A Speech on the water, delivered in the morning, at my Lord Mayor's going to Westminster. List, gentle lords,* and, bubbling stream, be still, This gladsome day wherein your honours spring: lords] Compare the first line of this piece. Troy-novant] i. e. London. Thus far these friends have pierc'd, and all by me with] The 4to. "wish." A Farewell. Entituled to the famous and fortunate Generalls of our Engl Frauncis Drake Knights, and all theyr brave and resolute followers. Whereund Lectorem. Parve nec inuideo sine me (liber) ibis ad arma, Hei mihi, quod domino no Maister of Artes in Oxforde. At London Printed by I. C. and are to bee solde by W to S. Mildreds Church in the Poultrie, Anno. 1589. 4to. On the back of the title are the arms of Elizabeth, with the motto "Sem verses; "Gallia victa dedit flores, inuicta Leones In 1583, while the public exultation at the defeat of the Spanish Armada gallant adventurers (excited chiefly by the desire of gain or glory) fitted out, ali a fleet for an expedition to Portugal, for the declared purpose of seating on the Don Antonio, who had taken refuge in England. On the 18th of April the a consisting of 150 vessels and 21,000 men, under the command of Sir Francis Dra detail of the disasters which ensued would here be out of place; suffice it to persons perished in this expedition, and of the eleven hundred gentlemen who a and fifty returned to their native country. The Tale of Troy: By G. Pule M. of Arts in Oxford. Printed by A. H. 16 London Printed by Arnold Hatfield, dweiling in Eliots Court in the Little old Baylie : 1604,-forms a very diminutive volume, about an inch and a half in height, an It presents a text differing greatly from that of ed. 1589. See Account of Peele a ΤΟ THE MOST FAMOUS GENERALS OF OUR ENGLISH FORCES BY LAND AND SEA, SIR JOHN NORRIS AND SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNIGHTS. YOUR virtues famed by your fortunes, and fortunes renowned by your virtues, thrice-honourable generals, together with the admiration the world hath worthily conceived of your worthiness, have at this time encouraged me, a man not unknown to many of your brave and forward followers, captains, and soldiers, to send my short Farewell to our English forces. Whereunto I have annexed an old poem of mine own, The Tale of Troy, a pleasant discourse, fitly serving to recreate by the reading the chivalry of England; to whom, as to your ingenious judgments, I dedicate the same; that good minds, inflamed with honourable reports of their ancestry, may imitate their glory in highest adventures, and my countrymen, famed through the world for resolution and fortitude, may march in equipage of honour and arms with their glorious and renowned predecessors, the Trojans. Beseeching God mercifully and miraculously, as hitherto he hath done, to defend fair England, that her soldiers may in their departure be fortunate and in their return triumphant, GEO. PEELE. NN 2 |