Husbands Bed denide 82 And proouing armes by them she honor sought She tam'd the VVelch-men and the Danes disgraced Next Edward Adelstane the battailes fought Of the bold English and the Castles raced as the proud Danes reard and to ruine brought The Sarafins euen from Hetruria chased Th Italian Guards they Gâ—…n ouerthrow VVhere bloud three dayes out of a VVell did flow 83 Now Gui of Warwick Danish Colebrand slew And England of all Tribute quite releast King Edmond did the Soueraignety pursue When Adelstane at Malmsbury deceast Slaine after fiue yeares by succession true Eldred his Brother raignes whose pomp increast Edmonds two Sons being young the Peeres coÌ„plaine and thinke their Vncle of more worth to raigne 84 France Tuskaine Germany the Hungars wast Hugh King of Italy by Fire destroyes The nauy of the Sarazens then past To Traxinetum Edwin next inioyes The Scepter Eldred hauing breath'd his last At Kingstone crown'd whose hart was set on toyes He Dunstan banisht his Landes and Treasure lauisht and his neere Nâ—…c vpon his Crowne-day rauisht 85 And next he slew her Husband for all which after foure yeares he was depriude his state Edgar his Brother a Prince wise and rich In all things â—…ust seuere and Fortunate ascends the Throne no Sorcerer nor Witch His sentence spard Theeues Bribers he did hate To him Ludwallis Prince of Wales obayd Three hundred Wolues for Tribute yearely payd 86 Forty seauen Monasteryes this King erected Red Crosses made and on mens Roabes were seared When Duffus had foure yeares the Scots protected Donewald a Scotch Lord that no bad thing feared Him basely slew and from his Throne derected From which â—…xe monthes no Moone or Sunne appeared The Turkes by Euecus Earle of Bygar Were Spaine expold he first King of Nauar. 87 King Edgar in his sixteenth yeare expyres When his Sonne Edward was at Kingstone crownde Slaine by his trayterous Stepdame who desires The Crowne for her Sonne Etheldred he founde Exter Abbey Swayne of Denmarke fires Citties and Townes in England burning round King Etheldred raign'd in this Kingdome free Thirty eyght yeares His murdred Brother three 88 Now Stephen was made first King of Hungary And thirty nine yeares raign'd Alphons of Spaine Besiedging great Visenum valiantly Was with an arrow kild and strowed the plaine All the Lord-Danes that liu'd here tyranously Were by the English Wiues in one night slaine Ierusalem was by the Turkes possest Whom twice the bold Venetian Duke distrest 89 King Edmond sir-nam'd Iron-side next his Father Inioyes the Kingdome gainst whom Swanus Son The bold Canutus all his Danâ—…s doth gather Twixt whom were many battayles lost and won After much bloods effusion they chose rather By single strife to end the broyles begon Theyr valors were in epuall ballance tryde and after Combat they the Land deuide 90 Edrick of Stratton valiant Edmond slew And from Canutus had a Traytors meede The valiant Dane in Stiles and Honors grew He Scotland wan and Norway To his seed Leauing foure Kingdomes Vice he did eschew Nor euer did a juster Prince succeed English and Danâ—…s he atton'd vnto his doome and after went on Pilgrimage to Roome 91 Robert the Norman Duke for valor famed Hyes to the holy warres in Palestine He gone his young Sonne William is proclaymed The Norman Duke Now seekes a Throne deuine Canutus when he twenty yeares had raigned and Harrold Harefoote vnto whom incline The Danâ—…s in England next the Scepter swayes and three yeares past at Oxford ends his dayes 92 Hardi-canutus the same number fild and drinking dide whom the good Edward Sainted For holy workes succeeds no bloud he spild Nor with knowne sinnes his high profession taynted He married as the great Earle Goodwin wild Th'Earles Daughter Edgitha and nothing wanted That a iust Prince should haue one and twenty years In zeale and clemency the Crowne he weares 93 This Goodwin Alphred Edward younger Brother Traytorously slew and by his power he yoaked The King himselfe betray de his Soueraigne Mother By Byshop Robert to these illes prouoked But Heauen no longer could such mischiefe smother Swearing by Bread he by the bit was choaked The swallowing Sea deuour'd all his Lands Which to this day beare name of Goodwins sands 94 William the Bastard Duke first landing heare Was by the King receaued and Englands Crowne Promist by Edward which no English Peere Was knowne to contradict after lenthome With greatest pompe and Harrold the same yeare Earle Goodwins sonne a man of great renowne Arriude in Normandy and with oathes deepe Sware the King dead for him the Crowne to keepe 95 But Edward dead Harrold vsurpes the seate Whom Fauston and the Norwey King inuade Vpon the North both whom he did defeate And brauely slew in battaile William made A new Incursion gainst whom in t' is heare Harrold his Ensignes in the field displayde The Norman Duke preuaylde and Harrald slaine William the first so cald begins his raigne In Brutes time whilst he gouernd Brittan Anaeus Siluius raigned amongst the Latines Dercitus in Assyria Athletets in Corinth Pipinus in Thusâ—…an Codrus in Athens in whose dayes the Arke of God was taken by the Philistims In Locrynes raigne Dauid was annoynted King ouer Israel In Guendolins raigne he 〈◊〉 Vriah and marryed Bersheba In Madans dayes Salomon built the Temple c. From Brute to Caelar the Brittans were not Tributary to any the gouernment of the Romans from Caesar to Theodosius lasted 483. years In Theodosius the youngers raign the yeare of Christ 443. the Tribute 〈◊〉 The gouernment of the Saxons continued the space of 600. yeares in continuall warre and hostility either with the Brittans the Danes or the Normans The opinions of those that write of the first inhabiting of this Iland are diuerse and how it came first to receiue the name of Albion some thinke of the Chalky and white Cliffe which seemes to wall it in from the Sea But Hugh Genisis a Roman Chronicler writing of all the Kinges and Kingdomes of the World from the Vniuer sall Deluge to Christ. Writes that Danaus King of Greece had fifty Daughters and Aegiptus as many Sonnes who being married and the women the first night murdring their Husbands were for the offence banished and sayling on the Seas were driuen vpon this Island which Albiana called after her Name Albion vvith these Ladies he reports that Spirits engendred and begotte Gyants who laie with their Mothers and Sisters led onely by their lustes till they had multiplyed themselues to the number of twelue thousand But Idoubt not but that this Land may contend with any other whatsoeuer for her antiquity being inhabited with the first which beeing continually vexed within it selfe with ciâ—… 〈◊〉 and forraine inuasions her Monuments and remembrances
After fiue yeares bold Porrex Ferrex slew For which their Mother Porrex much disdained And in his blood did her blacke hands imbrew After their death sedition was maintained Full one and fifty yeares whilst no man knew Th'imediate heyre and whilst these wars were norisht Darius Xerxes and Queene Hestor flourisht 15 Th' Athenian Sophocles a Tragicke Poet Plato Cratinus Aristarchus were All Commicke Writers as their workes best show it Empedocles of Athens did acquiere Musickes full ground and made the world to know it Parmenides made Lodgicke first appeare Which in Mount Cancasus he first deuised Esdras the Scribe the Scriptures now comprised 16 MVlmutius Dunwallo sonne and heyre To Cloten Duke of Corweyle's next instated He did the foure broad High-wayes first repaire First Crown'd Paules Church first built and consecrated And after forty yeares from Brittaines Chaire To a new Throne in heaâ—… he was translated Now Socrates th' Athenian heaâ—… charmes Demosthenes famous for Arts and Armes 17 BEline and Bren the Brittish Crowne deuide Being by their Mother after wars attoned Whilst Bren in forraigne Armes his valour tride Beline built Belinsgate all Denmarke groned Beneath his yoake Bren to the Galles alide Sackt Rome burnt Delphos and was after stoned With Hayle and Thunder-stroke much blood was spilt In Italy ten stately Townes he built 18 Twenty sixe yeares hetwixt them they supply The Crowne and Sceptet Dionisius raignd In Sicily Damâ—…n and Pythias try Their mutuall friendship Xenophâ—…n maintained His schoole in Athens Platâ—… prized higher His Accademy rear'd Now was ordained For King Mansolus by the Carian Qneene A stately Tombe rankt mongst the wonders nine 19 GVrguintus Belins sonne ninâ—…teene yeares made The Brittaines homagers by euen Tradition Aristotle liu'd whose Fame shall neuer fade Sonne to Nichomachus a great Physition Now Macedonian Phillip gan t' inuade His neighbour-Kings in many an expedition The Noble Marcus Curtius for Romes sake Arm'd at all points leapt in the Curtian Lake 20 GVintheline six and twenty yeares made good His right in Brittaine Mercia his faire wife Deâ—…isde the Mercian Lawes by Tibur flood The clouds raind stones after Darius strife Which ended in effâ—…sion of much blood By poyson Alexander lost his life Next Guintheline seauen yeares Cecilius raigned Next him three yeares Kimar the state maintained 21 Nine yeares Elanius raign'd Morindus eight Deuour'd of a Sea-monster In their dayes Onias sonne of Taddus reacht the height Of the Priests Office Gorbomannus swayes Eleauen full yeares a Prince assisting right Symon Onyas sonne the Habrewes raise To the Priest-hood next iust Gorboman Fierce Archigall to Tyranize began 22 After fiue yeares depos'd his second Brother Succeeded in the stile of Elidure A vertuous Prince there sat not such another In Brittaines Chaire in life seuere and pure Fiue yeares himselfe did Archigallo smother And his deposing patiently endure At length by Elidurus met and knowne To Archigallo he resignes his Throne 23 Ten yeares the twice-Crown'd Archigallo now Gouernes the State in Honour and then dying To Elidure againe the Brittans bow After two yeares his Brothers him defying Keepe him in bonds the Brittaine Peeres allow Their double rule nine yeares their Conquesttrying Vigenius and Peridure are past And Elidure the third time Crown'd at last 24 Raigning foure yeares In this forepassed state Liu'd Epyre pyrrhâ—…s and Lisimachus The High-priest Eleasar chus'd oflate Receiues th' Egiptian league Now breath Seleucus And Ptolomy now by the Roman Senate Siluer was coyned first Theos-Antiochus In Syria raign'd blood sprang out of a Well And from the Clowds Milke in abundance fell 23 MAnasses liu'd high Priest among the Iewes Ten yeares ruld Gorboman Morgan 〈◊〉 Emerianus next to him pursues The Diadem a Tyrant full of spleene After seauen yeares deposd Inall insues A temperate Prince who twenty yeares was seene In Brittaines Throne Amilchar Carthage swaide Illyrian Teuca â—…id proud Rome inuade 26 RImo raignd sixteene yeares bold Hanniball And Scipio fought Wise Cato liu'd in Rome Next Rimo King Geruntius they install Him after twenty yeares his Lords intoome The losty Spaniards from Romes Empire fal And after stand to Fuluius Flaccus doome Ten yeares Catellus raign'd the Iewes were foyld And by Antiochus Gods Temple spoyld 27 The Mother and her seauen sonnes Martird were The worthy Iudas Machabeus fought Gods battailes Coill raigned twenty yeare Great Carthage was destroyd and Corinth brought To fall by fire The Doctrines first apeare The Pharisei and Sadducei taught Fiue yeares iust Porrex drunken Cherimus One Fulgen two one Eldred one Androgeus 28 Dendantius fiue yeares two Detonnus held The soueraignty then lest this life for new Nature a Monstrous byrth in Rome compeld Hauing foure hands foure feet Corne grew In Bonony on Trees whose tast exceld The Parthian Arsaces Demetrius slew Great Scipio Affricanus ends his life By salse Sempronia his disloyall wife 29 Young Vrianus three King Eliud fiue Two Meriaâ—…ns and Bladunus twaine Capenâ—…s three Ouinius doth next striue And his imperiall state two yeares maintaine Two Silius Bledgabredus â—…id suruiue Full twenty yeares in his auspitious raigne Hircanâ—…s gouernd in the high-Priests sted Marius â—…mpht o're Iugurth Captiueled 30 Archemachus raignd two Eldotus foure Two Rodianus three Redargius Samillius two the Brittaines next adore King penesellus three two princely pirrhus And after him Caporus two no more Now grew the watres twixt Scilla and Marius Diuellus foure Helyas Ely named Gouernd ten months when death his body claimed 31 Lvd Helyes sonne his happy rule began Nam'd Troynouant Luds-towne Ludgate erected Eleauâ—…n yeares raign'd then to Cassibelan Left his two infant sonnes to be protected Who till the Princes grew to state of man By all the Brittish Peeres was King elected Raign'd nineteene yeares in his dayes twice repeld The Roman Casar the bold Brittaines queld 32 Nennius wan Casars sword and had it brought To be hang'd ore his hearse Pompey the great With Iulius Casar in Pharsalia fought Iulius vsuâ—…pes in Romes Imperiall seat Was stab'd with Bodkins he that neuer fought But conqâ—…'d in all Martiall acts compleat Now flourisht Cicero with praise Deuine Hermius and seditious Cateline 33 And not the least grace to Triumphant Rome The rare Comadian Roseius Next in rowe Of Brittish Kings must young Tenancius come Twenty three yeares he raignd and then did owe No more to nature then th' adopted son Of Casar great Augustus now doth grow Romes Monarchy Marke Anthony through pride Rebeld by Aspes great Cleopatra dide 34 Virgil and Horace flourisht In these dayes Iesus Sabetes sonne was consecrated High Priest King Herod Iewries Scepter
his Brothers vow Like homage and in State haue entertaind Vter Pendragon to whose throne they bow Sixteene whole yeares He doats on Cornwayles wife and for her loue bereaues her Husbands life 63 Of her he Arthur got In France Clodouens Gouernd as King the first that was Baptiz'd In Italy great Theodoricus King of the Astrogothes who enterprisde Gainst Odeacer battaile bold Honoricus Gouernd in Affricke who so much despisde True Fayth that he for th' Arrians in one hower By shops exild three hundred thirty foure 63 Arthur the worthy next the State ascended Fought twelue set battailes and the order made Of the Round Table whose renowne extended Through all the world whilst Arthur doth inuade Forraine Dominious and Christs Faith desended Mordred at home his Crowne ' and Queene betrayde Twixt whom at Arthurs backe returne againe War was commenst in which both Kings were slain 65 Next Arthur Constantine Duke Cadors Sonne After his Vncle sixe and twenty years Had gouern'd England his estate begonne Slew Mordred Sonnes in fight with Saxon Peeres That ayded them in battaâ—…le these warres donne After foure Sommers he ascends the Spheares Iustine a Swine-heard by ambition fierd By crafty meanes th' Imperiall Seate aspyerd 66 Now liu'd in Italy the famous Dame Analasiantha with Athalarius Her Son by whom her Soueraignty first came She could both Greeke and Latine well discusse Whose reuerence many Histories proclayme Daughter to th' Emperor Theodoricus Iustinian the Gracian Empyre swayes The Persians to their State Cosroe rayse 67 Iustinian in his Captaines much renowned Narses the Eunuch a right 〈◊〉 Knight And Bellisarius whose name was crowned Through all the world Twice Carthage won in fight Twice rescude Rome his fame in Persia sowned Thrace Greece th'Affricke Gâ—…aths he put to flight For much more seruice th' Emperor from his head Tore out his eyes he for'st to beg his bread 68 Aurelius Conanus slew in field Constantine Arthurs Nephew three yeares swade Then did his due to death and nature yeild And Vortigore his Sonne is Soueraigne made Who did but foure yeares Brittans 〈◊〉 weild When Malgo did the 〈◊〉 inuade Who slew his first Wife her chast Bed for sooke And to his Bride his Brothers Daughter tooke 69 King Totylus sack't Rome the second time What in the first he spoyl'd he now repayred Altinus king of Lumbards full with Wine Cals for a Mazer which he might haue spared Of his Wiues Fathers Scull for which in fine She loath'd her Husband and yet further dar'd Vnto his loyall Bed she prou'd vntrue With Helme-child who after Albine slew 70 CAreticus by help of Irelands King Cald Gurmond Brittan Malgo did expell Whom after three yeares Ethelfrid did bring To ruine and in battaile prosperd well About this time Sybert th' East Saxon King Erected Westminster Ethelfrid fell And Cadwan Duke of Northwales him defeated And two and twenty yeares in peace was seated 71 Queene Tredegunde of France in the meane season Lawdry the Earle of Soysons deerely lou'd And for his â—…ake destroyd the King by Treason Gainst Gregory sir-nam'd the great was mou'd By â—…ohn the Patrâ—…arch against all reason The Churches Primacy which he improu'd Arabian Mahomet his Alkeron made Frensh Brunchild liu'd who had Princes ten betrayde 72 CAdwallin Cadwans Sonne next Bittan guided Benet the Monke Paynting and Glazing found The Sarasins by Mahomet prouided Wan Persia where Ormisda long sat crown'd And in short space hauing their powers diâ—…ided Conquerd all Aegypt with the Climats round