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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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Lenuoye.

Prece forth rude volume and recōmende me
To my derest frende experte in all Scyence
Praye hym at leysour/the to ouerse
And where in meter or prose he fyndeth offence
Or congrewe Englynsshe/or of parfyte sentence
Humbely hym praye/that he woll the correcte
Which in all his faytes/is so circumspecte.
And shewe to hym forther/his meret to Encreace
The seconde volume/is redy to hym dyght
Praye hym he woll not/therefore with the sursease
Tyll that thy Felowe/he haue by his Insyght
And by his scyence/brought in so good plyght
That to all reders it may be delectable
And to the herers frutefull and profytable.
And not to disdayne my malapert rudenesse
That to his Payne/I shuld thus boldely sende
Or hym to wyll/to suche great busynesse
So rude a werke/to correcte and amende
But shewe hym sothly/that all that I entende
Is for to enhaunce/his prayse and great lawde
As he shall knowe/I truste without Frawde.
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