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

The Chronicle HiUory
For heare her but examplified by her felfe.
When all her chiualry hath bene in France,
And {lie a mourning widdow of her Nobles,
She hath her fclfe not onely well defended, ;
But taken and impounded (as a ftray)the King Scott?)..
Whom like a cay rife ftie did kade to Francei
Filling your Chronicles as rich withpraife.
As is the owfc and bottome of the fea.
With funken wracke, and (hipleflc treafurieo
__ Lord, There is a faying very old and true.
If you will France win.
Then with ScotUndfaft. begin :
For once the Eagle £»£/<W being in ptay,
To his vnfurniftt Neft thevveazlc^m
TV ould fucke her Egges,
Playing the Moufe in abfence of the Cat,
To fpoyle and hauocke more then^hc can eat,
IxeAx. followes then, the Cat rouft flay at home,
Yctthatis butacurftncceflity, ,
Since we haue traps to catch the petty theeues:
VVhilft that the armed hand doth fight abroad.
The aduifed head controlles at home:
For gouernment though high or low, being put in ptft*,
Congrueth with a mutuall confcmlike muficke.
Hift, True,therefore doth heauen
Diuide the fate of roan in diuers fun&ions:
VVhereto is added as an aytne or But,Obedience t
For fo liuethc hony bees, creatures that by awe
Ordaine an a& oforder to a peopled Kmgdome,
They haue a King, and Officers of fort;
Where fome like Magiftrates corrc&at home:
Others, like Merchants venture Trade abroad:
Others, like foldiours armed in their ftings,
Make boot vpon the fommers Veluet bud:
\ Vhich pillage they with merry march bring home
To the Tent-royall oftheir Emperor 5
Who bufied in his maicftyabchold
of Henry thefift.
The finging Mafons building roofes of Gold,
The ciuill Citizens lading vp the hony.
The fad-cy’d luftice with his furly humme,
Dcluicring vp to executors pale, the lazie caning drone^
This I inferre, that twenty a<5fions once a foote,
Mav all end in one moment.
As many arrowes lofcd feuerall wayes, fly to one marke:
As many feuerall wayes mcete in one To wne:
As many frefii ftreamesrun in one felfe-fea :
As many lines dofc in the diall center .*
So may a thoufand adions once a foote,
End in one moment, and be all well born without defeat*
Therefore my Liege to France,
Diuide your happy England into foure.
Of which take you one quarter into France^
And you withall, fhall make all CjaHia (hake.
If we with thricc.that power left at home.
Cannot defend our owne doore from the dogge.
Let vs be beaten, and from henceforth lofe
The name of policy and hardinefle.
Km,Call-in the meCfenger fent from the Dolphin,
And by your ayde, the noble finnewes of our Land,
France being ours, weel bring it to our awe,
Orbreakeitall inpeeces :
Either our Chronicles (hall with full mouth fpeake
Freely of our a&s, or clfc like tongueleffe mutes.
Not worlhipt with a paper Epitaph:
Enter the Amh.tjfadors from France,
Now are we well prepard to know the Dolphins pleafur*
For we heare your comming is from him.
lAmhaf. Pleafeth your Maiefty to giue vs leaue.
Freely to render what we haue in charge.
Or fhall I fparingly (hew a farre off.
The Dolphins pleafure, and our EmbaflTage ?
King.Wc are no tyrant, but a Chriftian King,
To whom our fpirit is as fubie&,
As arc our wretches fettered in our prifons#
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