A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght: (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth) — John Shaqi
A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght: (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth)Hawes, Stephen
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A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght: (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth)
Hawes, Stephen
Poetry
Fy on the saturne with thy mysty fume
Replete with fraude treason and wyckednes
To shewe thy beames thou darest not presume
So cursed thou arte withouten stablenes
Deuoyde of grace fulfylled with doblenes
Thy power to Englonde was neuer amyable
But alwayes euyll vntrue and varyable
[Sidenote: Iupyter.]
Now gentyll Iupyter the lodesterre of lyghte
Thy stedfast beames so fayre and so clere
Cast now abrede that we may haue a syght
To gladde vs all whan that they do appere
Sendynge downe trouthe from thy fulgent spere
For to make our hertes mekely to enclyne
To serue our souerayue whiche doth nowe domyne
[Sidenote: Mars]
O myghty Mars o god of the warre
O flambynge honour of euery hardy herte
Sende downe thy power truely from so ferre
Us to encourage that we do not sterte
But by hardynes that we may subuerte
Our soueraynes enemyes to hym contraryous
By bataylles fyrse ryghtfull and rygorous
[Sidenote: Phebus]
And thou fayre bright / and aureate phebus
Encreace now lyght with loue and honoure
Amonge the lordes so gay and gloryus
With thy radyant beames so hye of fauoure
Deuoydynge all trechery debate and rancoure
Any yllumyne the mynde with lyberalyte
Of our good souerayne with welth and vnyte
[Sidenote: Venus.]
And lady Venus with thy sone Cupyde
Of euery lorde do nowe the herte enspyre
With feruent loue that he do not slyde
And of the comyns set the hertes on fyre
To loue our souerayne with theyr hole desyre
Folowynge his grace with dulcet armonye
To the ryghtfull waye withouten Ieoperdye
[Sidenote: Mercury]
Also thou Mercury the god of eloquence
The gentyll sterre of grace and vertue
Thy beames of ryght peace and conscyence
On our kynges counsayll downe send and renue
The trouthe of Iustyce / that they may extue
For to do wronge by the synne of couetyce
That here before hathe done grete preiudyce
[Sidenote: Luna.]
An thou watery dyane of the se the goddes
With thy broder eolus the god of the wynde
Encourage the hertes by in warde hardynes
Of . . . . . ynde
And enmyes ryse that they be not behynde
Them for to chace and the se to scoure
By grace and fortune in many a stormy stoure
O god aboue / trononysed in heuen
In whose wyll resteth euery thynge alone
The skye / the erthe / with all the planettes seuen
Without whose grace / comforte haue we none
As thou arte thre enclusyd in one
So saue our souerayne / from all maner wo
And this his realme from mortall warre also
Holy chirche reioyce / with all your lybertees
Withouten dõmage / the kynge wyll ye encreace
And be your shelde from all aduersytees
No wronge shall be but he wyll it soone seace
Knyttynge the knotte of fayth loue and peace
Bytwene you and hym without dysturbaunce
So for to endure by longe contynuaunce
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