2O For a Muse of Fire, that would ascend

3The brightest Heauen of Inuention:

4A Kingdome for a Stage, Princes to Act,

5And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene.

6Then should the Warlike Harry, like himselfe,

7Assume the Port of Mars, and at his heeles

8( Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire

9Crouch for employment. But pardon, Gentles all:

10The flat vnraysed Spirits, that hath dar'd,

11On this vnworthy Scaffold, to bring forth

12So great an Obiect. Can this Cock-Pit hold

13The vastie fields of France? Or may we cramme

14Within this Woodden O. the very Caskes

15That did affright the Ayre at Agincourt?

16O pardon: since a crooked Figure may

17Attest in little place a Million,

18And let vs, Cyphers to this great Accompt,

19On your imaginarie Forces worke.

20Suppose within the Girdle of these Walls

21Are now confin'd two mightie Monarchies,

22Whose high, vp-reared, and abutting Fronts,

23The perillous narrow Ocean parts asunder.

24Peece out our imperfections with your thoughts:

25Into a thousand parts diuide one Man,

26And make imaginarie Puissance.

27Thinke when we talke of Horses, that you see them

28Printing their prowd Hoofes i'th' receiuing Earth:

29For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our Kings,

30Carry them here and there: Iumping o're Times;

31Turning th'accomplishment of many yeeres

32Into an Howre-glasse: for the which supplie,

33Admit me Chorus to this Historie;

34Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray,

35Gently to heare, kindly to iudge our Play. Exit.

39MY Lord, Ile tell you, that selfe Bill is vrg'd,

40Which in th'eleuēth yere of y^e last Kings reign

41Was like, and had indeed against vs past,

42But that the scambling and vnquiet time

43Did push it out of farther question.

44Bish. Ely. But how my Lord shall we resist it now?

45Bish. Cant. It must be thought on: if it passe against vs,

46We loose the better halfe of our Possession:

47For all the Temporall Lands, which men deuout

48By Testament haue giuen to the Church,

49Would they strip from vs; being valu'd thus,

50As much as would maintaine, to the Kings honor,

51Full fifteene Earles, and fifteene hundred Knights,

52Six thousand and two hundred good Esquires:

53And to reliefe of Lazars, and weake age

54Of indigent faint Soules, past corporall toyle,

55A hundred Almes-houses, right well supply'd:

56And to the Coffers of the King beside,

57A thousand pounds by th' yeere. Thus runs the Bill.

58Bish. Ely. This would drinke deepe.

59Bish. Cant. 'Twould drinke the Cup and all.

60Bish. Ely. But what preuention?

61Bish. Cant. The King is full of grace, and faire re-

62gard.

63Bish. Ely. And a true louer of the holy Church.

64Bish. Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd it not.

65The breath no sooner left his Fathers body,

66But that his wildnesse, mortify'd in him,

67Seem'd to dye too: yea, at that very moment,

68Consideration like an Angell came,

69And whipt th'offending Adam out of him;

70Leauing his body as a Paradise,

71T'inuelop and containe Celestiall Spirits.

72Neuer was such a sodaine Scholler made:

73Neuer came Reformation in a Flood,

74With such a heady currance scowring faults:

75Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse

76So soone did loose his Seat; and all at once;

77As in this King.

78Bish. Ely: We are blessed in the Change.

79Bish. Cant. Heare him but reason in Diuinitie;

80And all-admiring, with an inward wish

81You would desire the King were made a Prelate:

82Heare him debate of Common-wealth Affaires;

83You would say, it hath been all in all his study:

84List his discourse of Warre; and you shall heare

85A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique.