A London 'Prentice still And therewithal he gave him As plainly doth appear. That can with one fmall Box o' th' Ear, When as the King perceived He swore that he should dye Two Lyons were prepar'd To glut themselves with humane Gore, 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. Then in his Shirt of Cambrick, To ftaunch their Hunger great, But God, that knows all Secrets, They scarcely could withstand For when the hungry Lyons, With the Eccho of their Cryes; His Body to devour, Into their Throats he thrust his Arms, From thence by manly Valour For lovely England's fake, 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, Lift up his Eyes to Heaven, Like England may be seen, So taking up this young Man, e; To be his wedded Wife XXVII. The 1 1 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 doubly 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 firft Husband Francis the Second, of France, was marry'd to Henry Lord Darley, (Second 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 Strengthen her felf by too powerful an Alliance. Mean while Sir William Seymour, Son to the Lord Beauchamp, and Grand |