s;eeke to wound with &s;harpe&s;t &s;ting:</L>
<L>Yet th'old worlds war-like &s;ouldiers, famous knowne,</L>
<L>If they did now &s;uruiue, to &s;ee their owne</L>
<L>Practice of armes, in that free &s;choole maintaind,</L>
<L>In which tho&s;e hopefull &s;onnes of <HI>Mars</HI> are traind,</L>
<L>Would giue that prai&s;e to them, deny'd by none</L>
<L>To the &s;ame merit, which was once their owne,</L>
<L>Whom (thou the Honor of this happy Ile</L>
<L>Faire London) to &s;ucceeding times mai&s;t &s;tile,</L>
<L>Thy hopefull <HI>Infantry,</HI> the glittering light</L>
<L>Of who&s;e bright armes, in euery &s;trangers &s;ight,</L>
<L>Thy name &s;hall more illu&s;trate and vphold,</L>
<L>Then all thy glorious &s;hewes of &s;hining gold,</L>
<L>Tis not thy wealth, which (O) too oft we know,</L>
<L>Betrayes its owner to &s;ome treacherous foe,</L>
<L>Which both in men of wi&s;edome &s;trength and wit,</L>
<L>Ma&s;ters the Ma&s;ter, that po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth it,</L>
<L>Nor height of walls, of ca&s;tles or of towers,</L>
<L>That &s;hall defend thee again&s;t forreine powres,</L>
<PB N="22" REF="16">
<L>But thine owne &s;onnes, &s;uch as the&s;e, now we &s;ee</L>
<L>Arm'd in bright walls of &s;teele, thy walls mu&s;t be:</L>
<L>Then to this hopefull troope, thy martiall band,</L>
<L>Great Queene of citties, &s;tretch thy bounteous hand,</L>
<L>And &s;ince thou art renown'd for noble arts,</L>
<L>As farre as <HI>Titan</HI> &s;hootes his golden darts;</L>
<L>So cheare vp this thy cho&s;en infantrie,</L>
<L>Giue golden wings vnto their indu&s;trie,</L>
<L>And hope doth promi&s;e thee as great a name</L>
<L>In armes, as arts, from their now fligged fame;</L>
<L>For pupils in true di&s;cipline of warre,</L>
<L>Free, not inforc't, they all in&s;tructed are,</L>
<L>In which they gaine more iudgement with le&s;&s;e pains,</L>
<L>Then any troope, whom &s;trict command con&s;traines;</L>
<L>In all our workes a forward mind's good will</L>
<L>Finds euer better proofe, then forced skill;</L>
<L>And by their indu&s;trie, which brings things vnder</L>
<L>Our powers reach, which we at fir&s;t with wonder</L>
<L>Do thinke impo&s;&s;ible, they doe vphold</L>
<L>That knowledge, which in perill makes men bold,</L>
<L>Courage in danger doth from knowledge growe,</L>
<L>And men le&s;&s;e feare to do tho&s;e things they know:</L>
<L>They (as our often &s;troakes make harde&s;t &s;teele)</L>
<L>Harden their limbes, that they may &s;eeme to feele</L>
<L>No weight of pondrous armes; they learne aright</L>
<L>To keepe their rankes, and order for the fight,</L>
<L>And v&s;e their weapons to their foes mo&s;t harmes,</L>
<L>Which onely three do make a man of armes;</L>
<L>Precepts decreed inuiolate &s;hould &s;tand</L>
<L>For martiall order in that hopefull band.</L>
<L>The factious, turbulent, or idle &s;pirit,</L>
<L>Who by &s;ome other function doth not merit</L>
<L>Of the &s;ame commonwealth, they do debarre</L>
<L>From their &s;ocietie, and alwayes are</L>
<L>Or &s;hould be in their choyce, as circum&s;pect</L>
<L>As tho&s;e old Romans, who did ne're &s;elect</L>
<PB N="23" REF="16">
<L>In their enrolements men, that onely cho&s;e</L>
<L>Warre for their art, but euer ca&s;&s;ing tho&s;e;</L>
<L>And &s;hould in di&s;cipline, before them lay</L>
<L>"That my&s;terie of Romane &s;tate, which they,</L>
<L>Who&s;e skill in armes, no nation yet &s;urmounted</L>
<L>The forme and e&s;&s;ence of a &s;ouldier counted;</L>
<L>Which if they keepe and kicke not at command,</L>
<L>(The life of order) in a martiall band,</L>
<L>This brood of <HI>Mars,</HI> like liuing &s;parks of warre,</L>
<L>As the &s;mall imbers, which extracted are</L>
<L>From the dead a&s;hes, that conceale the &s;ame,</L>
<L>By often puffes of breath begin to flame;</L>
<L>From light of long-neglected di&s;cipline,</L>
<L>Late kindled by braue &s;pirits doth &s;o &s;hine,</L>
<L>That if this age, adde &s;ewell to the &s;ame,</L>
<L>T'will reach the cloudes vpon the wings of fame:</L>
<L>But here perhaps, one of that roaring &s;ect,</L>
<L>(Who doth v&s;urpe a &s;ouldier-like re&s;pect,</L>
<L>Some &s;eeming Martiali&s;t, who&s;e &s;pit-like blade</L>
<L>Hangs by his &s;ide, as th'en&s;igne of his trade,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;tiffe mu&s;tachios, Porcupine-like haires,</L>
<L>Do &s;eeme to whi&s;per mi&s;chiefe in his eares)</L>
<L>Will aske, why he, or &s;uch, who, as he knowes</L>
<L>Hath often banded bullets gain&s;t our foes,</L>
<L>And in the field haue &s;ometimes had command,</L>
<L>Excluded be from being of this band;</L>
<L>Why rather in their place, that do apply</L>
<L>Them&s;elues vnto this practice, are the fry</L>
<L>Of gallant gentrie not aduanc'd, who can</L>
<L>And would giue count'nance to the martiall man;</L>
<L>Thus argues he; but &s;hall the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A Citie for her defence ought in &s;er|uice to imploy her owne ci|tizens not &s;trangers.</NOTE> &s;heapheard yeeld</L>
<L>The keeping of his flocke in open field</L>
<L>Vnto the Wolfe, though he &s;hould promi&s;e faire,</L>
<L>Or tru&s;t it to his Dogs approued care?</L>
<L>Or &s;hall the father of a familie,</L>
<L>Who&s;e life the dread of death doth terrifie,</L>
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<L>Commit his &s;afetie to a man vnknowne,</L>
<L>Or to a &s;onne, borne naturally his owne?</L>
<L>No tru&s;t, where &s;trife and enuie fo&s;terd be,</L>
<L>Strangers and natiue borne do nere agree:</L>
<L>A cittie, at the helme of who&s;e free &s;tate</L>
<L>Wi&s;edome (the childe of prouidence) doth waite,</L>
<L>To be of powre to beate backe forreigne force,</L>
<L>As pupils in the &s;choole of warre, will nour&s;e</L>
<L>No &s;tranger, but her owne, more fearing men</L>
<L>That aliens are, then her owne citizen.</L>
<L>Great kingdomes &s;oone decline, that do repo&s;e</L>
<L>Their tru&s;t in &s;trangers, as next <HI>Canto</HI> &s;howes.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="25" REF="17">
<HEAD>Illu&s;trations.
<Q><L>&mdash;before them lay</L>
<L>That my&s;terie of Romane &s;tate&mdash;</L></Q></HEAD>
<P>AFter the enrollement of the &s;ouldier, was that my&s;terie of Romane e&s;tate, as it is in that Authors view of milita|rie matters, before quoated out of <HI>Herodian,</HI> The mili|tarie oath, which <HI>Cato</HI> vrgeth in his Epi&s;tle to his &s;onne, ci|ted by<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Offic. lib. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cicero,</HI> prohibiting him the fight, being disban|ded by his Captaine <HI>Pompilius,</HI> except he renewed the oath, which hee there calleth <HI>militiae &s;acramentum,</HI> and was &s;o &s;trictly ob&s;erued by the Romanes, that <HI>Titus Manlius Tor|quatus</HI> for breach thereof did cau&s;e his &s;onne, a young man of great hope, though he had &s;ought valiantly again&s;t the enemie, to be cruelly put to death. This oath is thus layde downe by the Author before mentioned: That they &s;hould bee obedient and execute to the vttermo&s;t of their power, what&s;oeuer &s;hould bee commanded them by their Captaines and &s;uperiours, by which, it appeares, there was no exception of per&s;ons, but the man of the be&s;t ranke, being rankt with a &s;ouldier, was to giue way to the command of his Captain, as farre, as the meane&s;t of his band.<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Plato.</NOTE> The chiefe prai&s;e of a &s;ouldier is obedience to his captaine;<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Xenph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</NOTE> <HI>Without obedience, neither valiant men, &s;tout hor&s;e, or &s;trong armour, worke any good effect.</HI><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Plutarc.</NOTE> <HI>Scipio</HI> being asked by one, wherin his hope con&s;i&s;ted to conquer Carthage, an&s;wered in his &s;oldiers: &amp; being againe asked, why, &s;aid, becau&s;e, if I co~mand, they will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bey; obedience to the captain, &amp; mutuall accord, being
<PB N="26" REF="18"> two &s;tronge&s;t &s;inewes of an armie. Another part of this my&s;terie was (for here I onely mention &s;o much of it, as meetes with my purpo&s;e) that none &s;hould contend for precedencie in place, which might be decided by &s;enioritie of time and &s;eruice. The auncient manner of mu&s;tering was, that the fir&s;t man &s;hould choo&s;e out him for &s;econd to &s;tand by him in the battaile, who&s;e cu&s;tome was to march with him in the &s;ame ranke: the &s;econd the third, the third a fourth, and &s;o each one &s;hould choo&s;e his mate vnto the la&s;t man. It is<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">By Liuy. lib. <HI>9.</HI></NOTE> called, <HI>lege &s;acrata coactus exercitus:</HI> an armie con&s;trained by a &s;acred law, where men &s;o linkt in loue did fight, though with many hands, yet with one minde. <HI>Xenophon</HI> him&s;elfe being an excellent commander, and de&s;cribing the Per&s;ian mu&s;ter, &s;aith thus; that <HI>Cyrus</HI> &s;ele|cted two hundred trained gentlemen, fitte&s;t for &s;eruice, euery one of tho&s;e gentlemen, did choo&s;e vnto them foure more gentle|men, and &s;o amounting to a thou&s;and: euery gentleman did choo&s;e thirtie common &s;ouldiers, as ten targets, ten &s;lings, and ten bowes, which number did ari&s;e to <HI>31000.</HI> and &s;uch a power &s;o collected, was by opinion of Antiquitie thought able to en|counter the world; but of this enough.</P>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="song">
<PB N="27" REF="18">
<HEAD>CANTO. III.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>States to be free from foes annoy,</L>
<L>Their owne, not &s;trangers &s;hould imploy.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>THe &s;tate, that thinking to oppo&s;e all harmes,</L>
<L>Shall fo&s;ter &s;trangers vp for v&s;e in armes,</L>
<L>Is like the &s;imple bird, that &s;its vpon</L>
<L>The Cuckowes ba&s;tard egges, which as her owne,</L>
<L>She carefully doth hatch beneath her bre&s;t,</L>
<L>By whom growne &s;lu&s;hy, &s;he's at length oppre&s;t;</L>
<L>But the wi&s;e State, that danger to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>Doth put her &s;trength of armes into the hand</L>
<L>Of her owne &s;onnes, like the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Storke.</NOTE> The&s;&s;alian foule,</L>
<L>Who&s;e feeble &s;trength, when age doth &s;o controule,</L>
<L>That &s;he no more can forrage for her foode,</L>
<L>Releiued is by her owne proper broode:</L>
<L>While the graue Senate of renowned Rome,</L>
<L>Did onely arme their natiue youth at home</L>
<L>To guard their walles, they kept their libertie</L>
<L>Vntoucht by prowd <HI>Cae&s;arean</HI> tyranny;</L>
<L>But when <HI>Octauius</HI> &s;onne of purpo&s;e cho&s;e,</L>
<L>The &s;tout <HI>Praetorian</HI> &s;ouldier to oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>All doubt of danger, who did ready &s;tand</L>
<L>Beneath the walles of Rome with &s;words in hand,</L>
<L>To giue the priuiledge of &s;tate the checke,</L>
<L>And make the Senate &s;toope t'<HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> becke;</L>
<L>Then did the worlds great head, her head decline,</L>
<L>And <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> cloudie frowne, did dim the &s;hine</L>
<PB N="28" REF="19">
<L>Of her free &s;tate, <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> &s;elfe did feare</L>
<L>The &s;way, which that <HI>Praetorian</HI> band did beare,</L>
<L>For to that pitch at la&s;t their power ro&s;e,</L>
<L>That Romes tribunall was at their di&s;po&s;e;</L>
<L>But like the curious gallant of our dayes,</L>
<L>Why do I wander &s;o farre di&s;tant wayes,</L>
<L>To &s;eeke this errors blacke effects at Rome,</L>
<L>When we (alas) may finde them nearer home:</L>
<L>Looke backe vnto this kingdoms ancient heire,</L>
<L>The noble Brittane, who with &s;ad de&s;paire</L>
<L>Driuen to leaue his Northerne &s;eate forlorne</L>
<L>Vnto the barbarous <HI>Pict,</HI> being rent and torne</L>
<L>With forreine wounds in <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> warres before,</L>
<L>Did &s;end for ayde vnto the German &s;hore;</L>
<L>To who&s;e reque&s;t, the Saxon &s;oone did yeeld,</L>
<L>Englands great Ance&s;tor, a <HI>Mars</HI> in field,</L>
<L>Who&s;e thir&s;t of glory in the bloody fight,</L>
<L>And fame in armes the golden &s;tarres did &s;mite;</L>
<L>He vanqui&s;hing the foe, and being Lord</L>
<L>Of many a field, did turne his conquering &s;w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rd,</L>
<L>Fle&s;ht in the Picti&s;h blood and drunke with &s;poyle,</L>
<L>To cha&s;e the Brittane from his natiue &s;oyle;</L>
<L>Such euer are the mi&s;eries of tho&s;e,</L>
<L>"That do in &s;trangers &s;trengths their tru&s;t repo&s;e:</L>
<L>For no &s;uch &s;aith, or valour &s;hall be found</L>
<L>In him, that for anothers good, is bound</L>
<L>To meete with danger, as in him that goes</L>
<L>For his owne fortune perill to oppo&s;e;</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mercenarie men not truly valiant.</NOTE>The hope of pay and &s;poyle is that, which can</L>
<L>Onely giue wings of courage to the man,</L>
<L>Whom intertaind, we mercenarie call,</L>
<L>"When pay doth faile, his faith and force doth fall:</L>
<L>But he, who&s;e countries care lifts vp his hands</L>
<L>Again&s;t the common foe, bound by &s;trict bands</L>
<L>Of loue to parents, children, wife and friends,</L>
<L>Not with a thought re&s;pecting tho&s;e ba&s;e ends</L>
<PB N="29" REF="19">
<L>Of pay, or pray for &s;ight, goes double &s;trong,</L>
<L>And Lyon-like to guard his tender yong,</L>
<L>No &s;mart of wounds, no feare of fortune feeles,</L>
<L>Though bloody dangers dogs him at the heeles;</L>
<L>Happy that citie then, who at the bre&s;t</L>
<L>Of bold <HI>Bellona</HI> in the calme of re&s;t,</L>
<L>Fo&s;ters &s;uch &s;onnes, vnto who&s;e charge and care,</L>
<L>She may commit her tru&s;t in time of warre,</L>
<L>And not be forc't by frowning foes con&s;traint,</L>
<L>To &s;tretch forth golden hands with &s;ad complaint</L>
<L>To &s;tipendarie Captaines, and to yeeld</L>
<L>Her forces to their conduct for the field;</L>
<L>Since &s;uch men do preferre their &s;tipend farre</L>
<L>Before their good, for whom they manage warre:</L>
<L>Th'incon&s;tant plume in &s;uch a Chieftaines cre&s;t,</L>
<L>That beimg but an alien to the re&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Men merce|narie vnfaith+full.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whom he conducts, &s;hall more re&s;pect his pay,</L>
<L>Then his owne fame or honour, waues that way,</L>
<L>Which golden gaine with greate&s;t gale doth blow,</L>
<L>For this alike, re&s;pecting friend and foe;</L>
<L>For this, that people of Gygantike breed,</L>
<L>"The Canton'd nation, whom tho&s;e mountains feed,</L>
<L>Who&s;e cloud-brow'd heads, do &s;eeme a&s;piring high,</L>
<L>To dare their neighbouring Alpes to &s;cale the skie,</L>
<L>Being &s;tipendarie to the Millaine Prince,</L>
<L>Did both in field them&s;elues of faith conuince,</L>
<L>Though much implord by him with teares of griefe,</L>
<L>Sorrowes la&s;t arguments to vrge reliefe,</L>
<L>And of the wretched Prince, con&s;traind to ioyne</L>
<L>His plate to his too little ready coyne,</L>
<L>In part they hauing once receiu'd their pay,</L>
<L>Did to his foes the forlorne Duke betray:</L>
<L>O that a nation of &s;o noble name,</L>
<L>Should brand their worth with this one &s;pot of blame,</L>
<L>To &s;et their &s;trength to &s;ale, and euer hold</L>
<L>The cau&s;e mo&s;t iu&s;t, if ballanced with gold;</L>
<PB N="30" REF="20">
<L>But if to &s;uch, &s;o famous in the field</L>
<L>For deeds of armes, we confidence might yeeld,</L>
<L>Imployd abroad, yet garri&s;on'd at home,</L>
<L>What humaine prouidence could ouercome,</L>
<L>The many dangers threatning &s;uch a &s;tate,</L>
<L>Subiected to the hazards of debate,</L>
<L>Which euer factiou&s;ly hath fo&s;terd ben,</L>
<L>Twixt th'alien &s;ouldier and the cittizen;</L>
<L>Watchfull di&s;tru&s;t, that hath more eyes and eares</L>
<L>Lodg'd in the heart, then be phanta&s;ticke feares,</L>
<L>Which the worlds obiects can pre&s;ent without,</L>
<L>Di&s;tracts that cittie with a double doubt;</L>
<L>And as a goodly palme who&s;e &s;appie roote</L>
<L>Creeping through earth, doth amorou&s;ly &s;hoote</L>
<L>Into the cri&s;tall bo&s;ome vne&s;pyde</L>
<L>Of &s;ome &s;weete brooke, that by her banke doth glide,</L>
<L>Feares both the wanton water, which vnkinde</L>
<L>Doth wa&s;h away the earth, and the fierce winde,</L>
<L>That &s;hakes her body, though they both do giue</L>
<L>That life to it, which onely makes it liue:</L>
<L>So &s;uch a commonwealth, that doth both nour&s;e</L>
<L>The alien &s;ouldier, and the proper force</L>
<L>Of her owne citizens, both which do aime</L>
<L>Gain&s;t foes inua&s;ion to defend the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Both feeles th'oppre&s;&s;ion of the &s;trangers pride,</L>
<L>Which free borne &s;pirits neuer may abide,</L>
<L>And at that in&s;tant feares, through their con&s;traint,</L>
<L>The blod reuenge of her inhabitant:</L>
<L>Such was the fate of great <HI>Iudeas</HI> Queene,</L>
<L>That heau'n on earth, who&s;e like was neuer &s;eene,</L>
<L>Ouer who&s;e head, when in the angry skie</L>
<L>Tho&s;e airie hor&s;emen to and fro did flie,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Io&s;ephus.</NOTE>When that fierce face of vengeance dreadfull &s;tood,</L>
<L>From heau'n denouncing famine, plague and blood,</L>
<L>And that th'Olympian thunderer in his ire</L>
<L>Had drawne his mightie &s;word and did in&s;pire</L>
<PB N="31" REF="20">
<L>A &s;pleene of Lions through the Roman hoa&s;t,</L>
<L>T'auenge the blood of her deare prophets lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Then did faire Sions forlorne daughter feele,</L>
<L>Th'effects of tru&s;ting to defen&s;iue &s;teele</L>
<L>On &s;trangers backes, who made her channels run</L>
<L>With the deare blood of many a &s;laughterd &s;onne</L>
<L>And they againe in armes t'oppo&s;e the wrong</L>
<L>Of the &s;editious &s;ouldier farre too &s;trong,</L>
<L>Did often offer in a crim&s;on flood</L>
<L>Their liues to death, commixt with rebels blood,</L>
<L>Twixt whom de&s;poyld, great <HI>Salem</HI> conquerd fell,</L>
<L>Whom el&s;e to &s;toope proud Rome could not compell:</L>
<L>That cittie then, that v&s;eth but her owne</L>
<L>For her defence and &s;afetie, feareth none</L>
<L>But her owne citizens, mong&s;t whom, if this</L>
<L>Or that mans ba&s;er heart &s;hall be &s;ubmi&s;&s;e</L>
<L>To coward feare, yet &s;ince no people frame</L>
<L>A commonwealth, but can defend the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Their fainting hands in time of need denyde,</L>
<L>By others valour will be &s;oone &s;upplyde;</L>
<L>For though &s;oft ca&s;e as Queene in any &s;tate,</L>
<L>Their reigning long, makes men effeminate;</L>
<L>Yet when that people armes againe &s;hall take,</L>
<L>Indu&s;trious practi&s;e ioyn'd with time, will make</L>
<L>The fearefull valiant, and the feeble &s;trong;</L>
<L>Which to another <HI>Canto</HI> doth belong.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="32" REF="21">
<HEAD><HI>Illu&s;trations.</HI> That do in &s;trangers &s;trengths their tru&s;t repo&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>MY Mu&s;e hauing briefly &s;hewed, what manner of men the Romans did enrolle for &s;ouldiers, and after their enrolle|ment, the oath of obedience to their Captains, &s;he here &s;hewes how dangerous a thing it is to v&s;e the &s;eruice of &s;tran|gers, or to teach them, being thy &s;ubiects, the di&s;cipline of war.<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Hist. lib. <HI>4.</HI> cap. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Tacitus</HI> at large de&s;cribing the rebellion of the Batauians, who&s;e &s;eruice the Romans had v&s;ed in their warres, bringeth in their Captaine <HI>Ciuills,</HI> whom he there calleth another <HI>Ha|nibal,</HI> encouraging them in their reuolt with many forcible rea|&s;ons; but e&s;pecially with this one, that they had &s;eene and lear|ned the best of the Romanes militarie di&s;cipline, and this, when the later Emperours did make many Legionarie &s;trangers, did after turne to the ruine of the Romane &s;tate. <HI>Theodo&s;ius</HI> the Emperour, &s;aith<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Hen. Sa. out of Zo&s;imus.</NOTE> <HI>Zo&s;imus,</HI> Made Legionaries the Bar|barians borne beyond Danubius, whereby it came to pa&s;&s;e, that hauing taught &s;trangers their di&s;cipline and orders milita|rie, they were enforced at length to &s;urrender the Empire to them, to whom they deliuered their armes.</P>
<Q>"When pay doth faile his faith and force doth fall.</Q>
<P>Mercinarie men are neitheir truly faithfull in peace, nor truely valiant in warre, of whom their is no other a&s;&s;urance, then they finde &s;uretie of their pay, who hauing a courage no le&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ile and abiect, then their inuentions are corrupt, fol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">owe warres for rauine and &s;poyle, the ba&s;est re&s;pect that can be in the minde of
<PB N="33" REF="21">
