A balade specifienge partly the maner, partly the matter, in the most excellent meetyng and lyke mariage betwene our soueraigne Lord, and our soueraigne Lady, the Kynges and Queenes highnes pende by John Heywood. Heywood, John, 1497?-1580? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A03165 of text S3934 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 13290.3). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A03165 STC 13290.3 ESTC S3934 34382492 ocm 34382492 28992 2240932656

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A03165) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28992) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1897:3) A balade specifienge partly the maner, partly the matter, in the most excellent meetyng and lyke mariage betwene our soueraigne Lord, and our soueraigne Lady, the Kynges and Queenes highnes pende by John Heywood. Heywood, John, 1497?-1580? 1 sheet ([1] p.). By Wyllyam Ryddell, Jmprinted at London : [1554?] Date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries. eng Mary -- I, -- Queen of England, 1516-1558 -- Poetry. Philip -- II, -- King of Spain, 1527-1598 -- Poetry. Ballads, English -- 16th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 16th century. eebo A balade specifienge partly the maner, partly the matter, in the most excellent meetyng and lyke mariage betwene our Soueraigne Lord, and our Soueraig Heywood, John, 1554 1 624 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-11 Sampled and proofread 2003-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Balade specifienge partly the maner , partly the matter , in the most excellent meetyng and lyke mariage betwene our Soueraigne Lord , and our Soueraigne Lady , the Kynges and Queenes highnes . Pende by Iohn Heywod . THe egles byrde hath spred his wings And from far of , hathe taken flyght In whiche meane way by no leurings On bough or braunch this birde wold light Till on the rose , both red and whight He lighteth now , moste louinglie And therto moste behouinglie . The monthe ensuing next to Iune This birde , this floure for perche doth take Reioysinglie him selfe to prune He rousith , rypelie to awake Upon this perche to chose his make Concluding strayght for rype right rest In the lions boure , to bilde his nest A birde , a beast to make to choose Namelie the beaste most furious It may seeme straunge , and so it doose And to this birde iniurious It semthe a case right curious To make construction in suche sens As may stande for this birds defens But marke ▪ this lion so by name Is properlie a lambe tassyne No lion wilde , a lion tame No rampant lion masculyne The lamblike lion feminyne Whose milde meeke propertie aleurth This birde to light , and him asseurth The egles birde , the egles eyre All other birds far surmounting The crounid lion , matcheth feyre Croune vnto croune , this birde dothe bring A queenelie queene , a kinglie king Thus , lyke to lyke here matched is What matche may match more mete than this So meete a matche in parentage So meete a matche in dignite So meete a matche in patronage , So meete matche in benignite , So macht from all malignite As ( thankes to god gyuen for the same ) Seelde hathe ben seene , thus sayth the fame This meete met matche , at first meeting In theyr aproche togither neere Loulie louelie lyueli greeting In eche to other , did so appeere That lookers on , al must graunt cleere Theire vsage of suche humayne reache As all might lerne , but none coulde teache Then in conioyning of these twayne Suche sacred solempne solempnite Suche fare in feaste to entertayne Suche notable nobilite Suche honour withe suche honeste Suche Ioy , all these to plat in plot Plat them who can , for I can not But here one deyntie president Nombre so greate , in place so small Nacions so manie , so different So sodenlie met , so agreed all Without offensyue worde let fall Saue sight of twayne , for whome all met No one sight there , lyke this to get This lamblyke lyon , and lamblike burde To show effect , as cause affordes For that they lamblike be concurde The lamb of lambs , the lorde of lordes Let vs lyke lambs , as moste acordes Moste mekelie thanke , in humble wyse As humble hart , may most deuyse Whiche thanks full gyuen most thankfullie To prayer fall we on our kneese That it may lyke that lorde on hie In helthe and welth to prosper theese As falth for thier moste high degreese And that all we , their subiects may Them and their lawes , loue and obay And that betwene these twayne and one The thre and one , one once to sende In one to knit vs euerichone And to that one , such mo at ende As his will only shall extende Graunte this good god , adding thie grace To make vs meete tobtayne this case

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