Joyfull Newes for true Subjectes, to God and the Crowne:
The Rebelles are cooled, theit Bragges be put downe.
Come humble ye downe, come humble ye downe,
Perforce now submyt ye: to the Queen and the Crowne.
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AL true English Subjects both moste and leste,
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geve thanks unto God, with humble knees downe
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That it hath pleazde him at our request,
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to vanquish the Rebels that troubled the Crowne,
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Come humble ye downe, come humble ye downe:
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Perforce now submit ye to the Quene & the Crowne.
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The Westmerlande Bull, and Man in the Moone,
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The Beare hath brought their Braverie downe:
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I dare saye for sorowe they are redy to swoone:
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That ever they ymagynde to trouble the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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And Sir John Shorne, as Fame doth reporte
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is hangde up so hye that he cannot come downe:
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Because he thought it so good a sporte,
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to playe the Traytour against the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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And because he should not hange alone,
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to honor his Priesthoode of holy Renowne:
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Sir John Swingbreeche his felow, a Rebell well knowen
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they say is hangde with hym for troubling the Crowne
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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The rest that are fled, wyll soone be caught
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though yet they lye lurkyng in countrey and towne:
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And than they be trusde up by and by strayght
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except the Quenes mercie that weareth the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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But her Majestie of mercie, is endued with store,
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that knewe they full well that nowe are put downe
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Els would they not aventerd to rayse this uprore,
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Now be they foorthcommyng as pleaseth the Crowne
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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The rest of the Rebelles and Traytours forsworne,
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to see them trusde up I would gage my gowne:
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And specially the Sect of Syr John Shorne.
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to teache them to trouble the Realme & the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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But that pertayneth no matter of mine,
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yet for my goodwill on me do not frowne,
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It must be as pleaseth God to assigne:
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The hart of our Quene that weareth the Crowne.
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Com humble ye downe. etc.
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But thankes bee to God, their spyte is donne,
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they have spyt their Venom both Knyght & Clowne
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Indeede (I must saye) verye fayre have they sponne
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They had better have kept them true to the Crowne
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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No doubt the Devill had them bewitcht
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they lackt Bishop Boner to cunjure him downe:
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If he had lived till now his eares would have icht:
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for Joye to heare how they trouble the Crowne.
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Com humble ye downe. etc.
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And sure he would have written in haste
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to his holy father of hie Renowne:
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For helpe to spoyle consume and waste,
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all those that despised his triple Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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And that was the meaning of those that began,
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to roote out Christes doctrine suppresse & put downe
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They have mist their purpose, now shift how they can:
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god hath prevented them for troubling the Crowne
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Com humble ye downe. etc.
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If they had prevayled, then had we been wo,
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then had ben olde wayling in countrie and Towne
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Then should many a woman her husband forgoe,
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all longe of the Rebelles that troubled the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe, etc
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Then had ben many a fatherlesse childe,
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that shoulde have gon begging up and downe:
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Yea, many a chaste Damsell should have ben defilde
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By those Popish Priestes that troubled the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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Yea, many a good Preacher should have lost his lyfe,
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many a Lorde and Lady of noble Renowne:
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Yea, many an Infant, and many a wyfe,
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by those cruell Rebelles that troubled the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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To spoyle Common Wealth it was the next waye,
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Example by other Realmes of Renowne:
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How Warre and Rebellyon bred their decaye,
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and all for matters perteynynge the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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But praysed be God they have not theyr will,
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The hurt they ment other, to them doth redowne:
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In daunger both life and goods to spill,
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These fruicts do they reape for troubling the Crowne
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Com humble ye downe etc.
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God save the Queenes Majestie and confound hir foes,
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Els turne their hartes quite upsidowne:
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To become true Subjectes as well as those
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that faythfully and truely have served the Crowne.
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Come humble ye downe. etc.
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God graunt everyone after his vocation,
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To remember the accompt he must laye downe:
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And that we maye all in this Englysh Nation
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Be true to God, the Queene and the Crowne.
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Come humble ye down, come humble ye downe,
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God graunt Queene Elizabeth longe to weare the crowne.
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