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The Gardyners passetaunce Touchyng the outrage of fraunce
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IN a gardeyn booth goodly and pleasaunt |
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Walkynge a_loone deuysyng on the flourys deuysyng ='meditating'? See OED s.v. devise v, 11
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Whiche were right fayre delycious and fragraunt |
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Moste delicatly redolent after the swete shourys |
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The red Rose chase I. and toke in amours |
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Howbeit the lyle was growen soo hye |
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That he thought hym-self moost pleasaunt to the Iye |
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The cause me mouynge to chese the red Rose |
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Was for his fresshenesse and moost pleasaunt odour |
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Whiche to the syght and also to the nose |
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Surmounteth the lyle in vertue smell and colour |
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And yet the haulte lyle lyke a prowde Emperour |
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Groweth for the tyme aboue all floures other |
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Presumptuously thynkyng to haue no make ne brother |
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And though in apparaunce his colours be right fayre |
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With whyte the flowre garnysshed with grene leef and stalke |
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Yet well enserched he hath no pleasaunt ayre well enserched ='after close examination'?
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But noyeth the smellers as they by hym walke |
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Of whoys soundry properties farther to talke |
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It were superfluous / but the trowth is this |
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His apparaunce is better / than hym-self is / |
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The lilye by the craft sufferaunce and subtilitie |
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Hath vppon all princes vsurped with puyssaunce |
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Surmysynge that it is for theyr vtilitie |
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All that he doeth to theyr extreme noyssaunce |
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Entendyng to brynge vnder his obeysaunce |
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The Churche th'empire and all princes cristened |
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Whiche dampnable ambicion must nedely be extermyned |
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Specially by the red Rose and the pome-granade |
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His vnsauery smell and pryde soo Inhauncyd |
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With the helpe of god shall wythyr drye and fade |
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Sythens that by tyranny he is thus aduauncyd |
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For after his pype great princes haue dauncyd |
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This longe tyme passed / but now fynallye |
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By power of prynces daunce shall the lilye |
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O vnnaturall sunne / o disobeissaunt membre |
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Whiche ayenst thy fader and hed doest warre |
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O cruell tyraunt why doest thou not remembre |
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How many cristen men thy warres kyll and marre |
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Whiche to represse extinc[t] lette and barre extinct] extinc Pextinct ='extinguish' |
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It apperteyneth to euery prynce victorious |
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For by all lawes suche warre is meritorious |
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What moustre is it portent or abuse moustre ='example' (see OED s.v. muster n1, 2), or perhaps an error for monstre (=monster, 'unnatural occurrence')
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To se a cristen prynce criste to persequute |
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Despisyng his vicayr / his obedience refuse |
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That to lowse and bynde in cristes place was substitute |
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How from his synnes / can he be absolute absolute ='absolved'
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Whiche that highe auctoritie Impungneth contemptuously |
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I feare me suche dealynge woll ende myserably |
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Whan I reduce to my remembraunce |
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The meruelous troubles and persecucions |
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Of Cristes churche whiche by contynuaunce |
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From the begynnyng by sundry vexacions |
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Perseuerant crueltie and great tribulacions |
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Hath been oppressed by extreme tyranny |
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And yet restored to his pristynat glory |
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It causeth me to thynke and byleue verilye |
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That albeit by our lordes sufferaunce |
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Suche tyrauntes procede for the tyme prosperouslye |
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Yet at the length and by contynuaunce |
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Theyr stroke shalbe to theyr more greuaunce |
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For the lenger they be suffred by power dyuyne |
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The sorer shalbe theyr fall payne and Ruyne |
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Whoso lyst to Rede the storys and wrytynges |
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Of the olde Testament and of the newe |
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Of gentilis of Iewes and of cristen kynges |
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Shall fynde vndoubtedly this to be trewe |
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And alwayes the consequent for to ensue |
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That suche persecutours detestable |
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Neuer escaped from ende myserable |
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Antiochus that cruell and myscreant kyng |
