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OF a worthy London Prentice, my purpose is to speak, And tell his brave adventures, done for his Country sake; Seek all the world about, and you shall hardly find, A man in valour to exceed a prentice gallant mind: He was born in Cheshire, the chief of men was he, From thence brought up to London, a prentice for to be; A merchant on the bridge, did like his service so, That for three years his factor, to Turkey he should go. And in that famous country, one year he had not been, Ere he by tilt maintained the honour of his Queen; Elizabeth the Princess, he nobly did make known, To be the Phenix of the world. and none but she alone.
In armour richly guilded, well mounted on a steed, One score of Knights most hardy, one day he made to bleed; And brought them all to ground, who proudly did deny, Elizabeth to be the Pearl of Princely Majesty. The King of that same country thereat began to frown, And willd his son, there present, to pull this youngster down; Who at his fathers words, these boasting speeches said, Thou art a traytor, English boy, and hast the traytor plaid. I am no boy nor traytor, thy speeches I defie, For which ill be revenged upon thee by and by A London Prentice still 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 asunder, as plainly doth appear: Now know proud Turk, quoth he, I am no English boy, That can with one small box oth ear the Prince of Turks destroy. When as the King perceived his son so strangely slain, His soul was sore afflicted with more then mortal pain; And in revenge thereof, he swore that he should dye, The cruelst death that ever man beheld with mortal eye. Two lyons were prepared this Prentice to devour, Near famishd up with hunger ten days within the tower, To make them more fierce and eager of their pray, To glut themselves with human gore upon this dreadful day. The appointed time of torment at length grew near at hand, Where all the noble Ladies and Barons of the land Attended on the King, to see this Prentice slain, And buried in the hungry maws of these fierce lyons twain. Then in his shirt of cambrick, with silk most richly wrought, This worthy London Prentice was from the prison brought, And to the lyons given to stauch their hunger great, Which had not eat in ten days space not one small bit of meat. But God that knows all secrets, the matter so contrivd, That by this young mans valour they were of life deprivd; For being faint for food, they scarcely could withstand The nob[l]e force, and fortitude, and courage of his hand:
For when the hungry lyons had cast on him their eyes, The elements did thunder with the eccho of their cries; 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 sunder, And at the King he threw them, to all the peoples wonder: This have I done, quoth he, for lovely Englands sake, And for my Countrys Maiden Queen much more will undertake. But when the King perceived his wrothful lyons hearts, Afflicted with great terrour, his rigor soon reverts; And turned all his hate into remorse and love, And said, It is some angel sent down from heaven above. No, no, I am no angel, the courteous young man said, But born in famous England, where Gods Word is obeyd; Assisted by the heavens, who did me thus befriend, Or else they had most 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 vertue of a Queen. So taking up this young man, he pardond 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 spending of their happy days in joy and loves encrease.
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