Albions England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof: With most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents theare hapning, vnto, and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth: Not barren in varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures: First penned and published by William Warner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same Author: Whereunto is also newly added an Epitome of the whole Historie of England |
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Some say their falling out was through two haughtie womens strife,The Admirals Queene Bigama, and Lord Protectors Wife.
These (for what glory enuies not one woman in an other?)
Began a brawle that ended with the bloods of either Brother.
Tis thought the Earle of Warwick threw close fewell to this fire,
And nourisht it to cut of them, that so he might aspire:
For when the one had lost his head, he foorthwith tooke in hand
To forge the Lord Protector false vnto the King and Land:
Who though he, tryed by his Peeres, of treason was acquited,
Yeat also of a Statute new he being then indighted,
Was hardly found a Felon, and too stricktly sentenc'st so:
For meanest fault is high offence vrg'd of a mightie Foe.
The King thus lost his Vncles both, to his no little woe.
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Warwick was become a Duke, feared of high and lowe,
Full little thinking that himselfe the next to Blocke should goe
The two Prince-loyall Semers erst made let vnto his lust,
But now remained none whose faith or force he did mistrust,
The Orphant King fell sicke (but here suspend what some suspect)
The new Duke of Northumberland meane while did all direct.
It was contriu'd King Edward from his Sisters gaue the Crowne,
Their Fathers Former Act and Will, by wrested law, put downe:
The Sisters Daughters Daughter of Eight Henry, Lady Iane,
Was publisht heire apparant, and that right from Mary taine,
And from Elizabeth (though both by Lawe and birth preceed her)
And when by full Confedracie the Crowne-right was decreed her,
And Glyford Dudly, fourth-borne Sonne vnto Northumberland,
Had married her, and nothing seem'd the Plot-forme to withstand,
King Edward (entred seauenteene yeeres of age, & seauen of Raigne)
Departed to that endles rest his vertuous life did gaine.
The Councell then conuent: But who will thinke, perhaps, that one
Should alter All, to alter true Discents vnto a Throne?
Iane, Suffolks Daughter, Gylfords Wife (One worthie such estate
For righteous and religious life, who nerethelesse should wate
Her Intrest after others two, The yoonger of which twaine
Did match, yea Mate her vertues) was proclamed Queene to raigne,
And in the tower of London hild Estate and princely Traine.
Meane while flead Mary, doubting lesse her Scepters losse than life:
But sildome fayles a rightfull cause that comes to open strife:
The Commons knew our either Law prefer'd a Sisters Right
Before a Cosens, and for it did many fadge to fight.
Full little thinking that himselfe the next to Blocke should goe
The two Prince-loyall Semers erst made let vnto his lust,
But now remained none whose faith or force he did mistrust,
The Orphant King fell sicke (but here suspend what some suspect)
The new Duke of Northumberland meane while did all direct.
It was contriu'd King Edward from his Sisters gaue the Crowne,
Their Fathers Former Act and Will, by wrested law, put downe:
The Sisters Daughters Daughter of Eight Henry, Lady Iane,
Was publisht heire apparant, and that right from Mary taine,
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And when by full Confedracie the Crowne-right was decreed her,
And Glyford Dudly, fourth-borne Sonne vnto Northumberland,
Had married her, and nothing seem'd the Plot-forme to withstand,
King Edward (entred seauenteene yeeres of age, & seauen of Raigne)
Departed to that endles rest his vertuous life did gaine.
The Councell then conuent: But who will thinke, perhaps, that one
Should alter All, to alter true Discents vnto a Throne?
Iane, Suffolks Daughter, Gylfords Wife (One worthie such estate
For righteous and religious life, who nerethelesse should wate
Her Intrest after others two, The yoonger of which twaine
Did match, yea Mate her vertues) was proclamed Queene to raigne,
And in the tower of London hild Estate and princely Traine.
Meane while flead Mary, doubting lesse her Scepters losse than life:
But sildome fayles a rightfull cause that comes to open strife:
The Commons knew our either Law prefer'd a Sisters Right
Before a Cosens, and for it did many fadge to fight.
Northumberland with Armes pursu'd the Lady Mary, and
Obseru'd directions from the Peeres: who when they vnderstand
Of Maries strength of flocking Friends, on sudden came to pas
That they proclaimed Mary Queene, and Iane her Prisner was:
And well was he, that late did seeme a Foe, might first salute
The Queene, and all vnto the Duke did their Amisse impute.
For, soothly, more the Peeres did feare than fauour him alway:
Who, though he seem'd as forward now in Maries cause as thay,
Yeat was he taken and in tow'rd, and lost his head for this:
A Warrior braue: But than his Sier, himselfe, one Sonne of his,
Like Polititians seldome liu'de: who in three seuerall Raignes
Successiuely did shew them such, though losse did proue their gaines.
The Duke thus dead, Suffolke, Lord Gray, Lord Gylford, Lady Iane,
Obseru'd directions from the Peeres: who when they vnderstand
Of Maries strength of flocking Friends, on sudden came to pas
That they proclaimed Mary Queene, and Iane her Prisner was:
And well was he, that late did seeme a Foe, might first salute
The Queene, and all vnto the Duke did their Amisse impute.
For, soothly, more the Peeres did feare than fauour him alway:
Who, though he seem'd as forward now in Maries cause as thay,
Yeat was he taken and in tow'rd, and lost his head for this:
A Warrior braue: But than his Sier, himselfe, one Sonne of his,
Like Polititians seldome liu'de: who in three seuerall Raignes
Successiuely did shew them such, though losse did proue their gaines.
Weare executed: But we blanch the rest, excepting twaine,
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Because the Dukes their Fathers, all the Councell, all of name,
Yea and King Edwards Pattents seald for them, not they, did frame
What so was done in this, yeat they must perish for the same.
Who higher then this Couple late? and who more wretched now?
Of more then much remayned nought, nor law did life allow.
Vnhappie Youths, not for they die, but for the mutuall greefe.
Of him for her, of her for him, which tortur'd them in cheefe.
Come was the day, the tragicke day, wherein they both should die,
When Either, passing to their end, ech other did espie,
Shee in her lodging waiting death, prepared her that day,
And he in being lead thereto, her Lodging in his way.
Assending and dissending Signes then fly and fall apace,
And each bemones the other more than mindes their priuate cace.
Their Eies, that looked Loue ere wile, now looke their last adew,
And staine their faces, faultles ere this dismall enter-vew:
Their Eares, earst listning ioies, are deafe, vnles to sighes profound:
Their tongs, earst talking ioies, those looks & sighes did now cōfounde
What parts soere of them had felt or tasted ioyes ere this,
Weare senceles now of any ioy, saue hope of heauenly blis.
Whilst Either thus for Earthly Pompe no longer time did looke,
He passeth to the fatall Blocke, she praying on her booke:
Whence (hauing made a godly end) he was return'd, whilst Shee
Prepard for like, and of her Lord the senceles Tronke did see.
A sight more deathful than her death that should consort him straite,
And for the which her feareles eies did euery moment waite.
She vnabashed, mounting now the Skaffold, theare attends
The fatall Stroke, and vnto God her better parte commends,
And as she liu'd a vertuous life so vertuously she ends.
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