Damascus likewise was subdude by them So was rich Antioch and Hierusalem 73 Three yeares Cadwallader esteem'd the last Of Brittan Princes gouernd and he dead The Kingdome wholly to West-Saxons past Of whom King Iue first impald his head And next him Ethelard whose raigne was grast By reuerent Beda of whose workes we read Of Clearkly Bookes on seuerall Subiects stil'd Threâ—…ore and eyghteene Volums well compil'd 74 Next Ethelard raign'd Cuthred whom succeeds Sigebert and he not one full yeare did raigne But was deposde for many tyrranous deedes And after besely by a Swine-heard slaine Kinulphus to the Kingdome next proceedes Who after by a man of Sigeberts traine Was murdred in the night as he should passe Vnto his Mistris a braue Brittish Lasse 75 The Sarasins pierce Europe Rhodes they wasted The Firmament two daies appeares to burne The Emperour Constantine his Army hasted The Sarasins by armes to ouerturne Where thirty thousand Pagans of death tasted When Constantine expites the Christians mourne His Throne and State Iustinian next maintained And from the Turkes Affricke and Libia gayned 76 The next West-Saxon King was Brithricus Who eyghteene yeares after Kinulphus fall Raign'd King came from the blooud of Cerdicus And queld the Danes in many a bloudy brall Wiu'd Ethelburgh by whom as Bookes discusse He poysond was yet whilst he gouern'd all S. Albons Winchcombe Abbeyes were both built Blood rayn'd which seem'd like Crosses where t' was spilt 77 Egbert the Sexon thirty seauen supplyde The Soueraignety now raign'd Prench Charles the great Eyghteene whole dayes the Sunne his light denyde Hyren the Empresse from th' Imperiall Seat Her young Sonne Constantine deposde through pâ—…de And after did him cruelly intreat She causd his eyes be torne out of his head And foure yeares after gouernd in his stead 78 King Ethelwolfe the fore-nam'd Egbert's Sonne As Chroniclers affirme Oxford erected a Priest at first in Orders he begon Till after marrying he the State affected The Warlike Danes his Kingdome ouer-ron But are expled Sergius is Pope elected Whose name Os Porcy seem'd so vile that they Chang'd it and from him all Popes to this day 79 Foure Sonnes each other in the State succeedes King Ethelwald who gouern'd not a yeare When Ethelbert his Brother don'd the Weedes Imperiall and next him doth appeare The third Sonne Etheldred whose body bleeds By the bold Danes who after slaughterd were By the fourth Sonne at Brixium as Bookes tell Three dayes together bloud in thicke shewers fell 80 Young Alured from Ethelwolfe the last Twenty nine yeares sixe monthes the Scepter bore Hungar and Hubba quite through Scotland past Bels were first vsde in Greece not knowne before In sixe set battailes Alured disgrast The warlike Danes then dyde The Peeres adore Edward his elder Sonne who nobly beares The Brittish Scepter foure and twenty yeares 81 Nine Popes in lesse then nine yeares were instald Adelwald Edwards Brother twice rebelling VVas by the Elders Prowesse twice appald And after slaine the Huns and Hungars quelling All Europe were much feard a Princesse cald Elflede King Edwards Sister much excelling after the throwes in her first Child-birth tryde For euermore her
Inuades in Arthur Duke of Brittons name Whose powers the English Iohn surprisd by chance Imprisoning Arthur whence these Garboyles came The Persians Dauid to the Throne aduance Who with his Indian Troopes marcht with much Fame Of Parthia and Armenia Conqueror And of Tartaria the first Emperor 35 Fiue Moones were all at once in Torkeshire seene After which portent many stormes insude prince Iohn hauing incurd the popes fell spleene Stands with his Land accurst which some allude To Byshop Lanchton who at Rome had beene And sought in Canterbury to intrude In Suffolke was a strange Fish tooke that bore The shape of man and six months liu'd a shore 36 The Maior and Shrieffes in London were first made Wales twice rebelling was by warre appeasd Th'English at Sluce the Nauy of France inuade A thousand twenty sayle at once they ceasd Pope Innocent great Coesars pompe all aide Making such Lawes as searce the Empire pleasd Onely such princes should as Emperors stand As should receiue their Crownes at the popes hand 37 Of whom the Saxon Duke Otho was first Venice subdues Coreyra and the Iles Adiacent Otho by the popeaccurst For taking to himselfe the Empires stiles Against him Menace warre pope Innocent durst and traind into these broyles by prayers and smiles Fredericke the second who the Diadem weares after Duke Otho three and twenty yeares 38 Iohn for a yearely tribute to Rome payde Of twice fiue hundred Markes absolues his Land King Alexander is the Scotch King made After deceased William to command He twenty and foure yeares the kingdome staide Against King Iohn the English Barons stand And to their faction the French Lewes bring Whom in Iohns stead they seeke t'elect as King 39 Amidst these tumults Iohn by fate expires As some suppose by poyson whom succeeds Henry his sonne him more the Land desires Then Lewes hated for some bloody deeds For him the people make triumphant fires A generall ioy his hye instalment breeds at nineteene yeares the kingdome hee attained and fifty fix yeares o're his subiects raigned 40 Our Ladies Church in Westminster he reared Now Hocata the second puissant King Of great Tartaria was renownd and feared He first the Title of great Caan did win The drooping Scotch King was by Henry cheared To whom he gaue his Sister next of Kin Faire Ioane Robert Graciaes Empire swayd Who to his Empresse tooke a beautious Mayd 41 She was before betroth'd to a great peere Of Burgoine he the Emperours pompe despysing Entred his armed pallace without feare The Damsell in the Emperors armes surprising He first cut off her nose reuenge seuere And from that place himselfe disguising To her'fore bribed Mother posting fast Th'in constant Dame into the Seas he cast 42 The Scots in Cathnes their proud Byshop burne Because he curst such as their tythes denide Wards were first graunted Frederick doth returne Towards Asia and the Souldan puft with pride Vanquisht in field and now no longer mourne Those Christians that in Palestine abide England with France makes warre and after peace Tumults in Wales arise but soone surcease 43 Frederick King Henries Sister takes to wife Cald Isabell Henry takes Elanour Daughter to th' Earle of Prouence ending strife Twixt them before begun about that houre His spousals were solemniz'd and ioyes rife In th' Element appear'd a war like power Of men in armes of diâ—…ers wings compacted The Merton Statute now was first enacted 44 This yeare the famous faction first begun Of Guelfes and Gibelines Tartarian Caan Inuades the Hungars and their kingdome won Where their King Bela was in battaile slaine The Mother eats her Childe and Sire the Sonne So great was hunger mongst the Hungars than Now London Aldermen were first elected and Frederick once more by the pope reiected 45 Pope Innocent the fourth from th'Emperour flying To Lyons to the Cardinals first gaue Red hats A Iew in Spaine Christs faith denying picrst a huge rocke there found a hallow Caue In it a Marble stone which with Steele trying He finds a Booke inclosd with praecepts graue Which spoke of Christ by which the Story saith The stiffe-neckt Iew was turn'd to Christian faith 46 Henry with London Citty late displeasd For sentence gainst one Margaret Viell past Into his power the Cities Charters ceasd Which by submission they regain'd at last Young Alexanders Father long diseads Expir'd in Scotland the young prince in hast at nine yeares Crownd to whom Henry affide His Daughter Mary whom he tooke to Bride 47 In Italy bloud issued out of bread As out of woundes French Lewes was surprisd By the great Souldan Mango Caan 's made head Of the rude Tartars who being well aduisde Receiued the Christian Fayth and after sped against the Turkes in Crosses red disguisde Alphons of Spaine bestowes his Daughter fayre On young Prince Edward Henries hopefull heyre 48 Richard of Cornwall Brother to the King At Aquisgraue was Emperor elected and Alphons of Castile the State affecting Was by the Electors from the State reiected Albertus Magnus flourisht in his spring And Michael Paleologus respected For his great warres in Greece who Baldwin slew and thirty fiue yeares in the Empire grewe 49 At Oxford the mad Parlement began King Henry with his Barons doth contend They fought neare Lewes many a valiant man Of Noble bloud came to a timeless end The King against his Peeres the best he can Striues by the Sword his Barons to offend Who Manger all his force the battaile wonne Surprisd the King his Brother and his Sonne 50 Prince Edward entred Asia and there fought against the Turkes where he atchieued much fame at length his life was by a Sarazan sought Who with a Knife to his Pauilion came Empoysoned and his death had almost wrought For in his princely arme he fixt the same Richard King Henries Brother and Romes king First dyes and after Henry the same spring 51 Next whom Prince Edward Long-shankes was inucsted and thirty foure yeares raign'd admir'd and feared Th'vsurping pride of Priests he much detested Bounty and Vertue in this Prince appeared Nicholas the third made Pope from th' Empire wrested Two Kingdomes for two Nephewes much indeered Of lewes at once that in their wealth tooke pride Two hundred eyghty foure for Coyning dyde 52 Lewellen next rebeld slaino by the hand Of Roger Mortimer After not long Dauid his Brother did gainst Edward stand A daungerous Rebell and infaction strong Yet perisht likewise with his warlike Band Of Welch reuolted other things among King Edward ioyes to quell the French-mens scorne and for Prince Edward at Carnaruan borne 53 Alexander Issu-lesse fell from his Steed And brake his necke the Carmelites began Phillip the fayre in France was King decreed Two Women in Heluetia liued than Who in their Wombs did two
With his dead fathers Crowne This Vesta feares And calling Saturne thus to him she sed My dearest sonne t is by the Lords decreed That in Vranus Prince-dome thou succeed 13 Thy brother Tytan though in Age before thee Yet in thy wisedome thou hast him out-stript Thou hast the popular loue they all adore thee His blasted hopes are in the blossome nipt With Coine with Men with Armor I will store thee Let him stand fast or he shall sure be tript Both Lords and people ioyne with me thy mother To invest Saturne and depose thy brother 14 With that before her sonne could make reply Where they were speaking rusht bold Tytan in A storme was in his brow fier in his eye After some tempest he doth thus begin Must then young Saturne raigne Oh tell me why Am I a Bastard and begot in sinne Hath Vesta playd the strumpet with my Father That you despise me and elect him rather 15 Was I not of that Virgin-wombe the first And lay I not as neere your heart as he Was I not of those breasts before him nurst And am I not his Elder in degree What haue I done you should affect me worst Your Mayden-birth and your first progeny Before him I was borne and to be plaine By all the Goddes I will before him raigne 16 Had I not in your wombe the selfe-same being Am I not of the selfe-same bloud created Is not my Royalty with his agreeing Is not my birth before his Anti-dated Is elder Tytan now not worth the seeing Must in my right that young boy be instated Hath he so well or I so ill deseru'd No first I came and I will first be seru'd 17 And turning to young Saturne with an eye Threatning reuenge and ruyne to his life Prin-cox quoth he must you be plac't so hye The only darling of Vranu wife Canst thou so soone out-leape me Thou shalt die And in thy fatall obits end this strife Then with his fatall blade he blest his head Had the blow falne it had strooke Saturne dead 18 But Vesta staide it comming and withall Came Ceres and Sibilla thrusting thither They hugge young Saturne but on Tytan fall Thundring on him with clamors altogither The yonger brother they their Soueraigne call And bid the elder packe they care not whither The people second them thus in disgrace The Stigmaticke is forst to leaue the place 19 But hauing better with himselfe aduised Tytan and Saturne thus the strife decide That Tytan for his shape so much despised Should leaue the Scepter vnto Saturnes guide And so to stint all mallice enterprised But after Saturnes death the Crownet'abide To Tytan and his heyres by his last will So Saturne sweares all his heyres male to kill 20 King Saturne must not let a sonne suruiue To keepe his brothers I ssue from the Crowne Only his Daughters he may saue aliue These Couenants are betwixt them both set downe Hence-forth no more these haughty brothers striue For eyther by Indenture knowes his owne The Crowne is Saturnes due to Tytans seed To make which good all Saturnes sonnes must bleed 21 The elder brother thus o'reswaide with might Cannot indure that Clyme but seekes another To see his yonger throned in his right Or to be cal'd a Subiect to his brother And therefore full of anger and despight He leaues his Countrey Sisters and his mother And to be rid at once of his disgraces He seekes aduentures strange in forren places 22 Where Fortune his attempts so much befrended That many Warlike Nations he subdud'e No quest saue Armes and valour he intended And how by Vsurpation to intrude Into the rightes of others who defended Their Honors both by strength and multitude Thus he of many Islands raignes sole King And all the World of Tytans Actes doth ring 23 Yet into Creet he daily sendes espiall To know if Saturne made his Couenant good Forcing his slye skouts mauger all deniall To bring him word how Saturnes glory stood Whether of Mariage he had yet made tryall Or hauing Children male had spilt their bloud Knowing himselfe to be sufficient strong By force of Armes to right his former wrong 24 So with his fiue and forty Sonnes makes thence With fayre Tytea mother to seuenteene Of that large broode all these with rage dispence And by their late attonement Exiles beene With patience they depart but with pretence Hoping well Armed once more to be seene And with their brood of Tytanois to meet And tug with Saturne for the Crowne of Creet 25 Rhea of all the beauteous daughters fairest Brides with Hiperion her best-lou'd Brother He likewise for his feature was the rarest Of Tytans sonns there liu'd not such another Oh sweet Hiperion thou in shape comparest With all the Gyant yssue of thy mother At feuerall byrths two Babes she childed soone The male she cald the Sunne Female the Moone 26 The tother Tytans fearing to these two Their Fathers Conquests should in time descend A monstrous Act they haue intent to do Whose scandall shall beyond both Poles extend And none but Parricides would yeild vnto For they that should their Brothers life defend Conspire together and gainst right or reason In dead of night they seeke his death by Treason 27 But first they take his little sonne the Sunne And to the floud Eridanus well knowne That streames along their Coast In hast they run Where the young Lad amongst the waues is throwne This when his tender Sister knew was dun From a high Rocke her selfe she tumbled downe In pitty of whose beauties grace and yeares The Gods translate them to the brightest Spheres 28 Meane time the new made King of Creet 's renowne Increast so much that he was term'd a God He was the first that ware a Lawrell Crowne The first that venter'd on the Scas and rod In triumph on the waters this being knowne They held them happiest that could make abod In his blest Prouince which being well conducted Kings sent their Sonnes to him to be instructed 25 Saturne in those daies was helde onely wise Many young Princes in his Court werâ—… traiâ—…d He taught them both the vse of Seas and â—…es And what hâ—…d wealth within the Earth remained Then gan he Citties build and Lawes deuise for an Irregular people he disdained The mynerall mountaine-veines he vnder-minde And was the first that perfect Golde refinde 26 Yet neuer did this King in ought miscarry Hauing what Earth and Sea and Ayre could yeild Happy in all thinges saue he durst not marry He sees the gorgcous house he late did build Shine with reflecting Gold his obiects varry He sees his ripe corne growing in the field He sees the wilde Birds by his Archers caught Pierst with those shafts whose vse before he taught 27 He sees the vast Seas by his Oares deuided And the decepe waters without danger past By Art of Sayle and Rudder they are guided What greater happinesse could Mortall