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Amonge the Iewes the temple dispoylyng |
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Was furthwith stryken with wormes spryngyng |
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Out of his body soo horrybly sauoryng |
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That he hym-self coude nat suffre the stynkyng |
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It was soo tedious and soo full of horrour |
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That it kylled hym with myserable dolour / |
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Mytridates for Robbyng the temple of dyane
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Was furthwith on the see taken with ennemyes / |
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Pompey that stronge and fortunat Capitayne |
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Was by his childe Tolome slayne in lyke wyse |
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And riche Crassus vsyng semblable practyse |
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In Iherusalem dispoylyng the temple |
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Suffred lyke punysshement for others exemple |
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Brenus and Pirrus whiche the temples dispoyled |
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Of Appollo / and Proserpina at delphos and locris
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The oon with all his army subdenly was distroyed |
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By an erthe-quaue. and the other with all his shyppes erthe-quaue ='earthquake'
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Was drowned in the See verray trouth is this / |
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That they prouokynge goddes indignacion |
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Neuer escaped from extreme punycion / |
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These and many other in the gentilitie gentilitie: =gentility, 'heathendom'
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Were tyrauntes and persequutours of temples and sacrifice |
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Whiche though they sauoured nat of our fidelitie fidelitie ='religious faith, allegiance', a sense not distinguished in OED s.v. fidelity
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Yet were they punysshed by dyuyne Iustice |
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But nowe to reherse princes whiche dyd dispyse |
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The fayth the Churche and minstres of the same |
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After cristes commynge I shall touche summe by name |
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Nero
Domician
Seuerus and traianus
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Marcus_Anthonius and dioclisian
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Decius
valerius and maximianus
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Maxencius and also cruell aurelian
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Whiche all were Emperours and wars than Dathan
wars: =worse
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Destroyers of Churches popes and prelates |
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Yet dyed they myserably for all theyr great estates |
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Of emperours kynges and princes cristenyd |
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Whiche in theyr tymes made cruell persecucion |
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Agaynst the Churche though all be nat rekennyd |
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Yet of some folowyngly I shall make mencion |
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Constancius the arian Iulianus_Apostata
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Zeno th'emperour and totilas the kyng |
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Leo_Astulphus
desiderius and atila
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Frederyke with others yet in this reconnyng |
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I note Loys th'emperour for oon speciall thyng |
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For he beynge sunne to Philip of Fraunce
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Had with pope
Iohnn
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As the frenshe kynge now hath with pope
Iulius
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On the churche with scismes and warres vsurpyng |
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Howbeit fynally for his actes furyous |
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His nek was broken / from his horse fallyng |
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And all the other tyrauntes lyke maners ensuyng |
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Were shortely stryken with deth subdayne |
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Who-so lyst to rede the stores they be playne
stores] storyes Gstores: =stories |
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If those tyrauntes then were soo sore punysshed |
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For such persecucions of churches and prelates |
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How shall the tyrauntes of our tyme be chastysed |
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That contempne god the churche and all estates |
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May[n]teyners of myscheues stryues and debates
Maynteyners] Mayteyners P
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Usurpynge ouer-all deteynyng cristes patrimonie |
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Nurysshyng scismes and herysies by tyrannye |
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When Pipyne of Fraunce and Carolus_magnus
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With theyr great puyssaunces entred in Italye
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To subdue Astulphus and desiderius
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Beyng for that tyme kynges of Lombardye
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Oppressers of Popes inuadyng theyr patrimonie |
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They vsed no suche enterprises abhominable |
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But lyke cristen kynges vertuous and honourable |
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They brought those tyrauntes to state myserable |
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Extinctyng the kynges of Lombardye for euer |
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Restoryng the Churche whiche was in caas lamentable |
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Theyr noble fame therfore shall euer perseuer |
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Suche actes doth good princes from tyrauntes disseuer |
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Then in Charles from Grece th'empire was remoued in Charles from Grece: perhaps this should read: from Charles in Grece
