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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CHAP. XXI
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Conferring Armes to Edmonds age, when Egelred did lie
On death-bed, to his sonne he said: not quite forlorne am I,
Whose life hath had so much of griefe thus gratiously to dye.
Ad more, thy vertues glad my death, yeat two things greeue among,
To leaue my Kingdom so in Warres, and thee for Warres to young,
So may these troubles weare to none as thou doest waxe I pray,
And so possesse thy Fathers Seate that all approoue thy sway.
Not to be made a King (my Sonne) is so to make thee proude,
For Mildenes fitteth maiestie, high mindes are disaloude.
See me thy Father, now a King, and by and by but earth,
Nor thinke that euerie King hath hap to die a happie death.
Let nature for perfection molde a Paragon each way,
Yeat death at last on finest lumps of liuing flesh will pray:
For nature neuer framed it, that neuer shall decay.
The brauest are as blossomes, and the longest Liuer dies,
And dead, the louelest Creature as the lothsom'st Carrion lies.
Then thinke not but that kings are men, and as the rest miscarrie,
Saue that their fame or infamie continually doth tarry.
Deeme past Examples Sentences, and (which did fayle in me)
Make vse of those not now in vse, for now will cease to be.
Attempt not things beyond thy reach, ioyne fortune to thy will:
Least Phœbus Chaire do else surcharge rath Phaeton his skill.
If Fortune helpe whom thou would'st hurt, fret not at it the more:
When Aiax stormed, then from him the Prize Vlysses bore.
Try friends by touch, a feeble friend may proue thy strōngest Foe:
Great Pompeis head to Cæsars hand it was betrayed so.
Admit thou hadst Pactolion waues, to land thee Golde at will,
Know Cræsus did to Cyrus kneele, and thou maist speed as ill.
Abandon lust, if not for sinne, yeat to auoid the shame:
So Hogges of Ithacus his men the Latian Witch did frame.
Be not to moody in thy wrath, but pause though fist be bent:
Oft Philips Sonne did rashly strike, and leisurely repent.
Content thee with vnthreatned Meane, and play not AEsops Dogge:
The Golde that gentle Bacchus gaue did greedy Mydas clogge.
Be valiant, not too ventrous, but fight to fight againe:
Euen Hercules did hold it ods for one to striue with twaine.
Be not ambitiously a King, nor grudgingly decline:
One God did roote out Cis his stock, and raise vp Iesses line.
Iest not with edge tooles, suffer Saints, let mightie Fooles be mad
Note, Seneca by Neroes doome for Precepts pennance had
Haue care to whom, of whom, & what to speak, though speech be trew;
That Misse made Phœbus contrary his Rauens Swan-like hew.
He frameth torments to himselfe that feeds a Tyrants vaine:
Perillus was by Phalaris adiudg'd to self-taught paine.
Prayse not the beautie of thy Wife, though she of forme be sped:
For Gyges, moued so, did graft on Candaules his head,
Shunne Ielousie that heart-breake loue, if Cat will will goe to kind,
Be sure that Io hath a meanes that Argus shall be blind.
Commit not Treasure with thy Child to greedy minded men:
Thou leauest Polydor a spoyle to Polymnestor then.
Occurrants giue occasions still of like, in which be sure
To serue thy God, to saue thy selfe, and well to all procure.
Be vertuous, and assure thy selfe thou canst not then but thriue:
In onely vertue it is said, that men themselues suruiue.
As for the vicious such they are as is the heedlesse Flye,
That killes it selfe, and hurts his sight that hath her in his eye.
Farewell my Sonne, England farewell, thy neuer happy Prince
Doth take his leaue, an happy leaue, if taken so long since.
And, Edmond (burying not with me thy vertues, nor my speech)
I blesse thee in his blested Name whom I of blesse beseech,
Said Egelred: and shortly gaue a quiet gaspe or twaine,
And being dead, his noble Sonne succeeded him in Raigne.
On death-bed, to his sonne he said: not quite forlorne am I,
Whose life hath had so much of griefe thus gratiously to dye.
Ad more, thy vertues glad my death, yeat two things greeue among,
To leaue my Kingdom so in Warres, and thee for Warres to young,
So may these troubles weare to none as thou doest waxe I pray,
And so possesse thy Fathers Seate that all approoue thy sway.
Not to be made a King (my Sonne) is so to make thee proude,
For Mildenes fitteth maiestie, high mindes are disaloude.
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Nor thinke that euerie King hath hap to die a happie death.
Let nature for perfection molde a Paragon each way,
Yeat death at last on finest lumps of liuing flesh will pray:
For nature neuer framed it, that neuer shall decay.
The brauest are as blossomes, and the longest Liuer dies,
And dead, the louelest Creature as the lothsom'st Carrion lies.
Then thinke not but that kings are men, and as the rest miscarrie,
Saue that their fame or infamie continually doth tarry.
Deeme past Examples Sentences, and (which did fayle in me)
Make vse of those not now in vse, for now will cease to be.
Attempt not things beyond thy reach, ioyne fortune to thy will:
Least Phœbus Chaire do else surcharge rath Phaeton his skill.
If Fortune helpe whom thou would'st hurt, fret not at it the more:
When Aiax stormed, then from him the Prize Vlysses bore.
Try friends by touch, a feeble friend may proue thy strōngest Foe:
Great Pompeis head to Cæsars hand it was betrayed so.
Admit thou hadst Pactolion waues, to land thee Golde at will,
Know Cræsus did to Cyrus kneele, and thou maist speed as ill.
Abandon lust, if not for sinne, yeat to auoid the shame:
So Hogges of Ithacus his men the Latian Witch did frame.
Be not to moody in thy wrath, but pause though fist be bent:
Oft Philips Sonne did rashly strike, and leisurely repent.
Content thee with vnthreatned Meane, and play not AEsops Dogge:
The Golde that gentle Bacchus gaue did greedy Mydas clogge.
Be valiant, not too ventrous, but fight to fight againe:
Euen Hercules did hold it ods for one to striue with twaine.
Be not ambitiously a King, nor grudgingly decline:
One God did roote out Cis his stock, and raise vp Iesses line.
Iest not with edge tooles, suffer Saints, let mightie Fooles be mad
Note, Seneca by Neroes doome for Precepts pennance had
Haue care to whom, of whom, & what to speak, though speech be trew;
That Misse made Phœbus contrary his Rauens Swan-like hew.
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Perillus was by Phalaris adiudg'd to self-taught paine.
Prayse not the beautie of thy Wife, though she of forme be sped:
For Gyges, moued so, did graft on Candaules his head,
Shunne Ielousie that heart-breake loue, if Cat will will goe to kind,
Be sure that Io hath a meanes that Argus shall be blind.
Commit not Treasure with thy Child to greedy minded men:
Thou leauest Polydor a spoyle to Polymnestor then.
Occurrants giue occasions still of like, in which be sure
To serue thy God, to saue thy selfe, and well to all procure.
Be vertuous, and assure thy selfe thou canst not then but thriue:
In onely vertue it is said, that men themselues suruiue.
As for the vicious such they are as is the heedlesse Flye,
That killes it selfe, and hurts his sight that hath her in his eye.
Farewell my Sonne, England farewell, thy neuer happy Prince
Doth take his leaue, an happy leaue, if taken so long since.
And, Edmond (burying not with me thy vertues, nor my speech)
I blesse thee in his blested Name whom I of blesse beseech,
Said Egelred: and shortly gaue a quiet gaspe or twaine,
And being dead, his noble Sonne succeeded him in Raigne.
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