tast But when the Couenant long before decided Twixt him and Tytan he records at last It pierst his hart with sorrow for his life Seemes to him tedeous led without a wife 28 What bootes him all his Honours and ritch state His wealths-increase and all his worldly pleasure For whom doth he rise early and sleepe late Hauing no heyre to inherite all his Treasure He knowes he hath incur'd his Brothers hate Yet must his seed make of his kingdome seazure He enuyes his owne wealth bicause he knowes All his life time he toyles t' enrich his foes 29 He loues his Sister Sybill yet not so That if she châ—…dren haue their blouds to spill And yet his timerous passions howerly grow Nor can he on her beauty gaze his fill Faine would he marry her and yet doth know If shee haue Issue he her sonnes must kill So that he wishes now but all too late That for his vow he might Exchange his state 30 In this distraction many dayes he dwelt Till Loue at length in Saturnes hart preuailed Such feruent passions in his brest he felt That spight his Oath which he so much bewailed He feeles his soft thoughts in his bosome melt Needs must he yeild whom such faire Jookes assailed And now vpon this desperate point he stood To wade t' her bed thogh throgh his childrens blood 31 This can great Apis witnesse who that time Peloponessus gouern'd This records Iubalda who the Spanish seat doth clime This Craunus kneel'd to by th' Italian Lords This Satron who the Gaules rul'd in his prime Now to Semiramis Assyria affords The Monarchy who after Ninus dide Married her Sonne and perisht by his pride 32 The marriage rights with solemne feasts are done Sybill both wife and sister the first Queene That raign'd in Creete hath now conceiu'd a sonne Neuer hath lesse applausiue ioy bin seene At such a Brides Conception the time 's come The long suspensiue daies expired beene For if a male his blood the Earth must staine A male she brought forth and the Lad was slaine 33 For so the King commanded being a King He thought it base if he should breake his word Oh golden dayes of which the Poets sing How many can this Iron age afford That hold a promise such a precious thing Rather to yeeld their children to the sword Then that the world should say thy oath thou brakest Or wast so base to eate the word thou spakest 33 Such difference is twixt this and that of gold We in our sinnes are stronger Vertues weaker Words tide them fast but vs no bonds can hold They held it vil'd to be a promise breaker A Lyar was as strange in times of old As to find out amongst vs a true speaker Their harts were of pure mettall ours haue flawes Now lawes are wordes in those daies wordes were lawes 34 The Funerall of the first slaine infant ended And the sad daies of mourning quite expir'd At which the pittious Queene was most offended But now her spirits with dull sorrowes tired The King a second metting hath intended And the Queenes nuptiall bed againe desired Sibill conceiues and in her wombe doth cherish More children ready in their birth to perish 35 And growing neere her time the sorrowfull father Displeas'd to see his wife so apt to beare Who for his vowes-sake wish her barren rather The murther of his first sonne toucht him neare Sends through his Land a kingly traine to gather And makes for Delphos hoping he shall heare Some better comfort from the Delphian shrine Whose Oracles the king esteemes diuine 36 He therefore first his sacrifice prepares And on Apollos Altar Incense burnes Then kneeling to the Oracle his praiers Mount with the sacred sume which neare returnes Tell the pleas'd God acquainted with his cares Lookes downe from heauen sees him how he mourns Desiting that his power would nothing hide But tell what of her next birth should betide 37 With that there fell a storme of Raine and Thunder The Temple was all sire the Alter shooke The golden roofe aboue and pauement vnder Trembled at once about gan Saturne looke To see what heauenly power had caus'd this wonder Faine he the holy place would haue forsooke When th' Oracle thus spake thy wife growes great With one that shall depose thee from thy seat 38 For from her royall wombe shall one proceed That in despight of thee in Creet shall dwell So haue the neuer-changing fares decreed Such is the Oracles thrice sacred spell A sonne shall issue from king Saturnes seed That shall enforce his father downe to Hell This heard the discontented king arose And doubly sad away to Creet he goes 39 What shall he do faire Sibils time drawes neere And if the Lad which she brings forth suruiue The newes will stretch vnto his brothers eare To whom he sware to keepe no male aliue Besides a second cause he hath to feare Least he his father from his kingdome driue Then to preuent these ils he swears on hie Inspight of fate the infant borne shall die 40 Yet when the King his first sonnes death records In his resolued thoughts it breeds relenting The bloudy and vnnaturall act affords His troubled thoughts fresh cause of discontenting None dare approach his presence Queene noâ—… Lords That to his first childs death had bin consenting The first vnnaturall act appeares so vilde The king intends to saue his second childe 41 So oft as he the murder cals to mind So oft he vowes the second son to saue But thinking on his couenant grows vnkind And doomes it straight vnto a timelesse graue Againe the name of sonne would pitty find And for his oth some refuge seekes to haue But when the Oracle he doth recall The very thought of that confounded all 42 So deare to him his Crowne and state appeared That he his pompe before his blood preferred It ioyes him to commaund and to liue feared And now he thinkes his foolish pitty erred And setting light his issue seemes well cheared His fortune to the Goddes he hath referred Rather then loose his Scepter t is decreed Had he ten thousand brats they all should bleed 43 Resolu'd thus newes is brought him by his mother That Sibell late in trauell is deliuer'd Of two faire Twins a Sister and a Brother At this report his heart is well nigh shiuer'd Go spare the â—…one quoth he and kill the tother Alas saith she we women are pale-liuer'd And haue not heart to kill no beast so wilde Or brutish but would spare so sweete a childe 44 And shall a father then so madly fare With his owne issue his childs blood to spill And whom the Tigers and fell beasts would spare Shall reasonable man presume to kill The birds more tender ore their young ones are Fishes are kind vnto their issue still Fish bird and beast in sea Aire â—…arth that breedeth Though reasonlesse her tender young ones feedeth 45
Souldiors hart 41 You dimme those eyes that sparkle fire Deuine By whom this melancholy roome is lighted The place were darke and but for their bright shine We in this Dungeon should be all benighted Oh saue your beauty then and spare your eyen Why should you at our presence be affrighted we come not with our weapons drawne to feare you But with our comfortable words to cheare you 42 But say our hostile weapons were all bent Against your breast yet why should you be mated Bewty's sword-profe no forceable intent But by a face so faire is soone rebated Your beauty was vnto your body lent To be her Secretary where instated It is as safe as if a wall of Iron Impreguable your person should inuiron 43 With that the wofull maide vplifts her eie And fixt it first vpon the Princes face But there it dwelt not long for by and by It wandered wildly round about the place Yet comming to her selfe when she gan spy Her selfe mongst strangers with a modest grace Hauing her raging griefe awhile restrain'd Thus blushing she her sad estate complain'd 44 My father oh my Father where is he To whom these Subiects should of right belong You are the Limbes the head I cannot see Oh you haue done the king some violent wrong What Stranger 's this that doth sollicite me How dare you thus into my chamber throng And fright me being a Princesse with your steele Or where 's the King that to this youth you kneele 45 If King Lycaon liue why do you bow Vnto a stranger he suruiuing still If he be slaine why am I hindred now Vpon his Coarse my Funerall teares to spill I may lament by Law no lawes allow Subiects by Treason their liege Lords to kill My teares are naturall and come in season ' Your treacherous act is meer vnnaturall Treason 46 By these her words the Amorous Prince doth gather This Lady to be king Lycaons daughter It grieues him now he hath exil'd her father And once againe of fauour he besought her But she all sorrow now intreats him rather To leaue the Chamber since his comming brought her Nothing but newes of death and words of care Her Fathers ruine and her owne dispaire 47 By many faire perswasions the Prince moues her To stint her passion and to stop her teares He whispers in her â—…are how much he loues her But all in vaine his tongue he idly weares By all Rhetoricke and Art he proues her Which makes her at the length lend her chast eares And thus reply I cannot loue vntill You one thing grant me the Prince sweares he will 48 Remember quoth the Lady you haue sworn Being a Prince to breake an oath were base Wer 't in a Peasant it were hardly borne But in a Prince it seemes a worse disgrace The greater y' are the greater is your scorne If you should taint your honour in this case T is nothing if a poore Stars beames be clouded But we soone misse the Moone in darknes shrowded 49 Princes are earthly Gods and placst on high Where euery common man may freely gaze On them the peoples vniuersal eye Is howerly fixt to scan their workes aud wâ—…ies They looke through spectacles your deeds to spy Which makes the Letters of your shame or praise Grosser to be discernd and easier scand A king should be a light to all his Land 50 These words sight out haue fan'd the amorous fire Which did the brest of Saturnes sonne inflame He that at first her beauty did admire Now wonders at the wisedome of the dame And museth how from such a deuilish Syre As king Lycaon such an Angell came Now he entreats her aske with spirit vndanted For as he is a Prince her sute is granted 51 Be it quoth he the fortunes of this day Be it my selfe my selfe sweet Saint am thine Be it this kingdome and this Scepters sway Behold my interest I will backe resigne We haue no power to say such beauty nay Being but mortall and that face deuine What 's your demand sweet Saint It is quoth she That I a consecrated maide may be 52 Oh had she askt more gold then would haue fild Her fathers Pallace packt vp to the roofe Or in her sad boone had the Lady wild Of his resolued spirit to see large profe Monsters he would haue tamde and Gyants kild And from no sterne aduenture kept aloofe In hope to haue woon her loue but being thus coy This one request doth all his hopes destroy 53 The Prince is bound by Oath to graunt her pleasure Yet from her will he seekes her to disswade Hoord not quoth he vnto your selfe such Treasure Nor let so sweet a flower vngathered vade Nature her selfe hath tooke from you fit measure To haue more beautious Creatures by you made Then crop this flower before the prime be past Loose not the Mould that may such fayre ones caft 54 Let not a Cloyster such rare beauty smother Y' are Natures may ster-peece made to be seene Sweet you were borne that you should beare another A Princesse and discended from a Queene That you of Queenes and Princes might be mother Had she that bare you still a virgin beene You had not beene at all Mankind should fade If euery Female liu'd a spotlesse mayde 55 You aske what you by no meanes can defend In seeking a strict Cloyster to enjoy Yee wish to see the long-liu'de world at end And in your hart you mankinde would destroy For when these liues no further can extend How shall we people th' Earth Who shall employ The Crowns we win the wealth for which we striue When dead our selues we leaue none to suruiue 56 You might as well kill Children as to hold This dangerous error Nay I le proue it true For Infant-soules that should haue beene cnrold In Heauens predestin'de booke begot of you Are by your strangenesse to obliuion sold You might as well your hands in blood imbrew Nay better too for when young Infants die Their Angell soules liue in Eternitie 57 And so the Heauens make vp their numbers full You Lady heauen and carths right disallow What Gods conclude shall mortals disannull So many as you might haue had ere now So many Angels from heauens throne you pull From carth so many princes by your vow Now could I get a sonne but you being coy Faire murdresse that you are haue kil'd the boy 58 Much more but all in vaine the amorous youth Thinkes in his smooth sweet language to disswade her But nothing that he pleads she holds for truth Though by all gentle meanes he sought to haue staid her She vrgeth still his oath he thinkes it ruth To haue such beauty cloister'd and had made her Virginity for Venus sweets to haue chang'd Had not his Oath that purpose soone estrang'd 59 Now faire Celisto by Ioues gtaunt is free To be admitted one of Dians traine Dian a Huntresse the broad shadowy tree The house beneath who roofe she doth
enemies pike Had by the aime of some strong hand bin cast And side to side through all his entrailes past 45 He comes where all his Lords in counsell sat And tels them of three sons preseru'd to life The Peeres at first seeme much amaz'd thereat Yet all commend the pitty of his wife And praise her vertue intermitting that They next proceed to Tytans hostile strife And thus conclude their enemies to expell Whom they know Barbarous bloody fierce and fell 46 When calling him that the defiance brought This answere backe to Tytan they returne That they his brauing menace set at naught That their owne blouds shall quench the towns they burn That their immediate ruines they haue sought And they no longer can reuenge adiourne But the next sonne shall see strange vengeancetane Of all his Cretan subiects they haue slaine 47 The Messengers dismist while they prepare Armes and munition for the Morrowes field Meane time great Tytans sonnes assembled are Who all their Fortunes on their fury build Their hauty lookes their spleenfull harts declare Each brandishing his sword and ponderous shield Longing to heare from Saturne such reply That on his men they may their valours try 48 Nor do they tempt the Deities in vaine They haue what they desire to them behold The bassled messenger gallops amaine But ere the Knight his message hath halfe told So much the Gyant kings their braues disdaine That with their scornefull feet they spurne the mold Their browes they furrow and their teeth they grate And all the Gods blaspheame to shew their hate 49 Now hath the Sunne slid from his fiery Car And in cold Ister quencht his flaming head Blacke darknes risting from the earth afar You might perceiue the welkin to orespread Orions blazing lockes discouered are Pale Cinthia gouernes in Apolloes stead Bootes his waine about the pole hath driuen And all the stars borne bright that spangle heauen 50 The morning comes Tytan in field appeares In compleat harnesse arm'd from head to toe Next him Aegeon who no Corslet weares Or coat of Armes to incounter any foe Vnarmed as he is he no man feares A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow Made of the Peacockes traine his armes is strong In which he shakes a skeine bright broad and long 51 Creous huge sinnowy Armes and brawny thighes Are naked being tawnied with the sun Buskins he weares that boue his ankles rise Puft with such curl'd silke as Arachne spâ—…n A coat of Armes well mail'd that fits his size Laceth his body in these Armes he woon Of a huge Monster in the Isle of Thrace Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace 52 His knotted beard was as the Porphir blacke So were the fleecy lockes vpon his crowne Which to the middle of his armed backe From his rough shaggy head discended downe His fiery Eie-bals threaten Saturnes wracke Sterne vengeance rous'd her selfe in Caons frowne His sheild a broad iron dore his Lance a beame Oft with his large stride he hath Archt a streame 53 Typhon in skins of Lyons grimly clad Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds The hides of these imperious beasts he had From th'Erithmanthian forrest where his deeds Liue still in memory like one halfe mad The Gyant shewes in these disguised weeds The Lyons iawes gnawing his Helmet stood And grinning with his long fangs stain'd in blood 54 And yet his owne fierce visage lowring vnder Appeares as full of terror as that other Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder Next him appeares Euceladus his Brother Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder This was the onely darling of his mother His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oake With which he menac'st death at euery stroake 59 Hiperion in an armor all of Sunnes Shines like the face of Phoebus o're the rest This Gyant to his valiant Brothers runs Crying to Armes base lingering I detest Damn'd be that Coward soule that damage shuns Or from apparant perill shrinkes his brest Behold where Saturne mongst his people crownd His hornes and Clarions doth to battell sound 56 Saturne appeares as great Hyperion spake Borne in an Iuory chaire with bright stones stoodded Mongst which in trailes ran many an Anticke flake With rich Inamell azur'd greene and rudded At the first push their enemies rankes they brake He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded About him round their bowes his Archers drew A fight which yet their Foe-men neuer knew 57 The big-bon'd Gyants wounded from a farre And seeing none but their owne souldiers by them Amazed stand at this new kind of warre To receiue wounds by such as came not nie them From euery wing they heare their looses iarre They knew not where to turne or how to flie them The showers of Arrowes rain'd so fast and thicke That in their legges thighs brest and armes they stick 58 So long as their strong Bowes of trusty Ewe And silken strings held fast so long fresh riuers Of Crimson blood the Champion did imbrew For euery shaft the Archers Bow deliuers Or kils or woundes one of their countlesse crew But when they once had emptied all their quiuers And that the enemy saw their arrowes wasted To blowes and handy-strokes both armies hasted 59 Thou famous English Henry of that name The fift I cannot but remember thee That wan vnto thy kingdome endlesse fame By thy bold English Archers Chiualry In Agin-Court when to the Frenchmens shame King Dolphin and the chiefe Nobility Were with the ods of thousands forcst to yeeld And Henry Lord of that triumphant field 60 But such successe king Saturne had not then He is in number and in strength too weake His people are but one to Tytans ten Nor are his guards so strong their spleene to wreake The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men Into their foes Battallions rudely breake Their Polaxes and Clubs they heaue on hie The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly 61 The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaues and enter the great Citty Hauocke crying In Cretan bloud they drowne their Chariot Naues And slaughter all the poore Saturniens flying One hand sharpe steele the other fire-brands waues In euery place the grones of people dying Mixt with the Conquerors showts to heauen aspire and in their harsh sound make a dismall Quire 62 The Citty 's ceizd Saturne and Sybill bound Whilst Tytan Lords it in the Cretan Throne His reuelling sonnes for Pillage ransacke round And where they heare Babes shrike or olde men grone They showt for ioy meane time King Saturnes wound Sybill bindes vp and being all alone In prison with her Lord to him relates The fortunes of her sonnes and their estates 63 She tels him that young Ihoue in Epire famed For Martiall triumphs is theyr naturall sonne He that Lycaon queld Pelagia tamed And many spoyles for Milliseus woon No sooner did the King heare young Ihoue named But he repents the wrongs against him doon and proud of such an Issue so