^a &s;ouldier. <HI>Nich. Mach.</HI> &s;aith, that tho&s;e men,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">His art of warre. lib. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> that do willingly &s;erue and are not thy &s;ubiects, are alwaies the wor&s;t of a prouince, who being of &s;uch infamous life and conuer&s;ation, that like Owles they flie the light of their owne countrey, doe willingly turne &s;ti|pendarie to any forraine Prince, of who&s;e di&s;loyaltie hee recites many examples of his time in the warres of Italie. But no man did euer make more wofull experience of infidelitie in mercena|rie men, then <HI>Lodwicke S&s;orce</HI> Duke of Millaine, of whom becau&s;e my Mu&s;e giues little light of knowledge, except to tho&s;e, that before haue read the historie, take it thus.<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Fran. Guic. Hi&s;t. lib. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> When <HI>Lewis</HI> the twelfth (to whom in his old age, the Lady <HI>Marie,</HI> &s;econd &s;i&s;ter to <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight was giuen in marriage) with the armie of France de&s;cended into Italie to inuade Millain, the Dukedome of <HI>Lodwicke S&s;orce,</HI> the Count <HI>Caiazze</HI> being the Dukes &s;tipendarie, with the &s;ame regiments which he had leuied with his trea&s;ure, reuolting, entred into the pay of the French King at his fir&s;t approach. <HI>Iohn Lewis de Fie&s;que</HI> with other Captains a&s;&s;ignd to him for the defence of Milla~, but chiefly <HI>Phillip de Fie&s;que,</HI> who trained vp and aduanced by the Duke, was left there for the credit and opinion of his faith, did all communicate &s;o farre in that infamie, that they did &s;triue who &s;hould fir&s;t deliuer vp the cittie to the King. The Captain of the ca&s;tle which was thought impregnable, cho&s;en aboue all others for the reputation of his faith and vertue, not abiding &s;o much as one bullet, deliuered it vp to the French: and la&s;tly, the Duke him&s;elfe, hauing lo&s;t &s;o great an e&s;tate through their di&s;loyaltie in eight dayes, thinking to expo&s;e his la&s;t fortunes to the hazard of a battaile, was by the Switzers, whom he had re|tained in pay and among&s;t whom he had deuided his &s;iluer plate, and ve&s;&s;ell, wanting coyne to confirme their wauering faiths not onely for&s;aken in the field, but hauing obtained this la&s;t refuge to &s;aue him&s;elfe, all other meanes of e&s;cape being taken away, to pa&s;&s;e by the French armie di&s;gui&s;ed among&s;t them, was as hee marched in a&s;quadron on foote, armed at all points as a Switz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r betrayed by them to his enemies and led pri&s;oner into France, which I haue here layde downe, as a notable example of the
<PB N="34" REF="22"> infidelitie of mercenarie men.</P>
<Q>"The Canton'd nations whom tho&s;e mountains feed.</Q>
<P>The Switzers, a people, which<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ger. de&s;crip. lib. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Tacitus</HI> calles the Helue|tians, a race of men naturally valiant, warlike, and rude, inhabi|ting the high<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Guic. Hi&s;t. lib. <HI>10.</HI></NOTE> mountaines of <HI>Iura</HI> called S. <HI>Claudo,</HI> S. <HI>Bri|get,</HI> and S. <HI>Godat</HI> for the &s;terilitie of their countrey, more giuen to grazing the~ totillage, are deuided into thirteene Co~mu|nalitie, which they call<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Sleid. Com|ment. lib. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cantons,</HI> and are thus named, <HI>Zutike, Bernes, Lucernae, Vra, Switz, Vnteruald, Glarea, Ba&s;ille, Soludure, Fribourge, Shaf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ian, and Apecelle,</HI> all which are gouerned by &s;eueral magi&s;trates, whom yearly they elect and haue their peculiar lawes, yet hold their Parliaments, generall, wherein they di&s;pute their vniuer&s;all affaires, and when they agree by publike decree to deliuer &s;ouldiers to the &s;eruice of any Prince, the Cantons choo&s;e a Captaine generall, to whom they giue the banner with the en&s;igne and name publike. They were &s;ometimes vnder the &s;ubiection of the Dukes of Au&s;trich, but being oppre&s;&s;ed by their nobilitie, and &s;haking off the yoake they procured their libertie, being &s;ince called Switzers of that towne Switz, which was the first of the Cantons, that did ca&s;t off the Empire of the Au&s;trian Dukes, they haue bene famous for naturall valour ioyned with di&s;cipline both in defence of their countrey at home, and in &s;eruice abroade; yet &s;aith <HI>Guicciar|dine,</HI> their merit had bene farre greater, if they had &s;et before their eyes an end more noble,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Sleid. Com|ment. lib. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> then the de&s;ire of money. The princi|pals of euery Canton were wont to receiue pen&s;ions of Princes to follow and fauour their faction, vntill <HI>Zuinglius</HI> in his &s;ermons di&s;waded them of Zurike from the &s;ame, and thus much of that Nation.</P>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="song">
<PB N="35" REF="22">
<HEAD>CANTO IV.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>Practice doth more then Nature can,</L>
<L>In making vp a martiall man.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>OVr cittie people, &s;uch as liue &s;ecure,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;oft limbes, neate compo&s;ture, may endure</L>
<L>No hardy proofe, who Snaile-like euer &s;hut</L>
<L>Within their walles their heads do &s;eldome put</L>
<L>Into the aire, but at each drop of raine</L>
<L>And puffe of winde do plucke them in againe,</L>
<L>May &s;eeme vnfit for armes, and being men</L>
<L>Of trafficke and of trades, too dainty ben</L>
<L>To march in &s;tead of &s;ilkes, from perfum'd &s;hops,</L>
<L>In rugged &s;teele o're ragged mountaines tops:</L>
<L>But powrefull v&s;e, times wonder-working dame,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The power of v&s;e &amp; cu&s;tom</NOTE></L>
<L>Labours &s;wift handmaide, foe to &s;loth and &s;hame,</L>
<L>The Nur&s;e of arts, of armes, and all great deeds,</L>
<L>Men weake in minde and body both, &s;o feeds</L>
<L>With her &s;weet milke of practi&s;e, till they grow</L>
<L>Men &s;trong and valiant to re&s;i&s;t the foe,</L>
<L>And cu&s;tome, who &s;till harkens to the chime,</L>
<L>Which truly guided by the clocke of time,</L>
<L>Giues notice, how the &s;haddow of the Sun,</L>
<L>Though it but &s;eeme to creepe, yet &s;wift doth run</L>
<L>Through the &s;hort howres of the dayes true Diall,</L>
<L>Makes, though vn&s;eene with wonder in each triall,</L>
<L>Practi&s;e vnto perfection fa&s;ter grow,</L>
<L>Then the Suns &s;haddow through the day can goe,</L>
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<L>For euery childe that generou&s;ly bred,</L>
<L>Shall be by cu&s;tome natures &s;i&s;ter led</L>
<L>To practi&s;e vertue, makes that &s;eeme it's owne</L>
<L>By nature, which by v&s;e in him is growne</L>
<L>Vnto an habit, and though yong in yeares,</L>
<L>Anticipates his time, and old appeares</L>
<L>In &s;pight of death, though it &s;hould bla&s;t his flowre</L>
<L>Of youthfull May, made old in wi&s;edomes powre,</L>
<L>Before youths Aprill blo&s;&s;ome can begin</L>
<L>To &s;prout out in the bud vpon his chin,</L>
<L>Vertue in youth 'fore age oft merits prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Better die old in deedes, then old in daies,</L>
<L>Then if that cu&s;tome in the childes, that's yong,</L>
<L>Makes the &s;oules faculties oft times more &s;trong</L>
<L>In the di&s;cu&s;&s;e of rea&s;on, then we finde</L>
<L>In elder age, much more in men enclinde</L>
<L>To v&s;e of of armes, her power &s;he doth &s;how,</L>
<L>Making weake limbs mightie in &s;trength to grow,</L>
<L>That enemy to &s;loth the little Ant,</L>
<L>Who&s;e dayly labor neuer &s;uffers want,</L>
<L>The lea&s;t of limbe, that nature ere did frame,</L>
<L>Who from her indu&s;trie deriues her<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Formic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &agrave; ferendis mi|cis dicitur.</NOTE> name,</L>
<L>Doth practice fir&s;t to beare a little graine,</L>
<L>Endeuours then a greater to &s;u&s;taine,</L>
<L>And &s;o by carrying to the common &s;tore,</L>
<L>Graine after graine, which &s;catterd on the floore,</L>
<L>She here and there doth finde, at la&s;t alone</L>
<L>She beares a body bigger then her owne.</L>
<L>"This timely v&s;e the Roman youth did make</L>
<L>As nimble, and as light, when they did take</L>
<L>The field all arm'd in weightie &s;teele, as when</L>
<L>In Tybur &s;wimming, they haue naked ben;</L>
<L>And will not now the &s;elfe &s;ame cau&s;e, produce</L>
<L>The &s;ame effect, cu&s;tome and frequent v&s;e</L>
<L>Do neuer faile to reach beyond the &s;cope,</L>
<L>Of that, which we do aime at in our hope;</L>
<PB N="37" REF="23">
<L>Behold how Londons armed <HI>Infantrie,</HI></L>
<L>Through practice in true rules of &s;ouldierie,</L>
<L>By the drums martiall mu&s;icke often led,</L>
<L>The <HI>Pirrhic</HI> dance do now di&s;tinctly tread,</L>
<L>Which if indu&s;triou&s;ly they do pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>And v&s;e that timely cu&s;tome, which is due</L>
<L>To warre-like practice, in de&s;pight of hate,</L>
<L>Which euermore vpon de&s;ert doth waite,</L>
<L>Times finger may engraue their indu&s;trie</L>
<L>Vpon Fames pillers to po&s;teritie:</L>
<L>For practice doth produce more men of worth</L>
<L>In wit and &s;trength, then nature can bring forth,</L>
<L>Now Natures paps are drie, who like a Nur&s;e</L>
<L>Ruth'ned with many yeares, or which is wor&s;e,</L>
<L>Like to a weake or &s;ickly woman, found</L>
<L>Through diet or complexion, mo&s;t vn&s;ound,</L>
<L>Doth with her milke firme &s;trength but &s;eldome giue</L>
<L>To vs, that in this latter age do liue,</L>
<L>When manly exerci&s;e, like hole&s;ome foode,</L>
<L>Which after &s;ickne&s;&s;e doth augment the blood,</L>
<L>Doth by degrees adde &s;trength to &s;trength &s;o long,</L>
<L>Till weakne&s;&s;e waxeth vigorous and &s;trong,</L>
<L>Nor is the rough-hewne ru&s;ticke large of lim,</L>
<L>For warres affaires to be preferd 'fore him,</L>
<L>Who&s;e nature ciuill life hath &s;ofter made,</L>
<L>Soft things are be&s;t, when violence doth inuade,</L>
<L>The mightie Babel-builders of our time,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Nimredizers,</HI> who to heau'n would clime</L>
<L>By bricke and &s;tone, who oft in the conclu&s;ion</L>
<L>Coine wanting, make another &s;trange confu&s;ion</L>
<L>Of languages, for building neuer cut</L>
<L>The hard ragge from the &s;tonie quarrie, but</L>
<L>The &s;ofter &s;tone, who &s;eeming for to yeeld</L>
<L>To &s;tormie windes, doth be&s;t maintaine the field;</L>
<L>The greate&s;t force with furie ioyn'd, will faile,</L>
<L>When little &s;trength well orderd will preuaile:</L>
<PB N="38" REF="24">
<L>Then happy thou, thri&s;e happy cittie, &s;ince</L>
<L>In thee, as in the chamber of the Prince,</L>
<L>A people of &s;uch &s;trength &s;o orderd liue,</L>
<L>To whom thy honor'd &s;tate &s;uch lawes do giue,</L>
<L>That from <HI>Auroras</HI> bowre to <HI>Zephirs</HI> bed,</L>
<L>And whence <HI>Orion</HI> lifts his &s;tormie head</L>
<L>Vnto the &s;loe <HI>Bootes</HI> frozen waine,</L>
<L>The eye of heau'n &s;carce &s;ees the like againe,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t whom &s;ince enuie, honours ancient foe,</L>
<L>Detracting libels all about doth throw,</L>
<L>Since I haue told, what &s;ouldiers ought to be,</L>
<L>And what thy <HI>Infant</HI> troope: I now to thee,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t turne my voyce, and &s;trike &s;o high a &s;tring,</L>
<L>That I in &s;tately &s;tile thy worth may &s;ing.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="39" REF="24">
<HEAD><HI>Illu&s;trations.</HI> "This timely v&s;e the Romane youth did make.</HEAD>
<P>THe Romanes well knowing the power of v&s;e and practice, did in&s;titute their <HI>Campus Martius,</HI> a<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Liu. lib. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> place betwixt Tibur and the old citty, being part of the cittie which now &s;tan|deth, cald after the exile of <HI>Tarquin,</HI> who&s;e field it was, <HI>&s;&agrave;rcos pedi&oacute;n,</HI> of being con&s;ecrated vnto <HI>Mars;</HI> in this place,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Nic. Mach in his art of warre. lib. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> thus they did exerci&s;e their youth; they would arme them in plates of &s;teele, which &s;hould weigh twi&s;e &s;o much as the armour for the field; In &s;tead of a &s;word they gaue the~ a cudgel leaded, farmore heauie which with a target again&s;t po&s;ts, of purpo&s;e fixt in the ground, they did exerci&s;e them&s;elues, whereby they were not onely made more expert, nimble and &s;trong; but by v&s;ing their counterfeit armours, which were mo&s;t heauie, their ordinarie armour did &s;eeme as familiar as their dayly apparrell.</P>
<P>This one thing likewi&s;e is noted by my author, quoated in the margent, that their <HI>Campus Martius</HI> was &s;eated by Ti|bur, that they might being wearied with exerci&s;e on land, refre&s;h them&s;elues in the riuer, and thereby learne to &s;wimme, a quali|tie both commendable and nece&s;&s;arie in a &s;ouldier.</P>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="song">
<PB N="40" REF="25">
<HEAD>CANTO. V.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>London for &s;oyle, for &s;eate, for &s;ight,</L>
<L>And darke antiquitie the worlds delight.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>HEr happy &s;tate vpon that healthfull &s;oyle,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">A de&s;cription of London.</NOTE>Is twixt two hills &s;afe bulwarkt from the &s;poyle</L>
<L>Of tower-tearing <HI>Boreas,</HI> and the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The South|wind.</NOTE> Slaue,</L>
<L>Whom <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lus</HI> lockes vp in his Libian caue;</L>
<L>Admitting that fre&s;h ayre, more pure and thin,</L>
<L>Which gentle <HI>Zephirs</HI> milder breath brings in:</L>
<L>"A goodly<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Paules.</NOTE> phane built by that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ethelbert.</NOTE> Kenti&s;h King,</L>
<L>T'whom fir&s;t that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Augu&s;tine.</NOTE> Monke, the Chri&s;tian faith did bring</L>
<L>Doth crown her head, who&s;e proud cloud-climing &s;pire</L>
<L>Was three times haple&s;&s;e burnt by heau'nly fire,</L>
<L>She holds in one hand, as a &s;iluer di&s;h</L>
<L>Of all the dainties appetite can wi&s;h.</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Thames.</NOTE> Prince of &s;treames, who yeelds to tho&s;e that liue</L>
<L>Within her walls, what land and &s;eas can giue:</L>
<L>Vpon who&s;e &s;iluer brea&s;t, a thou&s;and &s;aile</L>
<L>To her proud towres their tops do yearely vale,</L>
<L>Bringing rich wares vnto that quiet roade,</L>
<L>From Africke, A&s;ia, and their wilde aboade,</L>
<L>That naked &s;end about the &s;unburnt &s;trand,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Zennes</HI> waues yeeld gold among&s;t the &s;and.</L>
<L>In th'other hand &s;he holds fields, orchyards, bowres,</L>
<L>Faire walks, green pa&s;tures, gardens fraught with &s;lowrs</L>
<L>A glorious robe &s;he weares, giuen vnto her</L>
<L>By mightie Princes, that of yere did woe her,</L>
<PB N="41" REF="25">
<L>Wrought with faire temples, turrets, courts of kings</L>
<L>And Princes hou&s;es, deckt with pretious things:</L>
<L>Her &s;tately traine &s;tretcht out along the &s;trand</L>
<L>Of &s;iluer Thames, is held vp by the hand</L>
<L>"Of that faire<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">We&s;tmin&s;ter</NOTE> nymph, who&s;e once poore Thorny place</L>
<L>The fir&s;t<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">King Sebert</NOTE> Ea&s;t Saxon Chri&s;tian fir&s;t did grace,</L>
<L>Who hath from others &s;ince that honour wonne,</L>
<L>"To crowne our kings vpon the fatall &s;tone.</L>
<L>And as a champion to defend her &s;tate,</L>
<L>Which Ea&s;tward open lies to forrein hate,</L>
<L>Her royall Tower hoords vp to keepe foes vnder,</L>
<L>Trea&s;ures of haile &s;hot, lightning, and fierce thunder,</L>
<L>"Who&s;e walles the Norman victor fir&s;t did rai&s;e,</L>
<L>Which now do &s;tand as trophies of his prai&s;e:</L>
<L>O famous mirrour of antiquitie,</L>
<L>Who can behold thy &s;oyles felicitie?</L>
<L>Thy hole&s;ome aire, thy wayes &s;o &s;mooth and plaine,</L>
<L>That all this land yeelds not the like againe,</L>
<L>But mu&s;t admire thy founders wit; and &s;ay,</L>
<L>What God-like man did thy foundation lay;</L>
<L>But who, alas, can lend me &s;uch a light,</L>
<L>To leade me on through that Cymerian night,</L>
<L>Of darke antiquitie, to find the man,</L>
<L>Who&s;e happy hand thy building fir&s;t began,</L>
<L>Humaine coniecture is to weake a ground,</L>
<L>On which the truth with confidence may found</L>
<L>Antiquities originall, and they</L>
<L>Shall euer be at fault, who hunt the way</L>
<L>Of common &s;torie, which our tru&s;t do blinde;</L>
<L>To light beliefe the truth doth &s;eldome finde,</L>
<L>Yet did I li&s;t with tho&s;e, that on the tide</L>
<L>Of vaine conceite, do &s;aile without a guide</L>
<L>Or other <HI>Cyno&s;ure,</HI> except the writs</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e, that in the mint of their mad wits,</L>
<L>Coyne Princes names, I could from heau'n aboue,</L>
<PB N="42" REF="26">
<L>By <HI>Lud,</HI> by <HI>Belin,</HI> and by <HI>Brute</HI> from <HI>Ioue,</HI></L>
<L>Draw our de&s;cent, as it to me 't were knowne,</L>
<L>Who&s;e hand fir&s;t laid our Londons corner &s;tone,</L>
<L>But (my de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re London) me it &s;hall &s;uffice,</L>
<L>That North and South, from Suns &s;et to the ri&s;e.</L>
<L>* Thou art antiquities now &s;tanding glorie,</L>
<L>Of all the cities in this worlds large &s;torie:</L>
<L>Vnmou'd thou art, in greatne&s;&s;e growing &s;till,</L>
<L>As if &s;ome powre of more then humane skill</L>
<L>A being here had purcha&s;d thee from fate,</L>
<L>Vntill this globy fabrickes finall date;</L>
<L>For though all cities as in &s;port and play,</L>
<L>Like tennis balls by fortune playd away</L>
<L>Throgh change of times, haue chang'd or place or name</L>
<L>Yet thou in both art &s;till the happie &s;ame:</L>
<L>Where is the worlds prowd Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e now become,</L>
<L>Who&s;e yoake thou once did&s;t beare that fir&s;t old Rome?</L>
<L>Where great<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Con&s;tanti|nople.</NOTE> Bizantium, who&s;e inuerted name,</L>
<L>Prowd <HI>Ottoman</HI> v&s;urpes to Europes &s;hame?</L>
<L>The fir&s;t of the&s;e her fir&s;t &s;eate with her fame</L>
<L>Long &s;ince hath lo&s;t; the la&s;t hath lo&s;t her name:</L>
<L>But thou the &s;ame in name and &s;ite of place,</L>
<L>From thy fir&s;t birth with foes ha&s;t found &s;uch grace,</L>
<L>That Lions like in rage they waxed cold,</L>
<L>When they thy virgin beautie did behold;</L>
<L>And when our Natiue Brittons fier'd with &s;pleene,</L>
<L>T'auenge <HI>Bunduicaes</HI> cau&s;e their raui&s;ht Queene,</L>
<L>"Did &s;acke prowd<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">S. <HI>Albons.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Verulamium,</HI> and ca&s;t downe</L>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Maldon in e&s;&s;ex.</NOTE><HI>Camoladunum</HI> greate&s;t in renowne</L>
<L>Of all this Ile,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Norfolke &amp; Suffolke men.</NOTE> th'<HI>Iceni</HI> that did boyle</L>
<L>With furie gain&s;t thy people, did not &s;poyle</L>
<L>Thy then for&s;aken &s;eate, but did forbeare;</L>
<L>Though with the Romane thou confederate were:</L>
<L>They knew thy forreine trafficke was the &s;pring,</L>
<L>That &s;pread her plenteous &s;treams with each good thing</L>
<PB N="43" REF="26">
<L>Through all this land, and with the Oceans &s;poyle,</L>
<L>Boue all their neigbours did enrich their &s;oyle;</L>
<L>So farre did&s;t thou all other ports excell</L>
<L>For nauigation, as next &s;ong &s;hall tell.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="44" REF="27">
<HEAD><HI>Illu&s;trations.</HI> "Her happy &s;eate vpon that healthfull &s;oyle.</HEAD>
<P>WHo&s;oeuer &s;hall iudiciou&s;ly &s;uruay the excellencie of this Citties &s;cituation, mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e the fir&s;t founder to haue had the in&s;tructiue helpe of more then hu|mane wit. It is &s;eated vpon a ri&s;ing banke, and yet within a vale; vpon the South &amp; North of it are two hils in almo&s;t an e|quall di&s;tance from it, that in the South running &s;omewhat ea&s;t of it, and being thereby &s;hielded from the fiercer and foggier winds, it lies open to none but the milder we&s;t windes. The aire is well knowne vnto all men, that knowe in what degree this famous cittie stands, to be the mo&s;t temperate of this whole I|land, neither doth the pestilence &s;o frequent in it proceede of the vnhole&s;ome heauen ouer it, as the ignorant thinke, but of the immoderate gluttonie and exce&s;&s;iue intemperance, both of the inhabitants and all others, that re&s;ort thither from all parts of this kingdome; which<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Libel. de &s;itu &amp; nobilitate Londin publi|&s;hed by I. Stowe.</NOTE> <HI>Fitz&s;tephens</HI> writing in the reign of <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;econd thus noted, <HI>Solae pe&s;tes Londini &s;unt immoderata &s;tultorum potatio, &amp;c.</HI> The &s;oyle it &s;and comixt with grauell abounding in &s;prings; the roade wayes for more then twenty miles euery way vnto it are not onely for the mo&s;t part &s;mooth and plaine, but in the mid&s;t of winter in re&s;pect of other places, faire and ea&s;ie. It borders vpon one of the mo&s;t famous riuers of the world, of which we will &s;peake in the next Canto, and it &s;o &s;tands, that it could not haue bene &s;eated more commodiou&s;ly in any other place of the &s;ame. For if it had &s;tood more to the We&s;t, it &s;hould haue lo&s;t the ebbing and flowing: if more to the Ea&s;t, nearer to the danger of the enemie, and that
<PB N="45" REF="27"> no Citie of England, but London could mini&s;ter all things re|qui&s;ite to the court of the Prince, the Parliament, &amp; that world of people here re&s;ident in the foure Tearmes, wee haue an example in the daies of Queene <HI>Marie,</HI> who&s;e di&s;plea&s;ure a|gain&s;t the cittie of London a certaine courtier di&s;cour&s;ing to an Alderman of the cittie, &s;aid &s;he intended to remoue the Parliament and Terme to Oxenford, to whom the Alderman wi&s;ely an&s;wered, that if &s;he did not withall remoue the riuer of Thames, the Terme and Parliament would more mi&s;&s;e Lon|don, then London could mi&s;&s;e the Terme and Parliament, which after proued true: for Queene <HI>Maries</HI> purpo&s;e to remooue them vnto Oxenford was made fru&s;trate, becau&s;e proui&s;ion of things nece&s;&s;arie, e&s;pecially of Hay could not bee made to &s;erue for ten dayes; though that countrie and the &s;hires adioyning, do yeeld the &s;ame as abundantly, as any other part of England and thus much of the &s;cituaton.</P>
<Q>A goodly phane built by that Kenti&s;h King.</Q>
