The laudable life and deplorable death, of our late peerlesse Prince Henry. briefly represented Together, with some other poemes, in honor both of our most gracious soueraigne King Iames his auspicious entrie to this crowne, and also of his hopefull children, Prince Charles and Princesse Elizabeths happy entrie into this world. By I.M. Master of Artes.
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THE Laudable Life, And Deplorable Death, of our late peerlesse Prince HENRY. Briefly represented.
Together, with some other Poemes, in honor both of our most gracious Soueraigne King
Iames his auspicious entrie to this Crowne, and also of his most hopefull Children, Prince
Charles and Princesse
Elizabeths happy entrie into this world.
By
I. M. Master of Artes.
LONDON Printed by
Edw: Allde, for
Thomas Pauier, dwelling neere the Royall Exchange, at the signe of the Cats and parrat. 1612.
TO OVR LATE PEERLESSE PRINCE HENRIES deere Brother and Sister, PRINCE CHARLES AND PRINCESSE ELIZABETH Infants of
Albion, of greatest hope, all happinesse.
THrise hopefull
CHARLES, gracefull
ELIZABETH
Great Britaines
Hearts-ioy, Europs brightest beames
Lo what my Muse, though mournfull, mused hath
In laud of our late Lilly of Saint
IAMES:
All Europes obiect, and the flowre of Knights,
Mirrour of man-hood, wonderment of wights.
The
Life of him whom euery heart did loue,
The
Death of him whome each heart doth condole
These lines doe limme, while Christ him crownes aboue;
And that his fame far flee's twixt Pole and Pole:
This duties Birth I trust ye will it take
In the best worth, for worthy
HENRIES sake.
Of your Highnesses The right humble Seruant: Iames Maxwell.
The blessed Angels gather vp the soules of vertuous men, as men doe plucke or gather sweete flowres for their pleasure.
VVhich hauing said, lo troupes of Angels bright,
Post-haste from heau'n, vpon S.
Leonards day,
In the Spring garden at Saint
Iames light,
And thence our louely Lilly fetch away:
Then home they haste scaling the starrie skies,
Leauing behind them blacknes, shrikes & cries.
5
The Angels reioyce at the dissolution of the soules and bodies of the good, but men doe mourne; the exaltation & presence of the Soule brings solace to the one; the Soules absence and the Bodies corruption, brings sorrow to the other.
Good Lord what discords were in th'accents then
Which men and Angels made with heart and voice!
Angels had solace, sorrow seas'd on men;
Men sigh'd and sob'd whilst Angels did reioyce:
Angels were glad, but men were grieued sore,
Angels did sing, whilst men did shout and roare.
6
Angels and Saints in the supernall quire
With sweetest songs that day did celebrate,
Blest
HENRIES soule vnto great
Ioue so deare
With heauenly Hymns they did congratulate:
With how great mirth did they this Antheme sing
Welcome sweer Saint the sonne of Britains King!
7
The day of Prince
Henries death, was both a feasting day and a fasting day, the one to Angels, the other to men: He yeilded vp the Ghost into Gods hands the same day of the weeke, and about the same time of the day that Christ Iesus did yeild his into the hands of his Father; to wit, on friday the sixt day of the weeke, being likewise the sixt day of the ninth moneth, when he was not full 19 years olde.
Deere
HENRIES death thus made a fest'uall day
T'immortall wights, to men much otherwise,
[Page]For from their hearts all gladnes fled away,
So soone as he had shut his Eagles eyes:
VVhich made them crie, is our braue
HENRY gon,
The ioy of Hearts, the Hope of
Albion?
8
The fairest flowre that er'e in
Britaines Ile,
Did sprout or spring, or Sunne did euer see,
Whose fragrant smell diffused many mile
Fill'd Sea and Land from
Wales to
Virginie.
Orcades and
Gades, west; East, both South and North,
Did smel the sent which this sweet floure sent forth.
9
A wight I weene, whose worth both farre and neere,
Prince
Henries piety and feare of God.
Made each eye loue him, each tong speake his praise;
Whose piety, faith, and religious feare;
His fame and name shall to the heauens raise:
It was his daily practise twise to pray,
And praise his God; this was his vse alway.
10
A peerlesse part in him all haue obseru'd,
His admirable and laudable abstinence from swearing cursing & banning.
Eguatius & Cuspinianus de Caesaribus in Henrice Sancto.
But pure and chaste remain'd both day and night:
HENRY the Saint that worthy Emperour,
Was not more chaste, then
HENRY Britaines floure.
29
A wondrous thing it is, yet very sure,
That such a Prince should liue so continent,
VVhere were so many obiects to allure
His eyes and eares, his senses to inchant:
Sith then this Soule so chaste was and diuine,
Let all chaste hands heape Roses on his shrine.
30
Scotland hath brought forth but tvvo prince
Henries, and both of them were of most vertuous disposition, and of extraordinarie expectation, and died young before their Fathers: the first Prince Henrie was the grād child of holy queen
Margeret, eldest daughter of Prince
Edward the outlavv sonne and heire of Edmond Iron-side King of England▪ The second and last Prince Henrie was the great great grand-childe of Queene Margarete, the eldest daughter of Henrie the seauenth King of England. Reade hereof the Chronicles of both Countries.
Two hopefull
HENRIES much admir'd for worth,
The clime of Scotland heertofore hath bred,
The choisest floures that euer soile brought forth;
Both's fate it was to make this Ile to shed
Huge streames of tears, for that in youthfull Prime
Such wights of worth should fall before their time.
31
The first Prince
Henry was Saint
Dauids childe,
That peerlesse Prince borne of Saint
Margaret,
[Page]And King
Malcolme; which of this seuer'd Ile
By birth did both the Royall bloods vnite:
The next did likewise from a
Margaret spring,
The Gemme of
Iames our Iles vniting King.
32
Likewise that Sainted Prince of
Hungarie,
Munsterus in Hugaria Auentinus in Annalibus Boiorum. Antonius Bonfinius Michael Ritius de rebus Hungarie, in S. Stephano & Emerico. Cuspinianus in Henrico sancto. Saint Henry Emeric
Prince of Hungarie
died yong and before his Father, as did our Henry Frederick
Prince of Britannie.
King saint
Steuens Son, nam'd
HENRY EMERICK
That holy Prince did in his spring-time die;
As did our hearts-ioy
HENRY FRIDERICK:
Whose holy life shall get him lasting praise,
And him enstile the wonder of our dayes.
33
Ten dayes did last lou'd
Henries hid disease,
During which space, his heau'n-bred brest did burne
With diuine loue; in God was all his Ease;
Mediciners could do no more, but mourne.
And good cause why; seeing their Phisicke-art,
No help could giue to heale great
Britaines Heart.
34
Thus in the month that martyr'd
Edmond fell,
In the month of Nouember
Saint Edmond King of England suffered his Martyrdome, and both king
Henrie the 3. and our peereles Prince
Henrie did die, the one leauing his Kingdome to
Edward the 1. the other his Prince-dome to
Charles the 1.
Once Englands King, whose faith him made a Saint:
Henry our hope, who did in faith excell,
In hope, and loue, his holy soule vp sent.
[Page]To
Christs owne Court; a soule so full of grace,
That it was worthy of no lower place.
35
Ado Treuirensis in Martyrolog. & alii plures.
S. Leonard
was a Confessor, and St. Felix
a Martyr.
Saint
Leonards day neere
t' All Saints was his last,
That's likewise nam'd Saint
Felixs martyr-day;
Saint
Iames they call the place from whence he past,
In th'armes of Saints to liue with Saints for aye:
Thus Persons, Times, and places circumstance,
Do
HENRIES Soules Saints-honour all aduance.
36
Prince
Henry a bright starre soone Ecclipsed.
Lo Norths bright Star thus hath of late gone downe
where floures are free from thistles & from thorns.
39
A Starre, a Pearle, a Flowre sith we haue lost,
Bright, rare, and faire, if we haue cause to mourne
God wote, man wote;
Prince
Henry aliue the solace of hearts; but dead, the sorrowe of hearts.
loe that which cheer'd vs most
Now doth it to our greatest sorrow turne:
HENRIE aliue did lighten euery part
But
HENRIE dead sends sorrow to each heart.
40
One thing there is our sorrow may asswage
Prince
Charles is like a
Phoenix risen out of Prince
Henries Phoenixcinder, to bee a Cordiall and comfort to our hearts.
And heale our heart-breake, which is, when we see
Heau'n-fauord
Charles of such hope in prime age
Borne to prolong this Ilands vnitie:
So oft as I behold braue
HENRIES brother,
Me thincks I see a
Phoenix from his Cinder.
41
Looke on his face,
Prince
Charls the viue resē blance of Prince
Henries both body & mind.
and surely ye shall see
How
HENRIES face in
Charles his doth reuiue;
Marke then his grace, wit, mildnesse, modestie,
And all the goods, which God doth to him giue:
Ye'le say with me, that there was ne're another
More like to one, then
Charles is to his brother.
42
Marke but his courage when he runnes at Ring,
Prince
Charls his gracefull and vertuous inclinatiō, toward, & couragious disposition, godly education, memorie, wit and vnderstanding euen in his youthfull age of 12. yeeres.
A POEME, SHEWING HOW THAT BOTH THEOLOGIE AND ASTROlogie, doe pronounce the time of his
Maiesties entring to this Crowne, to be auspicious and happy.
The Argument
AT what time God the Father entred into the world by the Creation thereof, and God the Sonne Christ Iesus entred into the world for the renouation of the same, by the assumption of our flesh in blessed
Maries Wombe, at the selfe same time
Iames the Sonne of
Marie entred to his new Kingdome.
At the feast of the annuntiation, Christ Iesus the Son of
Mary entred into the world by the assumption of our flesh, and
Charles Iames the sonne of
Marie entred to his newe Kingdome.
For if the Time be blest God did descend,
From Heau'n to Earth, a Man for to be made,
In
Maries wombe, for vs which did offend;
To th'end mans sinne on
IESVS might be laide:
Then blest the time, when
Maries IAMES came down
From North to South, to beare great
Britaines crown.
4
For at what time vnspotted
MARIES childe
Came downe from God,
Eues ill race to rescue
From death and hell, to make an vnion
Twixt God and man thus reconcil'd a new:
At the same time, a matchles
MARIES childe
Came to vnite men with men in this Ile.
5
Robert the 2 and the first of the
Stewart-Kings in Scotland, &
Iames the 6. and the first of the
Stewart-kings in England, began both of them their reigne in both kingdomes, at the feast of the Annuntiation. See
Boethius, Leslaeus, Buchananus &
Stowe in their Chronicles.
Thus
MARIES time hath bene auspicious
To
MARIES seed, and to the royall stemme
Of
STEWARDS name, sprung from the valorous
Britannish
Bruce, borne to Norths Diadem:
For in both lands the first of
STEWARDS line
That e're bare Crowne began both at this time.
6
VVhen
Phoebus shining in his Rammie signe
The first of signes, and rules the head of man,
[Page]Was running from the night-days-equall Line;
At what time the fun which is the prime of starres, was running in
Aries which is the prime of signes, at the same time the prime Starre of the North by his motion began to inlighten the two Hemispheres of this Ilish Orbe.
The Norths bright Starre with beamie face began,
Surueying South and North both farre and neere,
For to o're-shine the two halues of his sphere.
7
And fit it was, that this high head of
Iles,
Ptolomeus, Albumazar, Fō tanus, Cardanus &
Ranzoniun doe place vnder the influence of
Aries which is the head of signes, the head of man which is the head of earthly creatures, and vnder the head of the same head signe called
Aries, they place great Britannie which is the head of Ilands.
Great
Britaines Ile, a royall head should see:
T'unite her ends, though distant many miles;
When the head-signe was in his Royaltie:
Which in Mans Body challengeth the Head,
And doth his force o're
Albions Iland shed.
8
Als when the Sunne did runne his Giants race,
At what time the Sunne was mouing in the signe of
Leo or the Liō which is the Sunnes owne house, the Lyon of the North at he same time receiued the Crown of the South.
Mounted vpon the starrie Lyons backe;
Then did the
Lilly-Lyon shewe his face
In glorie great; when he the stile did take:
To be surnam'd King of great
Britanie,
Norths Prince of peace, and Pearle of vnitie.
9
Yea
Iuda's-Lyon that delights to feede
In the Reuelation Christ Iesus is called the Lyon of the Tribe of
Iudah, and in the Canticles he remaineth among the Lillies, and the Lyon enuironed with Lillies, is a chiefe part of
Charles Iames his royall armes.
At S.
Iames feast was happily King
IAMES crowned.
S. IAMES who like-wise was a
MARIES childe,
Held feast that day, that King
Iames bare this Crown:
First on his head, as Monarch of this Ile;
Congratulate he did his new renowne:
Wishing that our King
IAMES of
Albion,
Might match in hap King
Iames King of
Aragon and
Valence, the first of that name, the vniter of two kingdomes & both the son & the grand-son of a
Marie was surnamed the fortunate or happie: see
Marinaeus in the 10. Booke of his Spanish Historie.
IAMES of
Aragon.
11
Thou
Iacobs Harpe, which he holdes in his armes,
Take vp a tune out of thine owne accord:
Sing peace on Earth, and end to all alarmes
Here in the Land of thy Concording Lord;
Play
Dauids Harpe, how pleasant is't to see,
Britaines to liue in loue and vnitie?
12
Orpheus, Dauids, and our
Iacobs Harpe is the Symbole of concorde: see
Orus Apollo and
Pierius in their Hieroglyphicks.
Sweet
Orpheus Harp adde new strength to thy strings,
The most glorious workes that can enter into any Princes heart or hand are these two, the pacification & re-union of the diuided Catholicke Church, and the restauration and re-union of the diuided and diminished Christian Empire: and it is the Authors most hearty wish, that it would please God to make the hapfull Father the instrument of the one, and the hopefull sonne the instrument of the other.
A Poeme shewing the Excellencie of our Soueraigne King IAMES his HAND, that giueth both health & wealth, instanced in his Curing of the Kings euill by touching the same, in hanging an Angell of Gold about the neck of the diseased and in giuing the poorer sort money towards the charges of their iournie.
The Argument.
KIng
IAMES is called of God to be the Curer of the Kings Euill; in priuate persons corporally; in the Body of this Ile politically; in the Pope and the whole Catholick Church Ecclesiastically.
King
Iames his Hand wrought an admirable, yea an incompar
[...] ble cure, when he set together againe the Back and the Belly of this two-parted Britannish Bodie.
Which deed of this North-South-descended
Dame,
(For of both lands she had the royall blood)
Did signifie, that once one of this Name,
I meane of
IAMES, vnto great
Britaines good,
Hauing vnited in his Body one
Both bloods, should ioyne the halues of
Albion.
8
If dead
S. Iames his
Hand in place had beene
At that blest
Time, King
Iames the South did see,
Me thinks it would haue growne both fresh & green
At the first
Touch of
IAMES of
Britanie:
E'en the reuiued
Hand of
S. Iames dead
On
S. Iames Day had crown'd K.
Iames his
Head.
9
O happy
Britaines that thus haue in One
A iust, wise, Prince, a prompt Philosopher,
A pregnant Poet, a Phisition,
A deepe Diuine, a sweet-tongued Orator;
A
King
Iames a Prince, a Philosopher, a Phisition, a Poet, in one word another
Apollo.
Curer both of Kings, and poore Mans Euill;
What would ye more, a
King
Iames a Curer of Kings (if they would be cured) by wholesome admonition, and a curer of the Kings euill in priuate persons by manuall imposition, and a curer yet of another euil (which the Author calleth the poore mans euill) by bounteous subuention. King *
Iames plaied the chaser, yea the danter of the deuill in his voyage to
Denmark, where he soyled al his forces and scattered his troupes of wicked witches in the mids of the Cimbrianesea.
A Temple of concord or peace to the God of peace and concord.
Temple now:
And ioyning hearts and hands thus let them sing;
Long liue King
IAMES our Saluer and our Saint
North's Prince of Peace, Mont-
Syons
The Oliue-tree is the symbole of peace in
Orus Apollo and
Pierius: and our Prince of peace is like an Oliue tree planted in the Mount-Sion of the Church with Christs owne hand.
oliue-plant.
12.
And thou great
Iames whom God hath blessed thus
With his best things, with might and maiestie,
Ascribe with heart and hand religious
All praise and laud vnto the
Trinitie:
To Christs sick Church put to your healing hand;
Cure
The Kings-euill of the Church is her diuisions to be cured by the hands of kings and the heads of moderate men.
her kings-euil, chase sects frō Christen-land.
13
Play
The Author alludeth to
Dauids curing of
Saul, and his chasing away of his euil Spirit by the harmony of his Harpe. The Harpe is alwayes the Symbole of concorde, but most properly in our Kings person, in regarde of his mild moderation & singular inclination to Christian concorde, the very crowne of all his other qualities.
Dauids part, our Curer and our King
In
Sauls behalfe, e'en the Musition,
With your sweet Harpe, cease not to play and sing;
The Pope (whose chiefe Court and chamber is in the Castle called S. Angell) is so subiect vnto the Kings-euill, though he will not be subiect vnto Kings, that he cannot be cured but by the hand of a king: and if a King on earth cannot, or will not cure him; then the King of heauen cure him for the good of his Church.
A Poeme, representing a mysticall
May-Pole of a
Palme-tree from holy
Palestine, decored with a
May-Crowne of sweet
Cedar from Mount-
Lebanon, and ouer-topt with an
Oliue-plant from holy Mount-
Sion.
Presented in hearts Earnest wish on
May-day being the holy
May-day is the commemoration of
Philip and
Iames Day of
S.S.
Iames Bishop of
Ierusalem in
Eusebius, and
Hieronymus Ecclesiasticall Historie, is named
Iustus, &
Nazaraeus for his integritie and chastitie.IAMES the Son of
Marie once the most holy Bishop of the
Holy-Land, so highly renowned for his integritie and chastitie.
Vnto King
Iames the Sonne of
Marie Lord of the
Ireland is called the holy Iland by
Festus Au
[...]enus, so is Lindefarne in Northumberland by
Beda in his Historie, of old the seate of the holy Scotish Father
Aidanus Primate of Northumberland. holy Iland, Simbolising with the other both in Name and notable parts.
Planted in the mids of his Spring-garden of
S. IAMES there perpetually to spring & sprout vntill Prince
Charles his hopefull hand, quicken this Conceite.
1
BEhold the
May that home to
IAMES I bring
(In hearts desire) this day that youthfull bands,
Fetch From the fields and Forests flourishing
The tallest Trees and boughs with busie hands;
Their townes, their streets, & dwellings to decore
With Spring-times pride, & fragrant
Flora's store.
2
A
May-pole such the like was neuer seene
For matters (yet vnmatcht) Excellencie,
All the
May-daies that yet haue euer beene
Since
May began or
Mayes
Meaning the Queene of May.
Mayd-monarchie:
[Page]In no prophane place did my
May first stand,
It's such a
May as yeelds the
The Palme-tree is proper to
Palestine called commonly the holy land, see
Dioscrides and
Gesnerus de Palma.
holy land.
3
The Palme-tree is the simbole of patience, fortitude, victorie in
Orus Apollo, and
Pierius.
The holy
Palme almost the prime of Trees,
The sacred
Symbole of prais'd patience
Was fittest to present his holy Eyes;
Whose patient Sp'rit all men must reuerence:
Milde
Iesus hauing on milde
Iames his face
Engrauen the cleere Image of this Grace.
4
This Tryumph-tree the more it's beaten downe
The more it bendeth vp with matchles might;
Bowe downe his backe, behold he rises soone,
Resembling most a wrastler strong and wight:
Hence is the
Palme, the signe of Victorie
Of Fortitude and Magnanimitie.
5
In which respect this
May's most fit for him,
Whose Vertues valour doth thus vanquish Vice,
As Crueltie, Pride, Lust, and
Mammons sinne;
A Victorie that mak's him happy thrise:
As for his State, the more men it debase
The more God mountes it to an higher place.
6
Growe Princely
Palme in despight of disdaine,
Put forth apace your chiefe branche from your back
More Apostolicall Preachers of peace of the name of
Iames, of old, and more louers of Christian concord at this day, of the same name of
Iames, then of any other.
S. Iames of old, did direct an Epistle to the dispersed beleeuing
Iewes for the furthering of their Christian conuersation, & King
Iames (I hope) will doe the like one day to the same, now misbeleeuing and more dispersed nation, for the furthering of their Christian conuersion and collection: Euen so come Lord Iesus, come and vnite both Iewes and Gentiles in one.
A Congratulation of the most hopefull Prince CHARLES his auspitious Entrie into the world,
Prince
Charls his birth-time was both a royall time & a religious time. and Natiuitie, which was the 19 of Nouember 1600 being the festiuall day both of S. ELIZABETH the renowned Daughter of
Andrew King of
Hungarie & the Eue of the Commemoration of S.
Edmond the Martyre once the most Christian King of East-England; and the third day after the Coronation-day of the most renowned Princesse ELIZABETH our late Queene of Famous memorie.
1
GOe to my Muse with mirth some Sonets sing
In honor of the blest
Natiuitie
Of sweet Prince
Charles borne of a Queene and King,
Whose Name and Fame shall liue in memorie,
So long as
Phoebus rolling in his Spheere
Shall bring forth dayes or seasons of the yeere.
2
The Sunne which is the Lord of life and light
Iupiter which is called the prime of planets for felicitie hath his house and hearts-ioy in the signe of
Sagittarius vnder which Prince
Charls was borne.
To euery thing that Nature heere belowe
Doth forme or frame; when
Charles first came in sight
Did his bright beames from
Ioues chiefe house him showe
Sagittarius is a signe enclining to beauty of body, quicknesse of wit, and goodnes of vnderstanding: also a certain martiall and Mercuriall starre called the right ankle of the celestiall waineman did arise a litle before Prince
Charles his birth, as it were to make him ready to goe to meete & welcome our Martiall and Mercuriall young Prince comming into the world.
Sagittarius is a southerne signe & hath it vnder the best countries of Europe, beside the happie Arabia, and the Horoscope in this signe doth encline men to goe and see the said countries with good successe.
His toward prowesse spreads his name right farre,
Through
Sagittaries secret influence,
For vnder it are
Spaine, France, Italie,
High-Dutch-land, Dalmace, Hungar', Arabie,
8
A happy fortune thus it doth betide
Sole in Sagittario Horoscopante qui nascitur paternā haereditatem consequetur.
VVith ioyfull successe both by Sea and Land,
A name renown'd throughout the world so wide:
A wise-bold heart with a victorious hand.
Yea more according to the starrie fate
At home he must enioy his fathers state.
9
Nouembers month into the light did send
Vespasion and
Tratane were both of them famous for their fortitude, courage, wisedome, warlik prowesse, iustice, modestie, clemencie, bountie, and liberalitie, towards Schollars and Soldiours; whereof read
Suetonius, Dion, and
Aurelius Victor in their Histories.
Henrie the 4. was likewise a Prince of great vnderstanding, and of quicke wit; eloquent, liberall, and in warre both foreward and fortunate; he fought more fields then
M. Marcellus or yet
Iulius Caesar, and alwayes with a victorious issue, whereof read
Baptista Egnatius, &
Cuspinianus in the Emperours liues.
Charles Duke of Burgundie and Brabant, was a Prince of exceeding great magnanimitie; and euen from his lowest yeeres, much addicted to warrelike exercises, patient of cold and heat, hunger and thirst, and both temperate and continent, free from luxury and lecherie, and the most toward wight of his time, of whom read
Pontus Heuterus in his Historie of Burgundie.
The same month bare Prince
Charles of Burgundie,
Surnam'd the bold, a Chieftaine sterne and stout,
Who many times brought home braue victorie,
And did his prowesse proue at many a rout:
Lewis of
France much fear'd his force and might
And had the worse by him in field and fight.
11
Philip Prince Palatine of Rhine, is renowned for his warrelike prowesse and singular wisedome the was a great fauourer both of Schollars and Soldiours, and was chosen Generall of the Imperiall forces, both by
Charles the fift, and
Ferdinand the first Emperors: of his prowesse, read in
Melchior Suterus Historie of the Hungarian warre: and
Augustinus Brunnius in his Catalogue of the Palatine Princes.
Philip the braue Prince Palatine of
Rhine
For his rare courage cal'd the Bellicous,
Was borne about our young Prince
Charles his time
Whom heere I name for his acts chiualrous;
Which he did shewe vnder great
Charles of
Spaine,
Then Emperour, in defence of
Vienne.
12
Twentie sore assaults
Soliman had made
The famous Citie for to take by might;
Whole sixty thousand fell downe by his blade;
Yet forward
Philip was not turn'd to flight:
But valiantly did in defending stay,
Till that the
Turks were faine to flee their way.
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* Great
Archer-King the soueraigne Lord of all
Who didst ordaine Prince
Charles to see the light
[Page]In th'archer-signe which brings a fat all fall,
In the Reuelation Christ is painted out as a crowned archer riding on a white horse, with a bow in his hand, going forth to conquer and ouercome: & in Astrologie
Caput Draconis or the Dragons head hath his fall in the signe of the Archer, vnder the which Prince Charles was borne to be an instrument one day, by his sharpe arrowes of the Turkish Dragons fall and finall ouerthrowe.
To
Dragons-head; strengthen this tender Knight;
Guide thou his Arrow and direct his Dart
To pierce the
Turkish Dragons head and hart.
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Stout
Castriote,
George Castriote a Prince of incomparable courage, magnanimitie & strength of body, entred to his Princedome of
Albanie in the south about the same time that Prince
Charles was borne to be Duke of
Albanie in the North, and afterwards succeeded to his brother Prince
Henrie in the Princedome of Britannie. Of the Turkes he was called
Scanderbeg which is another
Alexander the great, for his great valour: and of the Christians, in whose cause he shewed an admirable fortitude against the Turkes in many battles and fields, he was called
Chrssts soldier and
Champion: he liued in great honour reputation and fame, in despight of the Turkes the space of 63. yeeres: of whome read
Marinus Barletius in his life,
Velaterranus in his description of Macedonie,
Aeneas Syluius in his Europe, and
Paulus Iouius in his Turkish Commentaries.
whom
Scanderbeg they call
A second
Pyrrhus valiant, bolde and braue,
The
Turkish Troups that often did apall
And in the field full oft the foyle them gaue
About the time of
Charles Natiuitie
Began to be nam'd Prince of
Albanie.
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O happy sight to see Prince
Charles one day
Castriote alias Scanderbeg was Duke of
Albanie in the south, and our
Charles is Duke o
Albanie in the North.
In the Geographie of
Ptolemaeus, Strab
[...], Plinius and
Stephanus there doe occurre six countries and Cities in the east & south, which beare the name of
Albanie, and they lye in Greece, Arabie, Armenie, Galacie, and Italie, or thereabout; and the seauenth
Albanie is in the North of Britannie, being a part of Scotland, and the first Dukedome of Prince
Charles, whome Christ enable to vnite them Imperially all in one.
Albanies, choose him thy fields to fight
Gainst
Mahomet, and giue him for his bire
Constantines Towne with the proud
Turks Empire.
17
Prince
Albert Marquise of Brandenburg for his incomparable valour called the
Achiles of Germanie, was borne on the 19. of Nouē ber, euen as our Prince
Charles was: see
Nicholaus Reusnerus in
Diario Historico, a briefe description of whose incomparable valour, and magnanimitie, is to be read in the Genealogicall workes of
Elias Reusnerus and
Hieronymus Henninges, as also in the Electorall Catalogue of
Augustinus Brunnius.
Scal'd many a wall; and strongest townes did take:
Was ay the first that enter'd in the field,
And ay the last that laid downe sword and shield.
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Albert was matchles in all martiall playes,
Prince
Albert did 17. times runne against men all armed and threwe them in the dust, he himselfe hauing no more armor on him except his helmet & shield.
A Congratulation of the happy Birth of the most gracefull Princes ELIZABETH, which was the 19. of August 1596. being the festiuall day of the holy Matrone and Martyr S.
Thecla, and the next day after the Commemoration of the most religious, & renowned Empresse S.
Helen Daughter of
Coilus King of Britanie, and the Mother of the first Christian Emperour
Constantine the great, who was borne in the ancient and honorable Citie of Yorke.
1
The Sun being entred into
Virgo which is both a feminine signe, and the house of the feminine planet
Venus, they brought forth into the light Princesse
Elizabeth to be the flower of the feminine sexe.
MVse sing the Birth of lou'd
Eliza's grace
The flowre of Virgins, whom the
Virgin-signe
When as the Sunne did there begin his race;
Sent to the light; both did their force combine
With
Venus, who in that Signe hath her house
To grace vs with a Virgin vertuous.
2
Virgo is a signe enclining to beautie of body & bountie of minde.