farre praisd Hopes by his hand to haue his Fortunes raysd 64 He therefore by the carefull Damsell sends The selfe-same Damsell that to Oson bore him as from a sorrowfull father kind commends The Damsell hauing found him kneeles before him And the whole proiect she begins and ends Of Saturnes fall and prayes him to restore him Ihoue that till now a father neuer knew amaz'd at first himselfe a space withdrew 65 And hauing in his hart her words debated And euery thing conferd his birth vnknowne Which from his infancy the maide related Euen to the time that he to yeares was growne Knowing the day and houre exactly dated His mothers pitty and his fathers frowne To which her words she doth as witnesse bring The two fayre danghters of the Epyre King 66 The youthfull Prince is to the full perswaded It glads him to be sonne to one so great He sweares his Vncle shall be soone disgraded And tumbled headlong from his Fathers seat And all that haue the Cretan Clyme inuaded Shall be repulst with scandall In this heat The Epire King he doth of ayde implore And Archas whom he late had crownd before 67 Were he a stranger yet he holds it sinne Not to pursue his rescue being opprest But being his father and his next of Kin That by a Tyrants hand is dispossest His mother to that had his ransome bin And kept the bloudy weapon from his breast All these incite his valour and the rather To seeme kind sonne to so vnkind a Father 68 Posts are to Archas in Archadia sent His father with two thousand men to meet Who musters vp his troopes incontinent Proud that his valour shall be knowne in Creet The bold Parthemians likewise to Ihoue sent Of their owne voluntary minds a Fleet Of ships well stor'd with men who both admire His valour and his amity desire 69 The men of Oson round about him flocke Glad by so braue a Captaine to be guided Knowne to be issued from a Regall stocke Meane time King Milleseus hath prouided His stout Epiriens who haue vowd to blocke The Cretan streetes with trunkes of men deuided So with the remnant of their forces troope To make proud Tytan and his Issue stoope 70 Their Army they transport and on the beach Of the ritch Cretan shore securely land it No man appeares their entrance to impeach The selfe-opiniond Foe so slightly mand it They thinke their fortunes out of dangers reach And that their power 's so great none can withstand it The couetous Princes more intend the spoyle Of one ritch towne then losse of all the soyle 71 But when the watch from the high Citty wals Sees all the neighbor playnes with Armor spread Alowd to Tytan and his sonnes he cals To arme with speed the Gyants straight make head Tydings of bloudy broyles them nought appals With courage they their businesse managed And hauing each addrest his sword and shield Issue from forth the gates and take the field 72 Into three Battailes Iupiter diuides The Royall Army he conducts The mayne King Melliseus by appointment guides Th' Osoniens and Epyriens fill his traine Some from Alacre he receiued besides A Citty subiect vnto Epires raigne Ihoue the Parthemians in the vaw doth beare Yong Archas with th' Arcadians leades the reare 73 Syx Battailes Tytan makes the great'st he leades And in the other fiue his sonnes employes It cheeres him when he sees his Army spreads So many furlongs led by his bold boyes He sweares the ground whereon his enemy treads Shall drowne the hoast that he this day destroyes In their owne gore and after in small while Yeeld to their mangled trunks a funerall pile 74 By this young Archas twixt the Camps appeares A trumpet all the way before him sounding For Tytan through the army he inqucers The Tyrant with all pride and spleene abounding Admits him in the presence of his Peeres Legions of armed men his person rounding His sudden comming much amazement breeds When Archas with his message thus proceeds 75 Thus saith Prince Iupiter king Saturnes sonne Stay there quoth Tytan for thou hast confest That what I do is all by Iustice done And by good right my selfe I here invest The Cretan Crowne I haue by conquest won In which I haue a filiall Interest The name of Saturns sonne Saturne excludes And Tytan iustly enters not intrudes 76 When Archas thus replyes Great Saturnes seede And yssue Male suruiues to see thee slayne The bloud thou sought to shed shall make thee bleed And all the Gyant Princes of thy traine So hath the Epire King with Ihoue decreed Therefore before your blouds this verdure staine Leaue these vsurped Confines and release My Graundfire King that hostile armes may cease 77 Else thus thy Nephew Ihoue by me hath sworne By me his soone Archas th' Arcadian King To plucke that Crowne from off thy browes in skorne And thee from that Tribunall headlong fling and such as thy vsurped state suborne He shall to tuyne and destruction bring Tytan whose rage darts fire out of his eyes Thus to the bold vndaunted youth replies 78 Princox Thou thinkst by thy despightfull braue To daunt vs but thou giu'st vs greater spirit Thou comst from Saturnes sonne Thou dost depraue In that one word his Tytle not my Merit Thou telst vs we our naturall Kingdome haue Which as our fathers eldest we inherit For iust so old as Ihoue is iust so long Satarne vsurpt vpon my right by wrong 79 Go tell thy Father that his life is mine And I that life am now come to bereaue So is thy life too which thou must resigne When he got thee he should haue askt me leaue His death was at his byrth due so was thine Which then deferd you now come to receiue Reply not the proud braucs thou hast commenced Hath vs and all our Issue much incenccd 80 Archas departs Tytan his Souldiors cheeres And tels them the directnesse of his cause That t is Tranus Scepter which he beares And he his eldest by all Natures lawes The true successor to the Crowne he weares They signe his Aue with a shrill applause And by these motiue arguments perswaded Threaten their liues that haue his Clyme inuaded 81 So thoue and Milleseus hauing heard His peremptory answer both prepare For iminent vengeance not to be deferd Lowd showts and cryes from both sides pierce the ayre In cuery battell dauntlesse rage appeard The Champions in their hot bloud proudly fare A confusd noyse drums in their halfe-deafe eares Of trumpets drums shouts swords shields splintered Speares 82 Out of this Battailes Chaos and confusion Of vndistinguisht valor Prince Ihoue springs And where he Tytan spies makes rough intrusion Maugre the strength of all the Gyant-kings This prologue was to some the full conclusion Of that daies Tragedy theyr darts and Slings From cuery part with enuious hands they cast And Ihoue through thousand weapons points hath past 83 Proceeding still his sword prepares the way
taught the poore beast hauing poison tasted To seeke th`hcarbe Cancer and by that to cure him Who taught the Bore finding his spirits wasted To seeke a branch of Iuy to assure him The Tortois spide a Dragon and straight hasted For Sauery arm'd with which he can endure him Chyron found Centery whose vse is holy Achilles Yarrow and great Hermes Moly 14 The Storke hauing a branch of Orgamy Can with much ease the Adders sting eschew And when the little Weasill chast doth fly The Dragon he defends himselfe with Rew Much might be done by their rare purity By such as all their opperations knew No maruell then if such as know their skill Find by their practise Art to saue or kill 15 The Basiliske and the reuiued Swaine With all the powerfull hearbes that life restore He beares to Paphos they beholding slaine So horrible a Monster knowne before Perceiuing likewise how he cal'd againe Men dead to life his person they adore Now Esculapius name is sounded hie Through the vast compasse of the spatious skie 16 And whether enuious of this Princes name Fitting the humorous world with such applauses Or whether for receiuing such as came From the last field or at what carping clauses Ioue was agrieu'd at Esculapius fame I find no certaine ground but for some causes Vnknowne to me he Paphos doth inuade And great Apollo to his sonne giues aide 17 But Saturnes seed preuailes much bloud he spils To quench the heat of his incensed ire Paphos he sackes and Esculapius kils Oh where 's the Art that made thy name aspire Whose fame Sea Earth and Heauen with clangor fils To others thou gauest life now life desires In vaine alas when heauen hath doomd thy date Prepare thy soule all physicke comes too late 18 Besides this sentence I pronounce or hie There is no strife with heauen when their houres call Physitians must as well as patients die And meete at the great iudgement generall Paphos is spoil'd Apollo forcst to slie The Cretans him pursue he scapes them all Disguis'd and is in exile forcst to keepe In Thessaly the king Admetus sheepe 19 I told you erst how Saturne reinuested Into Parthemia for bright Iuno sent There with her vnknowne Brothers to be feasted And how Athenian Neptune had intent To meet with Pluto there Things thus digested Triumphant Ioue now full of griefe Ostent For his late conquest in his breath'd defiance Is in all pompe receiu'd by his alliance 20 Chiefely by twin-borne Iuno not alone His Sister now his troth-plight Queene and Bride Their long diuided bodies they attone And enter amorous parley which espide By Saturne speedy Purseuants are gone To all the bordering Kings to them alide Vnto their solemne spousales to inuite King Prince Duke Marquesse Baron Lord and Knight 21 Metis the daughter of Oceanus They say was Ioues first wife whom being great He swallowed least of her being childed thus One should be borne to lift him from his seate By this the God growes more then Timpanus And swelling with the same with throwes did sweat Till after anguish and much trauelling paine The arrned Pallas leapt out of his braine 22 Metis deuout'd he Themis takes to bed Espousing her within the Gnossean Isle There where the flood Theremus lifts his head His third wife Iuno whom he wan by guile Ioue knowing it vnlawfull was to wed His sister by his God-hood in small while Transformes himselfe and like a Cuckow flies Where Iuno tasts the pleasure of the skies 23 But at his becke the King of Gods and men Commands a storme the Welkin to orecast At which the Cuckow trembling shrinketh then Her legges beneath her wings Iuno at last Pitties the fearefull Bird who quakes agen And wraps it softly till the storme was past In her warme skirt when Ioue within few houres Takes hart turnes God and the faire Queen deflours 24 After which rape he takes her to his Bride And though some thinke her barren without heires Some more iudicious haue such tales denide Gods that know all things know their owne affaires And vvhat they vvill their povverfull vvisedomes guide Their children Preces were vvhom vve call Prayers These dwel on earth but when they mount the sphears Haue free accesse to Ioue their fathers eares 25 Imagine all the pompe the Sea can yeild Or ayre affoord or earth bestow on Man Seas-fish Ayres-Fowle beast both of Parke and field Rarâ—…eties flowed in abundance than Nature and Art striue which is deeplier skild Or in these pompous Nuptials better can Twixt these being more then mortall seem smal ods And the high sumptuous shewes made by the Gods 26 Night coms a daughter is begot and nam'd Hebe the long-liu'd Feast at length expires Great Iupiter and Iuno are proclaimd Parthemian King and Queene Neptune desires To visite Athens being likewise nam'd Th' Athenian King his bloud Ambition fires Pluto departs in Tartary to dwell There founds a deuilish Towne and cals it Hell 27 No day so cleere but darke night must ensue Death is the end of life and care of pleasure Paine followes ease and sorrowes ioy pursue Saue not to want I know not what is Treasure The Gods that scourge the false and crowne the true Darknesse and Light in equall ballance measure Tydes fall to ebbes the world is a meere graunge Where all things brooke decay and couet chaunge 28 Not long these triumphs last when Saturne seeing Parthemian Ihoue such generall fame atchieue Out-shining him hee envyes at his being Still feare is apt things threatned to beleeue But when the Oracle with this agreeing He cals to mind his Soule doth inly grieue For this is he whom Delphos did foretell Should Saturne from his Crowne and Realme expell 29 Now turnes he loue to hate his Ioy to Sadnesse His Fathers-pitty to a Foe-mans spight His pleasure to despaire his myrth to madnesse In teares he spends the day in sighes the night To spleene his feares conuert to griefe his gladnesse And all to Melanchollie is sad affright Nor can his troubled sences be appeas'd Till as a Traitor he Prince Ioue hath ceas'd 30 He therefore musters vp a secret power Of his vnwilling Subiects to surprize Ioue in Parthemta Ioue ascends a Tower At the same time and from a farre espies Their armed troopes the fields and Champions scowre From euery quarter clouds of thicke smoke rise No way he can his eyes or body turne But he sees Citties blaze and Hamlets burne 31 More mad with anger then with rage dismaid From that high Tower he in hast discends To know what bold foe dares his realmes inuaid And gainst his peacefull kingdome enuy bends Tidings is brought great Saturne hath displaid His hostile fury and his wracke intends But Ioue that in his Fathers grace affide Sweares he shall die that hath his name belide 32 It bears no face of truth no shape of reason A father
