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A London 'Prentice ftill
Shall prove as good a Man,
As any of your Turkish Knights,
Do all the best you can.

And therewithal he gave him
A Box upon the Ear,
Which broke his Neck afunder,

As plainly doth appear.

Now know, proud Turk, quoth he,
I am no English Boy,

That can with one small Box o' th' Ear,
The Prince of Turks deftroy.

When as the King perceived
His Son fo ftrangely flain,
His Soul was fore afflicted
With more than mortal Pain;
And in Revenge thereof,

He swore that he should dye
The cruel'ft Death that ever Man
Beheld with mortal Eye.

Two Lyons were prepar'd
This 'Prentice to devour,
Near famish'd up with Hunger,
Ten Days within the Tower,
To make them far more fierce
And eager of their Prey,

To glut themselves with humane Gore,
Upon this dreadful Day.

The appointed time of Torment
At length grew near at hand,
When all the noble Ladies

And Barons of the Land,
Attended on the King,

To fee this 'Prentice flain,

And bury'd in the hungry Maws
Of those fierce Lyons twain.

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Then

Then in his Shirt of Cambrick,
With Silks moft richly wrought,
This worthy London Prentice
Was from the Prifon brought,
And to the Lyons given

To ftaunch their Hunger great,
Which had not eat in ten Days space
Not one fmall Bit of Meat.

But God, that knows all Secrets,
The Matter fo contriv'd,
That by this young Man's Valour
They were of Life depriv'd;
For being faint for Food,

They scarcely could withftand
The noble Force, and Fortitude,
And Courage of his Hand:

For when the hungry Lyons,
Had caft on him their Eyes,

The Elements did thunder

With the Eccho of their Cryes;

And running all amain

His Body to devour,

Into their Throats he thrust his Arms,
With all his Might and Power:

From thence by manly Valour
Their Hearts he tore in funder,
And at the King he threw them,
To all the People's Wonder:
This I have done, quoth he,

For lovely England's fake,
And for my Country's Maiden Queen
Much more will undertake.

But when the King perceived
His wrothful Lyons Hearts,
Afflicted with great Terror,
His Rigour foon reverts,

And

And turned all his Hate

Into Remorfe and Love, And faid, It is fome Angel

Sent down from Heav'n above.

No, no, I am no Angel,

The courteous young Man said, But born in famous England, Where God's Word is obey'd; Affifted by the Heavens,

Who did me thus befriend, Or else they had moft cruelly Brought here my Life to end.

The King, in Heart amazed,

Lift up his Eyes to Heaven, And for his foul Offences

Did crave to be forgiven; Believing that no Land

Like England may be seen,
No People better governed
By virtue of a Queen.

So taking up this young Man,
He pardon'd him his Life,
And gave his Daughter to him
To be his wedded Wife;
Where then they did remain,
And live in quiet Peace,
In fpending of their happy Days,
In Joy and Love's Increase.

XXVII. The

XXVII. The true Lovers Knot untied: Being the right Path whereby to advise Princely Virgins how to behave themselves, by the Example of the Renowned Princess, the Lady Arabella, and the Second Son of the Lord Seymour, late Earl of Hertford.

To the Tune of Frog's Galliard, &c.

The Lady Arabella Stuart, the Heroine of the following Song (whofe Adventures none of our general Hiftorians have at length recorded, few have touch'd upon) was dou bly related to King James the First, in whofe Reign fhe dy'd, for they both sprang from Margaret, the eldest Daughter of King Henry the Seventh, who by her first Husband King James the Fourth of Scotland, had James the Fifth, Father to Mary Queen of Scots, the Mother of James the First of England, and feveral other Children, whofe Names, being foreign to my Purpofe, I fhall take no Notice of; after the Death of her firft Husband fhe marry'd Archibald Douglaffe, Earl of Agnus, by

whom

whom he had a Daughter call'd Margaret, who taking to Husband Matthew Earl of Lenox, bore him three Sons, of whom the youngest, Charles, (afterwards Earl of Lenox) was Father to Lady Arabella. Nor was this all, for Mary Queen of Scots, after the Death of her first Husband Francis the Second, of France, was marry'd to Henry Lord Darley, (Jecond Son of Matthew Earl of Lenox, by the Lady Margaret, an elder Brother of Charles Stuart, the Lady Arabella's Father) by whom she had King James. When this Monarch came to the Crown of England, he had fome Reafon to be jealous of this Lady, not only becaufe of her near Relation to him, but the very firft Confpiracy, form'd against King James, was in favour of this Lady, tho' utterly ignorant of it, for the Papifts hoping for a Change of Religion, and the difgraced Statesmen for a Change of Government, fecretly plotted to make away with King James, and to proclaim the Lady Arabella Queen: However, the Confpiracy was difcover'd, the Chief executed, and Arabella prov'd Innocent; but certain it is, their Defign might have rais'd fome ambitious Thoughts in her, which otherwife would not have had Birth; and it was good Policy to take Care she should not ftrengthen her felf by too powerful an Alliance. Mean while Sir William Seymour, Son to the Lord Beauchamp, and

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