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 Historical Papers, Part I. Castra Eegia, a Treatise on the Suo4* 
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 by Roger Edwards, Esq., in 1568. Novissima Straffordii, 
 Some account of the Proceedings against, and Demeanor of, 
 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, both before and during 
 his Trial, as well as at his Execution ; written in Latin by 
 Abraham Wright, Vicar of Okeham, in Rutlandshire. The 
 same (endeauord) in English by James Wright, Barrister at 
 Law. 
 
 Rev. Philip Bliss, D.O.L., and Rev. Bulkelby Bandinel. 1846. 
 
 Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton, Knt., Ambassador from 
 Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV. King of Prance, in the years 
 MDXCI. and MDXCII. Prom the originals and authentic 
 copies in the State Paper Office, the British Museum, and 
 the Bodleian Library. Edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, 
 M.A. Printed egr the Club. 1847,. 
 
 La Vraie Cronicque d'Escoce. Pretensions des Anglois a la 
 Couronne de Prance. Diplome de Jacques VI. Roi de la 
 Grande Bretagne. Drawn from the Burgundian Library by 
 Major Robert Anstruther. 
 
 Printed egr the Club. 1847. 
 
 The Sherley Brothers, an Historical Memoir of the Lives of Sir 
 Thomas Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley, and Sir Robert Sherley, 
 Knights, by one of the same House. Edited and Presented by 
 
 Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq. 1848. 
 
 The Alliterative Romance of Alexander. Proim the unique Manu- 
 script in the Ashmolean Museum. Edited by the Rev. 
 Joseph Stevenson, M.A. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1849. 
 
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 .If'etters and Dispatches from Sib Henry Wotton to James the 
 Pirst and his Ministers, in the years MDOXVII— XX. 
 Printed from the originals in the Library of Eton College. 
 
 George Tomlinb, Esq. 1850. 
 
 Poema quod dicitur Vox Clamantis, necnon Chronica Tripartita, 
 auctore Johanne Gower, nunc primum edidit H. O. Coxe, 
 M.A. Printed for the Club. 1850. 
 
 Pive Old Plays. Edited from Copies, either unique or of great 
 rarity, by J. Payne Collier, Esq., E.S.A. 
 
 Printed tor the Club. 1851. 
 
 The Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Eerumbras 
 his Sone who conquerede Rome. 
 
 The Duke or Buccleuch, President. 1854. 
 
 The Ayenbite of Inwyt, Prom the Autograph MS. in the British 
 Museum. Edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, M.A. 
 
 Printed eor the Club. 1855, 
 
 John de Garlande, de Triumphis Ecclesise Libri Octo. A Latin 
 Poem of the Thirteenth Century. Edited, from the unique 
 Manuscript in the British Museum, by Thomas Wright, Esq., 
 M.A., E.S.A., Hon. M.R.S.L., &c. &c. 
 
 Earl of Powis. 1856. 
 
 Poems by Michael Drayton. Prom the earliest and rarest Edi- 
 tions, or from Copies entirely unique. Edited, with Notes and 
 Illustrations, and a new Memoir of the Author, by J. Payne 
 Collier, Esq., P.S.A. Printed for the Club. 1856. 
 
 Literary Remains o^King Edward the Sixth. In Two Volumes. 
 Edited from his Autograph Manuscripts, with Historical Notes 
 and a Biographical Memoir, by John Gough Nichols, P.S.A. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1857. 
 
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 The Itineraries of William Wet, Fellow of Eton College, to Jera- 
 salem, A.D. 1458 and A.D. 1462 ; and to Saint James of Oom- 
 postella, A.D. 1456. Erom the Original MS. in the Bodleian 
 Library. Printed roR the Club. 1857. 
 
 The Boke of Noblesse ; Addressed to King Edward the Eourth on 
 his Invasion of Erance in 1476. With an Introduction by 
 John Gough Nichols, E.S.A. 
 
 Lord Delamere. 1860. 
 
 Songs and Ballads, with other Short Poems, chiefly of the Reign of 
 Philip and Mary. Edited, from a Manuscript in the Ashmo- 
 lean Museum, by Thomas WRiaHT, Esq., M.A., E.S A., &c. &c. 
 
 Egbert S. BEoleord, Esq. 1860. 
 
 De Begimine Principum, a Poem by Thomas Occleve, written in 
 the Beign of Henry IV. Edited for the first time by Thomas 
 Wright, Esq., M.A., E.S.A., &c. &c. 
 
 Printed eor the Club. 1860. 
 
 The History of the Holy Graal ; partly in English Verse by Henry 
 Lonelich, Skynner, and wholly in Erench Prose by Sires 
 Bobiers de Borron. In two volumes. Edited, from MSS. in 
 the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the 
 British Museum, by Ebederick J. Eprnivall, Esq., M.A., 
 Trinity HaU, Cambridge. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1861 and 1863. 
 
 Boberd of Brunne's Handlyng Synne, written A.D. 1203; with 
 the Erench Treatise on which it is founded, Le Manuel des 
 Pechie3 by William of Waddington. Erom MSS. in the British 
 Museum and Bodleian Libraries. Edited by Erederick J. 
 EuRNivALL, Esq., M.A. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1862. 
 
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 The Old English Version of Partonope of Blois. Edited for the 
 first time from MSS. in University College Library and the 
 Bodleian at Oxford, by the E,ev. W. E. Buckley, M.A., 
 Rector of Middleton Cheney, and formerly Eellow of Brasenose 
 College. Printed tob the Club. 1862. 
 
 Philosophaster, Comoedia; Poemata, auctore Boberto Burtono, 
 S. Th. B., Democrito Juniore, Ex ^de Christi Oxon. 
 
 Rev. William Edward Buckley. 1862. 
 
 La Queste del Saint Graal. In the Erench Prose of Maistres 
 Gautiers Map, or Walter Map. Edited by Erederick J. 
 EuRNivALL, Esq., M.A., Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1864. 
 
 A Royal Historie of the excellent Knight Generides. 
 
 Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. 1866. 
 
 The Copy-Book of Sir Amias Poulet's Letters, written during his 
 Embassy in Erance, A.D. 1577. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1866. 
 
 The Bokes of Nurture and Kervynge. 
 
 Hon. Robert Curzon. 1867. 
 
 A Map of the Holy Land, illustrating Wey's Itineraries. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1867. 
 
 Historia Quatuor Regum Anglise, authore Johanne Herdo. 
 
 Simon Watson Taylor, Esq. 1868. 
 
 Letters of Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Eorth and Brentford, 
 1615—1662. Duke of Buccleuch, President. 1868. 
 
 The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode, from the Erench of 
 Guillaume de Deguileville. Printed for the Club. 1869. 
 
 Correspondence of Colonel N. Hooke, 1703—1707. Vol. I. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1870—1. 
 
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 Liber E-egalis ; seu ordo Consecrandi Regem et Eieginam. 
 
 Earl Beauchamp. 1870. 
 
 Le Myst^re de Saint Louis, E/oi de Erance. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1871. 
 
 Correspondence of Colonel N. Hooke, 1703—1707. Vol. II. 
 
 Printed for the Club. 1871. 
 
 The History of the Most Noble Knight Plasidas, and other Pieces ; 
 from the Pepysian Library. Printed for the Club. 1873. 
 
 Florian and Morete, a Metrical Romance. 
 
 Marquis op Lothian. 1873. 
 
 A Fragment of Partonope of Blois, from a Manuscript at Vale 
 Royal. Printed por the Club. 1873. 
 
 The Legend of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. 
 
 Paul Butler, Esq. 1874. 
 Correspondence of the Eirst Earl of Ancram and the Third Earl 
 of Lothian. 1616—1687. 2 Vols. 
 
 Marquis op Lothian. 1875. 
 The History of Grisild the Second. 
 
 John Benjamin Heath, Esq. 1875. 
 The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfleld. 
 
 Printed por the Club. 1876. 
 The Apocalypse of St. John, from an Anglo-Saxon Manuscript. 
 
 Printed por the Club. 1876. 
 Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers. 
 
 Henry Arthur Bright, Esq. 1877. 
 Cephalus and Procris, by Thomas Edwards. 
 
 Printed por the Club. 1880—2. 
 
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 Sir John Harington on the Successioa to the Crown, 1602. 
 
 Printed por the Club. 1880. 
 
 An Inquisition of the Manors of Glastonbury Abbey. 1589. 
 
 Marquis op Bath. 1882. 
 
 The Lamport Garland. 
 
 Printed por the Club. 1882. 
 
PEEFACE. 
 
 " The very Poets with their idle pamphlets promise themselves 
 great part in his favour," * writes Mr. Chamberlain in a letter to Mr. 
 Dudley Carleton, April 13, 1603; words which are appropriately 
 prefixed by Mr. Nichols in his Progresses of King James the First 
 to the Bibliographical List of Tracts t issued on the Accession of 
 that Monarch to the Throne of Grreat Britain. Thirty-three separate 
 publications are there enumerated, among which " The Kings 
 Frophecie or Weeping Joy '' finds no place. Neither is it 
 mentioned by Warton in his History of English Poetry, although 
 three sections of that work, lxii, lxiii, lxiv, are devoted to a minute 
 examination of Hall's Satires and other minor poems. It may 
 therefore be safely concluded that this work was not known to 
 either of these learned writers, nor indeed to any of our poetical 
 antiquaries, till 1820, when an allusion to it was made in the Poetical 
 Decameron by Mr. Payne Collier. 
 
 " BouBNE. — I may here mention that there is in existence a long 
 Congratulatory Poem by Bishop Hall, on the accession of James I. 
 
 * Nichols, Progresses of K. James I. London 1828. Quarto, 4 vols. vol. i. p. 52. 
 f Ibid, p. xxxvii. 
 
 a 2 
 
iv Preface. 
 
 to the throne. I have never seen it, and I believe the copy to which I 
 allude to be unique. This is the more unfortunate as it is imperfect 
 at the end. 
 
 Elliot It is very unlucky, but some other may be discovered, 
 
 as it is Ekely that the copies of a production of a popular writer on 
 so popular a subject would be greatly multiplied. 
 
 BouiiNE. — That is a probable conjecture, but it does not always 
 seem verified by the fact." * 
 
 From this source probably the existence of the poem became 
 known to the late Rev. Peter Hall, M.A., of Brasenose College, 
 Oxford, a descendant of the Bishop, who superintended the edition 
 of " his honoured and revered ancestor's " works published by the late 
 D. A. Talboys at Oxford in 1837, in twelve volumes octavo. He 
 was not however able to include it among the other poems of the 
 author, and thus records his disappointment. " Of the printed 
 compositions of the Bishop, the Editor is aware of only one of 
 which he has been unable to obtain a transcript. This is a Con- 
 gratulatory Poem addressed to King James the First, on his Acces- 
 sion to the Throne in 1603. But one copy is known to exist, and 
 that imperfect at the end : and as the Editor has made several 
 applications to the owner (a Barrister in London, well known for 
 his literary rarities) without the happiness of obtaining so much as 
 a reply, he can say nothing of the contents of the volume, or of the 
 
 * The Poetical Decameron, or ^ Ten Conversations on English Poets, and Poetry, 
 particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. By J. Payne Collier. London 
 1820, 2 vols. 8to. vol. i. p. 198. 
 
Preface. v 
 
 grounds on wHch it is attributed to the Bishop." * The owner was 
 the late Mr. Benjamin Hey wood Bright, at the sale of whose library 
 in March 1845 the work is thus entered in the catalogue : 
 
 "2673. Hall (Jos.). The Kings Prophecie or Weeping Joy. 
 Expressed in a poeme, to the honor of Englands too [two] great 
 solemnities. Russia, gilt leaves. F'me Copy of an Unique Poetical 
 Volv/me. London, printed by J. C. for Symon Waterson, 1603. 
 
 *^* This is a volume of very great curiosity and interest, of such 
 rarity as to have escaped the notice not only of our poetical anti- 
 quarians and bibliographers, but also of all the biographers of 
 Bishop Hall. It is in six line stanzas, extending in the present copy 
 to 52 ; but as the book is not complete, ending imperfect on B 7 
 with a catchword, showing that more was to follow, it has been 
 supposed with great probability that it remained an unfinished and 
 unpublished work. 
 
 Although there is no other indication in the title of its being the 
 work of the Bishop beyond the name, Jos. Sail, there is sufficient 
 internal evidence to prove it from his pen, not only from the 
 composition, but from the allusions it contains to his previous 
 writings.'' 
 