In this Signe
Phoebus frames a louely face,
A comely feature, and a stature tall;
Vpon the heart he heaps his richest grace
Of prudence, knowledge, bountie; and withall,
Inclines to be kinde and officious,
shamefast, and graue, iust, and ingenuous.
3
All which are further'd by the good aspect
Of th'other starres, which in that houre did shine
Sol in Virgine Horoscopans facit puellam ingeniosam,
[...]erecundam, beneuolam, officiosam, prouidam, quae viro nubet circa
16. annum & parturiet primo genitum eleganti forma.
To be thriftie, watchfull and diligent:
The maried state, (if that the art be true)
Vnto her sixteenth yeere is fit and due.
5
Ierusalem is subiect to her signe,
These Cities are vnder the signe of
Virgo vnder which Princesse
Elizabeth was borne.
Corinth and
Rhodes, Pauie and
Tholouse Towne
Basil, with the braue
Heidelberg of
Rhine
Paris and
Lyons Cities of Renowne:
And though I knowe not, which her must befall
Yet this I knowe that she deserues them all.
6
Six Emperours
Eliza's time did send
Into the light, two onely will I name
Probus the prime of olde
Romes princely men,
whose vertues worth did spread ech-where his fame:
Maximilian the 2. the most worthie sonne of a most worthy father
Ferdinand the 1. was a Prince wōderful wise iust, moderat, clement, milde, affable, and bountifull to Schollars and soldiours, of whom read in
Historia Augusta,
The other is braue
Maximilian
Whom men the second of that name enstile,
Whose worth went through all
Germanie and
Spaine,
With
Italie, through euery Land and Ile:
A Prince renown'd for his beneficence,
His wisedome, Iustice and his temperance.
8
Fridericke the 1. and
Fridericke the fifth Prince Palatines of Rhine, were borne in the month of August the 1. on the 1. day, and the fifth on the foureteenth, whereof read
Nicholaus Reusnerus in his
Diarium, and
Augustinus Brunnius in his
Catal
[...]gus Electorum.
To
Caesars two, two Princes we may ioyne
From
Caesars sprung, and from the greatest Kings,
Two
Friderick Prince Palatines of
Rhine;
The
First, the
Fift, whose fame with feather'd wings
Hee's far and wide, from filu'rie
Thames to
Tweede
From fruitfull
Kent vnto
Kintires heede.
9
Fred'rick the first call d the
Victorious
Is magnified for his martiall deedes,
And prowesse great; a Prince magnanimous
That of true worth, had both the fruits and seedes;
Fred'rick the fift who now adornes this Ile
One day shall brooke first
Fred'ricks honord stile.
Of
S. Thecla the renowned Matrone and Martyr, read
Eusebius, Euagrius &
Nicephorus Ecclesiasticall Histories.
that rare Martyr'd wight
VVhose constant faith, and feruent zeale for ay
Shall be extoll'd, and had in honors hight:
And now me thinks her pietie and faith
Doe all reuiue in grac'd
Elizabeth.
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Me thinks I see
Eliza in her prime
Begin to follow the religious path
Of that Princesse still honor'd to this time,
S. Elizabeth daughter of
Andrew King of Hungarie is much renowned for her feruent pietie towards God and her charitie towards the poore whom she liberally relieued; and the sicke, vnto whom shee was wont with her owne hands to minister both medicine and meat, yea her costliest ornaments, she conuerted them to their vse for the supplie of their wants, of whom read
Iacobus Montanus in her life.
Vnder the name of Saint
Elizabeth:
Who was the daughter of faire
Hungarie
As shee's the daughter of great
Britanie.
A parent to the poore
Eliza was
Nine hundreth soules she daily did maintaine
This worlds wealth she did esteeme but trash,
True godlines was aye her greatest gaine;
To fast and pray, to helpe the poore in neede
To salue the sicke, the fatherlesse to feede.
12.
S. Hellene once a daughter of this Ile
King
Coilus childe,
S. Helens day is the 18. of August, and our
Eliza's birth-day the nineteenth.
S.
Helene the daughter of
Co
[...]us King of Britaines and the worthiest Empresse that euer was in the world, so much renowned for her pietie, charitie and liberalitie: shee founded and builded about 32. Churches, she liued the space of 80. yeeres in health, wealth, with honors Imperiall hight, of whom read
Eusebius, Nicephorus, Eutropius, &
Orosius, in their Histories.