got from him discended Bright Danae of whom we now intreat Whose beauties fame is through the earth extended Acrisius iealous of his Fathers seat To Egipt hies and there his prayers commended Offering large quantities of Gold and Wheat At the God Belus his great Grandsires shrine Of his faire daughters fortunes to deuine 72 This answere he returnes Away be gone Thou sonne of Abas Danae forth shall bring A gallant boy shall turne thee into stone And after thee in Arges raine sole-King Acrisius now hath turn'd his mirth to mone From whence his ioyes should grow his sorrows spring His hoped Issue and successiue heire Late al his pleasure now is all his care 73 He intimates that from her wombe shall rise A gallant boy that shall his Grandfire kill And Arges Crowne by force of armes supprize He sweares the maid shall liue a Virgin still And to preuent his fate doth straight deuise A Tower impregnable built on a hill Strong of it selfe but yet to make it sure He girts it with a treble brazen Mure. 74 The guiltlesse Lady wonders at the state Of this new worke not knowing why t is built To see sharpe Pynacles themselues elate So high towards heauen the Arches richly guilt Huge Marble collumnes to support the gate In euery place rich tinctures largely spilt The Tarras with white Iuory pillers rail'd And the Crosse-ebon bars with guilt stoods nail'd 60 It seemes too strong for pleasure and for warre It shewes too neat but now the worke is ended Who that beholds it shining from a farre But with admiring thoughts the worke commended The nearer you approach the more you are Inflam'd with wonder not a staire ascended But of white Marble not a doore but Brasse The windowes glaz'd with Cristals not with glasse 61 All things prepard the King will Danae carry To view the Tower she giues it due with praise He thus proceeds Child thou shalt neuer marry But in this place of pleasure end thy daies And in this brazen circuit euer tarry The Lady starts and thinkes too long she staies In that loath'd place which now to her appeares No Pallace but a dungeon full offeares 62 And asking why she must be kept a slaue Or how she hath deseru'd so strict a doome To be so young put in her Marble graue For what 's a Prison but a liuing Toombe Or for what cause she may no husband haue But liue an Ancresse in so strict a roome Knowing her selfe a Princesse ripe and sit Wrongd as she thinkes not to be married yet 63 Acrisius tels her what great Belus spake When hee with Orisons kneeld at his throne That from her wombe the world a sonne should take That shall his Grandsire change into a stone She interrupts him and thus scilence brake Oh would you be eternall liu'd alone And neuer die What would Acrisius haue More then an heire to lodge him in his graue 79 Did you not into stone great Abas turne And Abas to his Father Linceus so Their funerall trunkes to sacred ashes burne O're which their monumentall marbles grow Oh Father no man can his Fate adiorne Shall these your eyes be closed vp by a Foe Or can you deeme your owne bloud shall betray you Who are more fit within your stone to lay you 80 What you did to your Father let my sonne Performe'to you successiuely succeed Your Fathers glasse is out yours must be run Leaue then your Crowne to one of Abas breed In vaine quoth he we cannot thus be wun To alter what 's vnchangeably decreed Here shalt thou liue but royally attended Like a bright Queene and from a King descended 81 So leaues her guarded with a troope of Mayds And envious Beldams that were past their lust These with rewardes and threats the King invades In his high charge to be seuere and iust But most the Matrons fittest for such trades Rather than wanton wenches he dare trust Louers may Louers fauour Crones are past it and enuy but not pitty those would tast it 82 So doth the full-fed stomach meate deny Vnto the famisht So the Drunkard spils Wine in aboundance which would cheare the dry Cold age the appetite of hot lust kils Danae thy beauties fame is sounded hie Mongst many other Kings Ihoues eares it fils He loues her by her fame and longs to see her Nor are her thoughts at peace before he see her 83 A thousand bracelets Iewels Pearls and Rings With gold of sundry stamps the King prepares And hauing readied all these costly things In a poore Pedlers trusse he packs his wares So hies to Danaes Tower loue gaue him wings Hope sometime cheeres him sometimes he dispaires At length arriues there in an euening late And fals his rich packe at the Castle gate 84 Where two leane wrinkled Crones stand Centinell To giue the watchword to Acrisius guard Appointed straight to ring the larum Bell If any man once neere the Castle dar'd The Pedler askes who in that pallace dwell Or how they call the place Hast thou not heard Of Danae quoth the Beldam looking sower Whom Arges King closd in this-brazen Tower 85 He viewes the place and finds it strongly seared Not to be won by armes but skal'd by slight I came from Creet quoth he and was intreated Heere to deliuer tokens of some weight From great king Iupiter their cold blouds heated With hope of gaine they cheare their age-duld sight And with a couetous longing earne to view What precious knackes he from his Hamper drew 86 A thousand seuerall Trinckets he displaies If this be Danaes Tower quoth he then these Belong to you the Crones his bounty praise And in their hands two costly lewels cease The younger Ladies now are come to gaze Not one amongst them but he seekes to please Some Gold some stones some Rings some Pearles he gaue And all haue something though they nothing craue 87 Blear'd with these gifts their charge they quite forget And euery Ladies eâ—…e dwels on her prize Comming fore Danae she beholds them set With sundry brouches sparkling in her eyes And asking whence they had them they bid fet The Pedler vp who hath of fairer size Brighter Aspect and for a Queene to weare In worth not to be valewed yet not deare 88 Danae commands him vp he glad ascends And through their brib'd hands freely is admitted Euen to her chamber Gold thy might extends Beyond all opposition the best witted Thou canst corrupt diue through the hearts of friends By thee are wal'd Townes entred skonces splitted By thee are armies swayed Camps ouer-runne Children the Fathers spoile and Sire the sonne 89 No wonder then if Gold the Pedler brought To enter where besides him no man came Behold the Goddesse this great King hath sought Oh how her bright eie doth his soule inflame Pearles Iewels Rings and Gold he sets at naught yea all the world if valewed vvith this Dame Variety of costly gems he shewes her And makes her of them
implacable Prince his rage thus wreakes Behold what doome the Impartiall Deities Alot the wretch that Lawes of honor breakes So with his shiled Gergonian him pursude Hardning the face which he behind him skrewd 45 At th' instant his retorted necke waxt hard His spread Armes stiffe his fixt eyes shewing feare And you would thinke his shape all sence debard Spake as it stood words that a man might heare These tumults done and Hymens rights prepard The Prince intends another course to beare He takes his leaue consorted with his Bride And to his Mother his swift steps applide 46 In the Mid-way he youthfull Danaus meets His hopefull Brother who at the first sight Salutes him and his wife with kind regreets In many a sweet discourse they spend that night At length the Murke and Palped darkenesse fleets From the skies azurd forehead with the light The Princes rise and speed them to the shore To which the mast-lesse boat their mother bore 47 Now Phrigian Mydas famous for his eares In giuing Apolloes honor to God Pan And for his golden wish the Scepter beares Of Phrigia In Israell that good man Samgor was Iudge whose power so great appeares He of the Philistyns kild many a man And in one battaile whilst the Trumpets blew VVith an Oxe-goade sixe hundred Heathen slew 48 But in these passages great Saturnes Sonne That with the Troians was at broad hostility At Ganimeds request a league begun Now Ihoue and Troos are one he whose ability Could not defend his Troy from being ore-run Now can commaund Troyes foes with much facility So to yeeld way rebates the greatest stroake So softest walles hard bullets soonest choake 49 T'wixt England and great Spaine two potent Nations Like enmity hath long time beene commenced And whilst Eliza liu'd her proclamations Oppos'd their pride and her owne Prouince fenced But now with mutuall kind Congratulations All iniuries on both sides are dispensed And our great Englands Ihoue for Spaines best vse Hath at their suite granted a termine Truce 50 Troos yeelds his due to Nature him succeeds Ilion his Sonne who Ilions high Towers reard More famous for his buildings then braue deeds A royall Prince and more beloud then feard He for a present sends foure milke-white Steedes To Cretan Ihoue a Present much indeerd Who by the Knight that such a treasure brought Re-sends a pretious gold-branch quaintly wrought 51 Much richer gifts in enterchange of state Our Soueraigne to the lofty Spaniard gaue The warlike Constable who came of late From Hespery a fiue yeares truce to craue More precious presents and of dearer rate Bare Englands Admirall both rich and braue When from K. Iames sent with a princely traine He was the great Embassador for Spaine 52 Ihoues branch cald the Palladium the King plac'st In Pallas royall Temple where it stood Till Troyes proud wals were quite deiect and rac'st And Islions lofty Turrets swam in blood Great Islion dies and he that next him grac'st The Troian Crowne a prince not all so good Laomedon of whom vve heere vvill stay To beare the Sonnes of Danae on their way 53 Who as they past the desart from a farre They might espy a goodly Knight lie spread Vpon the grasse he seem'd a man of Warre For he was arm'd at all points saue the head On his faire brow appear'd no souldier scarre It seemes he had not Armes long managed Exchanges past of many a kind salute Thus speaks the ◅med Knight whilft they stand mute 54 Who hath not of the great Acrisius hard Acrisius hē that built the brazen Tower Novv Arges King no longer but debard His nat◅e kingdome by his Brothers power His Brother Pricus hath against him ward And all his glor◅s reft him in an hovver Stay there quoth Perseus you haue toucht me neerly Acrisius vvrongs King Pricus shall buy deerely 54 Weare Acrisius Grand-child and discended From beautious Danae and that fort of Brasse That Lady Rumor hath so farre commended Who in Gold-liquid-showre-drops courted was Oh! vvhere vvas I Acrisius t' haue defended With Pricus blood to haue staind the Argiue grasse Both Abas sonnes a Prince frugall and thrifty He Linceus sonne the sole remaine of fifty 56 Is Brother-hood abroad so light esteemed That kingdomes can such holy knots vnty Let me no more Ihoues Royall soone be deemed But for Acrisius wrongs King Pricus die He that in all the world austeerest seemed And stood vpon most points of honesty Hath prou'd the greatest Hypocrite like those Without precise within religious foes 57 Assist me Noble Knight in this aduenture Quoth the great Gorgon-tamer when replide The armed stranger by the firme Inde◅ture Of honor I am else-where bound to ride But if with me you will my voyage enter And see what shall my Chiualry betide My Noble taske atchieu'd I then wil lead you To Pricus where my knowledge much may sted you 58 When I the Triple-shapt Chimere haue slaine Whose dreadfull forme makes all Sicilia quake Bellerephon will then returne againe And your attempt gainst Pricus vndertake The Princes wonder at Chimeraes name And that one knight his desperate life should stake Against such ods asking what Imposition Hath sent him on this dangerous expedition 59 Or whether vncompeld he be so mad To seeke assur'd destruction and to scale The Deuils den where nothing can be had But certain ruine his tough skin is Male A terrible huge Lyons head which drad A Chieures body and a Serpents tale Him whose vast gorge whole armies cannot fill Why should one desperate Knight attempt to kill 60 Bellerephon replies by Pricus doome Not my owne will I am compeld to go Else in my growing yeares that yet but bloome I 'de flesh my sword on a more equall foe But in Sicilia I must seeke my Toombe Or kill the triple-Monster dreaded so Sayth Perseus then VVhat makes him so seuere Attend quoth he great Princes you shall heare 61 Oh! Why did Nature frame these Women fayre And make theyr outward features Angell-bright When their blacke insides staynd and spotted are With Lust with Pride Contempt disdaine Spight Why should the snowy Swans in beauty ◅re Haue such blacke feet Why should the Lilly white Beare such ranke smel Can men withstand their fates When golden vessailes bring in poysoned cates 62 I thought I might haue gatherd a fresh Rose And not haue prick't my finger with a Thorne Or a sweete flower out of the Garden chose But not a Nettle in my hand haue worne Still next the sweetest flower the Nettle growes The rarest beauty hath the rudest scorne The Rouers Shippe beares the best promising sayles The foulest Serpents the most golden skales 63 By a fayre Woman is my youth mispent My Innocent youth that neuer loue imbraced Her deuillish mind to mallice wholly bent My fortunes hath o're turnd my Name disgraced And I through her maleuol◅t entent Like a poore exile from my Countrey chaced Oh woman
find rest Oh Magicke by thy power what cannot they To whom the Seas submit the winds obey 81 Amongst those Princes that with Iason vvent and vvere at home receiu'd the great Alcide amidst this generall Ioy seemes discontent His spleene to Troy he can no longer hide To be reueng'd he holds his firme intent He that to their distresse reliefe denide Must knovv whatt'is to scorne his firme alliance So through all Greece he breaths gainst Troy defiance 82 And vvith a gallant army taking Land attaines the shore perforce and in his way No Village Fortresse Tovvne or Tower can stand But to his ruthlesse fury must giue way This hearing King Laomedon hath mand a Noble army to make good the day Which ere the Sun into the West-sea fall Must see ten thousand Troians kild and thrall 83 Laomedon remembring what great vvracke Twelue-labord Hercules before time made Recounts to them his vvrongs his Citties sack Their tyranies to al vvhom they inuade Therefore incites them to repulse those backe That haue too long vpon his confines staid Behold quoth he these would your freedomes barre Then with a generall showt prepare for warre 84 The hoast of Greekes that heare their exclamation Wait but to heare Alcides watch-word giuen Who cheares them thus You are that warlike Nation Whose fame fils all the Clymates vnder heauen Sincâ—… you are strangers let your salutations Be with your swords not words for yet ere Euen You standing hoast in their owne bloods wee 'l drown And part the rich spoyle of yon rampierd Towne 85 Lowd chearing Instruments on both sides sound The battailes ioyne both Greekes and Troians sinke They that but late the firme Earth proudly bound Now must below the waues of Lethe drinke The great Alcides borne to sway the ground Against his strength opposd al mortals shrinke Who being more then man must needs haue ods To fight with any that are lesse then Gods 86 Him whome th'all-doming Fates will haue to sway How can Laomedon in armes subdue Though Troy be strong yet must it Greece obey Alcides with his Club whole thousands slew By his sole-strength the Greekes obtaine the day And to the Citty gates the foe pursue Who mingled with their troopes in this aduenture Slaughter the bold and with the Cowards enter 87 So by the English was great Cales suprisd And entred with the Spaniards that retire they that at first the generals name despisd Now at the last are forc'st his fame t' admire English and Dutch in Spanish wealth disguisd Laden their fleet with pillage whilst bright fire Consumes the Towne which twice the English take As Greece did Troy great Essex and bold Drake 88 Stout Aiax Telamon amongst the rest Set his first foot in Troy but him succeed Ten thousand Greeks and many a warlike brest Pierst with the Argiue weapons freshly bleed They sacke the populous Towne from East to West Troyes second sacke is by the Fates decreed They sacke and ransacke spoile and freely kill And all the Towne with shreekes and clamors fill 89 Amongst the rest that perisht in this broile Laomedon fals by Alcides hand Whilst euery where the conquering Graecians spoile No man so bold that dares against them stand Great is the booty in so rich a soile They pillage all the substance of the land Beat downe the wals the Temples ruine quite And kill poore infants in their mothers sight 90 The Matrons in their husbands armes deflowâ—… The reuerent Virgins in their parents eye And such as interdict their awfull power By their remorselesse bloudy weapons die Hie looking Troy is ruin'd in an houre Those Towres quite racst whose sharpe spyres mockt the sky and that proud towne the Asian glory ones Is now a confus'd heape of men and stones 91 Al-conquering Hercules reueng'd at last Of Troyes ingratefull Soueraigne takes full ceasure Of Asiaes Monarchy his fury past amongst his host he parts the Citties treasure But Telamonus Aiax most he gracst and gaue him her that pleas'd him aboue measure The bright Hesione his valours meed The beautious Virgin from the sea-Whale freed 92 Well was it for young Priam the Kings sonne That he was else-where in the East imployd The Lybian else that Asia ouer-ronne and conquered Troy had likewise him destroid Thâ—… laden Greekes after the conquest woon Are fraught with wealth with pleasure ouer-ioyd Poore Troy whilst they in their full miâ—…h abound Liues desolate and leueld with the ground 93 The Monster-maister hauing fild the sky With martiall clangor in the lowdest straine After reuenge on Cacus Tyranny and the great Gyants of Cremona slaine King Pricus death King Affer raised hie And the two Collumnes that he reard in Spaine To include in few his many deeds we thus In narrow roome his labors twelue discusse 94 1. The Eremanthion Bore 2. and the fire-breathing Bul 3. The Lernan Hydra 4 and the winged Hind 5. Stymphalidus 6. The Amazonian trull 7. Th' Aegean stables the seauenth taske assind 8. The Cleonean Lyon 9. with the scull Of Diomed who fed his Steeds gainst kind 10. The golden fruit made ripe by bright Heperion 11. Grim Cerbarus 12. and triple-headed Gerion 95 These taskes by Iunoes imposition ended Whilst he on Ictes attractiue face Doted and her deserts alone commended Faire Deyaneyr imputes it her disgrace With such great wrongs vnto her bed offended Because his vassaile had supplied her place She sends a shirt and meanes her husband good Dipt in the poyson of the Centaures blood 96 The traitor Nessus passing a deepe foord With Deianeyre away with her he flyes Alcides cannot reach him with his sword But after him his wounding arrow hies The dying Centaure speakes this latest word Faire Deiancyre before death close mine eyes Receiue a guift in signe I lou'd thee deerely Which though I die in time may stead thee neerely 97 I know thy Lord a Conqueror yet subdude By womens beauty therefore when you find The lustfull Prince mongst Forraine Queenes intrude and that their amorous Court-ships change his mind Send him a Shirt with this my bloud Imbrude The vertue is to make Alcides kind This said his life he ended in a trice She for it was his last trusts his aduise 98 Hearing faire Iole the hart had ceasd Of her deare Lord and that she kept away She feeles her thoughts within themselues diseas'd and hopes to call him backe that went astray The Centaures dying guist the Lady pleasd Her seruant Lychas posts it without stay Oh! Thou weake woman thou his death maist vant Whom Hell-hounds Gyants Monsters could not daunt 99 Hoping alasse his fauour to regaine The Innocent Lady her deare Lord destroyd He d'ons her present whose inuenomed Bane Cleaues to his bones Oh! Who can Fate auoyde More then a man before he would complaine Alcides beares and no whit seemes annoyd Such tortures as the strongest might strike dead he brookes yet no part of his coulour fled 100 But when he felt