 This volume was then sold for six pounds, and passed into the 
 possession of the late Eev. Thomas Corser, Rector of Stand near 
 Manchester, who inserted a full account of it, with copious extracts 
 from the poem, in the seventh part of the Collectanea Anglo-Poetica 
 
 * Hall's Works, Oxford 1837, vol. i. Preface, p. v. 
 
vi Preface. 
 
 contributed by him to the Chetham Society, forming vol. ci, of the 
 series, and issued in the year 1877. To the remarks above printed 
 from the Poetical Decameron, and the Bright Sale Catalogue, Mr. 
 Corser adds, "It has been supposed by Mr. Bright, to whom it 
 formerly belonged, and by others also, with great probability, that 
 the work was never completed, and remained unpublished. These 
 were apparently the proof sheets, the corrections on which were 
 unfortunately obliterated when the book was bound, but are still 
 here and there perceptible. Besides the name Jos. Hall on the 
 title as an indication of its being the work of the Bishop, there is 
 sufficient internal evidence to prove that it came from his pen, not 
 only from the style of the composition, but from several allusions to 
 his own personal circumstances and previous writings. Hall was at 
 this time residing at Halstead, in Suffolk, a living which had been 
 given to him by his patron Drury, who was then travelling 
 abroad." 
 
 Ten years before this, in 1867, Mr. Hazlitt had inserted this 
 poem in his Hand Book to Early English Literature, p. 252, with a 
 reference to the Bright Sale in 1846 ; and subsequently in 1871 he 
 added a paragraph to Warton's account of Hall's Works, in his 
 edition of the History of English Poetry, vol. iv. p. 398. " In 
 1603 he presented himself in a new light, as one of the writers of 
 panegyrics on James I. at his entry into London. Hall's produc- 
 tion purported to be an expression of sorrow for Elizabeth, and a 
 tribute of exultation at the prospect of James's reign. It was 
 called, The Kings Frophecie, or Weeping Joy. Expressed in a 
 
Preface. vii 
 
 Foeme to the Honor of Englands too great Solemnities. Whether 
 the author was ashamed upon reflection of what he had written, 
 and suppressed it, or whatever may have been the reason, only an 
 imperfect copy of the Kings Prophecie remains." 
 
 In 1870, on Tuesday July 12, this copy was again offered for 
 sale, being No. 223 in the Catalogue of the Fifth Portion of the 
 Library of the Eev, Thomas Corser, when it realized six guineas? 
 and was bought by Mr. Boone for the British Museum. It was 
 again described as ^^ unique, and unknown to all the Biographers 
 of Bishop Hall," a statement which was then, as it seemed, per- 
 fectly correct, but which was destined to be ere long disproved. 
 
 For by great good fortune in the winter of 1881 a second copy, 
 quite complete, was discovered by Mr. J. E. T. Loveday in the 
 library at WilKamscote House, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, in a 
 volume containing five other rare poetical pieces, one of them being 
 a second copy of the third edition of Shakspere's Passionate Pilgrim. 
 A notice of this literary treasure trove was communicated by Mr. 
 Loveday to "Notes and Queries," and is printed in the number for 
 August 12, 1882, 6th Series, vi., pp. 124, 125. This extremely 
 precious volume formerly belonged to Mr. James Merrick, M.A., of 
 Trinity College, Oxford, a well-known scholar of the last century, 
 having on the fly leaf in his own hand, "E Hbris lac. Merrick, e coll. 
 Tr. Oxon, 1738." He died in 1769, and bequeathed many scarce 
 and valuable books, and manuscript notes and sermons, to his friend 
 Dr. John Loveday, who was his executor. An interesting account 
 of Dr. Loveday and his father will be found in Nichols's Literary 
 
viii Preface. 
 
 Anecdotes, vol. iii. pp. 468-479. One characteristic there recorded 
 of Dr. John Loveday, (p. 477) " no one was ever more willing to com- 
 municate the stores in his possession" is a pleasing contrast to Peter 
 Hall's words about one of the owners of the imperfect copy of the 
 Kings Frophecie, and has descended to the present possessor of 
 Williamscote, who not only most generously placed this rare volume 
 in the hands of the Roxburghe Club for the present reprint, but wrote 
 out the missing portions with his own hand, and helped me to collate 
 with his own perfect copy the whole transcript made from the 
 imperfect volume in the British Museum. Thus the theory of Mr. 
 Bright and others, that the work was never completed, is absolutely 
 disproved, while there is nothing in the poem itself to countenance 
 the conjecture of Mr. Hazlitt, that the author had upon reflection 
 suppressed it. The disappearance of all but these two copies (so far 
 as is yet known) has only too many parallels in the history of 
 books, especially those of an ephemeral character. 
 
 With regard to the name of the poem, it may be observed that 
 the words, ^^ The King^ s Frophecie,''^ must mean '^' The Prophecie con- 
 cerning the King ;'' and that its second designation, " Weeping Joy" 
 appears to have been suggested by the volume of congratulatory 
 verses addressed to King James by the University of Cambridge in 
 1603, which was entitled " Sorowes Joy." 
 
 The poem contributes some illustrations to literary history. Mr. 
 Corser (p. 134 of Collectanea) observes that "from stanza 17 and 
 marginal note, it is evident that Hall had previously written, and 
 most probably published, when very young, some pastoral poems, 
 
Freface. ix 
 
 including a translation of Virgil's fourth Eclogue, which he had 
 applied to the birth of Prince Henry. Mr. Collier has already- 
 noticed this circumstance ia his Bridgewater Catalogue, p. 139; 
 and has quoted a line from Marston's fourth satire, appended to his 
 Figmalion's Image, 8vo. 1598, who, in allusion to these earlier 
 poems, had asked, 
 
 " Will not his Pastorals indure for ever?" 
 The lines in stanza 17 are a further confirmation of Mr. Collier's 
 conclusion from this expression of Marston that ''Hall's Pastorals 
 were printed, although no copy of them has survived." As Mr. 
 CoUier remarks on p. vii of the Preface to his Bibliographical 
 Account of English Literature, 2 vols. Bvo. London, 1865, "that there 
 is no criticism in the Bridgewater Catalogue that has not received 
 improvements more or less important," his presumably fuller obser- 
 vations on this point are here subjoined: — *'It is very certain that 
 Hall had previously [to 1597] written, and probably printed, some 
 pastoral poems. John Marston, who was his follower and antagonist, 
 speaking of him in the fourth satire, appended to his ' PigmaKon's 
 Image,' 8vo. 1598, asks : — 
 
 ' Will not his Pastorals indure for ever?' 
 
 a line that completely explains what Hall himself says in 'his 
 Defiance to Envy,' which precedes his Satires : he has been speaking 
 of pastoral poetry, and ridiculing the manner in which such subjects 
 were usually treated, and then proceeds as follows : — 
 
 * Whether so me list my lonely thoughts to sing, 
 Come daunce, ye nimble Dryads, by my side : 
 
 h 
 
X Preface. 
 
 Ye gentle wood-nymphs come ; and with you bring 
 The willing Faunes that mought your musick guide. 
 
 Come, Nimphs and Faunes, that haunt these shady groves. 
 Whiles I report my fortunes or my loves. 
 
 * Or whether list me sing so personate, 
 
 My striving selfe to conquer with my verse 
 Speak, ye attentive Swaynes, that heard me late, 
 Needs me give grasse unto the Conquerors. 
 At Colin's feet I throw my yielding reed. 
 But let the rest win homage by their deed.' 
 
 Of course Colin is Spenser, whom Hall declares his inability to 
 rival in pastoral poetry. To show that Bishop Hall had written 
 Pastorals before he ventured upon Satires, is to present him in a 
 new point of view, and we may conclude from Marston's expression 
 that Hall's Pastorals were printed, though no copy of them has 
 survived." • 
 
 In stanza 39 he alludes to his Satires in these words : — 
 
 " times ! but now, were best my rage containe 
 Untill I mought a second Satyre write. 
 But ah, fond threat ; as if these mended daies 
 Would once deserve the brand of my dispraise." 
 
 That he should propitiate the monarch whom he was welcoming 
 was but natural, and we have accordingly in stanza 20 a delicate 
 allusion to the King's translation of some portions of Du Bartas : — 
 
 •' So may thy work my lowly muse upraise. 
 So may my hie-up-raised thoughts aspire, 
 That not thy Bartas selfe, whose sacred layes 
 The yeelding world doth with thy selfe admire, 
 Shal passe my song, which nought can reare so hye 
 Save the sweet influence of thy gracious eye." 
 
Preface. xi 
 
 In stanza 33 there is a direct mention of his Basilicon Doron ; and 
 in stanza 52 a compliment to his "polisht writ," and poetical ability. 
 
 To the circumstances of his own life he refers, as Mr. Corser has 
 already noted, in stanzas 45 and 46, in making mention of Suffolk, 
 wherein he held the living of Halstead, the gift of his patron Drury, in 
 connection with which Bishop Hall's own work on " Some Specialities 
 in his Life '' should be consulted, as he there explains how he came 
 to be appointed to his living, and why he left it. Aiter his ordina- 
 tion, he says — "Now I did but wait where and how it would please 
 my Grod to employ me. There was at that time a famous school 
 erected at Tiverton, in Devon, and endowed with a very large 
 pension ; whose goodly fabric was answerable to the reported main- 
 tenance ; the care whereof was by the rich and bountiful founder, 
 Mr. Blundel, cast principally upon the then Lord Chief Justice 
 Popham. That faithful observer, having great interest in the 
 Master of our house, [Emanuel, Cambridge] Dr. Chaderton, moved 
 him earnestly to commend some able, learned, and discreet Governor 
 to that weighty charge ; whose action should not need to be so much 
 as his oversight. It pleased our Master, out of his good opinion, to 
 tender this condition unto me ; assuring me of no small advantages, 
 and no great toil, since it was intended the main load of the work 
 should lie on other shoulders. I apprehended the motion worth the 
 entertaining. In that severe Society our times were stinted ; neither 
 was it wise or safe to refuse good offers. Mr, Dr. Chaderton 
 carried me to London, and there presented me to the Lord Chief 
 
 Justice, with much testimony of approbation. The Judge seemed 
 
 b2 
 
xii Freface. 
 
 well apaid with the choice. I promised acceptance ; he, the strength 
 of his favour. No sooner had I parted from the Judge, than, in the 
 street, a messenger presented me with a letter from the right virtuous 
 and worthy lady, of happy memory, the Lady Drury of Suffolk, 
 tendering the Rectory of her Halsted, then newly void, and very 
 earnestly desiring me to accept of it. Dr. Chaderton, observing in 
 me some change of countenance, asked me what the matter might 
 bo. I told him the errand, and delivered him the letter, beseeching 
 his advice; which, when he had read, 'Sir,' quoth I, 'methinks Grod 
 pulls me by the sleeve, and tells me it is his will, I should rather go 
 to the east than to the west.' 'Nay,' he answered, 'I should rather 
 think he would have you go westward, for that he hath contrived 
 your engagement before the tender of this letter, which therefore, 
 coming too late, may receive a fair and easy answer.' To this I 
 besought him to pardon my dissent, adding, that I well knew that 
 divinity was the end whereto I was destined by my parents; which 
 I had so constantly proposed to myself, that I never meant other 
 than to pass through the western school to it; but I saw that Grod, 
 who found me ready to go the further way about, now called me 
 the nearest and directest way to that sacred end. The good man 
 could no further oppose ; but only pleaded the distaste which would 
 hereupon be justly taken by the Lord Chief Justice, whom I undertook 
 fully to satisfy, which I did with no great difficulty ; commending to 
 his lordship, in my room, my old friend and chamber-fellow, Mr. 
 Chomley ; who, finding an answerable acceptance, disposed himself 
 to the place ; so as we two, who came together to the University, 
 must now leave it at once. 
 
JPreface, xiii 
 
 * * * * Being now, therefore, settled in that sweet and civil 
 country of Suffolk, near to St. Edmunds-Bury, my first work was to 
 build up my house, which was then extremely ruinous. 
 
 * * * * My means were but short at Halsted ; yet such as I 
 oft professed, if my then patron would have added but one ten 
 pounds by year, which I held to be the value of my detained due, I 
 should never have removed." 
 
 After nearly six years, about the year 1607, he went to London 
 to speak with his patron about the public preachership of St. 
 Edmunds-Bury, then offered him upon good conditions with the 
 object, as he says, that "I might draw him to a willing yieldance 
 of that parcel of my due maintenance which was kept back from my 
 not over-deserving predecessor, who, hearing my errand, dissuaded 
 me from so ungainful a change, which, had it been to my sensible 
 advantage, he should have readily given way unto, but not offering 
 me the expected encouragement of my continuance." 
 
 While in London, through the interest of a friend, Mr. Grurrey, 
 tutor to the Earl of Essex, he was brought to Richmond to preach 
 before the Prince Henry, already prepossessed in his favour by his 
 "Meditations," who graciously gave him his hand, and commanded 
 him to his service. 
 
