What should I cite your paffed acts, or tedioufly incence To prefent armes; your faces fhew your hearts conceive offence, Yea, even your courages devine a conqueft not to faile. Hope then your Duke doth prophecie, and in that hope prevaile. A people brave, a terren Heaven, both objects worth your warres, Shall be the prizes of your prow's, and mount your fame to Starres. Let not a Traytor's perjur'd Sonne extrude us from our right: He dyes to live a famous life, that doth for conqueft fight." Warner's Albion's Engl. 22 Chap. 4 B. 1602. Ed. NORFOLK's Soliloquy before the Battle of BOSWORTH. "IF IF all the Campe prove traytours to my Lord, Dare any tongue, fince Yorke fpread forth his light, Two valiant Cliffords, Roos, or Beaumont's name, 5 Becaufe Because they in the weaker quarrell die? Bofworth Field, p. 7. King RICHARD's Speech. "MY fellow Souldiers, though your swords Know then, ye have but chang'd your Generall's name. Be Be ftill yourselves, ye fight against the droffe Of those, that oft have runne from you with loffe. Have our affaults made Lancaster to droupe? That onely Merlin may be thought divine? And knowes not what our drums and trumpets found!" Sir J. Peaumont's Poems. Earl RICHMOND's Speech. "IT is in vaine, brave friends, to fhew the right Which we are forc'd to feeke by civill fight, Your fwords are brandifht in a noble cause, Ah, was it not enough, that mutuall rage But But muft this crooked Monster now be found, Will drive him from the mountaine where he stands, Sir J. Beaumont. 1 SPEECH SPEECH of VOA DA, Queen of the BRITTON S, before the Battle with the ROMAN S. "MY ftate and fex, not hand or hart, most valiant Friends, with-hild Me (wretched cause of your repaire, by wicked Romans il'd) From that revenge which I do wish, and ye have cause to worke: In which suppose not Voada in female feares to lurke. For, loe, myselfe, unlike myselfe, and these fame Ladies faire In armor, not to shrinke an ynch wheare hottest doings are. Even we do dare to bid the base, and you yourselves shall see Your felves to come behind in armes: the Romaines too that be Such Conquerors, and valiantlie can womankind oppreffe, Shall know that Brittish women can the Romish wrongs re dreffe. Then arme ye with like courages as Ladies fhall prefent, Whom ye, nor wounds, nor death, the praise of onset shall prevent. Nor envie that our martiall rage exceeds your manly irs, For by how much more we endure, so much more we defire Revenge, on those in whose default we are unhallowed thus, Whilst they forget themselves for men, or to be borne of us : Ye |