Yet he tryumpht as whole and sound, And once again, if Fortune stood, Who bragd and boasted in his greace, And so the rest with cheerful sound, Sang, as the prouerb olde hath been, Sith monstrous corps, with delicates, Whose monstrous minde, with poys'ning woords, But what, did he repent of all His blooddy sinful race? And learn by Gods woord to amend, His life so voyd of grace? Nay sure, til time of present death, Oh, yet though he had liu'd so il, To suche as think that Jhesus Christe But as this* Eresichthon liu'd, In spite and rage to spoil: So, in his end, of mightie Ioue Not that he died, but that in death His helth he did' denie: For sure non mori turpe est, Sed turpiter mori. • Erisichthon was King of Thessalia, who despised Ceres, and cut down her woods; at last, being stroken with a meruailous hunger, was compeld to eat his own fleshe. And yet though Erisichthons end To eat his fleshe, sith Bonners mates Yet viler end had he, no dout, The one a Christian was in name, He Ceres sought, this Ihesus Christe, Whereby all such as blinded were, May see what iudgement is preparde, And therefore boule all Balams seed, But Englishe barts, which love Gods word, Reioyce, sith hope of foes is spoild, Sith filthy flesh doth lie in graue, Which liu'd and dide so stout a foe But what though blooddy corps of his His blooddy facts and deeds moste vile Shall treason so conspir'd, shall pride, No fame from earth to vpper skies, His brutishe tigrishe toil, in time His rage and currish cruel spite, His false surmise and murdring spite, Not of Vlisses souldiours sure, Shall now † Philonides lie dead, So sleep? Nay sure his wickednes His stoutnes shall remain now shewd, In time of his conflict: Who as a subject did deny, To haue his hart adict. And as a foe to Christ (his woord) Some others raign I ween. Beside his epicurishe life, Before and in this cace: Though corps be dead, yet death cannot He suffred was, ful ten years space, By fauour him to win: (As gospels nature is) yet he Could never once begin Poliphemus, or Cyclops, was son of Neptune and Thoosa, a great monster, hauing but one eye, which was in his forehed. He was of the ile of Scicilia, into whiche Vlisses being cast by rage of tempest. and hapning on the caue of this Cyclops, lost four of his men, who would have deyoured the rest, if Vlisses, making him drunk, had not, with a fire-brand, bored out his eye. + Philonides was a great big lubber of Mileta (now called Malta) altogether so folishe and unlerned, that of him grew a prouerb, Indoctior Philonide. Some wil say, Bonner was wel lerned. I graunt, yet, in knowledge of holy scripture, like to Philonides, notwithstanding his ciuile law. For to repent (though fauour he Deserued had but small At those, which now in his distresse, But scoft and mocked those, as yet And therfore sith, in life of his, Deseruing no good fame: Sith God hath cut of suche a * Can we but praise his name? drone, And eke beseeche th' almightie Ioue, In cutting of the rest with speed, Who sure may shame at his vile race, Though all his life he had been benf, This may suffize, as God hath lent In blasing foorth the deeds and fame, Of Romaines greasy God, whose life Which carp at truthe, and stomack this Throughout this land, and others to, Ere this whiche knew it wel. • A drone breedeth among bees, muche like a bee; and alwayes iiues in the hiue, never coming out to gather hony, but stil deuoureth that whiche the bee dooth gather, and, at last, the bee and all. God saue our Queen Elizabeth, And root out those with speed from vs T. KNELL. It. A COPIE OF A LETTER Lately sent by a Gentleman, Student in the Lawes of the Realme, to a Frende of his, CONCERNYNG D. STORIE. Black Letter, Octavo, containing twenty-two Pages. ACCORDING to your request, you shal hereby vnderstand what you may truely saye and auowe vpon such questions as it seemeth you haue harde, of the late execution of D. Storie, who suffred at Tiburne the first of Iune last. It is notorious howe euyll and vnloyally he behaued hym selfe here in Englande before he departed the realme, and howe earnest a persecutor afterward he was of all the good subjectes of Englande, hauyng cause to be in the Lowe-countreys, both before the arrest made of late by the Duke of Alua, as sence that tyme, a multitude of honest marchaunts knowe it, both Englyshe and others, and a great number haue felt it, by imprisonment, procured by hym, and by seasyng and confiscatyng of their goodes; so as there is no doubt to be made, but that he was, to his power, as earnest an enemie to the state of Englande, his naturall countrey, and the Queenes Maiesties good subiectes, as any man borne in this realme coulde be. Neuerthelesse, because, at the place of his execution before his death, he vsed long and many speeches, to moue some of simple understandyng, or that dyd not knowe his rancor and malice agaynst the Queenes Maiestie, and the state of this realme; and for that it was not then conuenient, nor at least coulde be imagined aforchande, that he woulde haue vsed suche speeches at that tyme, and so he was suffred to speake altogether without contradiction, whereby the trueth, percase, may be made to you obscure; you shall vnderstande of what detestable crymes he was gyltie, and therewith shoulde haue ben particulerly charged at tyme of his arraignement in the Kyngs-benche, but that he craftyly and traytorously, knowying by his examination wherewith he was to be * See the 4th Article in the Catalogue of Pamphlets. |