 " My patron, seeing me, upon my return to London, looked after 
 by some great persons, began to wish me at home ; and told me 
 that some or other would be snatching me up. I answered, that it 
 was in his power to prevent ; would he be pleased to make my 
 maintenance but so competent as in right it should be, I would 
 
xiv ^Preface. 
 
 never stir from Mm. Instead of condescending, it pleased him to 
 fall into an expostulation of the rate of competencies ; affirming the 
 variableness thereof, according to our own estimation, and our either 
 raising or moderating the causes of our expenses. I showed him the 
 insufficiency of my means : that I was forced to write books to buy 
 books. Shortly, some harsh and unpleasing answer so disheartened 
 me, that I resolved to embrace the first opportunity of my remove. 
 
 " Now, while I was taken up with these thoughts j a messenger (it 
 was Sir Robert Wingfield of Northampton's son) came to me from 
 the Lord Denny, now Earl of Norwich, my after-most-honourable 
 patron, entreating me from his Lordship to speak with him. No 
 sooner came I thither, than after a glad and noble welcome I was 
 entertained with the earnest offer of Waltham. The conditions 
 were, like the mover of them, free and bountiful. I received them 
 as from the munificent hand of my God ; and returned, full of the 
 cheerful acknowledgments of a gracious providence over me. 
 
 " Too late now did my former noble patron relent; and offer me 
 those terms, which had, before, fastened me for ever."* 
 
 In 1608 Hall published his " Epistles, the first volume containing 
 ii Decads " in which the ninth Epistle of the first Decad is addressed 
 " To Sir Robert Drury, and his Lady, concerning my Remooueall 
 from them.'' 
 
 "With how unwilling an heart I leaue you, hee knowes that 
 searches the heart : Neither durst I go, but that I sensibly see his hand 
 puUing mee from you. Indeed desire of competencie betrayed mee, at 
 
 * Bishop Hall's Works, Oxford, 1837, vol. i., pp. xvii, xix, and pp. xxiv, xxv. 
 
Preface. xv 
 
 first ; and drew mine eyes to looke aside : but, when I bent them 
 vppon the place, and saw the number and the neede of the people, 
 together with their hunger and applause, meeting with the circum- 
 stances of Gods strange conueyance of this offer to mee ; I saw that 
 was but as the fowlers feather, to make mee stoope : and contemning 
 that respect of my selfe, I sincerely acknowledged hyer motives 
 of my yeelding : and resolued I might not resist. You are deare 
 to mee, as a Charge to a Pastor ; If my paines to you haue not 
 proued it, suspect mee : Yet I leaue you. God calls me to a greater 
 worke : I must followe him. It were more ease to mee, to Hue 
 secretly hidden in that quiet obscuritie, as Saul amongst the stuffe, 
 then to be drawen out to the eye of the world, to act so hye a part 
 before a thousand witnesses. In this point, if I seem to neglect you, 
 blame mee not ; I must neglecte and forget my selfe. I can but 
 labour, wheresoever I am. God knowes how willingly I do that, 
 whether there or here. I shall dig and delve, and plant, in what 
 groimd soever my Maister sets mee. If hee take mee to a larger 
 fielde, complaine you not of losse, while the Church may gaine. 
 But, you are my owne charge ; No wise father neglectes his owne in 
 compassion of the greater neede of others ; yet consider, that euen 
 caref uU Parentes, when the Prince commaundes, leaue their families, 
 and go to warfare. What if God had called mee to heauen ; would 
 you haue grudged my departure ? Imagine that I am there, where 
 I shall bee, altho the case bee not to you altogether so hopelesse : 
 for, now I may heare of you, visit you, renue my holy counsels, and 
 bee mutually comforted from you ; there none of these. Hee, that 
 
xvi Preface. 
 
 will once transpose me from earth to heauen, hath now chosen to 
 transpose mee from one piece of earth to another : what is heere 
 worthy of your sorrow, worthy of complaint ? That should bee for 
 my owne good : this shall bee for ~the good of many. If your 
 experience haue taught you that my labours doe promise profit, 
 obtaine of your selfe to deny your selfe so much, as to reioyce that 
 the losse of a fewe should bee the aduantage of many soules. 
 Tho, why do I speake of losse? I speak that, as your feare, 
 not my owne, and your affection causes that feare, rather then the 
 occasion. 
 
 " The God of the haruest shal send you a laborer, more able, as 
 caref uU : That is my prayer and hope, and shall bee my ioy. I dare 
 not leaue, but in this expectation, this assurance. What-euer become 
 of me, it shall be my greatest comfort to hear you commend your 
 change ; and to see your happy progress in those wayes I haue both 
 shewed you, and beaten. So shal wee meete in the ende, and neuer 
 parte.''* 
 
 The following account of the death of Queen Elizabeth may be 
 read with advantage, and may account for the extreme zeal with 
 which HaU and others welcomed the rising Sun. It is extracted from 
 a work entitled " Wulfhall and the Seymours, with an Appendix of 
 Documents discovered at Longleat, by the Eev. J. E. Jackson, 
 1874" 
 
 P. 16. " EKzabeth's death is described by a Lady Southwell, an 
 
 » Bishop Hall's Works, Oxford, 1837, vi. 149. 
 
Preface. xvii 
 
 eye witness.* Up to that moment, who the successor was to be was 
 still uncertain ; and Secretary Cecil and others, on the night of the 
 23rd of March, 1603, approached her bedside, asking her to name 
 one. The old Queen seemed to be already speechless ; so they 
 requested her to show by some sign with her hand, when they 
 should have named the one she liked. She said nothing. They 
 named ' The King of France ? ' Neither word nor sign. ' The 
 King of Scotland ? ' Again neither. They then ventured the 
 name of the ' Lord Beauchamp, the son and heir of Katherine 
 Grey ? ' She was stirred by the sound of the name ; and replied, 
 ' I will have no rascal's son in my seat, but one worthy to be a 
 king.' According to another account "j* Cecil then boldly asked her 
 what she meant by those words, ' no rascal should succeed her.' 
 Whereto she answered, that ' her meaning was, that a king should 
 succeed ; and who should that be but our cousin of Scotland? 'J It 
 is, however, a remarkable fact in the history of the descent of the 
 Crown, and one not generally known, that for nearly twelve 
 months after her death, and King James's accession, March 1603, 
 the legal right to the throne, according to the Statutes then in 
 force, actually vested in this very Edward Seymour, Lord Beau- 
 champ, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford and the Lady Katharine 
 
 * Quarterly Review, vol. 108, p. 439. 
 
 j" Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature, Second Series, iii. 107. 
 
 \ " Bascal was a word of the forest, and at that time was used to signify a lean or 
 inferior deer, as distinguished from those in full condition. All that the Queen pro- 
 bably meant was, that she would have for her successor one oi full Hood Royal ; not 
 one whose blood was of less fine quality." J. E. J. 
 
 C 
 
xviii Preface. 
 
 Grray. James's hereditary pretensions were not acknowledged, 
 and ratified by Parliament, until March 1604."* 
 
 The first volume of Nichols's Progresses of James the First contains 
 numerous particulars of the King's Journey from Scotland to 
 London, upon his Accession to the throne, with many contemporary 
 letters and documents, including a reprint of the Cambridge Uni- 
 versity Congratulatory Verses, entitled " Sorowes Joy." The 
 Memoirs of the Court of James I. by Bishop Groodman, with letters 
 of divers persons, is also a valuable contribution to the state of 
 society at that period. 
 
 In conclusion, I have to thank J. E. T. Loveday, Esq., of Wil- 
 liamscote, Oxfordshire, for placing his perfect copy of this work at 
 the disposal of the Roxburghe Club, and for his assistance in the 
 course of its reprint. 
 
 My acknowledgments are also due in a special degree to Miss 
 Collett, daughter of the late Rev. W. Collett, Rector of Halstead, 
 for the drawing of the Old Rectory House of that parish, as it 
 appeared about thirty years ago, when it was taken down, and a 
 new Rectory built. This drawing has been made from a picture in 
 the possession of the Collett family, and, with the exception of the 
 wing on the right, which is of more recent erection than the rest, 
 represents the house as it was in Bishop Hall's incumbency. 
 
 W. E. BUCKLEY. 
 
 MiDDLETON Cheney, 
 
 October 12th, 1882. 
 
 * Sir H. Nicolas. Chronology of History, p. 320. 
 
THE 
 
 KINGS PRO- 
 
 phe^ 
 
 OR 
 
 Vycej^lng Joy, 
 
 Exprefled inaPocme.tothc Honor ofEng- 
 londs too great Soicttinities. 
 
 Jof. HaO, 
 
 LONDON 
 Ptkxei by T^Cfor Symon Wafctfos* 
 
THE KINGS PROPHECY 
 
 or 'Weeping loy. 
 
 What Stoick could his fteely breft containe 
 f If Zeno felf, or who were made befide 
 Of tougher mold) from being torne in twaine 
 With the crofle Paflions of this wondrous tide ? 
 Grief at ELIZAES toomb, orecomne anone 
 With greater joy at her fucceeded throne ? 
 
 2. 
 
 Me feems the world at once doth weep & fmile, 
 Wafhing his fmiling cheeks with weeping dew, 
 Yet chearing ftiU his watered cheeks the while 
 With merry wrinckles that do laughter fhew ; 
 Amongft the reft, I can but fmUe and weepe. 
 Nor can my paflions in clofe prifon keepe. 
 
 Yet 
 
 A. 3. 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 
 Yet now, when Griefe and loy at once confpire 
 To vexe my feeble minde with aduerfe might, 
 Reafon fuggefts not words to my defire. 
 Nor daines no Mufe to helpe me to endite ; 
 So doth this ciuil ftrife of Paffions ftrong. 
 Both moue and marre the meafures of my fong. 
 
 For long agone, when as my weaker thought 
 Was but aflaylde with change of loy & paine : 
 I wont to finde the willing Mufe vnfought. 
 And vent my numbers in a plenteous vaine. 
 Whether I wiftit to write fome loftie verfe. 
 Or with fad lines would ftraw fome fable hearle. 
 
 So, 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 So, when but fingle Paffions in the field 
 Meet Reafon fage ; foone as ftie lift aduance 
 Her awful head ; they needs muft ftoop, & yeeld 
 Their rebell armes to her wife gouernance : 
 Whence, as their mutin'd rage did rafhly rife 
 Ylike by Reafons power it cowardly dies. 
 
 6. 
 
 But when that Paffions ranke arayes befet 
 Reafon alone, without or friend, or Fere, 
 Who wonders if they can the conquest get 
 And reaue the crown her royal head did weare ? 
 Goe yet tumultuous lines, and tydings bring 
 What Paffion can in Reafons filence fing. 
 
 Oft 
 
 A. 4. 
 
 A 2 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 Oft did I wifh the clofure of my light. 
 Before the dawning of that fearfull day 
 Which fhould fucceed Elizaes lateft night. 
 Sending her glorious foule from this fad clay, 
 Vp to a better crowne than erft she bore 
 Vpon her weary browes, and Temples hoare : 
 
 Caefar & 
 Pompey. 
 
 For then I fear'd to finde the frowning Ikie 
 Cloathed in difmall black, and dreadfull red. 
 Then did I feare this earth fhould drenched lie 
 With purple ftreames in ciuil tumults fhed : 
 Like when of yore in th' old Pharfalian downes. 
 The two crofTe Eagles grapled for the crowne. 
 
 Or 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 Or when the riper Englifh rofes grew 
 
 Or fundrie ftalks, from one felfe roote yfprung. 
 
 And ftroue so log for praife of fairer hew, 
 
 That millios of our Sires to death were flung 
 
 With thofe fharp thornes that grew their fweets befide 
 
 Or fuchj or worfe I ween'd fhould now betide. 
 
 Lane. & 
 Yorke. 
 
 lO. 
 
 Nor were leud hopes ought lefler the my dread. 
 Nor lefle their Triumphs then my plained woe, 
 Triumphs, and Plaints for great Eliza dead ; 
 My dread, their hope for Englands ouerthrow : 
 I fear'd their hopes, & waild their pleasat cheare. 
 They triumpht in my griefes, and hop't my feare. 
 
 Wayting 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 
 II. 
 
 Waiting for flames of cruell Martyrdome, 
 Alreadie might I fee the ftakes addrefl:, 
 And that flale flrumpet of imperious Rome, 
 Hie mounted on her feuen-headed beaft. 
 Quaffing the bloud of Saints in boules of gold, 
 Whiles all the furplus fl:aines the guiltles mold. 
 
 12. 
 
 lesuites. 
 