Anchor casts And thence vnto Duke Aiax Pallace hasts 70 Mildly of him the Embassador demands Hesione or if he keepe her still With her to enter Hymens Nuptiall bands Not as a Slaue to serue his lustfull will When Tellamon this Message vnderstands He was in thought the Troian Lord to kil So scornefully the Duke his Message tooke His face lookt pale his head with anger shooke 71 He tels him he is not allyde at all With twice-won Troy nor any league desires The beautious Princesse to his lot did fall Whom he wil keepe and mauger all their yres For scaling first Troyes well defended Wall She was his Trophies prize He that aspires To take her thence or once demand her backe Is but the meanes their Troy againe to Sacke 72 And so commands him thence who still proceeds Vnto Achaia where the famous Twins Castor and Pollux haue aduanc'st their deeds And by their Valours were both crowned Kings Vnto their Court in hast Anthenor speeds And to their eares his Embassie begins But they with Telamons rude scornes reply And charge him straight out of their Confines hie 73 With like contempt Duke Nestor sends him backe So did the two Atrides So the rest Of all the Argiue Kings command him packe Out of their bounds as an vnwelcome guest Since Troy deseruedly indur'd such wracke Anthenor answered thus esteemes it best Backe to resaile and to King Priam tell What in his bootlesse voyage him befell 74 The King at this reproach inflam'd with rage Assembles all his people Sonnes and Peeres Intending by their aydes new warre to wage To which the youthfull Gallants wanting yeares Freely assent but those of riper age Out of their grauer wisedome not pale feares Seeke by their Counsels Priam to perswade To raigne in peace and not proud Greece inuade 75 Among the rest great Hector from whose tong Did neuer yssue proud discourteous word Whom Greeke nor Troian can accuse of wrong Nor they within whose blouds he glaz'd his sword Rayseth himselfe aboue the populous throng And thus he sayes Who rather should afford Vengeance on Greece then I your eldest sonne To whom these rough iniurious wrongs are done 76 But if we well consider what a foe And what great wrath vpon our heads we pull Not Greece alone but all that homage owe Asia and Affricke make their numbers full The oddes is too vnequall therefore knowe I am of thought all warres to disanull Troy's but a Citty and though rich and strong Yet gainst the world oppos'd must needs take wrong 77 Why will Rich Priam hazard his estate Being in peace what need we couet warre What can we more desire then fortunate So Priam Troy and all our people are Why should we seeke t' incurre the Argiue hate Of which remains so incurable a scarre Wisemen in their reuenges should forsee What ends may fall not what beginnings be 78 My Grand-sire's dead perhaps he did offend But howsoeuer he cannot now suruiue To seeke his life we vainely should contend Methinkes in this against the Gods we striue What the Greekes mar'd the Gods themselues amend Whence should we then our detriments deriue Our Troy is since her second fall much fairer Her people richer and her buildings rarer 79 Troy lost a King that losse your Grace supply And though your sonne of this I proudly vant He is in you receiu'd with vsury They pillag'd vs and yet we nothing want Of all their wounds we not one scarre can spy Vnlesse Hesione our Princely Ant Whose bondage long since hapning we may gesse The custome and continuance makes seeme lesse 80 But how soeuer neare to mee allyde I do not hold her freedome of that meed That for her sake Troy should in blood be dyde Priam or any of his yssue bleed And for this cause do I my selfe deuide From their rash Counsel that Reuenge decreed Knowing all warre is doubtfull and fore-seeing Of Troy what it may be not of Troyes being 81 If any hot blood prouder then the rest Accuse my words and thinke I speake through feare I wish that man the boldest Graecian guest That euer with Alcides Anchor'd heare That I might print my valour on his Crest And on his armed Vaunt-brace proue my Speare This said great Hector Congied to the King Then takes his place when vp doth Paris spring 82 And to the King his Idaes dreame relates And how he iudg'd three beauties for the ball How farre he Venus ' boue the rest instates The fairest Greeke vnto his lot must fall A fit reuenge for those whom Priam hates For if the King will make him Generall He makes no doubt from Greece a Queene to bring Shall equalize the Sister of the King 83 Now all the peoples voyce on his side flowes In euery eare his famous dreame is rife When ranckt next Paris Deiphebus growes Perswading still to giue these discords life As one that by presumptions thus much knowes His voyage can procure no further strife Then if the promising Fates assist his Brother To proue th'exchance of one Queene for another 84 But Helenus with sacred spels indude Seekes this prepared voyage to restrayne He saith the Greekes shall with their hands imbrude In Troyes bloud royall conquer once againe Intreating Paris he will not delude Theyr reuerent eares with dreames and visions vaine Assuring him that of this Quest shall grow The Citties vniuersall ouerthrow 85 When youthfull Troylus thus Who euer heard A bookish Priest perswade to hostyle Armes Let such as are to Fates and Sawes indeard Crouch by the fires that smoking Alters warmes And cherish their faint sinnewes much affeard Dreading their owne not Souldiers threatned harmes He that 's a Priest amongst priests let him pray We Souldiers cry Arme and a glorious day 86 What lets the King my Father but to grant My Brother Paris a right royall fleete That in reuenge of our surprised Aunt He Warlike prayes among the Graecians meete Shall tymerous Clarkes our Martiall Spirits dant No royall Father know reuenge is sweet Which since the Fates by visions promise beare Not to obey their Hests we Cowards were 87 Troylus preuailes and Hector is perswaded To shun the imputation of base feare With which his courage should be wrong vpbrayded A tymerous thought came neuer Hector neare Siâ—…ce t is agreed that Greece must be inuaded Hee 'l guard his honor with his sword and Speare Or if the Gerekes will on the Troians pray Through his bold body they shall first make way 88 Without his faire applause it had not past So reuerent was th' opinion of his braine His words were Oracles so sweetly gracst They generall murmur in all Counsels gaine His free consent they hauing wâ—…on at last The King appoints them a well furnisht traine With two and twenty Ships well rig'd and man'd In any part of Greece freely to Land 89 Which when the Prophetesse Cassandra heares Indu'de with deuine wisedome she exclaimes Her yellow Tramels she in fury teares
Verse should be Yet to her worth my praise not once comes neere Therefore since more them Hellen call on me To speake their Valors and insert them heere I leaue her with this Title Hellen fairest Of all the World and for Perfection rarest 34 Bold Agamemnon Duke of all the Host Invoakes me next his features to set downe Tall statur'd ably limb'd adored most Of all the Argiues with th' imperiall Crowne White-bodied straight tres-puissant without boast Hardy well-spoke Ambitious of Renowne Menelaus of meane stature his voyce lowd Brown-hair'd well set Valiant in armes not prowd 35 Achilles he whose Myrmidons defended The hoast of Greekes with a strong brazen Mure From Thetis Goddesse of the Sea discended Pourefull expensiue on his Couenant sure Bright-hair'd his face and feature much commended His eye much fiery his Complexion pure Broad shoulder'd and big-arm'd large brested strong His match in Atmes liu'd not the Greekes among 36 King Tantalus broad fat and hye withall His head Crispe-blacke his Beard-thicke but not long Affable Courteous and despising bral Delighting much in Musicke and in Song Alâ—… as broad as Tantall and as tall But in his deeds of Armes more actiue strong He that alone by the Greekes awfull rector Was chosen worthy to encounter Hector 37 Aiax Oeleus was of smaller size Of milder temper Curteous Blacke his haire His Colour fresh himselfe of faire Emptize And a great part among the Princes bare Vlesses King of Ithaca most wise A right Mercurialist in discourse rare An Orator whom Iudging eares applaud Yet Oyly toong'd full of deceit and fraud 38 King Diomed of Gyant-like aspect The largest Greeke that menac'st Troy with steele A Prince whom all the Princes must respect His ponderous blowes make many Troians reele Equally apt to fight or to direct Dreadlesse of Fortune or her turning wheele Comely and deck't with all the guifts of Nature His hart hauing Correspondence with his stature 39 The three-ag'd liuing Nestor Pytous King Slenderly-tall his Visage Sagely graue And promising Counsell he whose Muse did sing Of King Prothesilaus to him gaue The wreath for quicke and Actiue combatting Yet all his Art his body cannot saue His looke effeminate his Courage bold His strength by might but not by feare controld 40 Strout Neptolynus in his Countenance grim Blacke-hait'd broad-ey'd his hairy win-browes meet Arm'd at all points deepe Riuers he would swim Though heauy bodied actiue were his feet They that most curiously decipher him Report his Language stammering and vnsweet Palumides faire-shapt but sickly tender His Colour chearefull but his stature slender 41 Nereus Ipasse the faire Greeke Homer lou'd Penelaus Leitus Eurialus Clouius Arcecilaus Nobly prou'd Ialmen of Boetia Ascalaphus Bold Idomen a Fury being mou'd The Phocean Scedius and Amphimachus Prothous Ieonteus Polybetes Guneus Aemilius and great Philoctetes 42 Who brought the Arrowes dipt in Hydraes blood To Troyes sad siege there was the braue Prothenor By whom Podarces and King Merion stood Tlepolemus Cteatus and Alphenor Phidippes Anthipus a souldier good With stout Alceus soone K. Agapenor Talpheus Phetides King Polyxemon Muestheus Stenetus Thoas sonne to Andremon 43 Rough Polidarius fat and scornefull proude False of his promise and yet warlike bold Mathaon of meane stature yet aloude For valiant to and mongst the best inrold More princes did the Greeke pauilions shroud Whose shapes we leaue to haue their merits told Now come we to Crescida Calchas doughter So faire that many warlike Princes sought her 44 She was a worthy and a beautious Dame Whom Troylus lou'd and Diomedes sought To gaine her Grace they wan immortall Fame And still their glorious spoiles to Cresseid brought For her the mighty Persian Sophy came To gaine her Loue he gainst the Troyans fought Filling the number of the Graecian hoast Who waite but waftage to the Dardan Coast. 45 They call a Counsell and dispatch away Achilles and Patroclus to the Isle Cald Delos which our Cosmographers say Stands midst the Ciclades Heere of long while Tâ—…e God Apolio vnto such as pray Giues answere by his Oracle His smile Cheares such as kneele his frown strikes them with terror Such was the Panims Faith the Pagans Error 46 To this faire Clyme which some Ortigia call The Sun and Moone were in their Nonage seene Latona brought them forth Heere first of all Phoebus the dayes God and his Sister Queene Cynthia that guids the night both rise and fall Heere stands the Temple and the guilded Skreene On which Apolloes Statuë dwels for aye pronouncing Oracles to such as pray 47 Heere did Achilles and Patroclus find The Troian Calchas reuerent Thystranes sonne Sent by King Priam to know Phoebus mind And what shall in these future warres be done The Oracles hath by his priests assignd That after ten yeares Troy shall be o're-run Which Calchas hearing with Achilles makes His speedy peace and so his Troy forsakes 48 Achilles proud of such a glorious pray With these glad tydings to the Fleet returnes Who with all prosperous speed their Anchors way And whilst Troyes King reuolted Calchas mournes Whose graue aduice was to his Realme chiefe stay No longer th' Argiue Duke his speed adiournes But launcheth his Fleet royall They set sales And the calme Eurus yeilds them gentle Gales 49 Diana that was euer friend to Troy Neptune intreats that may command his waues The great Armade of Gracia to destroy And swallow them within his Briny graues She takes it ill the Greekes depart with ioy From Aulis Gulfe yet none her license craues Or offers at her Altars the due rights Of Sacrifice amongst those Kings and Knights 50 Amidst the wrathfull Tempest Calchas praies To Neptune and the Moone their Fleet to spare Who not with words to be appeas'd will raise His tumbling waues and tosse them in the ayre Vnlesse great Agamemnon Altars raise To angry Cynthia and performe his Prayer And on her bleeding Shrine at Dians feet Kill Iphegenia to preserue the Fleet. 51 Loath is the Generall his Childs blood to spill Yet holds it better that one Lady dye Although his Daughter then the Seas to fill With Ships bold Knights and Kings aduanced hye Calchas the Priest the Innocent Maid doth kill T' appease Dianaes wrathfull Deity The Sacrifice perform'd the wind blowes faire The Seas are calm'd the Sun hath clear'd the Aire 52 And now the wind playes with those swelling sailes Which they but late in fury rent and tore Calme Zephyr cheares their Fleet with gentle Gales Which made but late the violent Surges rore This can the Gods but ere proud Greece preuailes Or Land their powers vpon the Phrygian shore Or that Scamander field in blood be dide We from our taske our selfe a while deuide Aethra and Clymenen were Hellens Chamber-maids and imployd in all her most priuate businesse Some affirme that Paris onely met Menelaus vpon the sea and haled him as hee was in his voyage towardes Creet and by that meanes vnderstanding his absence