<P>The Church of Saint <HI>Paul</HI> when Chri&s;tianitie was receiued among&s;t the Saxons, which was about the yeare <HI>600.</HI> was buil|ded by <HI>Ethelbert</HI> king of Kent, the fir&s;t of the Saxon Princes that receiued the faith, of whom more in the eight Canto. This Church by ca&s;ualitie of fier, being after burnt<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Sim. Dun.</NOTE> anno. <HI>1087</HI> in the la&s;t yeare of the reigne of <HI>William</HI> the fir&s;t, was againe begun to be new builded by <HI>Mauritius</HI> then Bi&s;hop of London, and perfected by tho&s;e that &s;ucceeded him, but it was again fie|red by lightning<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Abr. Flem ex Fabian.</NOTE> anno. <HI>1444</HI> of <HI>Hen. 6.</HI> ann. <HI>12.</HI> and being againe reedified, it was la&s;tly burnt by lightning an. <HI>1561.</HI> of Queene <HI>Eliz.</HI> an. <HI>3.</HI> It was before it was la&s;t burnt, the onely wonder-worthie monument of this kingdome, the &s;pire being iu&s;t as high againe, as that which now remaineth; for it is now <HI>260.</HI> foote, and it was then <HI>520</HI> foote: It was thought before the light of the Chri&s;tian Religion did chace away
<PB N="46" REF="28"> the Cymerian darkene&s;&s;e of cur&s;ed Pagani&s;me to haue beene the place,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Camden in Trinob.</NOTE> where the temple of <HI>Diana</HI> &s;tood, for &s;he and <HI>Apollo</HI> were chiefe Deities among&s;t the Brittons.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;Who&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nce poore thorny place</L>
<L>The fir&s;t Ea&s;t Saxon Chri&s;tian fir&s;t did grace.</L></Q>
<P>The Church of Saint <HI>Peter</HI> in Westmin&s;ter was found by <HI>Se|bert</HI> king of the Ea&s;t Saxons, who by the example and per&s;wa|&s;ion of king <HI>Ethelbert</HI> was conuerted to the Chri&s;tian faith; This place was by the Saxons of that time called <HI>Thorney,</HI> be|cau&s;e it was all ouergrowne with thornes, and as in that place where now &s;tands the temple of Saint <HI>Paul,</HI> in time pa&s;t &s;tood the temple of <HI>Diana,</HI> &s;o in this place, where now &s;tands the tem|ple of Saint <HI>Peter,</HI> &s;ometimes &s;tood the temple of <HI>Apollo,</HI> out of who&s;e ruines ouerthrowne by<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Camden eodem loco ex Sulcardo.</NOTE> an earthquake in the reigne of the Emperor <HI>Antoninus Pius: Sebert</HI> began the foundatio~ of that, which &s;ince our kings e&s;pecially <HI>Henrie</HI> the third, and <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;euenth adding to the &s;ame as much glorie as art &amp; co&s;t could be&s;tow, is by <HI>Leland</HI> iu&s;tly titled <HI>orbis miraculum.</HI></P>
<Q>To crowne our kings vpon the fatall &s;tone.</Q>
<P>In the Saxon times, the inauguration of our kings was at King|&s;ton vpon Thames. For <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour was the fir&s;t<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Stow in his Suruay.</NOTE> king, that was crowned at We&s;tmin&s;ter, where the co|ronation of his &s;ucce&s;&s;ors hath &s;ince continued, but touching the fatall &s;tone, which is now in the chaire at We&s;tmin&s;ter, brought thither out of Scotland by <HI>Edward</HI> the fir&s;t as a monument of his ab&s;olute victorie. The Scotti&s;h<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Hector Boet. If fate doth not deceiue vpon the throne. The Scots &s;hall reigne where they &s;hall find this stone.</NOTE> writers call it <HI>fatale marmor,</HI> vpon which they &s;ay that <HI>Gathelus</HI> the fir&s;t Scot|ti&s;h king &s;at at Brigantia in Galitia, as vpon his regall throne: from thence it was tran&s;ported into Ireland by <HI>Simon Brech</HI> or <HI>Brechus,</HI> king of tho&s;e Scotti&s;h men there planted, and after into Scotland by <HI>Fergu&s;ius</HI> cho&s;en king of the Britti&s;h Scots, who had &s;eated them&s;elues in the North of this Iland, a fatall de&s;tinie, as they &s;ay, still following this &s;tone, which in this cou|plet
<PB N="47" REF="28"> or di&s;tich King <HI>Keneth</HI> did cau&s;e to be engrauen vpon it.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Ni fallat &s;atum, Scoti, quoquunque locatum,</L>
<L>Inuenient lapidem, regnare tenentur ibidem.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>"Who&s;e walls the Norman victor fir&s;t did rai&s;e.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>The vulgar opinion is, that <HI>Iulius Cae&s;ar</HI> did build the tower of London, but like to this is that other dreame of his founding the Bath, and that imposture thrust into the Scotti&s;h history of his building their <HI>Iulius Hoffe.</HI> For neither was his abode in this Iland &s;o long, as to performe any &s;uch worke as it is eui|dent hy his owne writings, neither did he make any &s;uch conquest as to de&s;igne any &s;uch thing in his ab&s;ence. The words of<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">In the life of Agricola,</NOTE> <HI>Ta|citus</HI> his owne countriman confirmes it. The fir&s;t of the Ro|mans, &s;aith he, that entred Brittaine, was <HI>Iulius Cae&s;ar,</HI> who although he terrified the inhabitants with a battail which went on his &s;ide and gained the &s;hore; yet may &s;eeme rather to haue &s;hewed the place to po&s;terity, then deliuered to them the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion thereof. It is manife&s;t that <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour was first builder thereof, as appeares by the words of a regi&s;ter booke of the acts of the Bi&s;hop of Roche&s;ter, which are the&s;e, <HI>Gundul|phus mandato Gulielmi regis magni, praefuit operi magnae turris London, quo tempore ho&s;pitatus e&s;t apud quendam Edmerum Burgen&s;em London:</HI> That is, <HI>Gundulphus</HI> the Bi&s;hop by the command of king <HI>William</HI> did ouer&s;ee the worke of the great Tower of London, at which time he was lodged at the hou&s;e of <HI>Edmerus</HI> a citizen of London. This was the &s;quare or white Tower which<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. Paris.</NOTE> <HI>William Ru|fus</HI> and <HI>Henrie</HI> the first amplified with a ca&s;tle on the South|&s;ide towards the Thames, it was after inclo&s;ed with a wall or deepe ditch by <HI>William Longchampe</HI> Bi&s;hop of Elic a|gain&s;t the rebellious attempts of Prince <HI>Iohn,</HI> his brother king <HI>Richard</HI> being then ab&s;ent in the land of Pale&s;tine, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re in many bloody conflicts again&s;t the Sarazens he wonne in mortall fame &amp; glorie to his name and countrey.</P>
<Q><PB N="48" REF="29">"Thou art antiquities now &s;tanding glorie.</Q>
<P>Since the mo&s;t of our ancient Bards taking the plea&s;ure and libertie of feigning haue rather left vs an image of their owne inuention, then of the truth, wherof they haue written, and &s;ince antiquitie cannot be examined by forreine writers, except by &s;uch, who writ vpon the &s;tate of their own times, leauing <HI>Brute</HI> the &s;uppo&s;ed builder of this cittie, becau&s;e neither Greeke nor Romane author writing of <HI>Aeneas,</HI> and of the imagined father of our <HI>Brute, Siluius,</HI> whom &s;ome make the &s;onne of <HI>A&s;canius:</HI> others, as that<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">&V;ir. Aen. lib. <HI>6.</HI> After thy death, mea|ning <HI>Aeneas, Lauinia</HI> brings a king forth in the woods and fa|ther of kings, who was called <HI>Po&s;thumus,</HI> becau&s;e borne after his fa|thers death.</NOTE> Prince of Poets in this ver&s;e, the &s;onne of <HI>Ae|neas</HI> him&s;elfe.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;Serum Lauinia coniux,</L>
<L>Educet filuis regem, regum&abque; parentem,</L></Q>
<P>Yet make no mention of <HI>Brute,</HI> nor of his &s;trange killing of his father in the woods; things if they had bene not ea&s;ily ouer&s;lipt by writers: I will begin at <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> who&s;e pen was imployed vpon the &s;tate of his owne time. He about <HI>1669.</HI> yeares &s;ince, ma|king &s;earch into this Iland, and writing many things of the &s;ame calles this place<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Commen. l. <HI>5</HI></NOTE> <HI>Ciuitas Trinobantum,</HI> that is, not as &s;ome thinke, the citie but the &s;tate of the <HI>Trinobantes:</HI> for a people v&s;ing the &s;ame law: is alwaies by him called <HI>Ciuitas,</HI> &s;o that not onely London, but the two &s;hires of Middle&s;ex and E&s;&s;ex, which after in the time of the Saxo~ Heptarchie, were called the kingdome of the Ea&s;t Saxons, were then by <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> called <HI>Ci|uitas Trinobantum,</HI><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Annal. lib. <HI>14.</HI> ca. <HI>10.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Tacitus</HI> calles the people by the &s;ame name, inhabiting the&s;e parts; yet names this cittie London as now it is, of which in the next Canto. From the&s;e words, <HI>Ci|uitas Trinobantum,</HI> they that are tickeled with too much de&s;ire to rake their de&s;cent out of Troian a&s;hes, do deriue their <HI>Troia noua;</HI> but the opinion of that mo&s;t reuerent<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Cam. in Trinob.</NOTE> An|tiquarie is, that the word <HI>Trinobantes,</HI> is deriued from the Britti&s;h words <HI>Trenant</HI> and <HI>Nouantes,</HI> both &s;ignifying
<PB N="49" REF="29"> townes and inhabitants in a valley: for London, Mid|dle&s;ex, and E&s;&s;ex, are &s;eated, for the mo&s;t part, in a vale vpon the riuer of Thames, and therefore the inhabi|tants then called <HI>Trinobantes,</HI> as they, that did inha|bite Galloway in Scotland, were for the &s;ame cau&s;e called in the Britti&s;h tongue <HI>Nouantes,</HI> and as now, they, that dwell beneath the mountaines of the Switzers, are called<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Guic. lib. <HI>10</HI></NOTE> <HI>Vali&s;lens</HI> of inhabiting the vale. But touching the fir&s;t founder of this Cittie, &s;ince the greatest &s;earchers of antiquitie can neither, finde his name, nor what hee was, all other citties, for the mo&s;t part participating with London in this point, to bee ignorant of their fir&s;t builder: my Mu&s;e here leauing the tradition of common writers to all, that will beleeue them, is content onely to know, that Lon|don is now one of the auncient citties of the world: for though it was in <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> time, as all other citties of this Iland, but a wood, as hee &s;ayth, the trees cut downe and rudely compo&s;ed for dwelling after their barbarous manner; yet was it at that time of great intercour&s;e with the Mer|chants of Gallia and other countries, which <HI>Tacitus</HI> con|firmes, &s;aying, that in the time of <HI>Nero,</HI> it was for concour&s;e of Merchants, and proui&s;ion of all things nece&s;&s;arie, of great fame and renowne: to which adding the te&s;timonie of<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Ammianus Marcellinus.</NOTE> an auncient Author, who writing twelue hundred yeares &s;ince, called it at that time, a very ancient towne, I affirme that it may boa&s;t antiquitie with any now &s;tanding, it ha|uing the &s;ame &s;cituation from times vnknowne, long before <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> and retaining the &s;ame name &s;ixteene hundred yeares knowne, though the name of this Iland were &s;ince changed.</P>
<Q><L>"Did &s;acke proud Verulamium and ca&s;t downe</L>
<L>Camalodunum &mdash;</L></Q>
<P><HI>Verulamium</HI> or <HI>Verla~</HI> and <HI>Camalodunu~</HI> vnder the Roman
<PB N="50" REF="30"> gouernment, by the te&s;timony of <HI>Tacitus</HI> and <HI>Suetonius</HI> were the principall townes where their Legions did re&s;ide; the fir&s;t, out of who&s;e &s;econd ruines in the Saxon inua&s;ion, the towne of Saint Albones tooke beginning, was, before the Ro|manes entered this Ile, the chiefe &s;eate of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ibelline</HI> king of the<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Hertford Buckingham and Bedford &s;hire men.</NOTE> Cattieuchlani, which being expugned by <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> was after in <HI>Neroes</HI> time, a Municipal city: that other, which is now Maldon in E&s;&s;ex, was the principal &s;eat of <HI>Cunobeline</HI> king of the<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Middle&s;ex and E&s;&s;ex men.</NOTE>. <HI>Trinobantes, Tiberius</HI> then being Emperor: vnto this towne after that<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Dio~ Ca&s;&s;ius</NOTE> ouerthrow giuen by <HI>Aulus Plau|tius,</HI> to <HI>Cunobilins</HI> &s;onnes, <HI>Catacratus</HI> and <HI>Togodumnus Claudius Cae&s;ar</HI> came in per&s;on, to whom an<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg"><HI>Tacitus cals it</HI> aram ae|ternae domi|nationis.</NOTE> altar and temple were there erected, where planting a Colonie, he in&s;titu|ted Roman lawes and customes, for which the name of <HI>Britta|nicus,</HI> as a title of honour, waas giuen to his &s;onne, and the Senate at Rome did decree for him a mo&s;t famous triumph. But of the&s;e two townes, the difference betwixt the Municipall towne of <HI>Verulamium</HI> and the Colonie of <HI>Camalodunum,</HI> was, as in an ancient<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Gellius ex oratione D. Hadriani ad Italicen&s;es.</NOTE> author I finde it, thus, <HI>Municipia in ciuitatem extrin&s;ecus a&s;&s;umuntur:</HI> &amp; <HI>Coloniae &egrave; ciuitate educuntur:</HI> that is, they that liued in the Municipall or free towne, were &s;uch, as being &s;trangers were receiued into the ci|tie by the fauour of the Romanes, to be free of Rome as confe|derates, yet v&s;ing their owne lawes, and capiable of any office in &s;tate, of which they had their name, <HI>&aacute; muneribus capien|dis,</HI> and they that were of the Colonie, were &s;uch, as being na|tiue of the &s;ame cittie, v&s;ed no other then the Romane lawes. Touching the ouerthrow of the&s;e two townes, the Brittans a|bout ten yeares after <HI>Claudius Cae&s;ar,</HI> grudging the in|tollerable tyrannie of the Romans, in the reigne of <HI>Nero,</HI> and e&s;pecially the<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Norfolke and Suffolke men.</NOTE> <HI>Iceni,</HI> burning with de&s;ire to take vengeance, for abu&s;e done to <HI>Bunduica</HI> their Queene, and raui&s;hment of her daughters, did con&s;pire their libertie and reuenge and vnder conduct of their valiant Queene, did not one|ly put to &s;acke and &s;poyle the&s;e two townes, as chiefe &s;eates
<PB N="51" REF="30"> of their &s;eruitude and &s;lauerie, but in furie made, &s;ome &s;ay<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Tacitus.</NOTE> &s;euentie thou&s;and, others<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Dion Ca&s;&s;ius</NOTE> eighty thou&s;and Romans and confederates pa&s;&s;e by the &s;entence of the &s;word, but for this I referre you to Hi&s;torie.</P>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="song">
<PB N="52" REF="31">
<HEAD>CANTO. VI</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>Whence London doth deriue her name,</L>
<L>Her nauall forces wonted fame.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>BEfore victorious <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> left the Gaules,</L>
<L>And did with wonder view the huge white walls,</L>
<L>With which the &s;tormie <HI>Neptune</HI> doth inclo&s;e</L>
<L>His loued Albion, &s;afe from forreine foes;</L>
<L>Londons faire bo&s;ome was a harbour knowne</L>
<L>To tho&s;e, that fir&s;t did hale the &s;ailes, and growne</L>
<L>To catch the winde, to carry them away,</L>
<L>From raging &s;eas, that &s;ought their liues decay:</L>
<L>O what a nour&s;ing mother ha&s;t thou ben,</L>
<L>To noble nauigation and tho&s;e men,</L>
<L>That by their art th'vnweldie Oake do bring</L>
<L>To flie as fa&s;t, as birds of &s;wifte&s;t wing,</L>
<L>And o're the Seas to dance do teach the wood,</L>
<L>That in the forre&s;t once vnmoued &s;tood,</L>
<L>Some more then man, or &s;ome prophetik &s;pirit</L>
<L>Gaue thee thy name, fore&s;eeing, thou would&s;t merit</L>
<L>The &s;ame from others citties, knowing this</L>
<L>"London in &s;ence a nauall cittie is:</L>
<L>For once not he, that doth command the &s;hores</L>
<L>From hot Iberia to the curled Mores,</L>
<L>Could &s;hew &s;o faire a fleete, and which had wonne</L>
<L>The &s;eas large Empire, as thy Thames hath done:</L>
<L>For this our virgine-Queene, who Godde&s;&s;e-like</L>
<L>That &s;onne of Babylon did thunder &s;trike,</L>
<PB N="53" REF="31">
<L>With terror of her name, did hold thee deare;</L>
<L>For all her happie daies, who dur&s;t appeare</L>
<L>Of any, that do grudge thy growing fame</L>
<L>To ope their mouths again&s;t great Londons name;</L>
<L>That &s;ympathie, which like a loue diuine</L>
<L>The Steele and Load-&s;tone doth &s;o fa&s;t combine,</L>
<L>Was not &s;o great, as that, which was betweene</L>
<L>Thy loyall &s;ubiects and that royall Queene;</L>
<L>The nimble Barkes of thy triumphant fleete,</L>
<L>When with th'lberian Giants they did meete,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Great Ar|madaes.</NOTE></L>
<L>And to the &s;hores in thunder oft haue told,</L>
<L>Their battailes fought with them for Indian gold,</L>
<L>Haue tooke the &s;cepter of the &s;eas command,</L>
<L>And put it into their <HI>Elizaes</HI> hand;</L>
<L>Oft, as faire virgins in a <HI>Chorus</HI> led,</L>
<L>Vnto the mu&s;ickes &s;ound do dainty tread,</L>
<L>Barke after Barke, thy nauie day by day,</L>
<L>Fraught with rich &s;poyles from hot <HI>America,</HI></L>
<L>Vpon the waues to thy &s;afe harbour bound,</L>
<L>Haue danc'd along the &s;trand to trumpets &s;ound,</L>
<L>And glad of dangers pa&s;t, in pa&s;&s;ing by</L>
<L>Tho&s;e plea&s;ant woods, which farre off they might eye</L>
<L>"Vpon that fruitfull countries hils, the key</L>
<L>That opens Englands ports vpon the &s;ea,</L>
<L>Vnto that virgin in a voyce of thunder,</L>
<L>Haue &s;poke their dutie, when their &s;ails came vnder</L>
<L>"That good Dukes hou&s;e, which now <HI>y^e</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Greenwich</NOTE> green banke names</L>
<L>Who&s;e princely towres doth ouerlook the Thames</L>
<L>But where are now tho&s;e many barks become</L>
<L>That in this riuers roade could &s;carce find rome;</L>
<L>Or where great <HI>Neptunes</HI> &s;onnes, of whom &s;uch &s;tore,</L>
<L>He did beget vpon our fruitfull &s;hore?</L>
<L>Braue wra&s;tlers with the wind, who&s;e skill can &s;aue</L>
<L>Them&s;elues from trip of euery dangerous waue,</L>
<L>Do they (as &s;ome do thinke) each yeare decay</L>
<L>By de&s;perate diuing in the Indian &s;ea?</L>
<PB N="54" REF="32">
<L>Or doth &s;ome greedy-minded <HI>Midas</HI> touch</L>
<L>Turne them to gold, or doth th'indu&s;trious Dutch</L>
<L>Through our owne &s;loth in this long time of peace,</L>
<L>In nauall &s;trength grow out of our decrea&s;e?</L>
<L>If one, or all of the&s;e &s;uch ill produce,</L>
<L>Let London &s;eeke redre&s;&s;e for &s;uch abu&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;tuddy to vphold her nauall fame,</L>
<L>From whence at fir&s;t &s;he did deriue her name,</L>
<L>That &s;o each eye that enuies at her good,</L>
<L>May feare her nauies force on Thames great flood,</L>
<L>That king of riuers, who&s;e<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">London|Bridge.</NOTE> rich-arched crowne,</L>
<L>Be girts his temples like a &s;tately towne,</L>
<L>"Whom the pale<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">he Moone</NOTE> Queene of waters, and of woods,</L>
<L>Doth mo&s;t affect of all the fi&s;hfull floods,</L>
<L>And he againe, as if enamour'd on her</L>
<L>Oft at that time, when &s;he doth take vpon her</L>
<L>Her full-fac'd beautie, flowing, &s;wels with ioy</L>
<L>Aboue his bankes, and when as &s;eeming coy,</L>
<L>And mounting in the Ea&s;t aloofe &s;he keepes,</L>
<L>Following her with his waues, the &s;hores he &s;weepes</L>
<L>From <HI>Goodwins</HI> &s;ands with thou&s;and wrackes enricht,</L>
<L>"As farre almo&s;t, as where tho&s;e &s;takes are pitcht,</L>
<L>Where Thames too &s;hallow running by the &s;hore,</L>
<L>When the poore Brittons did his helpe implore,</L>
<L>Could not impeach the Romane hoa&s;t to pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Where then this kingdomes Empire yeelded was;</L>
<L>And where the &s;tout <HI>Ca&s;&s;ibiline</HI> gaue place</L>
<L>To <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> force, betrayd by <HI>Mandubrace.</HI></L>
<L>O noble Thames, who for thy quiet roade</L>
<L>Which to the wind-wrackt &s;ayles yeelds &s;afe abode,</L>
<L>When &s;eas to &s;eeke for &s;afetie them compell;</L>
<L>All other floods not onely do&s;t excell,</L>
<L>But for tho&s;e ancient learned Bards of yore</L>
<L>And moderne wits, who bred vpon thy &s;hore,</L>
<L>And fed with &s;acred fire, haue &s;ung the prai&s;e</L>
<L>Of their great Maker in immortall layes,</L>
<PB N="55" REF="32">
<L>With voyces &s;o diuine, that thou mai&s;t dare</L>
<L>With <HI>Tybur, Po,</HI> or <HI>Sein</HI> to make compare;</L>
<L>Still mai&s;t thou flouri&s;h, and &s;till further flow</L>
<L>With thy &s;weet &s;treame, to grace faire London &s;o,</L>
<L>That future times to her may giue that honour,</L>
<L>Which former ages all be&s;tow'd vpon her:</L>
<L>But carryed with thy winding &s;treames delight</L>
<L>Beyond thy flow, London being out of &s;ight,</L>
<L>We do forget what glorie &s;he hath wonne</L>
<L>By the great deeds of many a natiue &s;onne:</L>
<L>Then let vs with thy ebbe fall downe againe,</L>
<L>And taking land at London there remaine,</L>
<L>Preparing apte&s;t &s;tile to &s;ing the &s;torie</L>
<L>Of her true noble armes and ancient glorie.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="59" REF="33">
<HEAD><HI>Illu&s;trations.</HI> "London in &s;ence a nauall Cittie is.</HEAD>
<P>OF king <HI>Luds</HI> reedifying London and leauing his name to the &s;ame, many hauing no better proofe then his picture, late erected on the fronti&s;pice of Ludgate, will condemne my Mu&s;e for not communicating in their opinion, to whom, though it &s;hould be granted, that &s;uch a king there might haue bene, yet may it bee doubted where hee did then finde Ma&s;ons and workemen for &s;uch a building, which they &s;ay he then ere|cted: <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> who was an eye witne&s;&s;e of what he hath written, <HI>Strabo, Tacitus,</HI> and others, all liuing after that time, vnder which the Britti&s;h hi&s;torie placeth <HI>Lud,</HI> affirme a towne with the Brittans in their times to haue bene no other then a wood, as I before noted, in which they did rai&s;e rude cottages, fencing it about with a deepe ditch and a trench, they hauing no hou&s;es, vntill<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Tacitus in the life A|gricola.</NOTE> <HI>Agricola</HI> Liefetenant here vnder <HI>Domitian,</HI> did teach them to build Temples and places of publike a&s;&s;embly, much le&s;&s;e could they then v&s;e bricke or &s;tone; and though <HI>Hel|len</HI> the mother of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> did, as<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Simon. Du|nel. and Hen. Hunting.</NOTE> &s;ome thinke anno, <HI>306.</HI> build the walles of London; yet after that time <HI>Theodo|&s;ius</HI> the yonger being Emperor, anno. <HI>434.</HI> I reade that the Romans taught the Brittons for their defence again&s;t the in|cur&s;ions of the Pictes, to build a wall of &s;tone, without who&s;e direction they had no knowledge of that kinde of building. The fir&s;t man, that brought the Ma&s;ons art of working of &s;tone into this Ile (except that which the Romans had built) was<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Iohn Stowe in his &s;uruay.</NOTE> <HI>Be~|net</HI> Abbot of Wirrall, who was Ma&s;ter to the reuerent <HI>Bede</HI> anno <HI>680.</HI> and therefore leauing tho&s;e deriuations of name
<PB N="57" REF="33"> from <HI>Lud</HI> and the like, my Mu&s;e led by that great<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Camden in Trinobanti|bus.</NOTE> light of Antiquitie, deriues the name of London from her nauigation, as hauing euer bin a place of great &s;hipping: for as &s;aith mine author <HI>Lhongh</HI> in the Britti&s;h tongue &s;ignifies as much as nauall or of &s;hips, and the Britti&s;h word <HI>dinas,</HI> which the Latins turne to <HI>Dinum,</HI> &s;ignifies a cittie, &s;o that <HI>Londinum</HI> or London im|ports as much as a cittie of &s;hips. In a funerall Poem of <HI>Nae|nia,</HI> an ancient Bard or Poet among&s;t the Brittons, it is called <HI>Lhongh-porh,</HI> that is a port of &s;hips; many citties haue had the like Etimoligie of name, as<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Strabo lib. <HI>8</HI></NOTE> <HI>Naupactus</HI> a towne in Ae|tolia, <HI>Nauplia</HI> a towne in Argos, which were &s;o called for the many &s;hips that did frequent them. But from them and all o|ther cities, London may iu&s;tly challenge that nauall name, being of &s;uch ancient fame and renowne for &s;hipping and merchants, as I before noted.</P>
<Q><L>"Vpon that fruitfull countries hilles, the key</L>
<L>That opens Englands ports &mdash;</L></Q>
<P>My Mu&s;e viewing the wonted nauall forces of this cittie and as one hauing bene out at &s;ea, in her returne at the Thames mouth takes viewe of Kent, in all ages accounted the key of this king|dome, and therefore the Norman after his conque&s;t of Eng|land to keepe it the &s;afer, appointed a Con&s;table of Douer-Ca&s;tle, and the &s;ame man Lord Warden of the <HI>5.</HI> Ports, com|monly called the cinque ports, according to the ancient cu&s;tome of the Romans, who in&s;tituted a Praefect or Goruernour, called<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Amianus Marcellinus.</NOTE> <HI>tractus maritimi comes.</HI> The Lord Warden of the cinque ports, is alwaies one of the noble Peeres of this kingdome, pre|ferred to that honour for reputation of his faith and vertue, as now of late is that noble Gentleman the Lord <HI>Zouch,</HI> one of our Soueraignes mo&s;t honourable priuie Councell: the names of the ports are the&s;e, <HI>Douer, Sandwich, Rumney, Hith</HI> and <HI>Ha&s;tings,</HI> the fir&s;t foure being in Kent, the la&s;t in Su&s;&s;ex, all which do enioy many large priuiledges and immunities before o|ther maritine townes.</P>
<Q><PB N="58" REF="34">That good Dukes hou&s;e, which now the grene banke names.</Q>
<P>The kings pallace of Greenewich was fir&s;t builded by <HI>Hum|p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rcy</HI> Duke of Gloce&s;ter in the reigne of <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;ixth, which <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;euenth did much augment, and fini&s;hed that hou&s;e in the top of the hill, which was begunne by the &s;aide Duke, it was royalized by the birth of <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight; but e&s;pecially memorable, for that in the &s;ame the glorie of her &s;ex, that royall Queene <HI>Elizabeth</HI> was happily brought to light; Duke <HI>Humphry</HI> cal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it Plea&s;ance, but that name dyed with him, or not long after, it is now called after the name of the town Grenewich; that is the g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eene banke. For the banke of a riuer is <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c</HI> in the Germane tongue) famous in times pa&s;t, for the crueltie of the <HI>Danes</HI> again&s;t <HI>Ealphegus</HI> Archbi&s;hop of Canterburie whom they there did martyr with mo&s;t exqui&s;ite torments, who&s;e martyrdome is &s;et downe, by an<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Apud Ca~|den ex dit mari Mer&s;e|purgij libro Clero. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> ancient writer of the &s;ame time.</P>
<Q><L>Whom the pale Queene of waters and of woods</L>
<L>Doth mo&s;t affect of all the fi&s;hfull floods.</L></Q>
<P>This fiction of the ardent loue betwixt the Moone and the riuer of Thames is intelligible enou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h to all, that know the affinitie betwixt her, the Ocean, and all moi&s;t bodies, who&s;e influence is, as much (if not more powerfull) on this, as on any riuer of Eu|rope, as may appeare by that admirable ebbing and flowing of the Thames, which from the Ocean flowes vp into the land lit|tle le&s;&s;e then &s;ixtie miles, and &s;ometimes more. The cau&s;e is, as well attributed to the motion of the cele&s;tiall orbes, as to the Moone from Ea&s;t to We&s;t, the riuer continuing his cour&s;e the &s;ame way. The cau&s;e of the many differences of the Thames ebs and floods, which on our coa&s;ts by forreine<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Tacitus in the life of Agricola.</NOTE> writers hath long &s;ince bene ob&s;erued as a note of wonder: I leaue as in&s;crutable, able to confound another <HI>Stagerite,</HI> of whom it is<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Coelius Ro|dodogunus antiquarum lectionum lib. <HI>29</HI> cap. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> &s;ayd, &s;ee|king into the Oceans &s;trange and vniuer&s;all motion in this kind,
<PB N="59" REF="34"> that he died of grief and vexation of not finding out that hiden &s;ecret. One note more of this famous riuer, is, that as it is more nauigable, &s;o doth it communicate the commodities of nauiga|tion farther into the land, then any riuer of this kingdome. The &s;treame from the &s;pring, where it doth ri&s;e, which is in the plains of Cote&s;wold by Tetburie in Glocester&s;hire, vntill it fall into the Ocean, &s;hooteth and windeth it &s;elfe betweene the land one hundred and <HI>80.</HI> miles.</P>
<Q>"As farre almo&s;t as where tho&s;e &s;takes are pitcht.</Q>
<P>That is, neare Otelands where the riuer at this day being &s;car&s;e &s;ixe foote deepe; <HI>Ca&s;&s;ibiline</HI> and his Brittons, to impeach the pa&s;&s;age of <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> and his Romans, did pight &s;harpe &s;takes vpon the banke and in the bottome of the riuer, of which that place is at this day cald <HI>Coway &s;takes.</HI> The reuerent <HI>Bede</HI> de&s;cribing them to be as big as a man thigh, &s;ayes, that when he liued, they were there to be &s;eene.</P>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="song">
<PB N="60" REF="35">
<HEAD>CANTO VII.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>Londons faire armes with honour wonne,</L>
<L>And grace to her by Princes donne.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L>THis Queene of citties, Lady of this Ile,</L>
<L>So happy &s;eated both for ayre and &s;oyle,</L>
<L>Famous in name from all antiquitie</L>
<L>To keepe the &s;ame vnto po&s;teritie:</L>
<L>Vpon her lap did nour&s;e tho&s;e &s;onnes of Fame,</L>
<L>Who&s;e deeds do now nobilitate her name;</L>
<L>From her faire bo&s;ome &s;prang that royall &s;tem,</L>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Con&s;tantine the great.</NOTE>Who, for the worlds imperiall Diadem</L>
<L>Did with his Brittons, famous then for armes,</L>
<L>Oppo&s;e <HI>Maxenius</HI> and his magicke charmes;</L>
<L>And in the Ea&s;t his &s;tandards did aduance,</L>
<L>Where proud <HI>Licinius</HI> fell beneath his lance,</L>
<L>And in Byzantium planted <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> &s;eate,</L>
<L>Where for his conque&s;ts he was &s;tilde the Great;</L>
<L>There of that ancient citie he did frame</L>
<L>Another London, giuing it his name,</L>
<L>Which on the Thracian Bo&s;phorus his &s;trand,</L>
<L>As London vpon Thames alike doth &s;tand,</L>
<L>Nor did he there blot out of memory</L>
<L>His natiue London here in Brittanny,</L>
<L>But did confirme to it that happy name</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of great <HI>Augu&s;ta,</HI> adding to the &s;ame</L>
<PB N="61" REF="35">
<L>The honor of his mint, with charge to ioyne</L>
<L>Great Londons name to <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> in his coyne:</L>
<L>But we will here let pa&s;&s;e tho&s;e mighty men,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e royall kings and Princes, that haue ben</L>
<L>Her fo&s;ter children, neither will I &s;ing</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mand the Empre&s;&s;e daughter to Henrie <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> daughter, wife, and mother of a king,</L>
<L>Though London borne, nor of tho&s;e battailes tell,</L>
<L>In which &s;he being victor did compell</L>
<L>Stout <HI>Steuen</HI> to &s;toope, and on the throne did &s;et</L>
<L>Her royall &s;onne our fir&s;t <HI>Plantagenet;</HI></L>
<L>But let vs looke within thy walls,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Henrie.</HI> 2.</NOTE> if any</L>
<L>Of thy graue Senate, among whom &s;o many</L>
<L>Haue &s;wayd thy &s;word of iu&s;tice, ought haue done,</L>
<L>Who&s;e fame vnto thy name renowne hath wonne.</L>
<L>Their glorie like a flame in darke&s;t night,</L>
<L>Which dims a tapers &s;hine, ob&s;cures the light.</L>
<L>Of feigned honor, which to many yet</L>
<L>In this blind age, is like a Sun that's &s;et</L>
<L>Mong&s;t Enuies clouds, no pencill yet that lims</L>
<L>So like the life; no Mu&s;e that with &s;weet hyms</L>
<L>Out at the eare can &s;teale the &s;oule, doth &s;ing</L>
<L>Of Londons fame, or vnto light doth bring</L>
<L>Ought worthy of thy &s;elfe, although thy name</L>
<L>A &s;ubiect be, that fits the trumpe of Fame;</L>
<L>What famous Mu&s;e did euer yet rehear&s;e</L>
<L>That noble act, though worthy golden ver&s;e,</L>
<L>And with the &s;tarres eternally to &s;hine,</L>
<L>Done by that worthy Senator of thine,</L>
<L>Who when that Kenti&s;h rebell ready &s;tood</L>
<L>With dagger drawne to &s;hed yong<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Richard</HI> 2.</NOTE> <HI>Richards</HI> blood;</L>
<L>And none, who then about the king did &s;tand,</L>
<L>In his defence dur&s;t lift a loyall hand,</L>
<L>Did with his dagger &s;trike the mon&s;ter dead,</L>
<L>And by one blow, by which his blood is &s;hed,</L>
<L>Did &s;aue from death, de&s;truction and decay.</L>
<L>The king, the &s;tate, and all that breath'd that day,</L>
<PB N="62" REF="36">
<L>"For which the dagger of &s;o braue a hand</L>
<L>On Londons cro&s;&s;ed &s;heeld &s;hall euer &s;tand,</L>
<L>As the faire en&s;igne of that honor got,</L>
<L>By merit of the noble&s;t deed, and not</L>
<L>Like that, which begd and bought through euery age</L>
<L>To vp&s;tart gentile, giues a feigned badge,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;cutchions wanting colours of de&s;ert,</L>
<L>Are painted by the hand of bribed art,</L>
<L>Which truth, as things of &s;corne &s;hall wa&s;h away,</L>
<L>And future time &s;hall laugh at their decay;</L>
<L>When that braue bloody cro&s;&s;e vpon thy &s;hield,</L>
<L>And that reuenger &s;et in &s;iluer field,</L>
<L>Shall &s;tand for euer and to euery age,</L>
<L>Though tongle&s;&s;e tell thy honors; for no rage</L>
<L>Of iron-toothed time &s;hall them deuoure,</L>
<L>Nor cloud-browd enuy &s;hall, though it do lower</L>
<L>Vpon the honor of thy <HI>Walworths</HI> name,</L>
<L>Be euer able to ob&s;cure the &s;ame:</L>
<L>O famous man, had Rome &s;o happie ben,</L>
<L>To haue enioyd &s;o braue a cittizen</L>
<L>Among&s;t her worthies, what would &s;he haue done</L>
<L>To thy great act, &s;uch glory to haue won?</L>
<L>If vnto him, who&s;e hand did hap to &s;aue</L>
<L>The life of one meane cittizen, &s;he gaue</L>
<L>For guerdon of his deed, a crowne, a &s;peare,</L>
<L>And as a marke of honor chaines to weare:</L>
<L>What ornaments of triumph could haue ben</L>
<L>To meane for thee, or for tho&s;e worthie men,</L>
<L>That after thee &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely did &s;way</L>
<L>Our Londons &s;word of Iu&s;tice to this day:</L>
<L>"Shall <HI>Philpots</HI> actes, who&s;e<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Philpot Lane.</NOTE> dwelling place and name</L>
<L>Our &s;treets record, though men forget the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Be drown'd in <HI>Laethe</HI> or in &s;ilence &s;leepe,</L>
<L>Who like a <HI>Neptune</HI> did command the deepe,</L>
<L>And did, when greater men &s;tood looking on,</L>
<L>From foes defend his natiue &s;hoares alone;</L>
<PB N="63" REF="36">
<L>For when that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mercer a Scotti&s;h pi|rate.</NOTE> &s;tout &s;ea-rouer vncontrould,</L>
<L>V&s;urper-like through his great powre did hold,</L>
<L>The &s;cepter of our Northerne &s;eas, and &s;trooke</L>
<L>The &s;hores with terror, when he ca&s;t his looke</L>
<L>Vpon the marine townes, whom oft by &s;tealth</L>
<L>Through couert of the night de&s;poyld of wealth,</L>
<L>In flames he offerd vp, and with rich pray,</L>
<L>As &s;laues did leade th'inhabitants away,</L>
<L>Who then but <HI>Philphots</HI> warlike &s;hips vnknowne</L>
<L>To king or &s;tate, did &s;toutly &s;et vpon</L>
<L>That &s;trong &s;ea-thiefe, whom &s;ea-men all did &s;hun,</L>
<L>As braying goates do from the Lyon run,</L>
<L>From whom the &s;eas large Empire they did win,</L>
<L>And with rich prize did brauely bring him in,</L>
<L>"Nor may I here renowned <HI>Exton</HI> pa&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>In whom the world, as in a perfect gla&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>May &s;ee the image of &s;tout con&s;tancie</L>
<L>Again&s;t corruption and ba&s;e trechery;</L>
<L>For when that wanton <HI>Richard</HI> &s;hut his cares</L>
<L>Again&s;t the councell of his faithfull peeres,</L>
<L>"Who&s;e fall, that head compo&s;d by magicke &s;pell</L>
<L>Vnto the world, though tongle&s;&s;e did foretell,</L>
<L>Who &s;ucking poy&s;on from the plea&s;ing breath,</L>
<L>Of &s;oothing Sycophants, did &s;eeke the death</L>
<L>Of his deare vnckle, and did thinke t'employ</L>
<L>Our Londons loyall <HI>Exton</HI> to de&s;troy</L>
<L>That royall Prince, he would not dip his hand</L>
<L>In guiltle&s;&s;e blood, but did the king with&s;tand,</L>
<L>And at that time the noble Duke did &s;aue</L>
<L>With many peeres from their vntimely graue.</L>
<L>O faithfull con&s;tancie where art thou fled?</L>
<L>Iu&s;t heau'n with tho&s;e great worthies that are dead,</L>
<L>Hath wrapt thee hence, where &s;ithence thou ha&s;t ben,</L>
<L>Too little faith is left in liuing men:</L>
<L>Thus thou, our mother cittie &s;till did&s;t beare</L>
<PB N="64" REF="37">
<L>The fruite of golden glory, men, that were</L>
<L>Both for their faith, and valour more renownd,</L>
<L>Then for their wealth in which they did abound,</L>
<L>Who like true Senators in peace and warre,</L>
<L>Did &s;it vpon thy &s;tates tribunall chaire,</L>
<L>To Londons glory purcha&s;ing renowne,</L>
<L>By <HI>Mars</HI> his &s;word, as well'as by the gowne;</L>
<L>For in that time, when England wofull &s;tood,</L>
<L>Hackt full of wounds and dabled all in blood</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e who&s;e gored bo&s;omes weeping bled</L>
<L>Drops of life blood for tho&s;e, that could not &s;hed</L>
<L>Teares for them&s;elues, when ciuill hate did &s;et</L>
<L>"The royall Ro&s;es of <HI>Plantaginet</HI></L>
<L>So deepe in crim&s;on gore, that few could learne</L>
<L>How from the red the white Ro&s;e to di&s;cerne;</L>
<L>Then did the Elders of thy &s;tate &s;et forth</L>
<L>Their vertue to the world, who&s;e onely worth</L>
<L>Eu'n in the iawes of ruine &s;till did rai&s;e</L>
<L>Thee vp againe in tho&s;e death-threatning dayes;</L>
<L>For when on <HI>Henrie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> heau'n had &s;o decreed</L>
<L>T'auenge his Grand&s;ire <HI>Henries</HI> bloody deed,</L>
<L>That as a <HI>Richards</HI> blood did <HI>Henrie</HI> &s;taine,</L>
<L>So by a <HI>Richard Henrie</HI> &s;hould be &s;laine,</L>
<L>Then did that giddie people in their rage,</L>
<L>March vnder &s;tout rebellion, trea&s;ons badge</L>
<L>And led by that fal&s;e<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Iacke Cade</NOTE> <HI>Mortimer</HI> of Kent,</L>
<L>Who did v&s;urpe that name by Yorkes con&s;ent,</L>
<L>Like to a thunder in a tempe&s;t fell</L>
<L>Downe from the Kenti&s;h hils, and did compell</L>
<L>Their way into thy &s;treets, where traytor-like</L>
<L>Their captaine on thy<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Londons &s;tone.</NOTE> &s;tone his &s;word did &s;trike;</L>
<L>But thy bold elders, who&s;e per&s;wa&s;iue words</L>
<L>Could not preuaile, betooke them to their &s;words,</L>
<L>And with hot fight enforced tho&s;e to yeeld,</L>
<L>That had before bene victor of the field;</L>
<PB N="65" REF="37">
<L>And after in &s;ucceeding <HI>Edwards</HI> reigne,</L>
<L>When <HI>Faulconbridge</HI> by fire would con&s;traine</L>
<L>Thee ope thy gates, tho&s;e Senators of thine,</L>
<L>Vndanted <HI>Ba&s;&s;et,</HI> and bold <HI>Io&s;&s;eline,</HI></L>
<L>With many more, did through tho&s;e ho&s;tile flames,</L>
<L>Which burnt their gates, ru&s;h out with loud exclaimes</L>
<L>Vpon their foes, who fainting in the fight,</L>
<L>Did turne their backes and gaue them&s;elues to flight;</L>
<L>For which our kings, on many a cittie-&s;onne,</L>
<L>That armes and gentrie by the &s;word had wonne</L>
<L>Did lay their &s;words, and for their loyall faith,</L>
<L>"Conferr'd on &s;ome the honor of the Bath:</L>
<L>But many here perhaps with narrow eyes</L>
<L>Looking on Londons glory, may de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L>The&s;e things, as toyes, and boa&s;ting their de&s;cent</L>
<L>From <HI>Ioue</HI> him&s;elfe, will wi&s;h fames lookes were rent,</L>
<L>Rather then with their gentrie in the &s;ame,</L>
<L>True honour any cittie-borne &s;hould name;</L>
<L>For many now the name of London &s;corne,</L>
<L>Who&s;e ance&s;tors were London bred and borne,</L>
<L>But in their glorie vertue mu&s;t haue part,</L>
<L>For though, that for a fathers good de&s;ert,</L>
<L>Honor be giuen, as imputed good</L>
<L>To all, that are of his de&s;cent and blood;</L>
<L>Yet with their blood it is not captiue bound</L>
<L>Vp in their veines, not el&s;e where to be found,</L>
<L>As orient pearles and pretious gems adorne</L>
<L>Beauties faire necke, &s;o nobly to be borne</L>
<L>Giues to po&s;teritie a glorious name,</L>
<L>Yet vertue was fir&s;t authour of the &s;ame,</L>
<L>And Fame <HI>Ioues</HI> Herrald, who be&s;t knowes &s;uch things</L>
<L>From good de&s;ert, deriues the blood of kings,</L>
<L>And &s;ayes, who vants of armes and wants good deeds</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;weet of borrowd glorie feeds,</L>
<L>As vpon others honey droanes do liue,</L>
<PB N="66" REF="38">
<L>The &s;word and gowne the braue&s;t armes do giue.</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Edward</HI> 3.</NOTE> Diamon-&s;parke of honour, &s;courge of France,</L>
<L>Fierce thunder-bolt of warre, beneath who&s;e lance</L>
<L>In foure maine battailes fought in bloody field,</L>
<L>Fiue mightie kings &s;ubdude, did flie or yeeld,</L>
<L>Thought it no blemi&s;h to his kingly worth,</L>
<L>"As champion for his London to &s;tand forth</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The great honour done to Lon|don by this king.</NOTE>With his foure &s;onnes, when on his royall tent</L>
<L>To twi&s;e ten thou&s;and eyes he did pre&s;ent</L>
<L>Our cities armes, in honour of who&s;e name,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t all the world a iou&s;ts he did proclaime,</L>
<L>And with his &s;onnes, who well knew how to wield</L>
<L>The weightie lance, did take th'appointed field,</L>
<L>Where in guilt armes beneath a goodly plume,</L>
<L>He bore the prize from all, that dur&s;t pre&s;ume</L>
<L>To be appelants in the tilt for Fame</L>
<L>Gain&s;t his bold challenge, in his Londons name;</L>
<L>Wel did he know, who&s;e iudgment nought could wro~g,</L>
<L>To whom the right of honour did belong,</L>
<L>And at that time, as <HI>Phoebus,</HI> though each night</L>
<L>To all the &s;tarres he do impart his light,</L>
<L>Yet to the Moone his lu&s;tre chiefly lends,</L>
<L>So he, although to all de&s;eruing friends</L>
<L>The &s;un-&s;hine of his grace he did extend,</L>
<L>Yet did his greate&s;t light of glorie lend</L>
<L>Vnto our London, pillor of his &s;tate,</L>
<L>His arme of &s;trength, his &s;hield gain&s;t forreine hate:</L>
<L>In his triumphant dayes, foure royall kings</L>
<L>With that blacke Prince, who&s;e fortunes on the wings.</L>
<L>Of victorie did ride, till in deaths field</L>
<L>Fate with his life did bid his fortune yeeld,</L>
<L>All at one time did our Piccards boord did grace,</L>
<L>Where plentie in triumph take her place,</L>
<L>On whom attending, bountie was &s;o free,</L>
<L>That maie&s;tie it &s;elfe may witne&s;&s;e be,</L>
<PB N="67" REF="38">
<L>How Honor harbourd was in her faire bre&s;t,</L>
<L>"Who&s;e Maior Monarch like foure kings could fea&s;t,</L>
<L>But the&s;e her vading glories mu&s;t giue place</L>
<L>To her diuiner gifts of heauenly grace,</L>
<L>Long &s;ince a &s;afe <HI>A&s;&s;ylum</HI> &s;he hath bene</L>
<L>Vnto poore per&s;ecuted Chri&s;tian men,</L>
<L>And oft hath &s;haddowed them beneath her wings</L>
<L>From th'inqui&s;ition of blood-thir&s;ting kings,</L>
<L>For which all good from heau'n on her hath flow'd,</L>
<L>As in th'en&s;uing Canto &s;hall be &s;how'd.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="68" REF="39">
<HEAD>Illu&s;trations.
