Remaines concerning Brittaine: but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof. Their languages, names, syrnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, moneys. Empresses, apparell, artillerie, wise speeches, prouerbes, poesies, epitaphs / [William Camden].

William Camden

Date:: [1629]

Credit: Remaines concerning Brittaine: but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof. Their languages, names, syrnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, moneys. Empresses, apparell, artillerie, wise speeches, prouerbes, poesies, epitaphs / [William Camden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$m * 4 JC> 4% % M. Tt m t!k te.ii i mi m M A w p F jfi \i j M ■ Wife Speeches'. n? lot in the like cafe to launch forth,& in rage of the ftonme com¬ forted him with faying, Caftrem & ((afar is fortmam vehis. And as couragioufly as that of Charles the fift, who in the bat¬ tel of Tunis when he was aduifed by the Marquifc of Guafto to retire his pcrfon,when the great ordnance began to play ,faid? Marquife ,thou neuer heard]} that an £mperour was Jlaine with a great Jhot. I will heere prefent you with another fpeech(or call it what you will) of the fame King William Rufus, out of the good and hiftorical Poet ^Robert of Glofter,that you may compare a Prin¬ ces pride in that age, with our priuat pride, and that «ur fir ft fi» neft Poets, may fmileattheVerfesof that time, as fucceeding agC^after fome hundred yeares will haply fmileat theirs. As his Chamber lament brought, as he rofe on a day, a/4’ morrow for to weare,afaire of Hofe of Say: He asked what they cofined,three fhillings hefeid. Fie a dibles,quoth the King, who fey fo vile a deed: Kino to weare fo vile a cloth fiat it coined more, Ftty a pairefor a marketer thou (halt ha cory fore. A worfepatre enough,the other f with him brought, tyindfayd they eoftnedamarkeyind vnneath he them bought. Aye betamy,quoth the King) thefe were well bought. In this manner feme me,otherwifeferue me 'not. Hitherto may be referred that of this king William, who the morning before hee was flaine with an Arrow in hunting, told his company hec dreamed the laft night before, that an extreme cold winde palled through his Tides: whereupon fome diifua- ded him to hunt that day $ but hec refolued to the contrary ,an- fwcring,TAey are no good ChriFtians that regard areames. But he found the dreame too true , beeing (hot through the fide by Walter Tsrrill.(Fragmenturn antique hifioria Franc, d P.Pitha» editum) OF Henry the fttfi I haue read no memorable fpeech, but what I haue read I will report. He was by common voyce of the people commended for his wifedomc 7 eloquence, and ¥» ' vifto-$