The Spanish Tragedie.
Enter Hieronimo With a Drum, three Knights, each his
Scutchin: then he fetches three Kinges, They take
their Crownes and them captive.
Scutchin: then he fetches three Kinges, They take
their Crownes and them captive.
Hieronimo, this Maske contentes mine eye,
Although I sound well not the mysterie.
Although I sound well not the mysterie.
Hiero. The first armd Knight, that hung his Scutchin up
He takes the Scutchin and giues it to the King.
Was English Robert, Earle of Gloster,
Who when King Stephen bore sway in Albion,
Arriued with fiue and twentie thousand men
In Portingale, and by successe of warre,
Enforced the King (then but a Sarasin)
To beare the yoake of the English Monarchie.
He takes the Scutchin and giues it to the King.
Was English Robert, Earle of Gloster,
Who when King Stephen bore sway in Albion,
Arriued with fiue and twentie thousand men
In Portingale, and by successe of warre,
Enforced the King (then but a Sarasin)
To beare the yoake of the English Monarchie.
King. My lord of Portingale, by this you see,
That which may comfort both your King and you,
And make your late discomfort seeme the lesse:
But say Hieronimo, what was the next?
That which may comfort both your King and you,
And make your late discomfort seeme the lesse:
But say Hieronimo, what was the next?
Hiero. The second Knight that hung his Scutchin vp,
He doth as he did before.
Was Edmond Earle of Kent in Albion,
When English Richard wore the Diadem:
He came likewise and razed Lisbon walles,
And tooke the King of Portingale in fight:
For which, and other such seruice done,
He after was created Duke of Yorke.
He doth as he did before.
Was Edmond Earle of Kent in Albion,
When English Richard wore the Diadem:
He came likewise and razed Lisbon walles,
And tooke the King of Portingale in fight:
For which, and other such seruice done,
He after was created Duke of Yorke.
King. This is another speciall argument,
That Portingale may daine to beare our yoake,
When it by little Englang hath been yoakt:
But now Hieronimo, what were the last?
That Portingale may daine to beare our yoake,
When it by little Englang hath been yoakt:
But now Hieronimo, what were the last?
Hiero. The third and last, not least in our account,
Doing as before.
Was (as the rest) a valiant English-man,
Braue Iohn of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster,
As by his Scutchin plainely may appeare:
He with a puissant armie came to Spaine,
And tooke our King of Castile prisoner.
Doing as before.
Was (as the rest) a valiant English-man,
Braue Iohn of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster,
As by his Scutchin plainely may appeare:
He with a puissant armie came to Spaine,
And tooke our King of Castile prisoner.
Embass. This is an argument for our Viceroy,
That