<Q><L>"But did confirme to it that happy name</L>
<L>Of great <HI>Augu&s;ta</HI>&mdash;</L></Q></HEAD>
<P>MY Mu&s;e hauing briefly recorded our Londons &s;cituation, antiquitie and deriuation of name, beginnes the hymne of her honour with the title of Augu&s;ta, being a<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Augu&s;tus, qua&s;i hominis natura am|plior cognomi|natus e&s;t octa|uius. Dio. li. <HI>5</HI></NOTE> name of great honor and dignitie, which was giuen as an happie or au&s;pi|tious name to citties, of who&s;e future happine&s;&s;e there was great hope; &s;ome, as I noted before, haue thought, that London tooke this name of the Legion <HI>Augu&s;ta</HI> there &s;oiourning. How&s;oeuer <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the great, &s;onne of <HI>Hellen,</HI> d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ughter to <HI>Coyle</HI> King of Brittane<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Fitz&s;tephe~s libel. de &s;itu &amp; nobilitate Londini pub|li&s;hed by Iohn Stow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> borne in London to confirm the name to it, appointing his mint herein Londo~, vpon who&s;e coin is read<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Camden in Trinobant.</NOTE> <HI>P Lon. S.</HI> that is, <HI>pecunia Londini &s;ignata,</HI> called the ouer|&s;eer of his trea&s;urie, as it is in <HI>Notitiarum libro, praepo&s;itus The&s;aurorum Augu&s;ten&s;ium in Brittannia.</HI> Here I wi&s;h to be noted, how Princes in times past haue honoured this cittie. <HI>Edward</HI> &s;urnamed the Confe&s;&s;or for his faith and holine&s;&s;e of life, &s;tiled London, <HI>Caput regni &amp; Legum;</HI> which the Conqueror &s;ucceeding confirmed: the great Charter of England &s;aith, <HI>Ciuitas London habeat omnes &s;uas le|ges antiquas,</HI> kng <HI>Iohn</HI> called it <HI>Regni firmata columna,</HI> king Richard the &s;econd &s;tiled it <HI>Camera Regis,</HI> as here and there you may reade in the pa&s;&s;ages of my Poem; &s;ince which time, if there be not the like or more true de&s;ert of honour in this citie, let compari&s;on of this later and now pre&s;ent &s;tate to the for|mer, decide it.</P>
<Q><PB N="69" REF="39">
<L>For which the dagger of &s;o braue a hand,</L>
<L>On Londons cro&s;&s;ed &s;hield &s;hall euer &s;tand.</L></Q>
<P>Though the originall of this cities honourable armes bee not vnknowne, &s;carce to any, that hath but lookt vpon London; yet &s;ince writers doe varie, touching the manner, take it briefly from<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Abr. Flo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> out of the Annals of Hen. Knigh+ton.</NOTE> <HI>Henrie Knightone,</HI> Cannon of Leci&s;ter, then liuing, thus. When <HI>Wat Tyler</HI> anno <HI>4.</HI> of <HI>Richard</HI> the &s;econd, Cap|taine of that commotion, rai&s;ed chiefly vpon abu&s;e, done to maides, in collecting that money called pole &s;hillings, by &s;ome pole greates for all, that were vndergrowne, that is, that had haire growing on their priuie parts, backt by many thou&s;and re|bels, came to the king in Smithfield, where approching &s;o neere vnto him, that he might touch him, and hauing in his hand a naked dagger with which boy-like playing, and to&s;&s;ing it from hand to hand, he pre&s;umptuou&s;ly demanded not onely reforma|tion of the abu&s;e before &s;poken, but many things preiudiciall to the kings royall prerogatiue: the king, though then of age not fifteene yeares compleate, and hauing but few of his &s;eruants or true &s;ubiects about him, yet by &s;ilence and delay &s;eemed to deny the &s;ame, which the rebell perceiuing drew neare vnto him, and taking hold on his hor&s;es bridle, had there, as it is to bee doubted, &s;laine the king, his &s;eruants and followers looking on, had not <HI>Iohn walworth</HI> Maior of London, preferring duty to his king and countrie before the &s;afetie of his owne life thru&s;t his dagger into the rebels throate; for which the king did after adde a dagger to the armes of London, in the right quarter of the &s;hield, which as a true badge of honor all men may reuerence &s;ince by that one act, as <HI>Iacke Straw,</HI> next in reputation a|mongst the rebels to <HI>Wat Tiler</HI> at his death confe&s;&s;ed, the king the nobilitie, the gentrie, and the citie of London (which &s;hould haue bene fiered in foure partes and lackt that night, before which <HI>Wat Tyler</HI> was &s;laine) were pre&s;erued from de&s;truction: of this if you de&s;ire more, euery chronicle is copious.</P>
<Q><PB N="70" REF="40">
<L>Shall <HI>Philpots</HI> actes who&s;e dwelling place and name</L>
<L>Our &s;treets record&mdash;</L></Q>
<P>Sir <HI>Iohn Philpot</HI> Maior of London anno <HI>2.</HI> of Richard the &s;econd, one of tho&s;e, that for his vallour &s;hewed in that action a|gain&s;t the rebels before mentioned, was knighted by the king, a|mong&s;t many other<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Iohn Stowe his &s;uruay</NOTE> his worthy deeds as hauing often &s;upplied his &s;oueraigne, by lending him great &s;omes of money, and hauing of his owne co&s;t furni&s;hed <HI>Thomas</HI> of Wod&s;tockes armie, con&s;i|&s;ting of eight thou&s;and men with &s;hippes, to pa&s;&s;e them ouer into Brittannie, hauing likewi&s;e relea&s;ed the armour of one thou|&s;and of the &s;aid &s;ouldiers, pawned for victuals, did at his owne charge (our Coa&s;ts being then grieuou&s;ly afflicted with that arch Pirate<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ralph. Hol|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">n, in Rich. <HI>2</HI></NOTE> <HI>Mercer</HI> a Scotti&s;h man) wage a thou&s;and &s;ouldiers, be&s;towing them in his own &s;hips, for to ouerthrow or take this Pi|rate; for which, the Lords of the councell did after checke him with the note of pre&s;umption, in &s;etting forth a nauie of men without their authoritie, though the action did turne to the ge|nerall good of this kingdome, which may &s;eeme to haue beene a patterne to <HI>George Talbot</HI> Earle of Shrewsburie, who anno <HI>28.</HI> of <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight, hauing rai&s;ed a power again&s;t the re|bels in the North, did put forth this que&s;tion, whether his fact in leuying a power without commi&s;&s;ion, though it were again&s;t the rebels, might be brought within offence to the Lawes, to which, though an&s;wer was made, that it was iu&s;tifiable: yet he not tru&s;ting to the &s;ame, did &s;ue the kings pardon, of whom hee might haue expected thankes. This Sir <HI>Iohn Philphot</HI> hath left his name to the lane, where he dwelled, of which and of much more land about it he was Lord when he liued.</P>
<Q>Nor may I here renowned <HI>Exton</HI> pa&s;&s;e.</Q>
<P>This Sir <HI>Nicholas Exton</HI> was Maior of London anno <HI>10.</HI> of Richard the &s;econd, who&s;e honorable act, toucht by my Mu&s;e, I thus explaine. When<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Raph Hol|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> in Rich. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> Richard the &s;econd, incen&s;ed by his
<PB N="71" REF="40"> minnions, <HI>Robert Veere</HI> Earle of Oxenford, and <HI>Michael de la Pole</HI> Earle of Suffolke, did intend the death of his vnckle <HI>Thomas</HI> of Wood&s;tocke Duke of Gloce&s;ter with other Peeres, who then in Parliament did fauour the &s;uite of the commons, a|gainst the &s;aid Earle of Suffolke, &amp; to giue effect to this horrible fact, wickedne&s;&s;e in all ages wanting no mini&s;ters, Sir <HI>Nicholas Brember</HI> promi&s;ing his a&s;&s;i&s;tance in the execution thereof, did deui&s;e, that the Duke and other Peeres vnder pretence of be|ing inuited vnto a &s;upper at this Sir <HI>Nicholas Extons</HI> hou&s;e, then Maior of London, &s;hould be there murdered. To ioyne in this action, the king did &s;ollicite the Maior with large offers of his fauour, and that failing thundered forth the threatnings of his kingly di&s;plea&s;ure; but this worthie Cittizen accounting that honour infamie, which &s;hould be attained by &s;uch vnlawfull means, and more fearing the offence of God &amp; a good con&s;cience, then the di&s;plea&s;ure of his king, not &s;o much, as yeelding conni|uencie to the fact, did by the reuealing the plot to the Duke, de|liuer both him and many other noble men from death.</P>
<Q>"Who&s;e fall that head compo&s;d by magicke &s;pell.</Q>
<P>Such as haue their fall determined, are &s;eene to decline by de|grees, of which, this king may be an example, who&s;e fall, after the death of his vnckles, whom he tooke to be his enemies, grewe fa&s;t vpon him, through the hate of his owne &s;ubiects: many &s;ad predictions did goe before the wofull change of &s;o royall a king to a wretched Captine, amongst whom, this &s;poken of by the Mu&s;e was thus: In that Parliament of this kings reigne, held at We&s;tmin&s;ter and cald the mercile&s;&s;e Parliament there was an head made of waxe by art<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Raph. Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+len. in Rich.</NOTE> magicke, which at an howre ap|pointed to &s;peake vttered the&s;e words thri&s;e, and then cea&s;ed; first: The head &s;hall be cut off: &s;econdly, The head &s;hall be lifted vp aloft: and la&s;tly, the feete &s;hall be li&s;ted vp aboue the head. About this time were many ominous prodigies the great<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m. Wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ing in Rich<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>2.</HI> pag. <HI>341.</HI></NOTE> con|iunction of tho&s;e two Plannets <HI>Iupiter</HI> and <HI>Saturne</HI> then happe|ning, after which followed not onely the iniurious dep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ing and
<PB N="72" REF="41"> lamentable murthering of this king, of which all the Princes of Europe &s;pake &s;hame, but with it the two bloody factions of tho&s;e famous hou&s;es of Yorke and Lancaster, de&s;cended from <HI>Plantaginet,</HI> of whom in the next place.</P>
<Q>The royall Ro&s;es of Plantaginet.</Q>
<P>The &s;urname of <HI>Plantaginet</HI> began in <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;econd and ended in <HI>Margaret</HI> cou~te&s;&s;e of Salisburie, daughter to <HI>George Plantaginet,</HI> Duke of Clarence, who was beheaded anno <HI>33.</HI> of <HI>Henrie 8.</HI> but of the factions of Yorke and Lanca&s;ter hauing often &s;poken in my Poem, I briefly giue you their originall thus, <HI>Edward</HI> the third on his wife Queene <HI>Phillip</HI> begot &s;euen &s;ons <HI>Edward</HI> the blacke Prince, <HI>William</HI> of Hatfield dying with|out i&s;&s;ue; <HI>Lionel</HI> Duke of Clarence, <HI>Iohn</HI> of Gaunt Duke of Lanca&s;ter, <HI>Edmund</HI> of Langley Duke of Yorke, <HI>Thomas</HI> of Wood&s;tocke Duke of Gloce&s;ter, and <HI>William</HI> of Wind&s;or, who dyed young: <HI>Edward</HI> the blacke Prince decea&s;&s;ing before his father, left <HI>Richard</HI> his &s;onne, who &s;ucceeding his grandfather in the kingdome, was by <HI>Henrie</HI> of Bullingbrook Duke of Lan|caster &s;onne to <HI>Iohn</HI> of Gaunt king <HI>Edwards</HI> fourth &s;onne, be|reft both of life and crowne, which from the i&s;&s;ue of <HI>Lionel</HI> Duke of Clarence King <HI>Edwards</HI> third &s;onne, was v&s;urped by the Lancastrian Kings, <HI>Henrie</HI> the fourth, fifth, and &s;ixth of that name, vntill <HI>Kichard</HI> Duke of Yorke, claiming the crown anno <HI>39.</HI> of <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;ixth did deriue his title from <HI>Lionel</HI> Duke of Clarence third &s;onne of <HI>Edward</HI> the third, this <HI>Lio|nel</HI> had i&s;&s;ue onely a daughter called <HI>Phillip,</HI> who married to <HI>Edmund Mortimer</HI> Earle of March, had i&s;&s;ue by him a &s;on named <HI>Roger:</HI> to <HI>Roger</HI> no i&s;&s;ue &s;uruiued, excepting <HI>Anne,</HI> which <HI>Anne</HI> giuen in marriage to <HI>Richard</HI> Earle Cambridge &s;onne to <HI>Edmund</HI> of Langley, Duke of Yorke; King <HI>Edward</HI> the fourths &s;onne, was mother to this <HI>Rcihard</HI> Duke
<PB N="73" REF="41"> of Yorke, who to obtaine the right of his tittle, or to make way for his &s;onnes, who after obtained the Crowne, lo&s;t his life in the battaile of Wakefield, &s;o that Yorke de&s;cended from the third and fift &s;onne of <HI>Edward</HI> the third vnited, and Lan|ca&s;ter from the fourth: The royall Ro&s;es were the two cogni|zances of both the hou&s;es, <HI>Iohn</HI> of <HI>Gaunt</HI> Duke of Lanca&s;ter giuing for his badge the red Ro&s;e, and <HI>Edmund</HI> of <HI>Langley,</HI> Duke of Yorke for his badge the white Ro&s;e.</P>
<Q>Con&s;erd on &s;ome the honour of the Bath.</Q>
<P>When <HI>Iacke Cade</HI> or <HI>Iohn Mend-all,</HI> titling him&s;elfe <HI>Iohn Mortimer</HI> Cou&s;in to the Duke of Yorke, that hee might feele the hearts of the people, before the Duke &s;hould publi&s;h his ti|tle to the crowne, came to London with his rebels anno <HI>29.</HI> of <HI>Henrie</HI> the <HI>6.</HI> where he stroke his &s;word vpon Lond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;tone &s;ay|ing now Mortimer is Lord of this cittie: the cittizens dayly burthened with the abu&s;es of the rebels, vnder the leading of Captaine<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Raph Holl. in Hen. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Matthew Goche,</HI> famous for his actes in the Frenchwarres, did valiantly &s;et vpon the rebels, and driuing them ouer the bridge into Southwarke, though with the lo&s;&s;e of the &s;aide Captaine, <HI>Iohn Sutton</HI> Alderman, <HI>Robert Hei&s;and</HI> and many other hardie cittizens, did &s;o daunt them, that the kings pardon once proclaimed, they left their captaine and returned euery man to his owne home. <HI>Iacke Cade</HI> flying into Su&s;&s;ex was there &s;laine by <HI>Alexander Eden,</HI> an E&s;quire of Kent. Likewi&s;e when the rebell <HI>Thomas Neuill</HI> ba&s;tard to the Lord <HI>Faulconbridge</HI> a&s;&s;aulted by the Cittie anno <HI>10.</HI> of of Edward <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. with a powre of <HI>17000</HI> men &s;etting fire vnto the gates of the &s;ame, the citizens did not onely defend the places a&s;|&s;aulted, but i&s;&s;uing out, did through their valiancie, put the e|nemies to flight with great &s;laughter, for which <HI>12.</HI> Aldermen, the Recorder and diuers others citizens were knighted by the
<PB N="74" REF="42"> king in the field, two of which, as Sir <HI>Ralph Ioceline</HI> Dra|per,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn Stowe in his &s;uruay</NOTE> and Sir <HI>Matthew Phillips</HI> Gold&s;mith, with Sir <HI>Thomas Cooke</HI> Draper, were made knights of the Bath, anno. <HI>5. Ed|ward</HI> the fourth, which order, though as others, which now corrupted may &s;eeme to &s;mell, yet in times pa&s;t was of great ho|nour and in high e&s;teeme. The&s;e knights of the Bath, &s;o called of certaine curious ceremonies of Bathing and watchings, were one|ly created at the baptizing, coronation, or mariage of Princes.</P>
<Q><L>As champion for his London to &s;tand forth,</L>
<L>And his foure &s;onnes &mdash;</L></Q>
<P>This was king Edward the third, who triumphed in battaile o|uer fiue kings, as <HI>Phillip</HI> king of France, who lo&s;t the battailes of <HI>Cre&s;&s;eie, Charles</HI> king of Boheme, &s;laine in the &s;ame battaile, <HI>Ihon</HI> the French king &s;ucce&s;&s;or to <HI>Phillip</HI> taken pri&s;oner by the blacke Prince in the battaile of Poicters; <HI>Henrie</HI> the ba&s;tard king of Spaine ouerthrowne by the blacke Prince in the bloody battaile of Nauarete, and <HI>Dauid</HI> king of Scotland taken pri&s;oner in that battaile fought by Durham. This victorious king anno regni <HI>33.</HI> did appoint a &s;olemne Iou&s;ts to bee kept in Smithfield in the honour of London, the French and Scotti&s;h kings being then his pri&s;oners, where hee with his foure &s;onnes <HI>Edward, Lionel, Iohn</HI> and <HI>Edmund,</HI> with nineteene other great Lords, held the field for the Maior and his three and twentie brethren; there then being but foure and twentie Wards of London, Farringdon Ward after anno. <HI>17.</HI> of Richard the &s;econd being of one, for the largene&s;&s;e thereof diuided into two, and Bridge Ward anno. <HI>4.</HI> of <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixth beeing pur|cha&s;ed of the Cittie.</P>
<Q>VVho&s;e Maior Monarch-like foure kings could fea&s;t</Q>
<P>The&s;e foure kings <HI>Edward</HI> the third of England, <HI>Iohn</HI> of Fraunce, <HI>Dauid</HI> of Scotland, and the king of Cypres who
<PB N="75" REF="42"> came into Englaad at the &s;ame time about &s;ome affaires with the king, were with <HI>Edward</HI> Prince of Wales and diuers o|ther great States fea&s;ted at one time by <HI>Henrie Picard</HI> Maior of London at his hou&s;e, where hee kept his hall at the &s;ame time for all noble men, or other that were willing to play at the dice or hazzard, his Lady keeping her camber to the &s;ame purpo&s;e for all Ladies and Gentlewomen:</P>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="song">
<PB N="76" REF="43">
<HEAD>CANTO. VI</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>London with light of Grace endewd,</L>
<L>Heau'ns ble&s;&s;ings, her ingratitude.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>THe kings of Gods, Monarch of heau'n, and Lord</L>
<L>Of land and Seas, who by his onely word</L>
<L>Made Earth our grandams barren wombe to beare,</L>
<L>Hath cho&s;en London for his Sion, where</L>
<L>The &s;onnes of men &s;hould with true prai&s;e adore</L>
<L>His &s;acred Deitie, who with that whore</L>
<L>Of Babylon them&s;elues &s;hould not defile,</L>
<L>Who&s;e witchcrafts our late fathers did beguile:</L>
<L>But keepe that truth and that true wor&s;hip teach,</L>
<L>Which t'our forefathers that graue<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Io&s;eph of Arimathea.</NOTE> man did preach;</L>
<L>Who in his tombe did with ble&s;t hands en&s;hrine,</L>
<L>The glorious body of the mo&s;t Diuine</L>
<L>Vpon his graue, which Gla&s;lenburie &s;howes</L>
<L>"That holy thorne, this Ilands wonder growes,</L>
<L>To which, as if that reuerent place did giue</L>
<L>A power more then naturall to liue,</L>
<L>That &s;acred bu&s;h as th'incarnations badge,</L>
<L>White blo&s;&s;omes beares, when winter mo&s;t doth rage,</L>
<L>And &s;ince that happy time hath London ben</L>
<L>The Nur&s;e of pietie and pious men,</L>
<L>Who fearing neither death, nor raging ire</L>
<L>Of bloody Tyrants with their blood in fire,</L>
<L>Sealing the truth, and clo&s;ing vp their breath,</L>
<L>Haue &s;oar'd to heau'n vp on the wings of death,</L>
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<L>And heau'n for this like &s;hewres of raine hath &s;hed</L>
<L>Alternate ble&s;&s;ings on her happy head:</L>
<L>For in times pa&s;t her &s;tate did not a&s;pire</L>
<L>Vnto that greatne&s;&s;e which we now do admire,</L>
<L>For through all ages as <HI>Apollos</HI> Bay</L>
<L>When Winters breath blowes Summers greene away,</L>
<L>Mong&s;t leau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le&s;&s;e trees a leafie top doth &s;how,</L>
<L>So hath &s;he flouri&s;ht and &s;till great doth grow,</L>
<L>Through powrefull vertue of her lawes diuine,</L>
<L>When all het neighbouring cities do decline,</L>
<L>Who&s;e wants with her aboundance &s;he de doth feed</L>
<L>Yet of the &s;ame her &s;elfe doth finde no need</L>
<L>As &s;eas int'other brookes their waters pore,</L>
<L>Yet they them&s;elues want nothing of their &s;tore.</L>
<L>Mong&s;t Chri&s;tian cities iu&s;tly mai&s;t thou claime</L>
<L>The glorie of an elder &s;i&s;ters name,</L>
<L>And mong&s;t thy honors count it no meane thing,</L>
<L>"Fir&s;t to haue &s;eene the worlds fir&s;t<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Lucius.</NOTE> Chri&s;tian king,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;oule with errors canker ouer&s;pread,</L>
