Chronicle history of Henry the fift, with his battell fought at Agin Court in France

The Chronicle Hiftory
ity&.Then hcarc me gracious Soueraigne, & yon Pecret^
Which owe your liues, your faith, and feruices
To this imperiall Throne:
There is no bar to flay your highneffe claime to France..
But one; which t h eyp r o d u c e fr o m Far amount
No female fhali ilicceed in Sclique Land;
Which SaliqxeLand, the French vniuftly glo^e
To be the Realme of France,
And Paramount the founder of this law and female barre,
Yet their owne writers faithfully affirme,
That the Land Saliqtte lyes in Germanyy
Betwcene*the floods ofSabsc’^ and otLlme, v, 7
Where Charles the lift hauing fubdude the Saxons
There left behindc, and fetled certaine French,
Who holding in dildaine the Germane women*
ForfomedifhoneflmannerspfthdirliufeSii r '
Eftabliflu there this Law. To wit.
No female (hall fucceed in Salique Land:
Which Salique land (as I haue fayd before) . *
Is at.this time in Germany, call’d Me fine*
Thus doth it well appeare, the law
WTas not deuifed for the Real me of France v
Nor did the Frenchpoflefle the SaltqueXwi^^-a ;
Vntill foure hundred one and twenty ycarc*
After the futypnfaeatrtQHntii.1 him
Godly fuppofd the founder ofthislii.w.
Hugh Capet alfo that vfurpt the Crowne,
To fine his Title with fomefbew of truth.
When inpuretrath it was corrupt and nought-:
Conuey d hunfelfe asJleiretptKc Lady 7^,
Daughter ;o.ad^xihefoiWaydauke of ,W
So that as clecre ,
^ing Pymx Title,MMugkCqiztf chime, •
King Charles his fatisfadfion, afl appeare
To hold in right and title of the female.: xiiijqt-
ga do the Lords of Fra^nuW this day, *
Howbcit they would hold vp this Law
To
of Henry thejift.
To barre your highnefle claiming from the female,
A nd rather choole to hide them in a net, ^
Then amply to embrace their crooked cauies,
Vfurpt from you and your progenitors. . _
iC. May we with right and confcience make this claimr
Hi. The fin vpon my head dread Soticraigne:
For in the booke of Numbers it is writ.
When the fonne dyes, let the inheritance
Defcend vnto the daughter.
Noble Lord, ftand for your owne,
Vnwinde your bloody flagge,
Go my dread Lord to your great Grandfires graue*
From whom you claime:
And your great Vntkle Edward the blacke Prince*
Who on the French ground playd a Tragedy.
Making defeatc on the full power of Prance,
Whilft his moft mighty father on a hill.
Stood fmiling to behold his Lyons whelpe,’
Foraging the blood of French Nobility.
O Noble Engliih; that could entertaine
With halfe their forces the full power of France
And let another halfe ftand laughing by.
All out of worke, and coldc for a£Hon.
KinggNe muft not oncly arme vs gainft the French)
But lay downe our proportion for the Scot,
Who will make rode vpon vs with all aduantages*
2?/.The Marches gracious foueratgne,fhalbc fufficiem
To guardyour England from the pilfering borderers.
.Kwsg'.Wedo not meane the courfing fiieakers onciy,
But feare the maine entendmpent ofihe Scot:
For you fhail read, neuert«y great Grandfather
VnmasktKis power fox France,
Butthatthei’caronhis viifumiflitkingdome, '
Came pouring like the tide into a breach.
That England being empty of defences, i ■ *' '• ^
Hath fhooke and trembled at the brute hecreof;
j5ry2>.She hath bin then move fear’d then hurt my Lord-:
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