 Now might I fee thofe fwarmes of Locufts fent. 
 Hell's curfed oft-fpring, hyred flaues of Sfaine, 
 Till the world fawe, and fcorned their intent. 
 Of a fworne foe to make a Soueraigne ; 
 How could but terrour with his colde aiFright 
 Strike my weake breft vpon fo fad forefight : 
 
 Tho 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 13- 
 
 Tho on that day before the world began 
 
 Eliza dyde, and with the clofing yeare 
 
 Her dayes vpclofde ; when I the light did ban. 
 
 And chide the Heauens, that they left not there: 
 
 And thought it wrog (yet God that thought forfended) 
 
 That the worlds courfe with her courfe was not ended. 
 
 March 
 25- 
 
 14- 
 
 NoWj not moe worlds could hire my clofed light 
 Ere but the fetting of that Euen-fun, 
 Which late her breathing fawe with beames fo 
 And early rifing found her life for done ; (bright. 
 Ah moft vnhappie wights that went beforne. 
 That dyde ere this, or that are yet vnborne ! 
 
 Oh 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 IS- 
 
 Oh turned times beyond all mortall feare. 
 Beyond all mortall hopes ! Not till this day 
 Began the fulnefle of our blifle appeare; 
 Which dangers dimmed erft with freih difmay : 
 Still euer-checking ioy with feruile care, 
 Still charging vs for Tragick times prepare. 
 
 i6. 
 
 Falfe ftarres, and falfer wifards that forefaine 
 By their afpedts the ftate of earthly things : 
 How bene your bold predidlions proued vaine. 
 That here brake off the race of Brittifh Kings? 
 Which now alone began ; when firft we fee 
 Faire Britaine formed to a Monarchic. 
 
 Ho 
 
 w 
 
The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 How did I better long agone prefage, 
 (That ioyes me ftill I did prefage fo right) 
 When in the wardfhip of my weaker age 
 My puif-ne Mufe prefumed to recite 
 The vatick lines of that Cumean Dame, 
 Which Maro falfely sung to Pollios name) . 
 
 Virgils 
 
 fourth 
 
 Egloge 
 
 tranflated 
 
 and 
 
 applyed 
 
 to the 
 
 birth of 
 
 Hen. the 
 
 prince. 
 
 To the deare Natals of thy princely fonne, 
 
 dreadeft Soueraigne ; in whofe timely birth 
 Mee feem'd I fawe this golden age begonne, 
 
 1 fawe this wearie load of Heauen and Earth 
 Frefhly reuiu'd, rouze vp his fainting head. 
 To fee the fweete hopes this day promifed. 
 
 And 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 And now I Hue (I wifht to liue fo long 
 Till I might fee thefe golden days fucceed. 
 And folemne vow'd that mine eternall fong 
 Should found thy name vnto the future feed) 
 I liue to fee my hopes ; 6 let me liue 
 Till but my vowed verfe might me furuiue. 
 
 20. 
 
 So may thy worth my lowly Mufe vpraife, 
 So may mine hie-vp-raifed thoughts afpire 
 That not thy Bartas felfe, whofe facred layes 
 The yeelding world doth with thy felfe admire, 
 Shal pafle my sog, which nought ca reare fo hye, 
 Saue the fweete influence of thy gracious eye. 
 
 Meane 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 21. 
 
 Meane while, amongft thofe throngs of Poefies 
 Which now each triuial Mufe dares harfhly fing 
 This vulgar verfe fliall feed plebeian eies. 
 Nor preafe into the prefence of my King ; 
 So may it fafely praife his abfent name ; 
 That neuer prefent tongue did voyd of blame. 
 
 22. 
 
 Well did the wife Creator, when he laid (maine. 
 Earth's deepe foundations, charge the watery 
 This Northerne world fhould by his waues be 
 Cut fro the reft, and yet not cut in twaine (made 
 Diuided, that it might be bleft alone. 
 Not fundred, for this fore-fet vnion. 
 
 For 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 Britaine 
 compa- 
 red with 
 the olde 
 Paradife. 
 
 For here he merit in late fucceeding time. 
 
 To feat a fecond Paradife below; 
 
 Or for compofed temper of the Clyme, 
 
 Or thofe found blafts the clenfing north doth 
 
 Or, for he faw the finfill continent (blow 
 
 Should with contagious vice be ouerwent. 
 
 Rivers 
 of Para- 
 dife. 
 
 2 
 Word 
 and 
 Sacram: 
 
 24. 
 
 For great Euphrates and the fwelling Nile, 
 With Tigris fwift ; he bad the Ocean hoare 
 Serue for the great moate of the greateft He, 
 And wafh the fnowy rocks of her fteepe fhore 
 As for that tree of life faire Edens pride, 
 Hee fet it in our mids, and euery fide. 
 
 From 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 ^5- 
 
 From oft attempted, oft repulfed fpight 
 More then one Angell gards our fafer gate ; 
 Nought wats of higheft bhfle, & fweet'ft deHght 
 That euer was attaind by mortall ftate. 
 But that giues life to all, and all exceeds 
 He fets his princely Image in his fteed. 
 
 26. 
 
 His liuely Image, in whofe awfull face 
 Appeare deepe ftamps of dreadfull maieftie, 
 Whofe glorious beames from his diuiner grace 
 Dazle the weake, and dim the bolder eye. 
 Mercie fits on his brow; and in his breft 
 Vnder his Lions paw, doth courage reft, 
 
 Deepe 
 
The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 27. 
 
 Deepe wifedome doth adorne his princely head, 
 luftice his hand, his lips graue Eloquence, 
 And that which feld in Princes breft is bred, 
 (The Princes greateft praife, and beft defence) 
 Pureft religion hath his heart pofleft. 
 O Hand more then fortunate and bleft. 
 
 28. 
 
 Heauens chiefejft care. Earth's fecond Paradife, 
 Wonder of Times, chiefe boaft of Natures ftile, 
 Enuy of Nations, prefident of blifle, 
 Miftrefle of Kingdomes, Monarch of all lies ; 
 World of this world, & heauen of earth; no lefle 
 Can ferue to ftiadow out thine happinefle. 
 
 Thou 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 29. 
 
 Thou art the worlds fole glory, he is thine; 
 Fro him thy praife is fetcht, the worlds fro thee. 
 His from aboue ; So the more famous bene 
 His rareft graces, more thy fame shall bee. 
 The more thy fame growes on, the fairer fhew 
 His heauenly worth fhal make to forraign view. 
 
 30- 
 
 Like when by night, amids the clenfed Ikie, 
 The Suns faire fifter by her louely rayes 
 Gathers a circled Halo vp on hie. 
 Of kindly vapours that her fpoufe did raife : 
 Shee thus inclofd in her cleare ouall round. 
 Doubles her light vnto the gazing ground. 
 
 B. 2. 
 
 But 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 31- 
 
 But for the onely bane of blefled ftate 
 
 Is ignorance of blifle ; let mee deare Dread 
 
 For thy diuiner Oracles relate 
 
 The fum of thofe fweet hopes that long haue fed 
 
 Thy Hegeft Nation ; Pardon thou the while 
 
 Mine high attempt, harfh verfe, and ruder ftile. 
 
 32. 
 
 And yee thrife happy mates, who that great King 
 
 Endowes with equall peace : fo mote his raigne 
 
 Aboue your hopes, eternall comfort bring 
 
 To your late Nephewes race; as ye may daigne 
 
 Credulous eares to my Prophetick lines, 
 
 Truer the thofe were fetcht fro Delphick (brines. 
 
 He 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 33- 
 
 He that giues crownes (as crowns fro heau'n are 
 Not fince the day that IJhay's yongeft fon (fent 
 Rofe from the fold; hath euer yet befprent 
 With the fweet oyle of facred vnction 
 An holyer head : then that this prefent day 
 The weight of Englands roial crown doth fway. 
 
 The fum 
 of Bazil. 
 Doron 
 drawne 
 in forme 
 of pro- 
 phecy in- 
 to verfe. 
 
 34- 
 
 Nor can his fubiects more him feare or loue, 
 (Loyall their loue, and lowly is their feare) 
 Then he fhall loue and feare his King aboue, 
 Whofe name, place. Image, Scepter he doth bear, 
 Religions fpring, Autumne of Herefie, 
 Winter of Atheifme his raigne fhall bee. 
 
 And 
 
 B. 3. 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 3S- 
 
 And thou great Rome, that to the Martian plaine 
 Long fince didft lowly ftoope ; and leaue for lore 
 Thy loftie feate of Hils : flialt once againe 
 Creepe lower to the fliade of Tybers fhore : 
 Yet lower fhall his Arme thy ruines fell, 
 Downe from thy Tyber into loweft Hell. 
 
 3^- 
 
 Not number fhaU, but weight his lawes comend ; 
 Which wifely made, fhall iuftly be maintain'd. 
 His gentle brows fhal firft seuerely bend (ftraind 
 And lowre at vice : whofe courfe eftfoones re- 
 They fmooth fhal wax again ; mixing by mefure 
 Ounces of grace, with drams of iufl difpleafure. 
 
 How 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 37- 
 
 So haue I feene a Morne of chearefull May 
 Orecaft with clouds to threate ftormfuU ftoures, 
 Which yet ere Noone, hath prou'd the cleareft day : 
 Whiles brighter morns haue brought vs euening flioures ; 
 His frownes fhaU fright the ill ; his mercious eie 
 Shall raife the humble foule of Modeftie. 
 
 38. 
 
 The treble mifchiefe that was wont infeft 
 Our holy ftate (ah me what ftate can mifle 
 Some ftaine of natiue ill) fhall be redreft 
 By timely care : and now fhall fairely rife 
 The noble name of our diuiner trade. 
 From out the duft wherein it long hath laid. 
 
 Long 
 
 B. 4. 
 
 c 2 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 39- 
 
 Long lay it in the duft of wrong difdaine ; 
 
 Expof'd to euery rafcall Pefants fpight: 
 
 O times ! but now, were beft my rage containe 
 
 Vntill I mought a fecond Satyre write. 
 
 But ah fond threat; as if thefe mended daies 
 
 Would once deferue the brand of my difpraife. 
 
 40. 
 
 Nor fhall the Lordly Peeres once ouerlooke 
 Their humble vaflals dwelling all below : 
 Like as we fee fome large out-fpreading Oke 
 Ore-drop the filly fhrubs that vnder grow. 
 Nor noble bloud fhall want true honors fee. 
 Whiles it fhall light on Groomes of low degree. 
 
 Nor 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 41. 
 
 Nor now the greedy Merchant that for gaine 
 Sailes to both Poles, & founds both Indian feas 
 Whe his long beaten bark from forth the maine 
 Vnlades her weary fraight -, fhall as he pleafe 
 Raife by excefliue rate his priuate ftore. 
 And to enrich himfelfe make thoufands poore. 
 
 42. 
 
 Vnder the fafer fliadow of his wing 
 
 Shall exilde Aliens fhroud their reftleffe head ; 
 
 And here alone fhall forced exile bring 
 
 Better contentment to the baniihed 
 
 Then home-fmelt fmoke ; O Hand kind & free 
 
 In fauouring thofe that once befrended thee. 
 
 And 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 A3- 
 
 And for the Princes eye doth life inlpire 
 To loyall brefts (Hke as the vernall funne 
 Cheares the reuiued earth with friendly fires 
 That luftles lies when thofe hote rayes are gone) 
 Oft fhall his prefence bleffe our hungry eyes. 
 To our Horizon oft this funne fhall rife. 
 
 44- 
 
 For ere the worlds great lamp fhal thrife decline 
 Into his Southern fphere, and thrife retyre 
 Vp to the turning of his Northren line. 
 Our fecond Sunne fhall in his earthly gyre 
 Turn once to al the realms his light doth guide ; 
 And yet obferve his yearly race befide. 
 
 Then 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 45- 
 
 Then fhall my Suffolke (En glands Eden hight 
 As England is the worlds) be ouer bleft 
 And furfet of the ioy of that deare fight 
 Whofe pleafing hope their harts fo long poffeft 
 Which his great Name did with fuch triumph 
 When erft it loudly ecchoed in our ftreet. [greet 
 
 46. 
 
 And thou, renowmed Drury mongft the reft, 
 Aboue the reft ; whether thee ftill detaine. 
 The fnowy Alpes, or if thou thoughteft it beft 
 To truft thy fpeed vnto the watery playne, 
 Shalt him receiue ; he thee, with fuch fweet grace 
 As may befeeme thy worth and noble race. 
 
 The 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 47- 
 
 The yron doores of lanus by his hand 
 Shall fall be bard ; vnlefle fome hoftile might 
 (If any hoftile might dares him withftand) 
 Shall break thofe bars ; and boldly fhall excite 
 Our fleeping Lyon ; who but once awoke 
 Woe to the wight that did his wrath prouoke. 
 