<L>When powre diuine had purg'd and it had fed.</L>
<L>Vpon th'Ambro&s;ia of the heau'nly word,</L>
<L>He did ca&s;t out thy Pagan gods abhord</L>
<L>With their Arch-Flammins, and in thee did place</L>
<L>Holy <HI>Theanus,</HI> giuing him the grace</L>
<L>Of Prelates primacie, and not ami&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou being then this Iles M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tropolis;</L>
<L>Twi&s;e &s;eau'n &s;ucceeding prelates in the chaire,</L>
<L>The Miter did as Englands primates weare;</L>
<L>But when thy Pa&s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s and thy people both,</L>
<L>Through plentie pu&s;t with pride &s;o much did loath</L>
<L>Cele&s;tiall Manna, that our angrie God</L>
<L>Scourging the Britons with an iron rod,</L>
<L>Did iu&s;tly ca&s;t them out, and in their place</L>
<L>The Engli&s;h Saxon did receiue to grace,</L>
<L>Then did&s;t thou lo&s;e thy Eccle&s;ia&s;ticke right,</L>
<L>And as that Britton<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ambro&s;e Merlin pro|phe&s;ie, that faith &s;hould faile and then reuieue, when the See of Londo~ &s;hould adorne Can|terburie.</NOTE> Bard, to who&s;e fore&s;ight</L>
<PB N="78" REF="44">
<L>Things future were as pre&s;ent, had foretold.</L>
<L>Indu&s;trious <HI>Augu&s;tine,</HI> who did vnfold</L>
<L>The mi&s;teryes of heau'ns free mercie &s;howne</L>
<L>To th'Engli&s;h fir&s;t, though then to them vnknowne,</L>
<L>"Transferd thy Pall by helpe of kingly power,</L>
<L>From thy great Thames vnto the Kenti&s;h &s;towre,</L>
<L>Yet though he did iuiuriou&s;ly tran&s;late</L>
<L>Thy honorarie dignitie of &s;tate</L>
<L>He left to thee, what now renownes thy name,</L>
<L>True zeale, the glorious badge of Chri&s;tian fame,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gods ble&s;&s;ings vpon this citie.</NOTE>For which great Natures God and fir&s;t Creator,</L>
<L>Mong&s;t all the citties in this worlds Theater,</L>
<L>Hath thus long kept thee &s;afe from dangers doubt,</L>
<L>When thou ha&s;t &s;eene de&s;truction round about,</L>
<L>Oft with &s;terne vi&s;age wrinkled full of frownes,</L>
<L>The aire hath rent and torne thy bordering townes,</L>
<L>Oft ha&s;t thou heard thy neighbours &s;ad exclames,</L>
<L>Deuourd by <HI>Mulcibers</HI> remor&s;le&s;&s;e flames,</L>
<L>Beheld whole countries with their fruitfull land,</L>
<L>Swallow'd by &s;eas, and turnd to fruitle&s;&s;e &s;and,</L>
<L>Where hounds haue cour&s;d the hare, &s;eene fi&s;hes &s;cud,</L>
<L>And &s;hips to &s;ayle, where &s;heepe haue chewd the cud,</L>
<L>Dearths daughter, famine eating vp the &s;tore</L>
<L>Of all the land hath &s;wallowd rich and poore,</L>
<L>And hard vpon thy walles hath often bin</L>
<L>Yet neuer or but &s;eldome enterd in:</L>
<L>Sterne <HI>Mars,</HI> who&s;e rage no mortall may re&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>Who with the buffets of his brazen fi&s;t</L>
<L>Doth knocke downe &s;tates, and with one fingers pu&s;h</L>
<L>Bowres, towres, and townes doth into peeces cru&s;h,</L>
<L>With blood &amp; &s;poyl thy neighbor France being wa&s;ted</L>
<L>Hath with his breath her fruitfull vineyards bla&s;ted,</L>
<L>And with his arme hath bruized the Belgians bones,</L>
<L>And made aire &s;igh with proud Iberias groanes;</L>
<L>When heau'ns haue &s;hadowd thee with wings of loue,</L>
<L>As hens their brood from rau'nous birds aboue,</L>
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<L>And if thy God, whom thou in euery age,</L>
<L>Ha&s;t too too oft by &s;inne prouokt to rage,</L>
<L>Doth puni&s;h thee, he frowning father-like,</L>
<L>Doth with that plague thy di&s;obedience &s;trike,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Iudaes</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dauid.</NOTE> Prophet, Prince, and &s;weet voyc't Poet,</L>
<L>Of all the three did choo&s;e, who well did know it</L>
<L>More happie and farre better to haue ben,</L>
<L>To fall into the hands of God then men.</L>
<L>But why, thus watered with the plenteous &s;howres</L>
<L>Of heauenly raine, do&s;t thou yeeld weeds for flowres?</L>
<L>Why do&s;t thou &s;ay, that men &s;hall neuer cea&s;e</L>
<L>About thy &s;treets to &s;ing the &s;ong of peace?</L>
<L>Where painted <HI>Iezabels</HI> in loo&s;e attire</L>
<L>With eyes of lu&s;t, and lookes that &s;parkle fire,</L>
<L>Kindling de&s;ier in euery wandring eye,</L>
<L>Steale out the heart of him that pa&s;&s;eth by,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Ahabs</HI> &s;ad oppre&s;&s;ion, and that wrong,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The common &s;innes of this citie.</NOTE></L>
<L>That grinds the poore to du&s;t, growes great and &s;trong:</L>
<L>Where <HI>Abels</HI> blood to heau'n for vengeance calls,</L>
<L>And loath&s;ome &s;urfet reeles again&s;t thy walles,</L>
<L>The &s;eruants of thy elders, through thy tribes,</L>
<L>With leprozie of fal&s;e <HI>Gehezas</HI> bribes</L>
<L>Are taken in the hands, and loo&s;e the &s;ence</L>
<L>Of feeling any great mans great offence,</L>
<L>Bla&s;phemous mouthes with pe&s;tilence and death</L>
<L>Corrupt thy aire, in which they take their breath,</L>
<L>Who&s;e too too common oaths are growne &s;o great,</L>
<L>That out at thy wide gates they cannot get,</L>
<L>But &s;ticking on thy po&s;ts and walls, do &s;tand</L>
<L>As tokens of that plague that's &s;till at hand.</L>
<L>Thy yong men are become extortioners,</L>
<L>Thy beardle&s;&s;e boyes grow &s;ubtle v&s;urers,</L>
<L>Thy &s;trong men &s;aint, their &s;trength doth vade like &s;moke</L>
<L>Thy women rule, and men do beare the yoake;</L>
<L>Who through thy &s;treets their co&s;tly pride do &s;how,</L>
<L>Like Sions daughters mince it to and fro,</L>
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<L>Who&s;e earings, wimples, vailes, and cri&s;pingpins</L>
<L>Are triflles to their tires, the baudie gins</L>
<L>To trap the gazer, and the certaine hookes</L>
<L>To catch the thoughts and captiuate the the lookes:</L>
<L>At their fal&s;e eyes, that bold-fac'd pander pride</L>
<L>To wanton lu&s;t the windowes open wide,</L>
<L>Exiling thence ill-mannerd mode&s;tie,</L>
<L>As one too ba&s;hfull for their companie:</L>
<L>Friend&s;hip and kindred &s;hun the man that's poore,</L>
<L>Again&s;t blinde <HI>Homer</HI> each man &s;huts his doore:</L>
<L>Capon-cramd Foxes do deuoure by &s;leight</L>
<L>The childrens portions, and poore orphans right,</L>
<L>All friendly loue, except &s;elfeloue, is dying,</L>
<L>Iu&s;tice is bought, and faith away is flying.</L>
<L>But vp deare London, vp, ari&s;e betimes</L>
<L>To crie lowd, le&s;t thy lowd-crying crimes,</L>
<L>Preuenting thy repentance drownd in &s;loth,</L>
<L>Vpon thy head, do bring downe &s;odaine wroth:</L>
<L>To &s;ucke &s;weete honey now at length begin</L>
<L>From that faire hearbe of Time, to turne from &s;in,</L>
<L>Whence thou too long in thy pro&s;peritie,</L>
<L>Ha&s;t &s;uckt the poy&s;on of &s;ecuritie:</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou pro&s;per &s;till, and neuer doubt,</L>
<L>Though &s;eas of danger circle thee about,</L>
<L>The King of glorie &s;hall exalt thy name,</L>
<L>Heau'n &s;elfe &s;hall be the trumpet of thy fame;</L>
<L>But now t'is time, &s;ince thus long we haue bin</L>
<L>About thy &s;treets to &s;ee thy &s;tate within,</L>
<L>To view thy &s;urface and behold without,</L>
<L>What walls of &s;trength do bulwarke thee about.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="81" REF="45">
<HEAD><HI>Illu&s;trations.</HI> That holy thorne, this Ilands wonder growes.</HEAD>
<P>ALL the honourable attributes worth, and glorie of this ci|tie before mentioned, do come &s;hort of this one, that through all ages, it hath bene the Nur&s;e of pietie, good letters and religion, which <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> of <HI>Arimathea,</HI> who buried the body of our Sauiour, &s;ent hither by<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Chronicon. Gla&s;con.</NOTE> <HI>Phillip</HI> the Apostle here plan|ted: <HI>Patrike</HI> the Apo&s;tle of Ireland, affirmes it in an Epi&s;tle of his, who lead a &s;olitarie life thirtie yeares in the Abbey of Gla&s;|tenburie, where he &s;aith, and the ancient monuments of the Ab|bey confirme it, that he was buried: for which this place was cal|led by our Elders,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">In a charter of liberties made to the &s;ame Abbey by Hen. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Prima terra Dei, &amp; prima &s;ancto|rum terra in Anglia:</HI> Here, as I haue bene credibly informed by the inhabitants about that place, and as it is by diuers writers recorded, an Hathorn doth grow which blo&s;&s;ometh euery Chri&s;t|mas day, which may be thought none of the lea&s;t of the wonders in this Iland.</P>
<Q>Fir&s;t to haue &s;eene the worlds fir&s;t Chri&s;tian king.</Q>
<P>That England, and therefore London, may &s;tand for prioritie of receiuing the Chri&s;tian faith, with any kingdome or countrie of Europe, take the&s;e te&s;timonies with that &s;poken of before: <HI>Claudia Rufina,</HI> of whom S. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;peaketh in his la&s;t Chap|ter to <HI>Timothie,</HI> conuerted to the Chri&s;tian faith, was a Brit|ton, of who&s;e nuptials with <HI>Rufus Peudens</HI> that acute<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Martiall lib. <HI>4.</HI> ephi. <HI>13</HI></NOTE> Poet thus begins an Epigram, <HI>Claudia Rufe meo nup&s;it peregri|na Pudenti:</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Dorithaeus</HI> Bi&s;hop of Tire, &s;aith that <HI>Simon
<PB N="82" REF="46"> Zelotes</HI> came into Brittaine to teach the faith, and that <HI>Ari|&s;tobulus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. cap. <HI>16</HI></NOTE> whom S <HI>Paul</HI> mentions in his epi&s;tle to the Romans, was a Bi&s;hop in Brittaine, likewi&s;e &s;ome<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Niceph. lib. <HI>2.</HI> cap. <HI>4</HI></NOTE> who&s;e authorities are reuerenced, do write that <HI>S. Peter</HI> came into this Iland, and that S. <HI>Paul</HI><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Theod. de curandis grae|torum affe|ctibus lib. <HI>9.</HI> Sophronius Patriarch of Ieru&s;alem.</NOTE> came hither after his &s;econd impri&s;onment at Rome. How&s;oeuer it is manife&s;t, that <HI>Lucius</HI> king of the Britto~s (who as <HI>Nenius</HI> &s;aith, was called <HI>Leuer Maur,</HI> that is of great fame for the faith, which began here in his time) was the fir&s;t Chri&s;tian Prince in the world, conuerted to the faith by<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">In &s;ome Faganus and Duuianus</NOTE> <HI>Fu|gatius</HI> and Damianus, &s;ent hither by <HI>Eleutherius</HI> Bi&s;hop of Rome, who&s;e<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">By Stowe in his Annal.</NOTE> letter to king <HI>Lucius</HI> is recorded by our wri|ters, &s;o that if prioritie of Chri&s;tianitie might take place, both our Souereigne might challenge that attribute of <HI>Chri&s;tiani&s;|&s;imus,</HI> and his Amba&s;&s;adours precedence in all a&s;&s;emblies, be|fore any other in Europe.</P>
<Q><L>"Transferd the Pal by helpe of kingly powre,</L>
<L>From thy great Thames &mdash;</L></Q>
<P><HI>Lucius</HI> hauing receiued the Christian faith in place of three Arch-Flammins and <HI>28.</HI> Flammins, idolatrous &s;acrificers to the heathen goddes, did in&s;titute <HI>3.</HI> Archbi&s;hops and <HI>28.</HI> Bi&s;hops one Archbi&s;hop at London, the other at Yorke, and the third at Carleon, he founded a Church in Cornehill, dedicated to Saint <HI>Peter,</HI> and in a table there remaining, it is written, that he or|dained the &s;ame Church to be an Archbi&s;hops Sie, and Me|tropolitane of his kingdome, in which <HI>14.</HI> Bi&s;hops &s;ate &s;ucce&s;&s;iue|ly, who&s;e names are &s;et downe by<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">In his booke of Britti&s;h Bi&s;hops as it is in Stowes Soruay.</NOTE> <HI>Io&s;&s;aline</HI> of Furdes; But in the Heptarchie of the Saxons, who from their fir&s;t entrance into this Ile, had liued Pagans <HI>150.</HI> yeares or thereabout,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. We&s;t alias Flo. hi&s;t.</NOTE> <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> the monke being &s;ent hither by <HI>Gregory</HI> the fir&s;t for their conuer&s;ion an. <HI>596.</HI> remoued the Pal from London to Canterburie, vnder <HI>Ethelbert</HI> king of Kent, contrary to that which <HI>Gregory</HI> had commanded, for which cau&s;e that ambi|tious Bi&s;hop of London,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Camden. Trinobam.</NOTE> <HI>Gilbert</HI> of Folioth did a&s;pire the Pri|macie of England.</P>
<DIV3 N="9" TYPE="song">
<PB N="83" REF="46">
<HEAD>CANTO. IX.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>Londons first walls, fir&s;t v&s;e of &s;hot,</L>
<L>The Engli&s;h long bowes long forgot.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>THe<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Age&s;ilalis.</NOTE> &s;onne of &s;tout <HI>Archidamus,</HI> to one</L>
<L>That askt, why <HI>Sparta</HI> being famous growne,</L>
<L>Had no &s;trong walles to &s;hield it 'gain&s;t the foe,</L>
<L>The cittizens in mu&s;ter arm'd did &s;how,</L>
<L>And &s;aid: behold the walles of our defence,</L>
<L>In whom we Spartans put our confidence;</L>
<L>Our London, like to Sparta, &s;eemes to &s;ay,</L>
<L>She puts no tru&s;t in &s;trength of burned clay,</L>
<L>The vertue of the cittizens in field,</L>
<L>Not &s;encele&s;&s;e &s;tones the cittie &s;afe doth &s;hield;</L>
<L>Which harbord was in royall <HI>Henries</HI> thought,</L>
<L>Who the French Tourwaine and &s;tout Tourney taught,</L>
<L>With Bullen batterd by his cannon &s;hot,</L>
<L>To know his Engli&s;h yoake, &s;o long forgot,</L>
<L>For vnto <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> viewing England well,</L>
<L>And &s;aying, that in all it did excell,</L>
<L>Except in &s;trength of walles, he did pre&s;ent</L>
<L>In little &s;pace, ere many houres were &s;pent,</L>
<L>A royall hoa&s;t of force in field to fight</L>
<L>With the whole world in their deare countries right:</L>
<L>And vnto <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> wondring at &s;uch powres,</L>
<L>Said, &s;uch as the&s;e are Englands walles and towres.</L>
<L>Yet Londons walls of yore were &s;tronger farre,</L>
<L>Then now they be to beare the brunts of warre;</L>
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<L>For when like floating <HI>Delos</HI> on the deepe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">De&s;cription of the &s;iege of London by by the Danes. an. <HI>1016.</HI></NOTE>Cold Denmarkes winged woods the &s;eas did &s;weepe</L>
<L>Towards our London, when their &s;odaine &s;ight</L>
<L>Did put our fi&s;hfull Thames to fearfull flight,</L>
<L>Who carryed on the wings of his &s;wift tide</L>
<L>Vnto his bankes, as he along did glide;</L>
<L>Did &s;ound th'alarum of th'approching Dane,</L>
<L>And for reliefe to London came amaine;</L>
<L>Then, as vnnumbred Ants in &s;ommer time,</L>
<L>When danger threatens them, by troopes do clime</L>
<L>Their little mount, and fortifie it &s;trong</L>
<L>On euery &s;ide, to &s;aue their egges from wrong;</L>
<L>Londons inhabitants ranne all to armes,</L>
<L>To &s;hield their children, wiues, and friends from harms:</L>
<L>The earth did &s;moake beneath their mouing feete,</L>
<L>A horride noy&s;e did ring through euery &s;treete</L>
<L>Of clattering armes, &s;ome men with bu&s;ie paines</L>
<L>Athwart the &s;treets did draw the iron chaines;</L>
<L>Some kept the gates, each where our armed powres</L>
<L>Farre off appeard vpon the~ walles and towres;</L>
<L>Whence they beheld their foes in braue aray,</L>
<L>As thicke as Bees from hiue in &s;ommers day,</L>
<L>De&s;cending from their &s;hips to &s;hore, and led</L>
<L>By bold <HI>Canutus,</HI> who with furie fed</L>
<L>"T'auenge the generall &s;laughter of that night</L>
<L>Vpon the Dane, did bring them on to fight:</L>
<L>Their ladders and their engins were applide,</L>
<L>And the &s;tout foes did &s;cale on euery &s;ide;</L>
<L>Then th'Engli&s;h and the Dane met man to man,</L>
<L>And on the walles a dreadfull fight began;</L>
<L>With loud exclaimes in &s;laughter, blood and du&s;t,</L>
<L>They fiercely fought, &s;word again&s;t &s;word was thru&s;t,</L>
<L>Shield batterd &s;hield, face again&s;t face was &s;et,</L>
<L>Earth &s;eemd like heau'n to thunder as they met;</L>
<L>Death houering here and there on either &s;ide,</L>
<L>Found gha&s;tly wounds gaping like windows wide</L>
<PB N="85" REF="47">
<L>To let him in, here from two bodyes &s;laine,</L>
<L>Th'one Engli&s;h borne, the other of &s;ome Dane;</L>
<L>Two &s;treams of blood creeping apart did run,</L>
<L>As if in hate they did each other &s;hun,</L>
<L>And would not then in death commixed be,</L>
<L>That in the life before could not agree;</L>
<L>The earth did blu&s;h with blood of bodies dead,</L>
<L>Aire gron'd with &s;ighes of grudging &s;oules that fled</L>
<L>Out at their wounds, the foes did fall apace,</L>
<L>Some &s;calded from aboue in wofull ca&s;e,</L>
<L>Howling and yelling fled, &s;ome from the wall,</L>
<L>Pitcht headlong on their friends, vnlookt for fall,</L>
<L>Fortune with victory did London crowne,</L>
<L>And in her &s;cale the Danes hard lot &s;unke downe;</L>
<L>Who from the walls repul&s;t, yet many a day,</L>
<L>About the &s;ame &s;trongly entrenched lay,</L>
<L>Till valiant <HI>Edmund</HI> with a heart of bra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And Iron &s;ides, through warres dread paths did pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And rowzd them thence, giuing them &s;uch a blow,</L>
<L>That <HI>Brentford</HI> with their blood did ouerflow;</L>
<L>But in this age if valiant hearts do fayle vs,</L>
<L>What walls although of bra&s;&s;e will ought auaile vs?</L>
<L>"Since that <HI>Promethean</HI> Monke by wicked wit,</L>
<L>If not from heau'n, yet from th'infernall pit,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fir&s;t inuentio~ of powder and &s;hot.</NOTE></L>
<L>That horrid thunder and &s;wift lightning brought,</L>
<L>With which in iron pipes &s;hut vp, he taught</L>
<L>The politike Venetian in di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>T'oppo&s;e their foes, that did their &s;tate oppre&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>From whence as if we meant to mocke the skies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A De&s;criptio~ of great ordi|nance.</NOTE></L>
<L>The world that brazen torment did deui&s;e,</L>
<L>Which like a cloud including &s;ulphurie &s;tuffe,</L>
<L>Once toucht by fire with a violent puffe,</L>
<L>Spits out a lightning from his brazen chaps,</L>
<L>In rowling &s;moake and roaring thunderclaps;</L>
<L>And with it &s;ends on wings of his &s;trong breath,</L>
<L>A murdering bullet bearing certaine death</L>
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<L>To tho&s;e it haps to hit, which as it flies,</L>
<L>Doth round, round rowle, roaring aboue in skies,</L>
<L>And like <HI>Ioues</HI> thunder, which it doth re&s;emble,</L>
<L>Makes earth to quake, and tho&s;e that heare it tremble;</L>
<L>O wretched man, &s;ince man it was did finde</L>
<L>This ruthle&s;&s;e murderer of humane kinde;</L>
<L>Why did the &s;oules inuention, which doth &s;it,</L>
<L>As the chiefe ma&s;ter in the mint of wit,</L>
<L>Worke without helpe of iudgement to fore&s;ee,</L>
<L>How fatall to the world, but mo&s;t to thee,</L>
<L>O England it would proue, which at the fir&s;t</L>
<L>Ioynd with that fierce debate, which out did bur&s;t</L>
<L>Like to a fire twixt Lanca&s;ter and Yorke,</L>
<L>The fall of thy great fame in France did worke,</L>
<L>"By which great Salisbury, the fir&s;t of all</L>
<L>Our Engli&s;h Worthies, wofully did fall,</L>
<L>And felt tho&s;e &s;marting wounds, while he did liue,</L>
<L>Which after vnto vs the Gun &s;hould giue:</L>
<L>For &s;ince that time, this torments dreadfull &s;ound,</L>
