The Preservation of Henry VII

To the Right honorabel, worshipfull, gentel, and learned Readers, whosoeuer; that are bothe trew fauorits of poetry, and of right ancient Heroicke Hexameters.

The Author to his booke.

A farewell to his booke.

The Dedication of the booke to the Queenes Maiestie.

A prayer.

The Epistel to the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, my renowned Soueraigne and Princesse, Elizabeth, Queene of England, Fraunce, and Irland, &c.

THE FIRST BOOKE OF The preseruation of King Henry the vij. when he was but Earle of Richmond.

The iust and lawfull title, that Richard Duke of Yorke, father to king Edward, made to the Crowne of England.

The Second booke of the tyranny and vsurpation of king Richard: and how king Henry the seauenth, when he was Earle of Richmond, was preserued in his time.

To her Maiestie.

Senerissimæ Reginæ.

Certain Latine verses, that were made long since by one Doctor Buste a phisitian, in commendation of the Queenes Masty, when she came to Oxford.

And Saphickes in English, I haue made thus

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The Dedication of the booke to the Queenes Maiestie.

Vnto the magnipotent, the renowned princes of Europ,
Emperes Elizabeth, this petie libel I giue.

Which I present to thy Grace, as a prime Primirose or a Couslop,
Onely the flow-er of all our Chronicles, I beleeue:
Skilfuly pend by the knight Sir Thomas Moore then a Courtie'r,
Learned in arts: who delin'd that, that he knew to be trew,
Grounded on experience: requisite to be read of a Ruler.
This donatiue, Soueraigne, deigne to receiue to thy view.
Giue but a grace to my verse, it mounts, O Queene, in a moment,
Vp to the spang'd Element, vp to that ayry Lion:
Giue but a check to the same, it falles downe (throwne with a contempt)
Downe to the Tartarian riuer of hell, Phlegeton.

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The Dedication of the booke to the Queenes Maiestie.