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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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Septima Pars Edwardi .ii.

[Maydens of Englonde sore maye ye morne]

Maydens of Englonde sore maye ye morne
For your Lemmans ye haue loste at Bannockisborne.
With heue a lowe.
What wenyth the Kynge of Englonde
So soone to haue wonne Scotlande.
With Rumbylowe.

[With Ropes were thou bounde and on the Gallowe honge]

With Ropes were thou bounde and on the Gallowe honge
And from thy Body thyne hed with Swerde was Kytte
Thy bowellys in the Fyre were throwe and burnyd longe
Thy Body in .iiii. pecys Eke with an are was slytte
With horse before drawyn fewe men pyteynge it
Thus with these Turmentys for thy synnys sake
From the wretchyd Hugh all wordly welthe was take.

[Whan Saturne with his colde Isy face]

Whan Saturne with his colde Isy face
The grounde with his Frostys turnyth the grene to whyte
The tyme of Wynter which Trees doth deface
And causyth all verdure to avoyde quyte
Than fortune whiche sharpe was with stormys not alyte
Hath me assautyd with hir frowarde wyll
And me beclypped with daungerous ritght yll
What man in this worlde is so wyse or fayre
So prudent so vertuose or famouse vnder thayre
But that for a foole and for a man dyspysed
Shalbe take whan fortune is from hym deuyded
Alas now I crye but no man doth me moone
For I sue to them that pytye of me haue noone
Many with great honours I dyd whylom auaunce
That nowe with dyshonoure doon me stynge and launce
And such as some tyme dyd me greatly feere
Me dyspyse and let not with sclaunder me to deere
O mercyfull God what loue they dyd me shewe
And with detraccion they do me hacke and hewe
Alas moste Synfull wretche why shulde I thus complayne
If God be pleasyd that I shulde thus susteyne
For the great offence before by me doone
Wherefore to the good Lorde I wyll retourne eftesoone
And hooly cōmytte me thy great mercy vntyll
And take in pacyence all that may be thy wyll
And all onely the serue with all dylygence
Alas that before this tyme I had not that cence
But nowe good Lorde which arte omnypotent
Beholde me mooste wretchyd and greatly penytent
And of my trespace forgyuenes thou me graunt
And by what sorowe my Carkes is now daunt
Graunt it may be to my Sowle remedy
That the sooner I may attayne it by
For to the swete Ihesu I yelde my sore wepynge
And aske of the pardon for my greuouse Synnynge.

Moost blessyd Ihesu
Roote of all Uertue
Graunt I may the sue
In all humylyte
Sen thou for our good
Lyste to shede thy blood
And stretche the vpon the Roood
For our Iniquite.
And thou moost mylde Mother and vyrgyn moost pure
That barest swete Ihesu the worldys Redempture
That shynyst and florysshed as Flowre moost sure
And lyke as Nardus of his Swete odoure
Passyth all other so thou in all Honoure
Surmountys all Sayntis by thy great excellence
Wherefore to praye for my greuouse offence
I the beseche
Moost holsome leche
That thou wylte seche
For me suche grace
That my Body vyle
My sowle shall exyle
Thou brynge in short whyle
It in Rest and peace.
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