Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire

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Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire
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Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
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London :: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N. Ling,
1605.
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¶ Notes of the Chronicle-Historie.

When Longauile to Mary was affied.

THe Duke of Longauile, which was prisonet in England vpon the peace to be concluded betweene England and France, was deliuered, and married the Princesse Mary, for Lewes the French King his Maister.

How in a storme thy well rigg'd ships were tost, And thou, &c.

As the Queene sailed for France, a mighty storme arose at sea, so that the Nauy was in great danger, and was seuered, some driuen vpon the coast of Flanders, some on Brittaine: the ship

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wherein the Queene was, was driuen into the hauen at Bullen with very great danger.

When thou to Abuile heldst th'appointed day.

King Lewes met her by Abuile, neere to the Forrest of Arders, and brought her into Abuile with great solemnitie.

Appear'dst vnto him like the Queene of light.

Expressing the sumptuous attire of the Queene & her train, at∣tended by the chiefe of the Nobility of England, with 36. La∣dies, al in cloth of siluer, their horses trapped with crimson veluet.

A cripple King laid bed-rid long before.

King Lewes was a man of great yeeres troubled much with the gowt, so that he had long time before little vse of legs.

When Marques Dorset, and the valiant Graies,

The Duke of Suffolke when the proclamation came into Eng∣land, of iusts to be holden in France at Paris, he for the Queenes sake his Mistris, obtained of the King to go thither: with whom went the Marquesse Dorset and his foure brothers, the Lord Clin∣ton, Sir Edward Neuell, Sir Giles Chappell, Tho: Cheyney, which went all ouer with the Duke as his assistants.

When thou in triumph didst through Paris ride.

A true description of the Queenes entring into Paris, after her coronation performed at S. Dennis.

Then fiue great Dukes as did their places fall.

The Dukes of Alansoon, Burbon, Vandome, Longauile, Suf∣folke, with fiue Cardinalls.

That large-limd Almaine of the Giants race.

Francis Valoys, the Dolphin of France, enuying the glory that the Englishmen had obtained at the Tilt, brought in an Almaine secretly, a man thought almost of incomparable strength, which encountred Charles Brandon at Barriers, but the Duke grapling with him, so beate him about the head with the pumell of his sword, that the blood came out of the sight of his Caske.

Else might my blood finde issue from his force. In Bosworth, &c.

Sir William Brandon Standard-bearer to the Earle of Rich∣mond, (after Henry the 7.) at Bosworth field, a braue and gallant Gentleman, who was slaine by Richard there; this was father to this Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke.

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