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And Pipyne was taken for the kyng moost cristened |
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This lilye pretendynge to be moost cristen kyng |
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To whom it apperteigneth the Churche defende and honour |
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Doth dayly practyse by crafty dissymblyng |
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The pope and all princes to subdue by colour |
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Surmysyng matiers sownyng to honour |
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And yet his entent is clene contrarye |
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Aspiryng dayly to the hole monarchie |
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Alwayes he thynketh to haue to lytle |
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His ambicions appetite is neuer saciat
ambicions] ambycyous G
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Encroching on all men without Iust title |
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Makynge throughout the worlde stryf and debate |
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And yet he Iuggeth hym-self right fortunate |
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Whan murder and myschyf increaseth his substaunce |
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Countynge the same great honour to fraunce
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Whiche shortly must redownde to his great mischaunce |
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Considering the huge clamour made before god
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Of innocentes blode shed by his varyaunce |
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Prouokyng th'execucion [of] goddes swerde and rodde
of] P omits
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Who cannot suffre his people vndertrodde |
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By oppressours of virgyns wyues and wydous |
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Commyttynge sacrylege to god moost dispitous |
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I woll not reherse the progresse of his lyf |
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Ne speke of his periury. wherof he hath no cure |
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Ne yet how he left his first spouse and wyf |
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Ne how he brake with princes when they thought hym sure |
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But yet I suppose this may not long endure |
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Without some stroke or sharpe punysshement |
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Onlesse he be reserued to a sorer Iugement |
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It is to be thought that god omnipotent |
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Is fully determyned agaynst hym to bee |
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Sens his men and Capitayns be so nere spent |
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And that many princes booth by lande and see |
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Make warre to represse his iniquitie |
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The pope the kynges of Englande
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Uenecians and Sucheners Italyans many oon Sucheners =the inhabitants of the Suchener Hochtal (high valley of the Sucher), the westernmost region of Gottschee in Austria at the time of the Holy Roman Empire
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And if th'emperour wolde call to his remembraunce |
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The manyfolde dispites and wronges commytted |
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By the frenshe kyng to his reproche and greuaunce |
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The reuengyng therof wolde not be omytted |
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Now when he hath good tyme to requyt it |
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In ioynyng hym-self with so myghty puyssaunce |
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Whiche shuld his honour and suertie moche auaunce |
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Howbeit in so iust quarell cause and pourpose |
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The foresayd puyssaunces vertuously procedyng
foresayd] forsesayd P, forsayd G
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Cannot spede amysse as I do suppose |
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God and saynt
George theyr gyde being |
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To whom let vs praye deuoutly saying |
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God saue the Churche our fayth to aduaunce |
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And chastyse the insolence and orgule of fraunce
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Maynteynyng the red Rose our Ioye. our daliaunce |
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Our loue. our pleasour. delyte. lyf. and comforte. |
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In whom resteth our entier affiaunce |
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And to whom all cristen princes may resorte |
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For honour. wysedome. strength. and disporte |
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Goodly passetymes in actes marciall |
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Sufficiently replenysshed with vertues all |
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Preseruynge our noble pome-garnate the Quene |
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Who hath as many vertues and good properties |
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As in the pome-garnate kernelles may be seen |
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And by whom Englande hathe thise commodities |
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Aliaunce assistence confederacion and amyties |
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With Castile / Aragon / Austriche / and Burgoyn
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Whiche to recouere Fraunce is the direct moyn
moyn] moyen Gmoyn ='instigation, interest'? See OED s.v. moyen n1, 5 |
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Nowe is the tyme prophicied / now is the verray season |
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That the red Rose shuld were the crowne of Fraunce
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Lyke as it aggrethe bothe to right and reason |
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For longe hath the lylye kypt it by suffraunce |
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But god by his iustice nowe guydyng the balaunce |
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George assistynge our valiaunt Englysshmen |
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Fraunce shall haue a fall our lorde saye Amen. |
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