the Messean Land where Theutram raign'd Was fettile they from thence demand supply Of Victuall for the hoast but he disdaind T' assist them therefore him the Greekes defie The Kings hye blood Achilles Faulchion stain'd Theutram alas by him is forest to dye And Telephus crown'd King from whose rich Coast With store Victuall he relieues the hoast 45 Twelue Moones were past since first the Greeks took land When Duke Palamides at th' host ariues Whose absence murmur'd long yet the command Of the whole Army with the Princes liues Are made his charge none seeming to withstand his principality this Duke deriues His byrth from Naulus and is made the head Of the stout Greekes in Agamemnons stead 46 But in desaster houre Vlisses friend To Agamemnon by his crafty fraud Both to his life and his command gaue end He that but late the Argiue Princes aw'd And foyld the common foe cannot defend his owne deere life but whilst the hoast applaud Atrides honor in vnhappy season Is forcst to perrish for suspected Treason 47 Tenedos sackt the Greekes insult vpon 't And from that place made leuell with the plaine The Fleet disanchors whose proud Nauall front Prothesilaus proudly doth maintaine Hoysing the first Sayles in the Hellespont A hundred Ships whose Flags and Pendants staine The Ayre with various Colours he commands And twice repulst vpon the Beach he Lands 48 His ships tough ribs vpon the sands he brake And many Greekes some drown'd some landing fall As well the boldest that the Ship forsake As those that keepe aboord must perish all Onely the bold King makes the Troians quake Who whilst his maymed traine for rescue call Makes good the place till with an hundred more Archelaus and Prothenor mans the shore 49 Now growes the battle hot for the rude rout Of the disordered Troians madly flocke To impeach their Landing who with courage stout Leape on the shore and there abide the shocke Of the proud Foe who murder all about And with rude taunts their proud Inuasion mocke But Askalus and Agabus draw neare Two Kings whose landed souldiers change their chear 50 Yet at the length into the Sea driuen backe Till Nestor seconds them with fresh supply and now th'astonisht Troians suffer wracke Yet still make good the shores with fresh supply againe repulst the Greekes made good the lacke Of more arm'd men Vlisses Ships prest ny Whose dreaded Ensignes on the Margent spred Conquer the Beach the whilst the Troians fled 51 King Philomenes enuious of his Fame A pointed Speare brake on Vlisses face and stounded him but when the bold King came T'himselfe againe he quitted that disgrace So much did wrath his Noble thoughts inflame he wounded him in such a speeding place That had not Ihoue kept backe his Weapons force The late victorious had dropt downe a Corse 52 Whilst these two Kings contend the Greekes retire And backe into the blood-stain'd Sea are driuen When Thoas with his fleet doth Land desire Now Agamemnons Ships are all to riuen Vpon the Strond his men halfe blood halfe mire Tugge for the shore whilst many die vnshriuen Next Menelaus hath vnmand his Ship And from his Barke doth stormy Aiax skip 53 At whose approach neere to the brinish brinke Th' amazed Troians yeild him Landing free Beneath his ponderous Arme the strongest shrinke Before his sword th' affrighted people flee Their soules below the waues of Lethe drinke Whose deeds of valor when King Perses see He with a band of Moores their violence stayde Making th'astonisht Greekes expect more ayde 54 When the great Duke Palumides discends Vpon the Continent and in his traine A thousand Armed Knights his Noble Friends Whose swords the Beach with blood of Troians slaine Palumides gainst Symagon extends His pointed Iauelin Symagon lies slaine A valiant Moore to Perses neere alide Though strong he by the sonne of Naulus dide 55 Now gainst the beaten Troians rose lowd cries Which puissant Hector hearing from the Towne Issues from forth the gates and soone applies His fortitude where Warre seem'd most to frowne His armor Siluer-white his shields deuise A Lyon Gules the field Or after knowne And dreaded mongst the Greeks where ere he marches The Flowers grasse with blood of Greeks he parches 56 Prothesilaus him encounters first and at his Steely Beauer aymes his Speare The King his Staffe vpon his Visor burst But from the Worthy Hector past not cleare All that encounter him must tast the worst The steel-head Lance from off his steed doth beare The dreadlesse King who rose by great indeuour But Hector cleft his head quite through his Beauer 57 So passeth on strowing his way with Corses That in a while his smoaking blade was feared Whom ere he meets he to the ground inforces His valour hath the drooping Troians cheared He without riders leaues fiue hundred horses Whose broken limbes lie on the earth besmeared Death Marshals him the way where ere he traces Pauing the Margent of the Sea with faces 58 His courser Galathee the Noblest Steed That euer Knight bestrid i' th morning white In euery bare place seemes from farre to bleed His valiant ryder shun'd no dangerous fight Hee 's flak't all ore and where no wounds indeed Were hewed great gashes grisly to the sight Appeare vpon him Galathee still stood Sound and yet stain'd all ore with Gracian blood 59 Nor wonder if his white Steed were so painted When his sharpe sword so many Riuers shed This day a thousand Knights beneath him fainted And on the verdure by his hand lye dead With this mortality the ayre is tainted The spatious plaines with wounded Greekes are spred Charon the sweat wipes from his ghastly face And neuer wrought so hard in so short space 60 Hels Iudges and the Gods of Darkenesse wonder What 's now to do on earth that such a throng Of Ghosts whose threds the fatall Sisters sunder Presse in such multitudes for sentence long The Princes of the Vaults and regions vnder Were not so troubled to iudge right and wrong For neuer in one day it hath befell So great a Sessions hath bin seene in Hell 61 Th'inuincible Dardanian Heroe tyr'd With purple Massacre towards night with-drew Horse Armes and Plumes the brightest morne admir'd For whitenesse at his yssue purple grew And he returnes Vermilion all attir'd In Crimson scarce the royall Priam knew Great Hector from the Torras where he stood Seeing his onset white Retrait all blood 62 Soone was the Noble Troian mist in field For with his Myrmidons proudly attended Achilles Lands and that renowned sheild God Vulcan made in which his art extended He vaunteth yet the daunted Troians yeild Th'vnconquered shores Hector so late defended Lie open to inuaders whole Greece Lands For gainst the great Achilles no man stands 63 Euen to the Citty wals the Troians fly Whom the maine hoast with hostile showtes pursude And had not Noble Troylus heard the cry Paris and Deiphebus where they view'd So
great effusion from a Turret hy They 'had won the Towne the streets had bin imbrude With Natiue blood but they in hast discend Releeue th' opprest the Citty gates defend 64 And yssuing with three thousand Knights compell Achilles to retrait and when his face Look't backe from Troy ward there was none so fell Vpon the Graectan party but gaue place This day Prince Diomed was seene t' excell In Armes him Troylus met in equall race They spur their Steeds that ran both swift and true Incountring both their Staues to splinters flew 65 Their Launces broake they try their burnisht blades A thousand fiery starres at euery rushing Fly from their helmes with fury each inuades His opposite their mutuall Armors frushing The big-limb'd Diomed himselfe perswades Young Troylus cannot match his strength and blushing A beardlesse Lad should hold him so long play Doubles his blowes and thinkes to end the fray 66 The Noble youth whom Cresseids loue prouokes To all atchieuements beyond mortal power Though young his lofty spirit his riuall yoakes Who thought his infant Vertues to deuoure He doubles and re-doubles warlike stroakes The battell lasts the best part of an houre But whilst vpon their helmes each champion thunders Night that deuides the hoast their fury sunders 67 This Eeuen the Greekes incampe earely the Morrow They shine in armor with the rising Sunne The Troian Princes from their Ladies borrow Rich fauours and withall to horse-backe runne A kind of feare begot twixt ioy and sorrow Liues in their eyes til the dread fight be done To see their Champions proudly arm'd they ioy Grieue to behold so huge an hoast fore Troy 68 Now are both Battailes pitcht Menon appeares First from the Argiue hoast from Troy forth stands Hector who in his burnisht Beauer weares Andromachs Gloue and now all Troy commands These two begin the battell with their Speares They broke they tosse their bright steele in their hands Hector soone hurles King Menon from his horse So passes on to proue his warlike force 69 The two hoasts ioyne ruffling confusion flyes Through all Scamander field the dying grones Are mixed with th'applausiue Conquerors cryes Troians and Greekes conquer and fall at ones Renowned Hector this day wins the pryse he sunders Males and Armors flesh and bones His al-deuiding sword was made by charme No steele so wrought but shrunke beneath his arme 70 Thus like a raging storme he rusheth still Ouer his Plume a Clowd of terror hung And where he rides he doth on all sides kill His bloud-staind Faulchion spares nor old nor yung Tyr'd with his horse his Chariot Mount he will Now vp he takes a Bow deuinely strung And shooting midst the Hoast not one steele-head Iat'd from his Bow but stroke a Graecian dead 71 Him the King Menon and king Glaucion then Huge Thesus and Archilochus defie They in their squadron lead three thousand men But Hector in his Chariot still sits hie Vntill his Brasse-shod wheeles are purpled when Their Naues are drown'd in blood of men that die Charioted Hector these foure Kings assaile But his smart Steeds spring through their armed pale 72 Menon that was too forward boue the rest Pursues great Hector in his lofty Carre A dart the Troian quiuer'd through his brest King Menon bids his last farewell to warre With multitudes the Prince is ouer-prest And yet he kils the Greekes neare and from farre Neere with his fatall sword he cleaues their harts And a farre off with his keene shafts and Darts 73 Vnto this rescue Prince Securabor One of King Priams Bastard sonnes soone came And Noble Margareton thirsting for Honor and mongst the Greekes to get a name All Priams yssue cowardice abhor Duke Menesteus enuious of their fame Against them comes now clamors fill the skie Whilst about Hectors Chariot thousands lie 74 Vnto this hostile tumor from Troy-ward Three Kings with Noble Troylus the fourth man Make their incursions King Sampitus far'd Like a fierce Lyon King Maclaon wan With anger and the King that all things dar'd Alcanus gainst whom Menesteus ran And bore him Nobly yet alas too weake Till Thesus came the Troian rankes to breake 75 Troylus Menesteus singles but his Horse Stumbled and he enforcst on foot to fight Fiue hundred Greekes beguirt him and enforce The youthfull Troian now debard from flight To be their prisoner Many a liuelesse corse Troylus first made before compeld t' alight When Hector heard but word of his disgrace He slew on all sides till he wan the place 76 But first Alccenus had addrest his Speare Against the Duke that led Prince Troylus bound The Steele point tooke him twixt his cheeke and eate And made th' Athenian Duke a dangerous wound Sampilus seconds him a Steed was neare On which they mounted Troylus from the ground Menesteus mad that he hath lost his prise Pierst through the throng and cald for more supplies 77 King Menelaus and Prothenor knowing Th' Athenians voyce presse that way with their powers But find Hyripsus and King Hapon strowing The earth with Greekes at which the Spartan lowers These foure their forces ioyne many yet growing Their swords supplant death through the Champion scowers At whom th'Olimpian Gods amazed stand To see him with such quicknesse moue his hand 78 Anthenors sonne Polydamus makes on King Rhemus backes him with three thousand more Their Speare-length through the presse he had not gon But Celidus him from his Courser bore A fairer Prince then Celidus liu'd none By Venus gift he Beauties Liuery wore Polydamus re-mounted soone addrest A second course and pierst him through the brest 79 Which Menelaus seeing soone assayles Rhemus and layes him stounded in the field And but that stowt Polydamas preuailes H 'had borne him to his Tent vpon his shield Still was not Hector Idle Hils and Dales His Chariot skoures to him the mightiest yeild For like a raging Torrent after Rayne Where ere he comes confusion fils the plaine 80 Now was he by the men that Aiax led Troopt in the Salamines Thunder about him Like Ciclopes as if his Noble head Were Vulcans Anuile yet the boldest doubt him And seeing store of Carcasse bout him spred Wish in their hearts to fight else-where without him For like a baited Lyon at a stake he cuts them off and makes the boldest qnake 81 King Theuter somewhat rougher then the rest as worthy Hector kept these Dogs at bay Finding the Prince with two much taske opprest against him with his Courser makes swife way The brazen-headed staffe glides by his brest and gainst his rib he feeles the Iauelin stay King Theuter thou hast done a Noble deed Thou art the first that mad'st great Hector bleed 82 Well was it for thee that thou staidst not long Those that growe next him for thy act must fall Like a mad Bull he fares the Greekes among and whom he hits beneath his Chariot sprall The Prince the common man the weake the strong The Bold the
Vnshaken from the Prince he passes cleere Spurring from troope to troope making intrusion Where the hot fight was growne to most confusion 39 Now in his Chariot stands Achilles hy And with his Speare before him squadrons strowes Great Hectors puissance he longs to try Or some that 's able to withstand his blowes And whilst whole troopes before his Chariot fly The raynes vpon his steedes white necke he throwes Calling for Hector Hector fore him stood His Chariot-steedes caparison'd in blood 40 To whom Aeacides what ere thou be That thus confronst me like the God of warre Know t is Achilles must thy life set free And tumble thee from thy triumphant Carre This said a pointed Iauelin he lets flee Which Hector at his loose perceiu'd to iarre And tooke vpon his Targe the Dart he cast Pierst nine Steele folds and in the tenth stucke fast 41 Helme-graced Hector started at this blow And aemulous of great Achilles Fame Charg'd in his hand another dart to throw But first he sayes Inquir'st thou Hectors name Behold him heere see thy eternall foe Hector thou seek'st and loe I am the same His actiue arme his language doth pursue For with his latest word his Iauelen flew 42 Well was it his Orbicular Targe was strong Which Vulcan by deuine composure made Else had it stretcht the warlike Greeke along It hit against the Bosse and there it stayde But with the force it brake the mighty thong In which his massie shield about him plaide The affrighted Palfreyes with so great a stroke Startle aside and the proud Curbe reuoke 43 Now when Achilles rousde himselfe and saw Illustrate Hector in his Chariot stand Himselfe so basely his hot Steedes withdraw As if he meant to charge some other band Thinkes in himselfe it is too great a flaw To his cleere mettald fame and with his hand Wastes to Imperious Hector from a-far T' abide a second deadly shocke of warre 44 Th' vndaunted Heroë who already wonders The brauing Greeke so quickly should retire And what strange fate their Brasse-bard chariots sunders Since both so ardently the fight desire Expects Achilles who against him thunders VVhilst from the Flints his armed wheeles beate fire Now the two Chariot-driuers prooue their might The Prince with Prince Horses with Horses fyght 45 This six-fold Combat hath not lasted long VVhen Archeptolemnus that guides the raines Of Hectors Coach-Steedes thinking them more stronge Then those whom rough Antomedon constraines Lashes his fiery Palphreyes hot and young Expert Antomedon his skill disdaines Yerkes his proud horse whose fiersenesse he dares trust Till their white foaming mouthes snowed all the dust 46 The two sterne Champions mounted in theyr Carres Confront each other with their armed Staues Whose points on eithers Vaunt-brace print deep scarres Sometimes they flourish them with idle braues Dart them sometimes like Knights well seene inwarr But when they ioyne they Combat with their Glaues Sometimes they grapple sometimes they retire And at their meeting make their Helmes all fire 47 The grim Aeacides mad in his mind The warlike Troyan should against him stand Inradg'd his teeth against his teeth doth grinde And beates his Arm'd-breast with his Gauntlet hand About him through the field doth Hector winde His fayre-maynde Coursers haue so well been man'd That to retreat or to assault the foe He at his will can checke or make them goe 48 Antomedon hath taught his Steeds like skill For trauersing he likewise takes the fielde His Iades are countermaunded by his will For with the Curbe they both rebell and yeild Theyr Milky foame vpon their breasts they spill Being parted thus great Hector vaunts his Shield Achilles his againe their Coursers meete And from the Earth beate Thunder with their feete 49 In this rude Iustle is Achilles bruis'd His high plumde Helme close to his Scull is batterd And he within his Chariot sits diffusde His Sword his shield his Darts about him scatterd Antomedon retraites to haue excusde His second shocke and o're the plaines he clatterd his barbed teeme o're thousand Coarses flyes In whose Red-blood his Chariot Naues he Dyes 50 Great Hector scornes pursuit nor takes he breath But fals vpon the next Greeke that he finds And prints on him the bloudy stamp of death The long imprisoned soule his Sword vnbinds Meane time Achilles rous'd abroad surveith For Hector th' obiect of all Noble minds But when he found himselfe from Hector straid The Prince doth base Antomedon vpbraid 51 Who falling prostrate sooths Achilles thus Let not on me your deadly hate be grounded Not I from him but Archeptolemus Made way from me for sure great Hectors wounded With you retyr'd the sonne of Priamus On equal points our rich-main'd Steeds haue bounded Ouer these plaines great Hector wel-nie dead By great Achilles is to Troy-ward sped 52 This calmes the wrathfull Greeke who else had sought His opposite amidst the slaughtering troopes Disioynd from him th' inraged else-where fought And where he reares his hand that Squadron stoopes His armed Chariot midst their Phalany wrought Horrid effusion Troyes proud faction droopes Beneath Achilles arme nor can it yeild Saue Hector one to stand him in the field 53 The Arch-Duke Agamemnon with his speare Encountred King Pandolus till both bled King Thelamon prest to Sarpedon neare And with his blade he raught him on the hed By their rude force they both vnhorsed were Against Eurialus King Thesus sped Neither scape wound-free Carras bare him well Gainst Scenetus till from their Steeds both fell 54 King Philomenes made Anâ—…henor flye King Rhemus with the King Philotas ran Before Vlisses doth Arastus lye Aiax this day hath slaughterd many a man King Priams Bastard sonnes themselues apply In many a skirmish since the charge began Young Deiphebus and Aeneas stand Gainst Hupon and the three-ag'd Nestors band 55 Troylus and Diomed fiercely assaile And brauely beat each other from their steeds Both resku'd by the prease else without faile There had bin fixt the period of their deeds Re-mounted Diomed breakes through the pale Of his arm'd foes and to his horse proceeds So Troylus hewes his passage through the rings Of harnest foes and to his Steed he springs 56 Paris and Menelaus once more meet And bring vnto the battaile fresh supplies With thundering strokes vpon their Helmes they greet Bretes the Admirall Hector defies Bretes that did command their blacke-stem'd Fleet Against him doth Priamides arise And with such violent rage vppon him sped That with one blow he cleft his Helme-deckt hed 57 The Admirall thus dead Hector desires The goodly Steed from whom the Greeke was feld Which as for deeds of honour he inquires The King Archilochus by chance beheld Who seeing Bretes dead the wound admires His face lookt pale his hart with anger sweld And with his sword he couets to make bleed The Troian Prince who still pursues the Steed 58 Who storming to be troubled in the chace Against the King Archilochus returnes Inraged Mars
