Noble and lovely peers, to honour thee, Lach. Her spindle Lachesis, and her fatal reel, Et tibi non aliis didicerunt parcere Parcæ. Atro. Dame Atropos, according as her feres,† To thee, fair Queen, resigns her fatal knife: Live long the noble phoenix of our age, Our fair Eliza, our Zabeta fair! Dia. And, lo, beside this rare solemnity, And sacrifice these dames are wont to do, *Te tamen, &c.] Are not these Latin lines misplaced?! t feres] i. e. companions,-sisters. A favour, far indeed contráry kind, Accept it, then, thy due by Dian's doom, Ven. So, fair Eliza, Venus doth resign Juno. So is the Queen of Heaven content likewise To yield to thee her title in the prize. Pal. So Pallas yields the praise hereof to thee, For wisdom, princely state, and peerless beauty. EPILOGUS. OMNES SIMUL. Vive diu felix votis hominumque deumque, Corpore, mente, libro, doctissima, candida, casta. [Exeunt Omnes. The Famous Chronicle of king Edward the first, sirramed Edward Longshankes, with his returne from the holy land. Also the life of Llevellen rebell in Wales. Lastly, the sinking of Queene Elinor, who sunck at Charingcrosse, and rose againe at Potters-hith, now named Queenehith. London Printed by Abell Jeffes, and are to be solde by William Barley, at his shop in Gratious strecte. 1593. 4to. Another edition appeared, Imprinted at London by W. White dwelling in Cow-Lane. 1529. 4to. Several of the events in this drama (perhaps the most incorrectly printed of all our old plays) are taken from Holinshed, but introduced without any regard to their chronological order. I subjoin the ballad already mentioned in my Account of Peele and his writings. Edward the First has been reprinted in Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. xi., last ed. |