 48. 
 
 Wife and not wrongfull Stratagems fhall fpeed 
 His iufteft warre, and ftraiter difcipline 
 Shal guide the warlike troupes himfelf fhal lead 
 To doubtfuU field ; O let the fhield diuine 
 Protedt my Lieges head and from on hie 
 Let it be girt with crownes of vidtorie. 
 
 His 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 49- 
 
 His frequent Court (yet feare I to fore-faine 
 Too much of Princes courts, which ages paft 
 Haue long fince noted with the fecret ftaine 
 Of wanton daliance and luxurious waft) 
 His Court fhall be a church of Saints : quite free 
 From filth, excefTe and feruile flattery. 
 
 50. 
 
 Hence ye falfe Parafites, whofe only guife 
 Is feeding Princes eares with wrongful praifes. 
 And euer who mought hope to honor rife. 
 By what large bribes their leuder brocage raifes. 
 The Courtiers onely grace fhal henceforth lie 
 In learning, wifedome, valour, honeftie. 
 
 O Court 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 
 51- 
 
 O Court fit for thy King ; and like to none 
 But heauens Court, where nought impure may- 
 Like as thy King refembleth God alone, (bide ; 
 For fuch on earth were vaine to feeke befide. 
 Well might I here his vertues roUe rehearfe 
 But them his life fpeakes better then my verfe. 
 
 52. 
 
 Yet let me not thy learned Mufe omit. 
 The onely credit of our fcorned skill. 
 Redoubted Liege ; whofe rarely polifht writ 
 Sauors of long fleep in that facred hill ; 
 Looke that the Mufes all ftiall once agree. 
 As thou haft honor'd them, to honor thee. 
 
 Mine 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 S3- 
 
 Mine with the reft, though mine be poore and 
 Well fitted my rude roundelaies to fing, (plaine. 
 Yet if thee lift to raife their lowly ftraine 
 May fomewhat fay well worthy of a King ; 
 Meane while I will addrefTe my changed ftile. 
 To tell the further bleffings of thine He. 
 
 54- 
 
 Doth neuer peace fo much on bleeding lye. 
 As, in thofe Lads where Crownes by blood fuc- 
 When Princes loines al barren bin & dry, (ceed. 
 
 Nor can their scepter leaue vnto their feed ; 
 For hence full oft I weene were wont to rife. 
 Both ciuill warres, and fecret trecheries. 
 
 N 
 
 or 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 55- 
 
 Nor greater barre of Treafon, nourfe of Peace, 
 Nor bond of loue can be, then when the bed 
 Of Princes cLaft abounds with large increafe 
 Or rightful! progeny ; vpon whofe head (take 
 May ftand their fathers crown ; whofe hand may 
 The ftill-warme Mace his dying hands forfake. 
 
 56. 
 
 Herein alone can neuer be expreft 
 
 In any mortall fcroU, by mortal quill. 
 
 How thou by God, how we by thee bin bleft, 
 
 With conftant hopes of peace ; deriued ftill 
 
 From forth thy roote to branches of thy line, 
 
 Farre fpreading like the ftems of fome faire vine. 
 
 Mongft 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 57- 
 
 Mongft whom, the top of all our hopes begun 
 Next to thy felfe (there, 6 there let them reft) 
 Is on thine Henry fet, thy Princely Sonne, 
 Heire of thy Crowne by Natures intereft ; 
 Heire of thy Honor, by defert like thine ; 
 Heire of thy vertues, by the grace diuine. 
 
 58. 
 
 Go on great Ymp of kings, the worlds next ftay. 
 And follow none but him that thee begot ; 
 Go follow on thy fathers chalked way. 
 So neuer blemijfh thy deare name ftiall blot ; 
 So fhall our fonnes no lefle thy worth adore. 
 Then we thy Fathers name haue done before. 
 
 But 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 59- 
 
 But how could I fo long (fo ouerlong 
 
 Were not my words in his iust praife beftowne) 
 
 Forbeare recounting in my thankfull fong 
 
 That vnion late, which by thy means is growne 
 
 Twixt two neare lifters, euer feuered : 
 
 Tho both within one roofe, one wall were bred. 
 
 60. 
 
 Two fifter Nations neare ly neighbouring, 
 The fame for Earth, Language, Religion ; 
 Parted by diuers lawes, a diuerfe King 
 And Twedaes ftreames ; are now coioyned in one, 
 And thus conioynd, double their former powre, 
 Double the glory of their Gouernour. 
 
 Like 
 
The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 6i. 
 
 Like as when Tame &c Oufe that while they flow 
 In fundrie channels feemen both but fmall. 
 But whe their waters meet & Thamis doth grow, 
 It feemes fome little fea, before thy wall. 
 Before thy towred wall, Luds auntie nt towne. 
 Pride of our England, chamber of the crowne. 
 
 62. 
 
 That where before fcarce could a fhallow boat 
 Float on each flreame : now may whole Nauies 
 Vpon his rolling waues ; fo fliall this knot (ride 
 Of Loue and Concord that is lately tide 
 Betwixt our Lands; double the wonted deale 
 Our fathers had of honour, flrength, and weale. 
 
 Accord 
 
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The Kings Prophecy. 
 
 63- 
 
 Accord ye euer happy Nations twaine. 
 Nor be not twaine no more; but whiles you laft 
 Submit your felues to one felfe Soueraigne, 
 And Hnke your felues in leagues of Loue fo faft. 
 That while you haue one Heaue, and one mere; 
 All may one heart, all may one title here. 
 
 64. 
 
 So fhall the proudeft Nations vnder skie, 
 With fecret enuy murmure at your might. 
 But neuer dare you to ^'our face defie. 
 So fhall my Mufe applaud your happy plight 
 With iome enduring fog; Mean while this verfe 
 Sawe too fewe dayes, to fee too many yeares. 
 
 M 
 
Ad Leonem Anglo-Scoticum. 
 
 Vrja duplex, olim ArSloo clarijfima ccelo 
 
 Sidera ; prcejidium foil 
 Vidit, y objiupuit fidus vidiffe Jecundum 
 
 Sidere nobilius Juo ; 
 Surgentiq; volens, fafces deuicta Leoni 
 
 Subjicit ; Cs? tremulum iubar : 
 Non illi e Jaltu Nemees, Cancrumq. Jequutoe 
 
 Zodiaci in medio ferce ; 
 Fectore fed qui ilium longe, horrendoq. de core 
 
 Longius exuperet iuba ; 
 Forte animal generojum animal, cui cuncta animantu 
 
 SiBCula, ccelica, terrea, 
 Sponte fua cedunt ; orbem illujlrare corujco 
 
 Ferge procul radio, tuum : 
 
 Nee tu vnquam feris, fiella vt noua Cafftopeite, 
 
 'Temporibus moueas loco ; 
 
 ^in 
 
 c 3 
 
Ad Leonem Anglo-Scoticum. 
 
 ^in potius, quanta reliquis es clarius aftris 
 
 Tanto benignius influe 
 Huic orbis gremio ; vt pra te vno negligat omnes 
 
 Sidereas pofulus faces ; 
 Nemo dehinc Jigmun vt pelago jactatus in alto 
 
 Nauita Jujpiciat vetus 
 Pulchrius at Jignum /urgent em nauta Leonem 
 
 Poft modb Jujpiciat nouum. 
 
 1. H. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
NOTES TO THE KINGS PROPHECIE. 
 
 Stanza 1. Orecomne.] An irregular form between the 0. E. orecomen, in 
 Spenser F. Q., iv. 1, 15, " overcommen," and the present English 
 " orecome." 
 
 Stanza 1. Succeeded throne.] Her throne on which there is now a successor. 
 
 Stanza 3. N^or — wo.] " Many irregularities may he explained by the desire of 
 emphasis which suggests repetition, even where repetition, as in the case 
 of a negative, neutralizes the original phrase " — Abbott, Shakspere 
 Grammar, 406. 
 
 So in stanza 63. " Nor be not twaine no more." 
 
 Stanza 4. 1 wont.'] " Wherewith he wont to soar so high." Waller, To a 
 
 Lady singing. 
 Stanza 4. Loftie verse.] Milton, Lycidas, 11. 
 
 " He knew 
 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime." 
 Stanza 4. Sad lines.] " Sad occasion dear." Ibid. 6. 
 
 Stanza 5. Ylike.] The old English form. See Stratmann's Dictionary, p. 
 225; and Morris, English Accidence, p. 224. "A( = 0. E. ge, y) as 
 a-like, 0. E. gelic. This is the usual view taken of alike, but it would be 
 more correct to regard it as another form of 0. E. on-lic, an-lich, = alike." 
 
 Stanza 6. JReave.] Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of Malta, Act v. 2 (vol. v. 
 204, Dyce). " Next we reave thy sword." 
 
 Stanza 7. Closure.] In Chaucer Persones' Tale, and Shakspere=enclosure; 
 though in Titus Andronicus, v. 3, 134, it is used, as here, for closing, 
 conclusion, end. " Beat forth our brains, 
 
 " And make a mutual closure of our house." 
 
 Stanza 11. Addrest.] Made ready, prepared. Several times so used by 
 
 Shakspere. See Schmidt's Lexicon in v. 
 Stanza 12. Locusts.] Phineas Fletcher wrote a poem entitled "The Locustes, 
 
 or ApoUyonists. Lat. and Engl., Camb. 1627. Quarto." The Latin 
 
 title being " Locustse, vel Pietas Jesuitiea." 
 
 F 
 
36 The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 In 1604, on February 22nd, an especial proclamation was issued for 
 " the banishing all Jesuits and Seminaries." Bp, Kennett thinks this 
 severity against them to have been owing in great part to representations 
 from Henry IV. of France, and his minister SuUy, of the designs of the 
 Missioners in England to disturb the quiet of his reign. Nichols, Pro- 
 gresses, i. 319. See the Proclamation in Strype, Annals, iv. 532, ed. 
 Oxon. 1824. Eecords, No. 282. 
 
 Stanza 13. Thd on that day.'\ Bishop Hall preached a sermon entitled "^ 
 Holy Panegyric,''^ on 1 Sam. xii. 24, 25, at Paul's Cross, on the Anni- 
 versary of King James's Inauguration, March 24, 1613, in which he 
 says. " This day alone hath matter enough of an eternal gratulation. 
 For this is the Communis terminus wherein God's favours meet upon 
 our heads ; which therefore represents to us, both what we had and what 
 we have ; the one to our sense, the other to our remembrance. This day 
 was both Queen Elizabeth's Initium gloria, and King James's Initium 
 regni. To her, Natalitium Salutis, as the Passion days of martyrs were 
 called of old ; and Natalis Imperii to him. These two names show us 
 happiness enough to take up our hearts for ever." Then follow several 
 pages of high- wrought panegyric. P. Hall's Ed. vol. v. pp. 79-101. 
 
 Stanza 13. The world was thought to have been created at the vernal equinox, 
 and the year at this time began on March 25. Mr. Chamberlain says 
 of Q. Elizabeth, " After three weeks languishing she departed, being 
 the 24th of this present March, being on Lady's Eve, between two and 
 three in the morning, as she was born on our Lady's Eve in September." 
 Nichols, Progresses of Q. Elizabeth, iii. 604, n. Strype, Annals, iv. 521, 
 No. 276. 
 
 Stanza 14. Beforn.'\ 0. E. iiforen, heforn. Before. Stratmann Diet. p. 48. 
 
 Stanza 15. Turned times."] So Shakspere, Much Ado, iii. 2, 134. " day 
 untowardly turned." 
 
 Stanza 16. Foresaine.'] So in Stanza 49. " Yet feare I to fore-saine." And 
 in Hall's Satires, vi. 1, 63. " Allbee the faithfull oracles have fore- 
 sayne." See Stratmann in " Seggen," p. 434. " Sain is of course say, as 
 frequently in Spenser." Hannah, Note in "Courtly Poets," p. 229, 
 Lond. 1875, on a line of Sir W. Raleigh's, " Yet what is love, good 
 shepherd, sain ? " 
 
Notes. . 37 
 
 Stanza 16. Fair Britaine.] The prediction was fully accomplished by the 
 Union in 1707, of which William Baxter in his Glossarium Antiquitatum 
 Britannicarum, Lond. 1733, says in concluding his Prsefatio ad Britannos, 
 p xii : " Nostris quidem temporibus duo antiquissima Eegna sub Ann^ 
 Invictissimse Eeginse Auspiciis in unum Magn^ Britaitoi^ conluere, 
 quod quidem ut felix faustumque sit utrique populo, Deum Optimum 
 Maximum obnixe rogo." See the Proclamation of King James for 
 uniting both kingdoms in Strype's Annals, iv. 527, No. 280. 
 
 Stanza 17. In this stanza he alludes to some earlier writings of a pastoral style, 
 which have not survived. See Preface, pp. viii — x. 
 
 Stanza 17. Vatick.] Prophetical. Vatiek is not in the Dictionaries. Warton 
 uses vaticinal in the same sense. " He (Thomas the Ehjoner) has left 
 vaticinal rhymes, in which he predicted the union of Scotland with 
 England, about the year 1279." Hist, of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 81, 
 ed. 1824, vol. ii. p. 88, ed. Hazlitt. 
 
 Stanza 20. TJiy Bartas.'] King James translated some parts of Du Bartas. 
 , Eichard Barnfield in Sonnet ii., at the end of his Encomion of Lady 
 Pecunia, 1598, thus alludes to the fact ; " The King of Scots (now living) 
 is a Poet, As his Lepanto, and his Furies shoe it." 
 
 Stanza 20. Sweet influence.~\ Compare Job xxxviii. 31. *' Canst thou bind the 
 sweet influences of Pleiades ? 
 
 Stanza 22. Fore-set.^ Pre-ordained, predestined. There seems to be no other 
 instance of the word. 
 
 Stanza 23. Sinfill.'\ Sinful. 
 
 Stanza 24. The four rivers are Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates. In 
 the Vulgate Tygris is substituted for Hiddekel. Hall takes Gihon to be 
 the Nile as it is said to " compass the whole land of Ethiopia : " and in 
 place of the four rivers he makes Ocean encircle this Northern Paradise. 
 
 Stanza 26. Does this refer to the Lion rampant on the Scottish Shield? If 
 the King wore a surcoat or tabard the paw would be nearly upon the 
 breast. 
 
 Stanza 27 Seld^ Seldom. 
 
 iland.'l In allusion to the Fortunata InsiiUe, and fiuKapav vrja-oi. 
 
 F 2 
 
38 . The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 Stanza 32. Nephews.'] This word is here used like the Latin nepotes for 
 posterity : as in Georgio ii. 58, " seris factura nepotibus umbram," and in 
 ^neid. iii. 158, vi. 757. So also in Horace, Od. i. 2, 35, 36. " Sive 
 neglectura genus et nepotes Respicis auctor." 
 
 Stanza 33. Crcwns from Heaven are sent] " King James, not interposing 
 any further in controversies of religion, began now to teach subjects their 
 loyalty and obedience, and that they were subject wholly to the king, who 
 immediately under God was to govern them. And to this end there 
 came forth a book entitled " God and the King;" wherein were many 
 opinions tending wholly to the advancing regality; as that kings receive 
 their regality wholly from God, that the Church and the people confer 
 nothing to their power." (Bishop Goodman, Court of King James, vol. i. 
 p. 267.) This book came out in 1615, and is said to be written by Dr. 
 Mocket, Warden of All Souls, Oxford. 
 
 Stanza 33. /sAay' s. J =Iesses. Hall follows the Hebrew. In the Vulgate it 
 is Isai. 
 
 Stanza 33. Besprent.] Sprinkled. Hall, Satires, iii. 1, 17. 
 
 " They lick'd oak-leaves besprent with honey-fall." 
 
 Stanza 33. Bazil.-Doron.] The king's work entitled " Basilicon Dorcm^'' ad- 
 dressed to Prince Henry. It was first printed in 1599 at Edinburgh in 
 quarto. 
 
 In his address To the Reader in the edition of 1603, A 2, verso, the 
 King says, " And therefore for the more secret, and close keeping of them, 
 I onely permitted seaven of them to be printed, the Printer being first 
 sworn for secrecie; and these seaven I dispersed amongst some of my 
 trustiest servants, to be keeped closely by them. * * But since this booke 
 is now vented, and set forth to the publike view of the world, * * I am 
 now forced to publish and spred the true copies thereof, for defacing of 
 the false copies that are alreadie spred as I am enformed." In 1603 
 several editions were printed. 1. Edinburgh by Waldegrave. 2. Lon- 
 don, two by Felix Kyngston; one by Richard Field; one by E. Allde. 
 3. In French, one at Poictiers; one at Rouen. In 1604 a Latin edition 
 was printed at London by John Norton, and a French one at Paris. 
 It was reprinted in 1682, with portraits of the King and Prince Henry 
 by R. White. 
 
Notes. 39 
 
 Stanza 34. Autumne.'\ In which the crops of grain are cut down, as Heresie 
 shall be in his raigne, while Atheisme shall find it Winter, and be 
 unable to grow. 
 
 Stanza 35. Martian plaine.] The Campus Martins on the low ground near the 
 river. 
 
 Stanza 35. For lore.] This is the same as forlorn, abandoned, forsaken. So 
 in Hall, Satires, 
 
 " Nought have we here but willow-shaded shore. 
 To tell our Grant his banks are left for lore," i. 1. 
 
 Stanza 35. Shade.] Virgil in iEn. vi. describes the rivers both of Elysium and 
 Tartarus, in which latter Hall feigns there shall be a shadowy Tyber, 
 down to which James will drive Eome. 
 
 Stanza 36. How.] This catchword is misprinted thus in the original. It 
 should be " So." 
 
 Stanza 37. Stoures.] From Styran to stir is stour=tumult, commotion, battle, 
 fight. It is used by Spenser, but does not occur in Shakspere. 
 
 Stanza 37. Mercious.] This is peculiar to our author. Merciful. 
 Stanza 38. Treble.] Perhaps used indefinitely like ter in Latin. But if it 
 must be taken literally as=threefold, what are the three mischiefs ? 
 
 Stanza 38. Staine of native ill^ Compare Hamlet, i. 4, 32, " The stamp of one 
 defect; being nature's livery." 
 
 Stanza 38, Long hath laid.] What extent of time would Hall have meant? 
 Compare Hall, Satires, iv. 2, 101-106. 
 
 " Fools ! they may feed with words, and live by air 
 That climb to honour by the pulpit stair ; 
 Sit seven years pining in an anchore's chair, 
 To win some patched shreds of minivere ; 
 And seven more plod at a patron's tail. 
 To get a gelded chapel's cheaper sale." 
 
 See R. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sec. 2. memb. 3. 
 subs. 15, on the state of divines, the abuses of patrons "who make a prey 
 of the church, spoile parsons of their revenues, keeping back half," &c. 
 Also Strype's Annals, iv. 343-6. Records, Nos. 180, 181, 182, where 
 it appears that the See of Ely had been kept void 14 years, and the Lord 
 
40 The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 Keeper, Sir John Puckring, was treating for leases from the See for his 
 
 own benefit. See also Spelman's History of Sacrilege, chap. v. ed. 1846. 
 Stanza 39. Rascally This term is properly applied to a lean deer not fit to 
 
 hunt or kill, and hence mean, base. Shakspere uses it in both senses. 
 Stanza 39. A Second Satyre.] His Satires issued from the press in 1597 in 
 
 three books; followed by three more in 1598, Both parts were reprinted 
 
 in 1599 and 1602. 
 Stanza 40. Groomes.] If the r be an insertion, as seems most probable, the 
 
 etymology becomes extremely simple, viz., fi-om A. S. guma, a man. 
 
 Then applied to a servant, a lad. Hall seems to use it in a general sense 
 
 as opposed to those of noble blood. 
 
 Stanza 42. The anticipations of the Poet in this stanza have been signally 
 verified. In the last line he refers probably to the exiles from England 
 during the reign of Philip and Mary. 
 
 Stanza 44. This seems to be some anticipation of the King's Progresses, but on 
 what authority he ventures to make this prophecy I do not know. It 
 does not appear that King James, though often at Newmarket and Thet- 
 ford, included Sufi'olk in any of his progresses. 
 
 Stanza 44. Gyre.'\ Latin gyrus. A circle described by anything moving in 
 an orbit, a circuit. " In one vast eternal gyre." Sir W. Jones, Wor- 
 cester Diet. 
 
 Stanza 45. My SufolJce.] In which county he held the living of Halstead. 
 For the circumstances attending his presentation to it see his own work, 
 " Some Specialities in the Life of Bishop Hall," in which he styles the 
 county " that sweet and civill country of Suffolk." See Preface, p. xi. 
 
 The following brief summary of his life and preferments is taken from 
 P. Hall's edition, vol. xii. p. 444. Born 1574. His University career : 
 entered at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1589. B.A. 1592. Fellow of 
 Emmanuel College 1595. M.A. 1596. B.D. 1603. D.D. 1612. His 
 preferments : to the Rectory of Halstead, or Hawsted, 1601. Do- 
 mestic Chaplain to Prince Henry 1607. To the Donative of Waltham 
 Cross, Essex, 1608. Prebendary of Wolverhampton 1612. Dean of 
 Worcester 1616. Refused the Bishopric of Gloucester 1624. Bishop of 
 Exeter 1627. Bishop of Norwich 1641. He died 1656. 
 
Notes. 41 
 
 Stanza 45. Englands Eden hight.'] I can cite no other instance. Both Kent 
 and Worcestershire are called " The Garden of England." 
 
 Stanza 46. Reno'wmed.'\ He uses this form for renowned in his Satires. " Re- 
 nowmed," Spenser, i. iv. 23. It is common in Spenser. 
 
 Stanza 46. Drury.'] " Sir Eobert Drury, of Hawsted, Suffolk (son of Sir 
 William Drury who was killed in a duel in France, in 1589), attended 
 the Earl of Essex to the unsuccessful siege of Kohan in 1591, where he 
 was knighted, when he could not exceed the age of 14. As soon as he 
 came of age he connected himself with one of the best families in the 
 county, by marrying Anne, the eldest daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon of 
 Eodgrave, afterwards the first Baronet in England. In 1603 he was 
 elected one of the Knights of the Shire; an honour which he enjoyed as 
 long as he lived. He patronized the learned and witty Dr. Donne, to 
 whom and his family he assigned apartments in his large house in Drury 
 Lane. In December 1610 he had the misfortune to lose his only sur- 
 viving child, which seems to have produced a great change in his designs 
 and plans of life. He died in May 1615." Nichols, Progresses of King 
 James I. vol. i. p. 220, n. The first century of Hall's " Meditations and 
 Vows " is dedicated to him from Halstead, December 4, no year given 
 but in or before 1608 ; the second Century to the Lady Drury; and in 
 Hall's " Epistles " the ixth Epistle of Decad. i. is addressed to " Sir 
 Eobert Drury and his Lady. Concerning my removal from them." See 
 Preface, p. xvi. 
 
 Stanza 47. The Yron doores.] Horace, Sat. i. 4, 61. " Belli /erratos poshes." 
 The Temple of Janus was closed in time of peace, a fact of which three 
 instances only are recorded in the annals of Eome. It was shut first in 
 the reign of Numa, then after the Second Punic War, lastly by Augustus 
 after the battle of Actium. To its being open during war Hall alludes in 
 his Satires, v. 2, 105, 
 
 '' As lavish Virro that keeps open doors 
 Like Janus in the wars." 
 
 Stanza 48. " Troupes himself shall lead."} This part of The Prophecie was not 
 fulfilled. James was no warrior. 
 
 Stanza 49. Frequent.] Like the Latin frequens, either numerous, or well 
 frequented, crowded, as in these passages, " Senatus est continue convo- 
 
42 The Kings Prophecie 
 
 catus frequensque convenit." Cicero ad Fam. x. Ep. 12. " Idque fre- 
 quentissimo theatro comprobatum." Cic. de Div. 28. 
 
 Stanza 50. To honor rise,] i. e., " hope rise to honor." On the omission of to, 
 see Abbott, Shakspere Grammar, 349. " Help waste a sullen day." 
 Milton, Sonnet xx. 4. 
 
 Stanza 50. Lender.] Unprincipled, and exceedingly so. 
 
 Stanza 50. Brocage.] " A. N. a treaty by a broker or agent." Halliwell. 
 Formerly used mostly in an ill sense. " Many grow wealthy by unlawful 
 means; usury, brokage, bribery." Dr. White's Sermons, 1615. 
 
 Stanza 50. By what large bribes.] The construction of this passage is not very 
 clear. As to the fact Bishop G-oodman uses strong language with regard 
 to Lord Chancellor Bacon. " Over other men he did insult, and took 
 bribes on both sides. It is certain there were many exceptions against 
 Bacon ; no man got more dishonestly, and no man spent more wastefially: 
 and how fit this man was to carry the King's conscience, whom I believe 
 no other man would trust." i. 283. 
 