<L>Hath put to &s;corne, and in deepe &s;ilence drownd,</L>
<L>The wonted terror of our Engli&s;h name,</L>
<L>Which our death-headed arrowes, wing'd with fame;</L>
<L>As they did flie from out our Engli&s;h bowes;</L>
<L>Haue whi&s;tled through the aire to all our foes;</L>
<L>"The Normans with their long bowes victors-like,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The first v&s;e of the long bow.</NOTE>At <HI>Battaile,</HI> where that battaile they did &s;trike,</L>
<L>With Englands <HI>Harrold,</HI> for this kingdomes crowne,</L>
<L>Did teach vs fir&s;t this le&s;&s;on of renowne,</L>
<L>Where though the Engli&s;h and their valiant king,</L>
<L>As much as powre of man to pa&s;&s;e could bring,</L>
<L>In fight perform'd, and offring vp their breath,</L>
<L>Did in the field not &s;hrinke one foote from death:</L>
<L>Yet famous <HI>Harrold</HI> &s;triken in the braine</L>
<L>With fatall &s;haft, and all his captaines &s;laine,</L>
<L>The foes through &s;o much blood obtaind the fight,</L>
<L>That heau'n hath &s;eldome &s;eene &s;o bloody &s;ight,</L>
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<L>Which as that blazing &s;tarre before foretold,</L>
<L>So at this day with wonder we behold</L>
<L>"The earth there after euery little raine</L>
<L>Weepe drops of blood for her deare &s;onnes their &s;laine,</L>
<L>But when our Engli&s;h conquerd by the bow,</L>
<L>The perfect v&s;e of it did after know,</L>
<L>As conque&s;t did depend on Archerie,</L>
<L>They made them&s;elues the heires of victorie;</L>
<L>How oft hath fruitfull France halfe dead with feare</L>
<L>Lo&s;ing all courage, hung the head to heare</L>
<L>The flight of our &s;wift fetherd arrowes, tell</L>
<L>The danger of their fall, before they fell?</L>
<L>How oft in field, as thunder-&s;trooke lookt pale,</L>
<L>To &s;ee them comming like a &s;torme of haile,</L>
<L>And heare her French aire &s;igh, as it did ake</L>
<L>With paine of wounds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A complain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> on the neg|lect of Ar|cherie.</NOTE> which Englands &s;hafts did make</L>
<L>(O famous armes of our great ance&s;tors))</L>
<L>The onely &s;trength and &s;inewes of their warres,</L>
<L>How are ye now neglected euery where,</L>
<L>By tho&s;e who&s;e parents once did hold you deare?</L>
<L>Where is your art, or whither is it gone,</L>
<L>As if with vs it neuer had bene knowne?</L>
<L>Alas how is it, that the wicked moath</L>
<L>Of idle ea&s;e, and ignominious &s;loath,</L>
<L>Eates vp the pinions of the gray-goo&s;e wings,</L>
<L>And frets in twaine our &s;haft far-&s;hooting &s;trings.</L>
<L>How is it that our London hath laid downe</L>
<L>This worthy practi&s;e, which was once the crowne</L>
<L>Of all her pa&s;time, when her <HI>Robin Hood</HI></L>
<L>Had wont each yeare, when May did clad the wood,</L>
<L>With lu&s;tie greene to leade his yong men out,</L>
<L>Who&s;e braue demeanour, oft when they did &s;hoot,</L>
<L>Inuited royall Princes from their courts,</L>
<L>Into the wilde woods to behold their &s;ports?</L>
<L>Who thought it then a manly &s;ight and trim,</L>
<L>To &s;ee a youth of cleane compacted lim.</L>
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<L>Who with a comely grace, in his left hand</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> de&s;cription <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> one draw|ing a bowe.</NOTE>Holding his bow, did take his &s;tedfa&s;t &s;tand,</L>
<L>Setting his left leg &s;omewhat foorth before,</L>
<L>His arrow with his right hand nocking &s;ure,</L>
<L>Not &s;tooping, nor yet &s;tanding &s;treight vpright</L>
<L>Then with his left hand, little 'boue his &s;ight,</L>
<L>Stretching his arme out, with an ea&s;ie &s;trength</L>
<L>To draw an arrow of a yard in length:</L>
<L>Which mo&s;t prai&s;e worthie practi&s;e, &s;ince decayd</L>
<L>Londons<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Opheley <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heriffe of London.</NOTE> Prince <HI>Arthur</HI> once againe a&s;&s;ayd</L>
<L>To &s;et on foote, when many men did &s;hew,</L>
<L>Both &s;trength and skill to draw the &s;tronge&s;t bow;</L>
<L>How in the aire, to thunder vollyes hot</L>
<L>From murdering mouthes of late inuented &s;hot,</L>
<L>And how to manage &s;tronge&s;t &s;taues of A&s;h,</L>
<L>Which fir&s;t the Switzer did inuent to da&s;h</L>
<L>The drifts of their proud foes, and breake the force</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Fir&s;t inuen|tion of Pike.</NOTE>And violent &s;hocke of the &s;teele-barbed hor&s;e,</L>
<L>Since when, &s;ome few, whom co~mon good hath taught</L>
<L>To know the good of exerci&s;e, haue &s;ought</L>
<L>How to renew the &s;ame; but all in vaine,</L>
<L>Our greedy great men onely gape for gaine,</L>
<L>Our idle youth mi&s;pending time with &s;hame,</L>
<L>Like boyes with beards, v&s;e euery idle game,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The idlene&s;&s;e and ba&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ames of this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge.</NOTE>And dig our Londons field-paths round about,</L>
<L>Which children fir&s;t for pins and points found out.</L>
<L>O ba&s;e condition of our pre&s;ent &s;tate,</L>
<L>Where &s;oules of children do inanimate</L>
<L>Bodies of men, no men, except in name,</L>
<L>Who like to painted pictures on a frame,</L>
<L>Somewhat re&s;emble parents that haue ben,</L>
<L>But want that life which made their fathers men:</L>
<L>How like weake waters, lying calme and &s;till,</L>
<L>Vnder the &s;hadow, our long idle ill</L>
<L>Appeares in &s;trangers eyes, who euery where</L>
<L>Laugh tho&s;e to &s;corne, whom they before did feare:</L>
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<L>(Deare England, thou great Queene of Ilands all,</L>
<L>Whom men the Nur&s;e of armes might whilome call,</L>
<L>Thou valours whet&s;tone, that ha&s;t often &s;et</L>
<L>An edge on dulle&s;t nations, and ha&s;t whet</L>
<L>Cowards with courage, teaching them in field</L>
<L>To talke of conque&s;t, that before did yeeld.</L>
<L>Why now art thou thy &s;elfe &s;o blunt and dull,</L>
<L>That others from thy head may &s;eeme to pull</L>
<L>The crowne of <HI>Mars?</HI> the Belgians that haue ben</L>
<L>Thy pupils once, are now the famous men,</L>
<L>That great god <HI>Neptunes</HI> trident &s;cepter wield,</L>
<L>Brauing Romes champion in the open field,</L>
<L>Vpon who&s;e happie &s;tate though peace do &s;mile;</L>
<L>Yet can it not their diligence beguile,</L>
<L>Ba&s;e &s;loath th'indu&s;trious nation cannot wrong,</L>
<L>Laborious practi&s;e makes weake people &s;trong:</L>
<L>Vp then for &s;hame in vertue to &s;tand &s;till</L>
<L>And not goe one, hath bene e&s;teemd for ill;</L>
<L>But to decline from good is wor&s;e then naught,</L>
<L>By light of ancient times let vs be taught</L>
<L>Old cu&s;tomes and good orders to renew,</L>
<L>Which our la&s;t Canto &s;hall pre&s;ent to view.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
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<HEAD>Illu&s;trations.
<Q><L>"Yet Londons walles of yore were &s;tronger farre,</L>
<L>Then now they be &mdash;</L></Q></HEAD>
<P>MY Mu&s;e hauing taken view of the &s;tate of this noble cittie within, and now comming forth to behould her wals with|out, findes them &s;o decayed from what they haun bin, that, as to the people of a little towne, that had large gates, that Critticke once &s;aide, Take heede (good people) that your towne runne not out at the gates: &s;o may I &s;ay to the inhabitants of London, Take heede (O ye Cittizens) that your Cittie runne not ouer the walles; I know that though our Ancestors did not relie vpon the guard of our wals, yet they did &s;o tru&s;t in the~, that they might be a defence again&s;t the &s;odaine incur&s;ions of a forraine e|nemie, or a domesticall rebellion: for they knew, that both for|raine foes, and the vagabond people of wicked commotions in our owne &s;tate, did alwaies, and now do with greedy de&s;ire affect the &s;poyle of this famous cittie.<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Simon Du. Polidor. &V;er. and onhers.</NOTE> <HI>Swaine</HI> King of Denmarke father of <HI>Canute</HI> with an huge ho&s;t anno. <HI>994.</HI> be&s;ieged king <HI>Ethelred</HI> in London, but by the cittizens was repul&s;ed with &s;hame; <HI>Canute</HI> his &s;onne anno <HI>1016.</HI> inuioroned it with a mightie &s;iege: of many more attempts, both by forraine enemies and rebellious in&s;urrections at home made against it, our hi|&s;tories are full, by which it appeares, that the wall at that time, was farre more defen&s;ible then now it is. A<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Fitz&s;teph. apud Stow.</NOTE> writer in the reigne of <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;econd, &s;aith thus of it. The wall is high and great, well towred on the North &s;ide, with due distances be|tween the towres: the South&s;ide was al&s;o walled and towred; but the riuer of Thames, with ebbing and flowing through time hath &s;ubuerted them. The ditch intended for defence of the cittie
<PB N="91" REF="50"> anno. <HI>15.</HI> of king <HI>Iohn,</HI> was made two hundred foote broade; but now wa&s;ted with a con&s;umption of incrochment, it is not one|ly fallen away, but as if greeued at the groning and &s;inking of the wall, vnder the heauie burthen of &s;o many buildings, it is in many places runne quite out of &s;ight; but of this I will &s;ay little, becau&s;e little fruite will grow of &s;eede &s;owne in &s;uch grownd; though it be a crime no le&s;&s;e capitall then &s;acriledge to preferre priuate mens profite before the publike &s;afetie: and therefore, though of euerie Cittie, that &s;aying of the P&s;almi&s;t bee true, yet is it verified of none &s;o much as of London, except the Lord keepe the Cittie, the watchman watcheth in vaine.</P>
<Q><L>"T'auenge the generall &s;laughter of that night</L>
<L>Vppon the Danes &mdash;</L></Q>
<P>This &s;laughter of the Danes happened anno <HI>34.</HI> of king <HI>Ethel|red,</HI> anno Dom. <HI>1012.</HI> at what time the Engli&s;h nation wa&s;ted with mi&s;erable &s;poyle through their frequent incur&s;ions from their fir&s;t inua&s;ions, which was an. <HI>791.</HI> were now not onely taxt with that in&s;upportable tribute of <HI>(c)</HI> Daneguilt, but their wiues and daughters made pro&s;titute to their bea&s;tly lu&s;t, they them&s;elues became &s;laues: For the common people, were &s;o oppre&s;&s;ed by them, that they &s;tiled them in euery hou&s;e, where any of them lodged, Lord Dane, which &s;ince their expul&s;ion, is in deri&s;ion, turned to Lurdane. King <HI>Ethelred,</HI> to deliuer him&s;elfe and his people from &s;lauerie, in&s;tigated with hope of helpe, made by alliance through his marriage with <HI>Emma</HI> daughter to <HI>Richard</HI> the fir&s;t, Duke of Normandie priuily &s;ol|licited the Engli&s;h of euery hou&s;e, where any Danes had their abode at a day prefixed, which was Saint <HI>Brices</HI> day, &s;uddenly to put them to death, which was euery where at occa&s;ion be&s;t fitted, performed, in reuenge whereof, as the Mu&s;e telleth you, <HI>Canute</HI> king of Denmake and <HI>Swaine</HI> before him, inuading this kingdome, did be&s;iege London, and were with lo&s;&s;e and &s;hame repul&s;ed.</P>
<Q>Since that Promethean Monke by wicked wit.</Q>
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<P>As of <HI>Prometheus,</HI> who did &s;teale fire from heauen to giue life to man, &s;o of this Monke, the fir&s;t deui&s;er of powder and &s;hot, it may be &s;aid, that he did fetch the &s;ame fro~ hell by the labor of his working wit to tak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> life fro~ man: it was brought to light, not long before the yeare <HI>1380</HI> in Germany, by<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Polyd. de Iuent. rer. lib <HI>5.</HI> cap. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Co~&s;tantine Anklit|zen</HI> a Dutch Monke, &s;ome &s;ay a Franci&s;can Frier, who hauing powder of Brim&s;tone and other &s;ulphurous matter for Phy&s;icall v&s;e in a pot couered with a tile did ob&s;erue, that a &s;parke of fire by chance falling into it did fire the powder, who&s;e violence blew vp the tile, which he did after practi&s;e in little iron canes, and taught the v&s;e of them to the &V;enetians,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Fra. Guicc. hi&s;t. lib. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> when they in their warres with the Genowayes vanqui&s;hed by &s;ea, were much af|flicted by the lo&s;&s;e of Chioze, they were after practi&s;ed in Italy, then in France, and about &s;ixe yeares after the fir&s;t inuention &s;eene in England. For when the French king,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Raph. Holl. in Rich. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Charles</HI> the &s;ixth intending the conquest of England anno. <HI>10.</HI> of <HI>Richard</HI> the &s;econd had rigged <HI>1287.</HI> &s;hips be&s;ides the &s;leete of Brittain, who&s;e men of warre did boa&s;t to deuoure the whole nation, and to &s;acrifice the blood of the Engli&s;h to the &s;oules of their Elders, among&s;t other their &s;trange deui&s;es for inua&s;ion, there was made a woodden inclo&s;ure or wall in height twentie foote, in length or compa&s;&s;e three thou&s;and paces, at the end of euery twelue paces &s;tood a turret higher then the wall ten foote, able to containe ten men, this engine when they were landed in England, &s;hould haue inclo&s;ed their field being made with ioynts to take in peeces, but this frame with &s;ome quantitie of gun-powder and many guns was<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">By the Lord Beu|champe cap|taine of Callis</NOTE> taken at Sea, and brought into England, which the French had no &s;tomacke to follow. The fir&s;t great Bra&s;&s;e pee|cees were forged by the Frenchmen, which they v&s;ed to the ter|ror of all Italy in the reign of <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;euenth, when <HI>Charls</HI> the eight de&s;cended to the conque&s;t of Naples; the fir&s;t great peeces ca&s;t in England which were but of iron, were made at Bucke&s;tead in Su&s;&s;ex, in the reigne of <HI>Henrie 8.</HI> anno <HI>1543.</HI></P>
<Q>"By which great Salisburie the fir&s;t of all.</Q>
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<P><HI>Thomas Montacute</HI> Earle of Salisburie, a<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Raph. Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in Hen. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> man both in pollicie and courage liker to the old Romans, then to men of his dayes, at the &s;iege of Orleance anno <HI>7.</HI> of <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;ixth, as he &s;tood deui&s;ing in what place hee might best a&s;&s;ault the towne, was &s;laine with the &s;hot of a great peece from the wallet. This man was the fir&s;t of our famous Captaines that did feele the effect of murthering &s;hot.</P>
<Q>"The Normans with their long bowes victors-like.</Q>
<P>Some are of opinion, that the Engli&s;h from their originall haue beene skilfull archers, grounding the &s;ame vpon tho&s;e Epithets and adiuncts of &s;hooting, which we meete with in the<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Dyoni&s;. Fer.</NOTE> Poets and pa&s;&s;ages of Hi&s;torie, giuen to our ance&s;tors the Sacans a renowned people of A&s;ia; but others thinke that the Saxons did neglect, or not all v&s;e the bowe, vntill after the Norman inua|&s;ion: for before that battaile fought betwixt Duke <HI>William</HI> and King <HI>Harrold</HI> by Battaile Abbey in Su&s;&s;ex, the Duke v&s;ing words of encouragement to his Normans, told them that they were to fight with a people that knew not the v&s;e of bowes: in that learned fo&s;ter<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Camden de Normanis</NOTE> Father of Antiquitie de&s;cribing this battaile, are the&s;e words: <HI>Primumque &s;agittarum grandi|nem vndique emittunt, quod genus pugnae, vt Anglis nouum, ita omnino terrible erat, &amp;c.</HI> That is, fir&s;t they that is the Normans, did &s;hoot their arrowes as thicke as haile, which kinde of fight, as it was new and &s;trange, &s;o was it terrible to the Engli&s;h. When&s;oeuer our nation began to v&s;e this kinde of ar|tillerie, it is manife&s;t, that their knowledge and v&s;e of it &s;ince the conque&s;t in all their warres hath made them victorious and renowned through the world; the neglect of which in our time, if I &s;hould here lament, I &s;hould but reiterate the complaint of my Mu&s;e. It is &s;aid that &s;ince the inuention of the gun, it is be|come both vnprofitable &amp; vn&s;eruiceable, of which if I may giue my opinion, I thinke it vnprofitable to a Captaine, though not vn|&s;eruiceable to a &s;ouldier, but leauing this to be decided by mili|tarie men; I will onely note what &s;eruice it hath done &s;ince &s;hot
<PB N="94" REF="52"> and powder were v&s;ed: the triumphant victories of <HI>Henrie</HI> the fifth, with many ouerthrowes giuen to our enemies &s;ince that time by the onely vertue of our Engli&s;h bowes, though long after the inuention of &s;hot I omit, and come nearer to our times, when it is certaine hand-guns were v&s;ed. When king <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight in per&s;on be&s;ieged Tourwaine, the armie of France intending the re&s;cew thereof, the Engli&s;h<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Edward Hall.</NOTE> archers were placed by the &s;ide of an hedge neare a village called Bomie, who when the French battaile of hor&s;emen pa&s;&s;ed by them to relieue the towne, did with their &s;hot of arrowes &s;o di&s;tre&s;&s;e and di&s;order them, that the fear and danger thereof did put them to flight without performing there intended feate. After this, neare Carleil by Sandy Sikes, as &s;aith<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">In his &s;chool of &s;hooting. lib. <HI>1.</HI> fol. <HI>29.</HI></NOTE> Ma&s;ter <HI>Roger A&s;cham,</HI> the whole nobilitie of Scotland (that nation being more re&s;olute in armes then the French before &s;poken of) as both Engli&s;h and Scotti&s;h men, that were pre&s;ent at the battaile told him, were by the power of the Engli&s;h archers ouerthrowne and taken pri&s;oners, and in the &s;ame booke he &s;aith, that Sir <HI>W. Waldgraue,</HI> and Sir <HI>George Sommer&s;et,</HI> did with fifteene archers at the Turne pike be&s;ide Hammes neare Callis, turne many French men to flight with their guns, to their great &s;hame &amp; reproch. The opinion of<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Sir Iohn Smithin his orders mili|tary. p. <HI>145.</HI></NOTE> one not meanely reputed in his time for matters militarie, is, that <HI>1500.</HI> archers well in&s;tructed, would beate <HI>3000,</HI> musketiers reduced into any formes of aduantage out of the field: His argu|ments to confirme the &s;ame are too copious to bee here in&s;ertd: and therefore I referre you to the author. One rea&s;on out of mine owne ob&s;eruation, I thus giue for archers: when generall mu|&s;ters anno <HI>1588.</HI> were made through this kingdome again&s;t the Spani&s;h inua&s;ion, both in that royall armie, appointed for the guard of the per&s;on of that mirrour of Princes Queene <HI>Eliza|beth</HI> vnder the conduct of the Lord <HI>Hund&s;on,</HI> and in that field at Tilburie, where Sir <HI>Iohn Norrice</HI> the mo&s;t famous &s;ouldier of his time, and many other Captaines of &s;inguler reputation had command, archers, that were before, as it were with &s;corne by them neglected, were now, when a crowne and kingdome was to be decided by the &s;entence of the &s;word, approued and admit|ted.</P>
<Q><PB N="95" REF="52">
<L>The earth &s;till after euery little raine</L>
<L>Weepe drops of blood.</L></Q>
