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[Chronicle of Fabyan]

[by Robert Fabyan
Fabyan, Robert

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[Volume I]
  
Prologus
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Prima Pars Bruti.
  
[Celestyall Goddesse/that weldest frith and wood]
  
[Brute farre by West/ouer the lande of Fraunce]
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Prima Pars Cronecarum.
  
[Most mergynall flor/of al most excellēt]
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Tertia Pars Cronecarum.
  
[Hayll and be glad/thou vessell moost shynynge]
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Quarta Pars Graciani.
  
[O excellent pryncesse/and Quene celestyall]
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Quinta Pars Cronecarum.
  
[Ryche of Goodes stronge in vertue/in triumphe clere shynynge]
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Quinta Pars Chilperici.
  
[Myrrour to the Churche/and of the Countrey the strength.]
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Quinta Pars Cadwalader.
  
[Worshipfull Riches kynred tryumphes assuryd.]
  
[Thou mother to wretchis & other disconsolate.]
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Sexta Pars Carolimani.
  
[Of Charlis the great/and Emperoure mooste cristen]
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Sexta Pars Senioris Caroli.
  
[Cezers tryumphis were nat so moche to prayse]
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Sexta Pars Lodouici Quinti.
  
[For more Auctoryte/as of this matyer]
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Sexta Pars Edgari.
  
[Ayder of the poore/and punyssher of trespasse]
  
[Thou that syttest/in this Iudiciall place]
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Sexta Pars Edwardi Confessoris.
  
[As tyme requyreth/so men doon theym vse]
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Sexta Pars Haroldi.
  
[All hayle and be gladde/moste noble and Moder dere]
  
[Nowe shaketh my hande/my pen waxeth dulle]
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Septima Pars Primi.
  
[The sone here lyeth with also the fader]
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Septima Pars Henrici.
  
[Auyse the wele let reason be thy guyde]
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Septima Pars Lodouici.
  
[Kynge henry is dede/bewtye of the worlde/for whom great dole]
  
[The noble father of Lewys/Lewys the Kynge]
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Septima Pars Henrici.
  
[Nowe take good hede thow that doest ouer lyue]
  
[The yere to rekyn from Crystys Incarnacion]
  
[The rose of the worlde/but not the clene Floure.]
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Septima Pars Secundi.
  
[Suffysyth nowe this Graue/to whom all erthly thynge]
  
Lenuoye.
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The Wardis of London
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Septima Pars Iohannis.
  
[Cryste of the thefe which on the ryght hand was]
  
[The Kynge of Kynges that Lorde that Ruleth all]
  
[O qm̄ mirabilia/good Lorde thy werkys been]
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Septima Pars Henrici .iii.
  
[If excelent of wytte or grace of good vertue]
  
[Fre fretyth this worlde/and deconfoundith all]
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Septima Pars Lodouici sancti.
  
[The Frende of pyte/and of almesse dede]
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Septima Pars Edwardi Primi.
  
[Of englysshmen the Scourge/of walshe the protectoure.]
  
[Here lyeth of Errour the prynce/if ye wyll ken]
  
[The morowe folowynge/Tiburce and Ualerian]
  
[What wenys kynge Edwarde/with his longe shankys]
  
[These scaterande Scottes]
  
[Whyle lyued this kynge]
  
[This sorowfull deth/whiche bryngeth greatfull lowe]
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Septima Pars Edwardi .ii.
  
[Maydens of Englonde sore maye ye morne]
  
[With Ropes were thou bounde and on the Gallowe honge]
  
[Whan Saturne with his colde Isy face]
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Septima Pars Edwardi .iii.
  
[Longe beerdys hartles]
  
[Of Englysshe kynges/here lyeth the beauteuous flour]
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Septima Pars Ppillp de Ualoys.
  
[Whan that this cok/loo here doth synge.]
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Septima Pars Henrici .iiii.
  
[Parfyght and prudent Rycharde by ryght the seconde]
  
[The peruerse Heretyke/though that he do brenne]
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Septima Pars Henrici quinti.
  
[Loo here is noted/and put in memory]
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Septima Pars Henrici Sexti.
  
[Holy Seyntes/Edwarde/and seynt Lowyce]
  
[Agayne Myscreauntes the Emperour Sygysmunde]
  
[O blessyd Lady Cristes moder dere.]
  
[All tho that been/Enemyes to the kynge]
  
[We Ladyes thre/all by one consent]
  
[God the endowe/with Crowne of glorye]
  
[Soueraygne Lorde/welcome to your Cytie]
  
[Lo I chief pryncesse/Dame Sapience]
  
[Loo by the Sentence/of prudent Salamon]
  
[Ennok firste/with a benygne chere]
  
[By thyse .ii. Trees/whiche here growe vpryght]
  
[To you my Aungellys/this precept ye assure]
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Septima Pars Caroli Noni.
  
[The laughynge tymes/with theyr Crymes spent]

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Quinta Pars Cronecarum.

[Ryche of Goodes stronge in vertue/in triumphe clere shynynge]

Ryche of Goodes stronge in vertue/in triumphe clere shynynge
Kynge Clodoueus/this temple bylt of stone
Fader of comon prophete/cladde with honoure excellynge
Replenysshed with goddes loue despysed his olde foon
And his Pagan law/with the straunge fygures echoon
Purgyd with holy water/by Christes font borne newe
And holy Crisme enoynted/floured with vertue dewe.
Example gyuynge/hym foloweth many a man
Forsakynge theyr Erroure/and theyr false goddes all
And by his techynge honoure/but one god than
Thus by his merytes/he excelled his parentall
And thoroughe his counsayll/made cytie and Castell thrall
He was a noble Duke/and therwith/of great myght
And in Fronte of Batayll/was euer the firste knyght.
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