 " Besides, he was fain to support his very household expenses, being 
 very lavish, by taking great bribes in all causes of moment that came 
 before him, so as men made very bitter sarcasms or jests on him : as that 
 he lately was very lame, alluding to his barony of Verulam ; but now 
 having fallen into a consumption Cof purse without aU question) he was 
 become All-bones, alluding to his new honour of St. Albans. Nay, they 
 said Nabal, being folly or foolishness and the true anagram of Alban, 
 might well set forth his folly and impotent ambition." D'Ewes, MS. 
 Journal, p. 54. Ibid. note. "'Tis true 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true !" 
 
 Stanza 52. Scorned skill.] How far was this true ? See Burton's Anatomy of 
 Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 3, subsc. 15. 
 
 Stanza 52. Writ.] Forwritings, as in the term " Holy Writ." So Hall, Satires, 
 i. 3. 2, 
 
 " They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ." 
 
 Stanza 52. Long Sleep, &c.J An adaptation of the opening lines of the Pro- 
 logue of Persius : 
 
 " Nee fonte labra prolui caballino, 
 Nee in bicipiti somniasse Parnasso 
 Memini, ut repente sic Poeta prodirem." 
 
Notes. 43 
 
 Stanza 52. Muses all.] In allusion to the numerous Congratulatory Poems of 
 divers kinds addressed to James on his accession. Nichols gives a list 
 of them in his Progresses of King James, vol. i. 
 
 Stanza 53. Roundelaies.'\ " Roundelay is from Fr, Rondelet, diminutive of 
 0. F. rondel ; the English spelling is probably due to confusion with lai/, 
 a kind of ballad in -which the first line comes round again." — Skeat 
 in v. 
 
 Stanza 53. Changed sfile-l This is no longer satirical, like his earlier works. 
 Stanza 54. On bleeding lye.] A bleeding, i, e. doth never lead to such blood- 
 shed. 
 
 Stanza 54. Bin.] Again in stanza 56. See Abbott, Shakspere Grammar, 
 332, for this form of the plural third person in en. 
 
 Stanza 55. Mace.] Mace is here used as equivalent to sceptre. Schmidt, 
 Shakspere Lex. defines it "as a club of metal used as an ensign of 
 authority." Shakspere in Henry V. uses both words in one passage: 
 
 " 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball. 
 The sword, the mace, the crown imperial. 
 The intertissued robe of gold and pearl." — iv. 1, 277. 
 
 The mace is an instrument of great antiquity. See The Gnostics and 
 their Remains, by G. W. King, Lond. 1864. Plate iii. 5, at p. 205, and 
 the explanation at p. 206. " No. 5. Abraxas brandishing a mace in a 
 most pugnacious attitude, allusive to his title of ' Beater of the Giants,' 
 who in this new theosophy had been metamorphosed into the agents of 
 Matter, and the angels of the Demiurgus. The primal source of these 
 notions is incidentally pointed out by the weapon the god bears, the 
 mace, unknown to the Greeks and Romans, but perpetually seen in the 
 hands of Assyrian warriors. Especially wielded by their Sandon, the 
 original of the Greek Heracles, with his peculiar weapon, which in 
 archaic art is often a real metal mace. Hence, later, the Persian king's 
 life-guard were styled Mi^Xo^o/jot, their mace being a metal ball on the 
 end of a staff." 
 Stanza 57. Henry.] See " Some Specialities in the Life of Bishop Hall" for an 
 account of his preaching before the Prince, to whom he dedicates his 
 " Epistles, ii. Decad." in 1608. 
 
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44 The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 Stanza 57. " The Prince had a keen relish for books." (Nichols, i. 429.) His 
 medals, or ancient coins of gold, were valued at £3,000; and his pictures 
 afterwards formed part of King Charles's celebrated collection. (lb. ii. 
 489.) He says, " arms and horses are the two things I most delight in." 
 (lb. ii. 190. See also p. 418.) Drayton's Poly-olbion is dedicated to 
 him, and has a fine full-length portrait of liim by W. Hole. Dr. Birch 
 wrote a Life of the Prince, and numerous notices of him, and of the 
 Tracts and Poems on his death are to be found in Nichols's Progresses of 
 King James I. 
 
 Stanza 58. Ymp.} A graft, scion, shoot ; then a youth, prince. 
 
 Stanza 58. Thy Fathers chalked way.] The way chalked out by your Father in 
 his Basilicon Doron, which you must fill in by your life in accordance 
 with its precepts. The outline of a picture is drawn in chalk (I'xyo'ipa^ia), 
 this is followed by the " a-Kiaypaipia adumbratio, cuipostea accedit manus 
 ultima cum omnia ad exactam elegantiam exprimuntur et expoHuntur." 
 Facciolati in v. adumbro. 
 
 Stanza 60. Divers, is various.] " A prey of divers colours of needlework." — 
 Judges, V. 30. '^Divers ranks and degrees." — Blackstone. 
 
 Diverse, implies separation, the being asunder, with a notion of repug- 
 nancy. Divers and diverse are both derived from the Latin diversus; 
 and they were formerly used indiscriminately : but good usage has now 
 affixed to them diff'erent meanings. " Divers implies difference only ; 
 diverse difference with opposition. Thus the several Evangelists narrate 
 the same events in divers manners but not in diverse." — Trench, Study 
 of Words, Lect. v. p. 159. 
 
 Stanza 6 1 . See Drayton's Poly-olbion the seventeenth Song. He makes use 
 of both names, Isis and Ouse, for the same river : 
 
 " Then Isis and the Tame from their conjoined bed." 
 " No marvaile at the news though Ouse * and Tame were ded." 
 Stanza 61. Seemen.] Plural in en. See Abbott, Shakspere Grammar, 332. It is 
 the Midland form. " This form is rarely used by Shakspere, and only 
 archaically. As an archaic form it is selected for constant use by 
 Spenser." 
 
 • In margin Isit. 
 
Notes. 45 
 
 Stanza 62. Deale.'] Used by Hall in his Satires. " A degree, a portion." 
 P. Hall, Glossary, xii. 296. 
 
 Stanza 63. Nor=no.'] The double negative as in Stanza 3. 
 
 Stanza 63. Mere.] Boundary, limit. 
 
 Stanza 64. Under shie.] See Abbott, Shakspere Grrammar, 82. " In the 
 infancy of thought nouns are regarded as names, denoting not classes but 
 individuals. Hence the absence of any article before nouns. Besides, 
 as the articles interfere with the metre, and often supply what may be 
 well left to the imagination, there was additional reason for leaving them 
 out. Hence Spenser, the archaic poet, sometimes omits them. Shakspere 
 rarely indulges in this archaism except to ridicule it, as in Midsummer 
 Night's Dream, V. i 147," &c. Yei '^ under heaven" is a familiar phrase ; 
 as in Acts, ii. 5. " There were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men 
 from every nation ' under heaven.'' " I know of no other instance of 
 " under sMe." 
 
 Stanza 64. Sawe too fewe dayes,] i. e. was composed in a few days. Hall 
 has left no record of this poem. It would of course be hurried forward 
 to be ready for the king at his arrival in London. 
 
 AD LEONEM ANGLO-SCOTICUM : 
 
 Ursa duplex.] Manilius, i. 282, "binse Arcti." Cicero, " Hunc circum apKToi 
 duse feruntur, nunquam occidentes ; Ex his altera apud Graios Cynosura 
 vocatur, 
 
 Altera dicitur esse Helice ; — 
 Cujus quidem clarissimas stellas totis noctibus cernimus, 
 
 Quas nostri Septem soliti vocitare Triones." De Nat. Deor. ii. 41. 
 Germanicus in his translation of Aratus, 
 Axem Cretese dextra Isevaque tuentur 
 Sive Arcti, seu Komani cognominis Ursse, 
 Plaustrave, quae facies stellarum est proxima vero. 24-26. 
 
 Cancrumque sequutce.] Leo is the fifth sign of the Zodiac, following after 
 Cancer. Manilius, iii. 408, applies the epithet Nemeeius to Leo, and 
 describes it as coming immediately '^ post cancri templa," iii. 409 ; or as 
 it is in book i. " Quos sequitur Cancer, Cancrum Leo, Virgo Leonem," 
 265. 
 
46 The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 Stella ut nova Cassiopeice.] In 1572 there appeared a new star in this constella- 
 tion, which at first surpassed in magnitude and brightness Jupiter him- 
 self; but it diminished by degrees, and at last disappeared at the end of 
 eighteen months. It alarmed all the astronomers of that age, many of 
 whom wrote dissertations on it ; among the rest Tycho Brahe, Kepler, 
 &e. Beza, &c. wrote to prove it a comet, and the same which appeared 
 to the Magi at the birth of Jesus Christ, and that it came to declare his 
 second coming ; they were answered by Tycho Brahe. Several astrono- 
 mers are of opinion that this star has a periodical return of 150 years. 
 Phil. Trans. Ixxvi. 193. Rees, Encyclopaedia. 
 Navita suspiciat.'} Virgil introduces Palinurus twice in the jEneid as steering 
 by the stars. 
 
 " Si modo rite memor servata remetior astra." — v. 25. 
 " Talia dicta dabat, clavumque affixus et hserens 
 Nusquam amittebat, ocialosque sub astra tenebat." — v. 852, 3. 
 And again as unable to steer when they were not visible : 
 
 " dispersi jactamur gurgite vasto. . 
 
 Excutimur cursu, et csecis erramus in undis ; 
 Ipse diem noctemque negat diseernere coelo. 
 Nee meniinisse vise media Palinurus in unda. 
 Tres adeo incertos caeca caligine soles 
 
 Erramus pelago, totidem sine sidere noctes." — iii. 1 97 — 204. 
 The Greeks and Phoenicians did not observe the same rule, as the 
 former steered by the Great, and the latter by the Lesser Bear. 
 " Hinc Jovis al trices Helice Cynosuraque fulgent. 
 Dat Graiis Helice cursum majoribus astris, 
 Phcenicas Cynosura regit ; sed Candida tota 
 Et liquido splendore Helice nitet ; baud prius ulla 
 Cum Sol Oceano fulgentia condidit ora, 
 Stella micat ccelo, septem quam Cressia flammis. 
 Certior est Cynosura tamen sulcantibus sequor ; 
 Quippe brevis totam fido se cardine vertit, 
 Sidoniamque ratem nunquam spectata fefellit. 
 Germanici Aratea Phoenomena, 39 — 47. And similarly Manilius, 
 i. 293—301. Both from Aratus, Phoenomena, 37—44. 
 
 " Et Icetati sunt quia siluerunt." 
 
 FINIS. 
 

 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 
 Accord 
 
 stanza 
 
 63 
 
 Bestowne 
 
 stanza 
 
 59 
 
 Court 
 
 stanza 
 
 49, 51 
 
 Addrest 
 
 11 
 
 Betide 
 
 9 
 
 Courtier 
 
 50 
 
 Adore 
 
 58 
 
 Bin 
 
 54, 56 
 
 Creator 
 
 22 
 
 Affright 
 Age 
 Agone 
 Aliens 
 
 12 
 
 18 
 
 4,17 
 
 42 
 
 Bleeding 
 Blemish 
 Blest 
 Boat 
 
 54 
 58 
 
 27 
 62 
 
 Credulous 
 Creepe 
 Crownes 
 Gumean 
 
 32 
 
 35 
 
 54, 61 
 
 17 
 
 Alpes 
 
 Angel^^. 
 