<P>In the plaine neare Ha&s;tings, where as I &s;aid before, the Eng|li&s;h and the Normans did ioyn in battaile, there is a place, which alwayes after raine lookes red, which<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Gulielm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Neubrigen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> &s;ome haue attributed to the earth, as &s;till &s;weating blood and crying to heauen for re|uenge, for &s;o great an effu&s;ion of the &s;ame: but others and as I thinke, more truely attribute it, vnto the na|ture of the &s;oyle, which his of red clay.</P>
<DIV3 N="10" TYPE="song">
<PB N="96" REF="53">
<HEAD>CANTO. X.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<L>Our Londons wonted practi&s;e &s;hewd</L>
<L>Her marching watch both wi&s;hd renewd.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<L>HAd I the &s;tarres of heau'n, or all tho&s;e leaues,</L>
<L>Of which the wind each yeare the woods bereaues</L>
<L>When &s;tript of from their bows to ground they fal,</L>
<L>For counters to ca&s;t vp the &s;umme of all</L>
<L>The martiall games and exerci&s;es done,</L>
<L>Since Londons &s;tate to flouri&s;h fir&s;t begonne;</L>
<L>Yet would they not in my account auaile me,</L>
<L>Time would not &s;erue, and memorie would faile me:</L>
<L>For Londons worthy &s;onnes in elder dayes,</L>
<L>By practi&s;e of good things to purcha&s;e prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Made <HI>Mars</HI> his game, not <HI>&V;enus</HI> &s;ports their play,</L>
<L>In vacant howres to pa&s;&s;e the time away:</L>
<L>Some like tho&s;e Romans, who in &s;port did make</L>
<L>A mortall warre vpon that mightie lake</L>
<L>Before great <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> on our Thames would fight</L>
<L>Their nauall battailes, to the great delight</L>
<L>Of all &s;pectators: &s;ome againe in field</L>
<L>Would practi&s;e feates of armes with launce and &s;hield</L>
<L>"Who Barons at that time haue &s;tiled ben,</L>
<L>Such was their glorie, &s;uch their practi&s;e then:</L>
<L>And from our <HI>Steuen</HI> to our la&s;t <HI>Henries</HI> dayes,</L>
<L>What mightie mu&s;ters and what braue a&s;&s;ayes</L>
<L>Of martiall &s;hewes, in v&s;e to keepe our armes</L>
<L>Ha&s;t thou (O London) made again&s;t all harmes?</L>
<PB N="97" REF="53">
<L>But thou wilt &s;ay, that then thy &s;onnes t'vphold</L>
<L>Such cu&s;tomes, freely would impart their gold,</L>
<L>But in this ba&s;er age, it is not &s;o,</L>
<L>For in be&s;t actions now the be&s;t are &s;loe:</L>
<L>Though this, too true alas, do helple&s;&s;e keepe</L>
<L>Such actions downe, yet from in glorious &s;leepe,</L>
<L>From out that &s;trumpets &s;loaths inglorious bed,</L>
<L>Among&s;t thy &s;onnes lift vp the yong mans head,</L>
<L>And councell all the grauer to extend</L>
<L>Abounteous hand to euery worthy end,</L>
<L>At which all martiall exerci&s;e doth aime,</L>
<L>Gold is but dro&s;&s;e to the &s;tates publike fame,</L>
<L>And that we may in calme of peace prepare</L>
<L>Defen&s;iue armes, again&s;t the &s;tormes of warre:</L>
<L>And yet giue life to loue twixt friend and friend</L>
<L>Among&s;t our &s;elues at home, the onely end,</L>
<L>For which &s;uch actions there beginnings haue,</L>
<L>The gho&s;ts of our dead fathers from their graue,</L>
<L>By their late actions &s;eeme t'intreate thy &s;tate,</L>
<L>That once againe they &s;eeke to imitate</L>
<L>Their ance&s;tors, in kindling tho&s;e faire lights,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The vigils of S. Peter and Iohn Bapti&s;t.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which did illu&s;trate tho&s;e two famous nights,</L>
<L>When <HI>Mars</HI> did &s;eeme in triumph downe de&s;cending,</L>
<L>To &s;toope from heau'n vpon thee, and commending</L>
<L>Thy then triumphant March and martiall &s;port,</L>
<L>Deckt in his riche&s;t coate of &s;teele,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A de&s;cription of Mid&s;om. mer watch.</NOTE> did court</L>
<L>Peace in thy &s;treets, conducting through the &s;ame</L>
<L>A warlike troope, that by that yearely game,</L>
<L>The noy&s;e of armes made common to thy eares,</L>
<L>Might at no time di&s;turbe thee with vaine feares;</L>
<L>When drums and trumpets &s;ounds, which do delight</L>
<L>A chearefull heart, waking the drowzie night,</L>
<L>Did fright the wandring Moone, who from her &s;pheare</L>
<L>Beholding earth beneath lookt pale with feare,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the aire appearing all on flame,</L>
<L>Kindled by thy bon-fires, and from the &s;ame</L>
<L>A thou&s;and &s;parkes di&s;per&s;t throughout the skie,</L>
<PB N="98" REF="54">
<L>Which like to wandring &s;tarres about did flie;</L>
<L>Who&s;e hole&s;ome heate purging the aire, con&s;umes</L>
<L>The earthes vnhole&s;ome vapors, fogges, and fumes;</L>
<L>The wakefull &s;hepheard by his flocke in field,</L>
<L>With wonder at that time farre of beheld,</L>
<L>The wanton &s;hine of thy triumphant fiers,</L>
<L>Playing vpon the tops of thy tall &s;piers</L>
<L>Thy goodly buildings, that till then did hide</L>
<L>Their rich aray; opend their windowes wide,</L>
<L>"Where kings great peeres and many a noble dame,</L>
<L>Who&s;e bright pearle-glittering robes did mock <HI>y^e</HI> flame</L>
<L>Of the nights burning lights, did &s;it to &s;ee</L>
<L>How euery Senator in his degree,</L>
<L>Adornd with &s;hining gold and purple weeds,</L>
<L>And &s;tately mounted on rich-trapped &s;teeds,</L>
<L>Their guard attending through the &s;treets did ride</L>
<L>Before their foot-bands, grac'd with glittering pride</L>
<L>Of rich guilt armes, who&s;e glory did pre&s;ent</L>
<L>A &s;un&s;hine to the eye, as if it ment</L>
<L>Among&s;t the cre&s;&s;et lights &s;hot vp on hie,</L>
<L>To cha&s;e darke night for euer from the skie:</L>
<L>While in the &s;treets the Stickelers to and fro,</L>
<L>To keepe Decorum &s;till did come and go;</L>
<L>Where tables &s;et were plentifully &s;pread,</L>
<L>And at each doore neighbor with neighbor fed,</L>
<L>Where mode&s;t mirth attendant at the fea&s;t</L>
<L>With plentie gaue content to euery gue&s;t,</L>
<L>Where true goodwill crownd cups with fruitfull wine,</L>
<L>And neighbors in true loue did fa&s;t combine,</L>
<L>Where the lawes pickepur&s;e, &s;trife twixt friend &amp; friend</L>
<L>By reconcilement happily tooke end:</L>
<L>A happy time, when men knew how to v&s;e</L>
<L>The gifts of happy peace, yet not abu&s;e</L>
<L>Their quiet re&s;t with ru&s;t of ea&s;e, &s;o farre</L>
<L>As to forget all di&s;cipline of warre,</L>
<L>VVho oft hath heard wars thunder, &s;eldome feares it,</L>
<L>VVhen it affrights his heart, that &s;eldome heares it;</L>
<PB N="99" REF="54">
<L>For of tho&s;e troopes, how many a mothers &s;onne,</L>
<L>VVho&s;e cares of late could &s;car&s;e abide the gun,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ind vp to hand it, now begin to know</L>
<L>The po&s;tures of the peece, which they did &s;how</L>
<L>To many thou&s;and eyes vpon that day,</L>
<L>"when London twi&s;e ten en&s;ignes did di&s;play,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The muster on the <HI>8.</HI> of Augu&s;t.</NOTE></L>
<L>Beneath who&s;e colours in her &s;treets di&s;pread,</L>
<L>And by the conduct of her owne &s;onnes led,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e foot-ba~ds which twi&s;e thirteen<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Wards.</NOTE> tribes did yeeld</L>
<L>Deckt in bright armes did march into the field,</L>
<L>Where either &s;ide the other did oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>Troope charging troope, like true friends turned foes,</L>
<L>Wanting but order in that feigned &s;ight,</L>
<L>Through want of &s;pace to do the war-god right:</L>
<L>For many thou&s;and old and yong did range</L>
<L>The field from troope to troope, and wich is &s;trange,</L>
<L>Thou&s;ands of our Viragoes &s;toutley &s;tood</L>
<L>Amid&s;t the rankes, as if through wounds and blood</L>
<L>In the plaine field, they had con&s;pired then</L>
<L>Brauely to win the breeches from the men;</L>
<L>When many &s;card &s;pectators fa&s;t did flie,</L>
<L>Who falling each on others neckes did lie.</L>
<L>Like dying people, groueling on the ground,</L>
<L>As if the &s;hot had giuen them deaths wound;</L>
<L>While the &s;trong pikes &s;haking with eagar ire,</L>
<L>For that they could not come to their de&s;ier,</L>
<L>Did threaten them farre of, and wings of &s;hot,</L>
<L>Drawne out on either &s;ide did play &s;o hot.</L>
<L>That men did loo&s;e them&s;elues, groping for light</L>
<L>In clouds of &s;moake, as in the mid&s;t of night,</L>
<L>VVho&s;e thunder Ea&s;tward through the aire mad roome</L>
<L>To eares of men, as farre as <HI>Harrolds</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Waltham Abbey where Harrold was interd.</NOTE> tombe.</L>
<L>And when<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The late mu&s;ter the <HI>27.</HI> of Sept.</NOTE> that Diamond &s;parke of royaltie,</L>
<L>That bud of hope, Prince of great Brittannie,</L>
<L>Like the yong Macedonian Monarch mounted</L>
<L>On his <HI>Bucephalus,</HI> from farre recounted</L>
<PB N="100" REF="55">
<L>The en&s;ignes of each troope, before his eyes</L>
<L>The &s;ouldiers &s;teele-topt pikes aduanc'd did ri&s;e</L>
<L>Like to a corne field wauing vp and downe,</L>
<L>And plumes of various colours, which did crowne</L>
<L>The &s;ouldiers heads beneath the pikes, did &s;how</L>
<L>Like colourd flowers, which in the corne do grow,</L>
<L>The &s;plendor of guilt armes refulgent light,</L>
<L>Danc't in the Sun before his royall &s;ight,</L>
<L>As if their glittering gaue a &s;hine more cleare,</L>
<L>And the red &s;treaming cro&s;&s;es did appeare</L>
<L>Through the darke &s;moke of gun-&s;hot thundring loud,</L>
<L>Like bloody Comets through a &s;able clowd:</L>
<L>But when <HI>Mars</HI>-like in field approching nigh</L>
<L>With martiall &s;taffe vpon his Princely thigh,</L>
<L>Attended with a noble troope he came</L>
<L>Vnto the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Sir Thomas Hayes then Lord Maior.</NOTE> Con&s;uls tent, the lowd exclame</L>
<L>And cheareful &s;houts, which &s;ouldiers throtes did yeild</L>
<L>For ioy to &s;ee their Soueraigns &s;onne in field:</L>
<L>With louder thunder of thicke volleys giuen,</L>
<L>Did eccho his true welcome vp to heauen:</L>
<L>Before his &s;ight, as euery &s;euerall band</L>
<L>Did march fa&s;t by the tent where he did &s;tand,</L>
<L>The Captaines &s;hining in rich gold, did &s;how</L>
<L>Compar'd to'th &s;ouldiers, as the planets do</L>
<L>To le&s;&s;er &s;tarres, the men in mu&s;ter tooke,</L>
<L>For limbes compo&s;ture and for manly looke,</L>
<L>For furniture, for armes and rich aray,</L>
<L>From other countries bore the prai&s;e away:</L>
<L>For what &s;terne eye of enuie, that beheld</L>
<L>Their martiall order at that time in field,</L>
<L>If equall truth might guide it, could in them,</L>
<L>Ought but the want of di&s;cipline condemne;</L>
<L>To which defect, &s;ince time, true ingenie</L>
<L>And practi&s;e yeeld the onely remedie:</L>
<L>O that god <HI>Mars</HI> more oft might &s;ing his dittie,</L>
<L>In the &s;oft eares of this our peacefull cittie,</L>
<L>And that the greedy gripe, that gra&s;ps his pur&s;e</L>
<PB N="101" REF="55">
<L>Fa&s;t in his fi&s;t, and grudges to disbur&s;e</L>
<L>His coyne to &s;uch good v&s;e, would learne to know</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Nil Sparta~ perdat ni&s;i ca|ra pecunia facta.</NOTE> Oracle, which in times pa&s;t did &s;how,</L>
<L>That nothing could the Spartan &s;tate di&s;ioyne,</L>
<L>Except they made too much account of coyne;</L>
<L>And that our elde&s;t &s;onnes of idle ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Whom nothing but the Taylors cut can plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Would turne &s;uperfluous rags of wretched pride,</L>
<L>To plates of &s;teele, lay oftentimes a&s;ide</L>
<L>Their &s;lender &s;witches for &s;trong &s;taues of A&s;h,</L>
<L>And change perfumes for &s;ulphurie powders fla&s;h:</L>
<L>But vnto &s;uch I wi&s;h this good in vaine,</L>
<L>As I began, &s;o mu&s;t <HI>I</HI> end againe,</L>
<L>With Londons <HI>Mars</HI>-adornd Artillerie,</L>
<L>Her onely Nur&s;e of armes yong <HI>Infantrie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Bellonas</HI> &s;pring where &s;treames of knowledge floe,</L>
<L>Garden of <HI>Mars</HI> where plants of valour grow,</L>
<L>(Thri&s;e worthy &s;pirits) euer may you liue,</L>
<L>In fames faire booke, who&s;e indu&s;trie doth giue,</L>
<L>Life to the loue of armes, who both with paine</L>
<L>And large expence, the &s;choole of <HI>Mars</HI> maintaine,</L>
<L>And &s;ince the fier of your forward harts</L>
<L>To all good actions both in armes and arts,</L>
<L>Warmes the cold hopes of London, to renew</L>
<L>Her ancient orders, chiefly vnto you</L>
<L>I by this pen-man do commend this &s;torie,</L>
<L>As the true mirrour of our Londons glorie.</L>
<L>This &s;aid, the helme-deckt godde&s;&s;e tooke her ri&s;e</L>
<L>Vpon her &s;peare, and vani&s;ht from our eyes,</L>
<L>Leauing the &s;ouldier and my &s;elfe aga&s;t;</L>
<L>For he, who &s;elfe-loue-&s;wolne &s;ought to bla&s;t</L>
<L>Our Londons fame, with enuious breath before,</L>
<L>Did euer &s;ince her noble name adore;</L>
<L>And by <HI>Minerua,</HI> as I was foretaught,</L>
<L>Le&s;t her &s;wift vi&s;ion flying from my thought,</L>
<L>I &s;hould at la&s;t haue lo&s;t what I did thinke,</L>
<L>I thus did limme the Vi&s;ions wings with inke.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustrations">
<PB N="102" REF="56">
<HEAD><HI>Illu&s;trations.</HI> "Who Barrons at that time haue &s;tiled bene.</HEAD>
<P>THe youth of this cittie in times pa&s;t de&s;pi&s;ing &s;uch effemi|nate games as we now v&s;e, which rather induce both body and minde to vice then to vertue, did<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Fitz. Step. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;itu &amp; no|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ltate Lond.</NOTE> euery Friday in Lent practi&s;e feates of armes on hor&s;ebacke with di&s;armed lances and &s;hields, and did al&s;o &s;ight battailes on the water, thereby &s;hew|ing, how &s;eruiceable they would be in martiall affaires; this was their practi&s;e in the reigne of <HI>Henrie</HI> the &s;econd, many of them being called Barons, for after anno <HI>37.</HI> of <HI>Henrie</HI> the third, I reade<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Out of Ra. Holl. in Hen. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> that certaine of the court comming with a humour of contempt and &s;corne to behold their exerci&s;e, &amp; giuing reproch|full words to tho&s;e Londoners, which were there called Barons, did &s;uffer for their deri&s;ion &s;uch &s;tripes and wounds, that the king cau&s;ed the cittizens to pay <HI>1000.</HI> markes for the healing.</P>
<Q>"Which did illu&s;trate tho&s;e two famous nights.</Q>
<P>Meaning the vigels of Saint <HI>Iohn Bapti&s;t</HI> and Saint <HI>Peter,</HI> when that famous marching watch con&s;i&s;ting of <HI>2000.</HI> be&s;ides the &s;tanding watches, were maintained in this cittie. It conti|nued from the reigne of <HI>Henrie</HI> the <HI>3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> vntill the reigne an. <HI>31</HI> of <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight, in which yeare it was laide downe by li|cence fro~ the king, for that the cittte had then bin charged with the leauie of a muster of fifteene thou&s;and men, neither was it reuiued againe, vntill anno <HI>2.</HI> of <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixth, by Sir <HI>Iohn Gre&s;ham</HI> then Lord Maior, &s;ince who&s;e time the like watch in London hath not bene &s;eene; I will not here di&s;pute the conueniencie thereof, onely note the words of a certaine book
<PB N="103" REF="56"> dedicatdd by a<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Iohn Mou~tgomer.</NOTE> cittizen anno <HI>1585.</HI> to Sir <HI>Thomas Pulli|&s;on,</HI> then Lord Maior and the Aldermen, the words are the&s;e, Artificers of diuers &s;orts were therby well &s;et to worke, none but rich men charged, poore men releeued, old &s;ouldiers, wherein the &s;afetie and defence of euery commonwealth con&s;i&s;teth, maintai|ned, armour annd weapons through this occa&s;ion ready prepared whereas by intermi&s;sion armorours want worke, &s;ouldiers out of practi&s;e, weapons ouergrowne with ru&s;t, few or none good be|ing prouided, &amp;c. and &s;o goes on with an exhortation to reuiue tht &s;ame: but as this, &s;o the like good orders are vani&s;ht and the fruite of &s;loth and couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e growne vp, though &s;ome haue &s;ought to re&s;tore the cu&s;tomes of our countrie, amongst whom I may not forget the good endeuour of that worthy Gen|tleman, Ma&s;ter <HI>Hugh Ophley</HI> Sherriffe of London, who did deui&s;e the martiall &s;hew of Prince <HI>Arthur,</HI> onely to giue life to decayed Archerie the good endeuour of whom and of all tho&s;e that now or hereafter &s;hall immitate the like attempt, cannot want a prai&s;e-worthie remembrance with po&s;teritie.</P>
<Q>VVhere kings, great Peeres, and many noble dame.</Q>
<P>King <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight approuing this marching watch, as an auncient commendable cu&s;tome of this cittie, le&s;t it &s;hould de|cay through neglect or couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, in the fir&s;t yeare of his reigne, came priuately di&s;gui&s;ed in one of his guards coates into Cheape on Mid&s;ommer euen, and &s;eeing the &s;ame at that time performed to his content to countenance it, and make it more glorious by the pre&s;ence of his per&s;on,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Raph. Hol. in Hen. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> came after on <HI>S. Peters</HI> Euen with Queene <HI>Katherine</HI> attended by a noble traine, ri|ding in royall &s;tate to the Kings head in Cheap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, there to be|hold the &s;ame, and after anno. <HI>15.</HI> of his reigne <HI>Chri&s;terne</HI> king of Denmarke with his Queene being then in England, was conducted through the cittie to the kings head in Cheape, there to &s;ee the &s;ame.</P>
<Q><PB N="104" REF="57">When London twi&s;e ten en&s;ignes did di&s;preade</Q>
<P>Both the late Mu&s;ter of Wedne&s;day, the <HI>27.</HI> of September and that before, on Tew&s;day, the eight of Augu&s;t anno <HI>1615.</HI> my Mu&s;e hath briefly noted, who&s;e &s;ouldiers for their armes and furniture, both for &s;eruice and &s;hew, were well and rightly ap|pointed, imitating the old Romans, in their garni&s;h of feathers, which, as it is a &s;ight<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Nich. Mac. in his art of warre. lib. <HI>2.</HI> fol. <HI>21.</HI></NOTE> braue and terrible to the enemie, &s;o is it goodly and delightfull to friends: In their demeanour I noted the&s;e two defects, ignorance of order, and neglect of their Cap|taines command, the knowledge of the first cannot bee had with|out time and practi&s;e, nor re&s;pect of the la&s;t (except in the more ingenuous man) without more authoritie to inforce it: &s;o that as<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Fran. Guic. hi&s;t. lib. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Maximilian</HI> the Emperour being with king <HI>Henrie 8.</HI> at the &s;iege of Tourwaine (where wearing <HI>S. Georges</HI> cro&s;&s;e, hee receiued <HI>&s;alaire</HI> for &s;eruice as the king of Englands &s;ouldier) gaue his iudgement vpon triall, that in matters of warre the Engli&s;h were then more re&s;olute, then well adui&s;ed: and le&s;&s;e &s;ub|tile and polliticke, then well di&s;ciplined and trained, &s;o may it be here &s;aid of the late Mu&s;ter, with which I conclude, that they were more ra&s;h and turbulent, then di&s;creet and wel adui&s;ed, &amp; le&s;&s;e in&s;tructed &amp; trained then will furni&s;hed and appointed.</P>
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