 Anone 
 
 46 
 25 
 
 1 
 
 Boules 
 Brand 
 Brest 
 
 11 
 
 39 
 26,43 
 
 Daines 
 Daliance 
 
 3 
 49 
 
 Applaud 
 
 Arayes 
 
 Aspects 
 
 Assaylde 
 
 Atheism 
 
 64 
 6 
 
 16 
 4 
 
 34 
 
 Bribes 
 Britaine 
 Brinish 
 Brocage 
 
 50 
 
 16, 23 
 
 16 
 
 50 
 
 Dame 
 Dayes 
 Dazle 
 Deale 
 Decline 
 
 17 
 19 
 26 
 62 
 44 
 
 Auntient 
 
 61 
 
 Ccesar 
 
 8 
 
 Defie 
 
 64 
 
 Autumne 
 
 34 
 
 Chalked 
 
 58 
 
 Delphick 
 
 32 
 
 
 
 Chamber 
 
 61 
 
 Desert 
 
 57 
 
 Ban 
 Bard 
 
 13 
 
 47 
 
 Changed 
 Church 
 
 53 
 49 
 
 Dew 
 Discipline 
 
 2 
 48 
 
 Barre 
 
 55 
 
 Circled 
 
 30 
 
 Divers 
 
 60 
 
 Barren 
 
 54 
 
 Civil 
 
 3,54 
 
 Diverse 
 
 60 
 
 Bartas 
 Beast 
 
 20 
 11 
 
 Clay 
 Clensed 
 
 7 
 30 
 
 Diviner 
 Downes 
 
 38 
 
 8 
 
 Beforne 
 Befrended 
 
 14 
 42 
 
 Clensing 
 Closure 
 
 23 
 
 7 
 
 Drams 
 Dread 
 
 36 
 31 
 
 Bene 
 Bere 
 
 16,29 
 63 
 
 Concord 
 Conioynd 
 
 62 
 60 
 
 Drury 
 Dust 
 
 46 
 38,39 
 
 Beset 
 Besprent 
 
 6 
 33 
 
 Contagious 
 Continent 
 
 23 
 23 
 
 Eagles 
 
 8 
 
48 
 
 The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 
 Stanza 
 
 
 stanza 
 
 
 Earth 
 
 
 60 
 
 Governour 
 
 60 
 
 King 
 
 Eden 
 
 24 
 
 ,45 
 
 Grace 
 
 57 
 
 Knot 
 
 Eftsoones 
 
 
 36 
 
 Grapled 
 
 8 
 
 
 Egloge 
 
 
 17 
 
 Griefe 
 
 3 
 
 Lamp 
 
 Eliza 
 
 ■1,7,10, 
 
 13, 
 
 Groomes 
 
 40 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 Eloquence 
 
 
 27 
 
 Guiltles 
 
 11 
 
 Language 
 
 Endite 
 
 
 3 
 
 Guise 
 
 50 
 
 Laws 
 
 Enduring 
 
 
 64 
 
 Gyre 
 
 44 
 
 Leagues 
 
 England 
 
 10, 33, 45 
 
 ,61 
 
 
 
 Learning 
 
 English 
 
 
 9 
 
 Halo 
 
 30 
 
 Lesser 
 
 Envy 
 
 
 64 
 
 Hearse 
 
 4 
 
 Lend 
 
 Erst 
 
 
 7 
 
 Heart 
 
 63 
 
 Lender 
 
 Euphrates 
 
 
 24 
 
 Heire 
 
 67 
 
 Liege 
 
 Even-sun 
 
 
 14 
 
 Hell 
 
 35 
 
 Liegest 
 
 Excesse 
 
 
 49 
 
 Henry 
 
 57 
 
 Light on 
 
 Exilde 
 
 
 42 
 
 Hew 
 
 9 
 
 Lines 
 
 Exile 
 
 
 42 
 
 Hie-upraised 
 
 20 
 
 Linke 
 
 
 
 
 Hill 
 
 35,52 
 
 Lions 
 
 Fee 
 
 
 40 
 
 Ho are 
 
 7 
 
 List 
 
 Fell 
 
 
 35 
 
 Home-smelt 
 
 42 
 
 Locusts 
 
 Fere 
 
 
 6 
 
 Honestie 
 
 50 
 
 Loftie 
 
 Filth 
 
 
 49 
 
 Hop't 
 
 10 
 
 Loiues 
 
 Flattery 
 
 
 49 
 
 Horizon 
 
 43 
 
 Love 
 
 Fold 
 
 
 33 
 
 Hyred 
 
 12 
 
 Lowre 
 
 Fordone 
 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 Iioyall 
 
 Foresaine 
 
 16; 
 
 ,49 
 
 Hand 
 
 27, 42 
 
 Lud 
 
 Fores et 
 
 
 22 
 
 He 
 
 53 
 
 Lustles 
 
 Foresight 
 
 
 12 
 
 Image 
 
 25, 26, 34 
 
 Lyon 
 
 Forfended 
 
 
 13 
 
 Imperious 
 
 11 
 
 
 For-lore 
 
 
 35 
 
 Indian 
 
 41 
 
 Mace 
 
 Forraigne 
 
 
 29 
 
 Influence 
 
 20 
 
 Majestic 
 
 Fortunate 
 
 
 27 
 
 Interest 
 
 57 
 
 Maro 
 
 Fraight 
 
 
 41 
 
 Ishays 
 
 33 
 
 Marre 
 
 Frequent 
 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 Martian 
 
 
 
 
 Janus 
 
 47 
 
 Martyrdome 
 
 Girt 
 
 
 48 
 
 Jesuites 
 
 12 
 
 Mates 
 
 Golden 
 
 m 
 
 , 19 
 
 Joy 
 
 3, 17 
 
 May 
 
 Governance 
 
 
 5 
 
 Justice 
 
 27 
 
 Merchant 
 
 stanza 
 
 53,60 
 62 
 
 44 
 9 
 60 
 36 
 63 
 50 
 10 
 10 
 50 
 
 48, 52 
 
 31 
 
 40 
 
 4,6 
 
 63 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 4, 35 
 
 54 
 
 62, 63 
 36 
 
 34,43 
 61 
 4'3 
 
 26, 47 
 
 55 
 26 
 17 
 3 
 35 
 11 
 32 
 37 
 41 
 
Index. 
 
 49 
 
 
 stanza 
 
 
 tanza 
 
 
 stanza 
 
 Mercious 
 
 
 37 
 
 Overlong 
 
 59 
 
 Renowmed 
 
 46 
 
 Mere 
 
 
 63 
 
 Overwent 
 
 23 
 
 Roiall 
 
 33 
 
 Me seems 
 
 2, 
 
 18 
 
 Oyle 
 
 33 
 
 Rolle 
 
 51 
 
 Millions 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Rome 
 
 11, 35 
 
 Misohiefe 
 
 
 38 
 
 Paradise 
 
 23, 24, 28 
 
 Roote 
 
 9 
 
 Moate 
 
 
 24 
 
 Parasites 
 
 50 
 
 Roses 
 
 9 
 
 Moe 
 
 
 14 
 
 Pedants 
 
 39 
 
 Roundelaies 
 
 55 
 
 Mold 
 
 1, 
 
 11 
 
 Pee.res 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 Monarchie 
 
 
 16 
 
 Pharsalian 
 
 8 
 
 Sable 
 
 4 
 
 Morne 
 
 
 37 
 
 Plaine 
 
 35 
 
 Sacraments 
 
 24 
 
 Mote 
 
 
 32 
 
 Plained 
 
 10 
 
 Sacred 
 
 52 
 
 Mought 
 
 39, 
 
 ,50 
 
 Plaints 
 
 10 
 
 Sad 
 
 4, 7, 12 
 
 Mwrmure 
 
 
 64 
 
 Plebeian 
 
 21 
 
 Saints 
 
 11, 49 
 
 Muse 3, 4, 17, 20, 21, 52, 
 
 , 64 
 
 Plight 
 
 64 
 
 Satyre 
 
 39 
 
 Mutin'd 
 
 
 5 
 
 Poesies 
 
 21 
 
 Savors 
 
 52 
 
 
 
 
 Poles 
 
 41 
 
 Scepter 
 
 34, 54 
 
 Natals 
 
 
 18 
 
 Pollio 
 
 17 
 
 Scorned 
 
 12, 52 
 
 Nations 
 
 60; 
 
 ,64 
 
 Pompey 
 
 8 
 
 Scroll 
 
 56 
 
 Native 
 
 
 38 
 
 Prease 
 
 21 
 
 Sea 
 
 61 
 
 Navies 
 
 
 62 
 
 Presage 
 
 17 
 
 Seed 
 
 19,54 
 
 Neighbouring 
 
 
 60 
 
 President 
 
 28 
 
 Seemen 
 
 61 
 
 Nephews 
 
 
 32 
 
 Princely 
 
 18, 25, 27, 57 
 
 Seven-headed 
 
 11 
 
 Nile 
 
 
 24 
 
 Progeny 
 
 55 
 
 Severed 
 
 59 
 
 Noone 
 
 
 37 
 
 Prophetick 
 
 32 
 
 Shallow 
 
 62 
 
 Nor — no 
 
 3 
 
 , 63 
 
 Proudest 
 
 64 
 
 Shield 
 
 48 
 
 Northerne 
 
 22 
 
 ,44 
 
 Puis-ne 
 
 17 
 
 Shrines 
 
 32 
 
 Nourse 
 
 
 55 
 
 Purple 
 
 8 
 
 Sinfill 
 
 23 
 
 Number 
 
 4 
 
 ,36 
 
 
 
 Sires 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 Quill 
 
 56 
 
 Sister 
 
 59,60 
 
 Ocean 
 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 Skie 
 
 8, 64 
 
 Oercomne 
 
 
 1 
 
 Race 
 
 44 
 
 Skill 
 
 52 
 
 Oke 
 
 
 40 
 
 Eanke 
 
 6 
 
 Slaves 
 
 12 
 
 Oracles 
 
 
 31 
 
 Rascal! 
 
 39 
 
 Sleep 
 
 52 
 
 Crecast 
 
 
 37 
 
 Realms 
 
 44 
 
 Snowy 
 
 24, 46 
 
 Ounces 
 
 
 36 
 
 Reave 
 
 6 
 
 Sound 
 
 23 
 
 Ouse 
 
 
 61 
 
 Redoubted 
 
 52 
 
 Sounds 
 
 41 
 
 Out-spreading 
 
 
 40 
 
 Rehearse 
 
 51 
 
 Southern 
 
 44 
 
 Ovall 
 
 
 30 
 
 Religion 
 
 27, 34, 60 
 
 Soveraigne 
 
 12, 18, 63 
 
50 
 
 The Kings Prophecie. 
 
 
 stanza 
 
 
 Spaine 
 
 
 12 
 
 Tide 
 
 Sphere 
 
 
 44 
 
 Timely 
 
 Spight 
 
 25, 
 
 ,39 
 
 Title 
 
 Spring 
 
 
 34 
 
 Towred 
 
 Staine 
 
 38, 
 
 , 49 
 
 Trade 
 
 Stakes 
 
 
 11 
 
 Tragick 
 
 Stale 
 
 
 11 
 
 Translated 
 
 Starres 
 
 
 16 
 
 Treble 
 
 Steely- 
 
 
 1 
 
 Trecheries 
 
 Stile 
 
 28, 31, 
 
 , 53 
 
 Triumphs 
 
 Still-warme 
 
 
 55 
 
 Trivial 
 
 Stoic 
 
 
 1 
 
 Troupes 
 
 Stoop 
 
 5, 
 
 , 35 
 
 Turned 
 
 Stormfull 
 
 
 37 
 
 Turning 
 
 Stoures 
 
 
 37 
 
 Twaine 
 
 Straine 
 
 
 53 
 
 Twedaes 
 
 Stratagem 
 
 
 48 
 
 Tyber 
 
 Streames 
 
 60, 
 
 , 62 
 
 Tydings 
 
 Street 
 
 
 45 
 
 Tygris 
 
 Strumpet 
 
 Stung 
 
 Subjects 
 
 Sticceeded 
 
 Suffolke 
 
 
 11 
 9 
 
 34 
 1 
 
 45 
 
 Unction 
 Union 
 Upclosde 
 Upraise 
 
 Siradred 
 
 
 22 
 
 Vaine 
 
 Sundrie 
 
 
 9 
 
 Valour 
 
 Surfet 
 
 
 45 
 
 Vassall 
 
 Surplus 
 
 
 11 
 
 Vatick 
 
 Swannes 
 
 
 12 
 
 Vernall 
 
 Verse 
 
 Tame 
 
 
 61 
 
 Vertues 
 
 Thamis 
 
 
 61 
 
 Victorie 
 
 Stanza 
 
 
 1 
 
 Vine 
 
 18,38 
 
 Virgil 
 
 63 
 
 Vowed 
 
 61 
 
 Voyd 
 
 38 
 
 Vulgar 
 
 15 
 17 
 
 Waild 
 
 38 
 
 Wanton 
 
 54 
 
 Wardship 
 
 10 
 
 Watery 
 
 21 
 48 
 15 
 
 Waves 
 Weale 
 Ween'd 
 
 44 
 
 Weight 
 
 63 
 
 Wight 
 
 60 
 
 Winter 
 
 35 
 
 Wisards 
 
 6 
 
 Wisdome 
 
 24 
 
 Wont 
 Wonted 
 
 33 
 
 Wrinckles 
 
 59 
 
 Writ 
 
 13 
 
 20 
 
 Wrongful 
 
 4 
 50 
 40 
 17 
 43 
 
 4 
 
 Yearly 
 
 Yeeld 
 
 Ylike 
 
 Ymp 
 
 Torke 
 
 Yron 
 
 Ysprung 
 
 Stanza 
 
 56 
 17 
 19 
 21 
 21 
 
 10 
 
 49 
 17 
 
 22, 46 
 
 62 
 
 62 
 
 9 
 
 36 
 
 14, 47 
 34 
 16 
 
 27, 50 
 
 4 
 
 62 
 
 2 
 
 52 
 
 50 
 
 44 
 5,20 
 
 5 
 58 
 
 9 
 47 
 
 9 
 
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