neither tript nor rang'd Both Man and Horse are free from any Error No art of Warre was from these Knights estrang'd In Troylus might be seene a Souldiers Mirror In Diomed the patterne of such skill as they desire that would their Foe-men kill 88 The fayre-browde Sky shrinkes vp her Azure face Least their sharpe splinterd Staues should race her brow Both couet honor in this warlike race and in their hearts they eythers ruine vow But Menelaus happily came in place With him three hundred Knights that well knew how To manage battaile these betweene them grew and they to further ranks perforce withdrew 89 Miseres King of Phrigia met by chance The Spartan King and shooke him in his Seat Against Duke Aiax Paris charg'd a Launce and him the Sal'mine did but ill intreat At the first blow he stounds him in a trance Then midst the Troian rankes doth â—…oyle and sweat Striuing behind on both sides and before Euen till his armes with bloud were vermeil'd o're 90 Prince Margareton vnto Hector deare Knowing the slaughter Noble Aiax made against his Vaunt-brace brauely prooues his Speare and to their vanquisht Phalanx brings fresh ayde Aiax is for'st his fury to forbeare The Troians powers on all sides him inuade Till Agamemnon comes with fresh supply at whose approach th'astonish Troians fly 91 Yet Noble Margareton keepes his stand Nor can the strongest arme of Greece remoue him He feeles the strength of Agamemnons hand Grim Aiax sword with a towers weight doth proue him Yet shrinkes not till the place was Nobly man'd By Paris and Polydamus that loue him These hearing Margareton much distrest Rescue the Prince who brauely guards his Crest 92 It ioyes the King and Ladyes that on hy Stand on the Torras to behold the field To see the Prince so full of Chiualry And with such power to vle his Sword and Shield Achilles in a place where thousands lye Besmeard in bloud as if he meant to build a wall of Limbes and Quarters brauely fought And bout himselfâ—… a siedge of bodies wrought 93 Where issuing after much effuse of blood To calme himselfe remotely from the throng Retyerd alike young Margareton stood Striuing for breath he had not rested long Butspyes Achilles with a purple flood Powerd o'rehis armes a Iauelin light and strong The valiant Troian Prince against him bent Whom the proud Greeke receiues incontinent 94 From broken Speares they come to two-edg'd Steele Oh! How stont Hector yernd to be in place His very Soule doth all the puissance feele Of him that hath his Brothers life in chace No stroake that makes Prince Margareton reele But as he thinkes it tingles on his face And from the wall in Armour he had lept Had not the King and Queene perforce him kept 95 By this the youthfull Priameian tyerd With oddes of might he wauers too and fro Doubtfull which way to fall the Greeke admierd To find so young a gallant plunge him so and therefore with hisanclent rankor fierd He doubles and redoubles blow and blow Till he whose deere life was to Hector sweet Sinkes from his Horse beneath his ruthlesse feete 96 Who with his barb'd Steede tramples o're his Coarse Whose Iron hoofe the Princes armor raceth This Hector seeing breakes from all their force He cla ps his Beauer downe his Helme fast laceth With â—…mble quicknesse vaults vpon his horse And yssuing where he rides the enemy cheareth For Margaretons death he vowes that day Achilles with a thousand more shall pay 97 Two Noble Dukes he chargeth and both slew Duke Cortphus Bastidius big and tall And forth like lightning mongst their squadrons flew Where such as cannot flye before him fall Leocides an Armour fresh and new He was amongst the Greekes chiefe Admirall Would proue gainst Hector but in his swift race The Troians Speare brake on the Grâ—…ns face 98 A splinter strooke the Greeke into the braine And downe he sinkes Achilles full of yre Spying so many bold Pelasgians slaine Prickes on with Polyceus both desire To proue themselues with Hector on the plaine The bold assaylants need not farâ—…e inquire For the sterne Prince In that part of the host Th' are sure to find him where the cry growes most 99 Both Menace him gainst both he stands prepared Duke Policeus to Achilles deare Whose Sister he was promist had warre spared His destin'd life drew to the Troians neare At the first stroke his Beauer'd face he bared But with the next his sparpled braines appeare Achilles mads at this and sweares on hye For Polyceus death Hector shall dye 100 His threatned vengeance Hector did soone quaile For through his thigh he quiuers a sharpe Dart Achilles feeles his bleeding sinnowes faile And with all speed doth to his Tent depart Where hauing bound his wound vp wan and pale With fury and the rancor of his hart Three hundred Myrmidons that all things dar'd he leads to field his person to saue-gard 101 Swearing them all theyrioynt-rage to bestow On Hector and on him sterne vengeance power And sauing him t' intend no Dardan Foe That Heauen with him may on his Conquests lower They listen where the clamors loudest grow And there spy Hector wald in like a Tower With heapes os men that bout him bleeding lay For not a liâ—…ng Greeke durst necre him stay 102 Now tyrd with slaughter he was lean'd vpon The Pomell of his bright victorious Blade and for his strength and breath was almost gone His Armour he had slackt it loosely playde about his shoulders for he dreaded none Him now the bloudy Myrmidons inuade In three-fold rings about him they were guided To take the Noble Heroâ—… vnproulded 103 Oh! Where is Paris with his Archers bow Where 's youthfull Deiphebus now at need Where 's the inuinced Troylus to bestow His puissant stroakes before Prince Hector bleed Where is Aeneas to repulse the foe You Troyes confedred Kings where do you speede Bring rescue now or in his Mountaine fall Bencath destruction he will crush you all 104 All these are absent naught saue death and ruine Compasse the Prince a tripple ring of blades Inguirts him round who still their rankes renewing Threaten to send him to th' infernall shades With bloudy appetites his fall pursuing Achilles as they shrinke on hye perswades With promises and some with threats he sweares To pay the base shame of their dastard feares 105 A hundred Myrmidons before him lye Drownde in their owne blouds by his strong arme shed The rest renew the charge with fresh fupply and thunder on his shoulders armes and head Achilles strongly arâ—…'d and horst spurres by To see the hunger of his Blood-hounds fed Was neuer Mortall without might of Gods That stood so long against such powerfull ods 106 They hew his armour peece-meale from his backe Yet still the valiant Prince maâ—…taines the fray Though but halfe-harnest yet he holds them tacke And still the bloudy Slaues vpon him lay Armour and breath
Easy as Silkes his griefe conuerts to rage He dons those armes forgetfull of his age 73 To whom the sad Queene with wet eyes thus sayes What meanes my wofull Lord in his weake hand To tosse this burdenous Steele There is no prayse For men to fight when the high Gods withstand Liu'd puissant Hector in these Fatall dayes Yet could not his stronge Limbs protect thy Land Much lesse these Saplesse branches poore and bare Then let the reuerent Priam keepe his Chayre 74 Heere at these holy Altars let vs cling The Gods if they be pleasd our liues may guard If not we all will perish with the King and die at once there shall not one be spard Behold where broken through th'all-slaughtring ring Of Pyrrhus Myrmidons Slaues rough and hard The young Polytes well-ny breathlesse rons Polytes one of Priams best-lou'd Sons 75 Through many an Entry and blind-turning path The burning Pyrrhus hath the Lad pursude Longing vpon the Youth to vent his wrath now both at once before the King intrude The slaughterd-thoughted Greeke all bale and scath In the Childs bloud his satall Blade imbrude Which plucking from his wounds in the same place Sparkled the Sons bloud in the Fathers face 76 To whom the arm'd King thus You Gods aboue Whose diuine eyes all deedes of horror see as you are â—…ust and actes of pitry loue Behold how this rude man hâ—…th dealt by me What God worthy Heauens Pallace can approue So blacke a deede as this that 's done by thee Before the Fathers eye the Child to kill and in his face his Innocent bloud to spill 77 Thou art a Bastard not Achilles Son Of some she Wolfe or Hyrcan Tygresse bred not to be shrin'd in Heauen would he haue don So horrible a deede so full of dred The shame and scandall thou this night hast won More then Achilles honors shall be spred Thy Father honor'd liude and dide in fame Dishonored thou shalt perish in thy shame 78 With that the Iaâ—…elin in his hand he threw Th' vnprofitable strength of his weake arme Though it had art to guid the Weapon true It wanted power to doe blacke Pyrrhus harme Against the long skirt of his Targe it flew But the round Bosse as if composd by charme Shooke off the ydle steele which on the barre That tooke the blow scarce left the smallest scarre 79 Inflamed Pyrrhus thus to him replies Priam thy soule shall straight discend to hell Euen to the place where great Achilles lyes And my sad deeds vnto my Father Father With that all wrath in Prisms face he flies The prostrate King at Ihoues hye Altar fell With such hot rage he did the King pursue That though he mist the whiske him ouerthrew 80 When being groueled in Polites gore Grim Pyrrhus with his left hand takes the king By his white lockes neuer prophand before His reuerent head against the ground to ding His proud right hand a smoaking Curtlax wore Which to perpetuall rest must Priam bring With which against the good old King he tilts Till his hart bloud flowed much aboue the hilts 81 This was old Prisms Fate his fatall end And ending glory he that Asâ—… swayed Whose spreading Fame did through the earth extend Liu'd till he saw both him and his betraid Euen till he had no subiect Sonne or friend And saw Troyes spyres euen with the groundsils laid Who now before loues golden face lyes dead A namelesse coarse a Trunke without a head 82 All this when good Aeneas saw from farre The ends of Troy and Priam burnt and slaine And no abatement yet of heat or warre To his owne Pallace he returnes againe Where gathered on a heape together are His wife Creausa showring teares amaine His seruants old Anchises and his sonne Askanius these about Aeneas ronne 83 After some short discourse of their affaires Aeneas on his backe Anchises takes For young Askanius he his left hand spares In his right hand his guardant sword he shakes Creusa followes close with teares and Prayers So through the fire and foe Aeneas makes He with his sonne and Syre the right way choose But in the darkenesse they Creusa loose 84 Whom missing they Creusa call alowd Creusa for whose safety they 'l returne But sorne blacke Fate doth her in darkenesse shrowd Either Troyes Funerall fires the Lady burne Else is she stifled in the Hostile crowd For her the Father sonne and husband mourne And seeking her amidst the wrathfull flames They encounter Helenus who thus exclaimes 85 Keepe on Aeneas to the Seâ—…n shore The heauens on Troy and vs haue vengeance powred Onely thy ruind fortunes they restore They smile on thee that haue on Priam lowred The faire Creausa thou shalt see no more Her the none-sparing slaughter hath deuowred But in her stead the Gods to thee shal giue A wife in whom deceased Troy shall liue 86 Follow yon starre whether his Bearded beames Directs thy Nauigation on the fand Thousands attend thy conduct through the streames Whom ruin spares for thee and thy command Obserue yon blazing Meteor whose bright gleames Points thee vnto a rich and fertile Land Where after many strange aduentures past Storme-driu'n Aeneas shall arriue at last 87 They to a spacious Climate thee restore A Prouince which the Gods and fates hold best The Meditteren Sea beats on the shore With the Scicilian waters South and East The Adriaticke Billowes North-ward rore With the hye Alpes incompast on the West These Countries it containes Latium Liguria The Climates of Campania and Hetruria 88 With Fertill I stria and Calabria Full peopled Craunia and Apentium Aemilia else cald Rhomandtola With Gallia Cisalpina and Pycenum Iapidia Vmbria and Venetia Flauinia Apulia Sumnium All these are Italy with great Lucania Which shall in times to come be cald Rhomania 89 Farewell and thriue but leaue vs to our Fates This saide the Deuine Helenus retires And shuts himselfe within those fatall gates Where none commands but foes and raging fires Aeneas hasts to meet his promist Mates And on the Coast their fellow-ship desires Who through the street hewes out a bloody tracke With old Anchises hanging at his backe 90 Still â—…stium burnes nor are the ruthlesse Flames Yet quencht Ihoues sparpled Alters licke the blood Of slaughtred Priam the bright vestall Dames Are puld from Pallas Statuë where they stood About their golden lockes with lowd exclaimes Rough souldiers wind their armes and through a flood Of gore and teares in which the pauement flowes Drag them along that faint beneath their blowes 91 The young Astianax from that hye Tower On which his Fathers valour oft he saw Is tumbled headlong on the rough-pau'd flower His all to bruised limbes lye broke and raw To wofull Hecuba in thrust a power Of blood-staind Greekes without regard or awe and from her aged armes snatcht by rude force Polixena whose beauty begs remorse 92 Shee s hurried to Achilles tombe where stands Sterne
tumult at his Sermon raisde A man vnknowne his Doctrine much disdaining Threw at his face a Dagger Ridley praysd Mongst protestants and Cramner fauour gaining In Edwards dayes were for Arch-traitors blaz'd And dide by fire Northumberland that sped To Cambridge on the Tower-hill lost his hed 114 The Turkish Solyman with his owne hands Slew his sonne Mustapha the Cardinall In Henries dayes but late exild his Lands Was by the Queene reâ—…cald now gan to fall The protestants against them strictly stands The Catholicke Cleargy the proud Genowayes brall With the French King who after in small while Wan by the Turkes ayde the rich Corsicke I le 115 Englands great Queene espousd Phillip of Spaine Sir Thomas Wyat for rebellion dide Duke Suffolke Father to the Lady Iane Was at the Tower beheaded Coortney allyde To the blood Royall once more they restraine Of Liberty the fourth Paule full of pride Supplies the pope-dome the same year did chance Much warrâ—… and trouble betweene Spaine and France 116 Lady Elizabeth was keptin hold and by the Queene committed to the Tower There harshly vsd her life to danger sold By souldiers theâ—…ce remooud to Wood-stocke Bower Sir Henry Benning-field somewhat too bold Vpon her iust proceedings looking sower a blazing Comet twelue full nights appeared Great Lones of Money by the Queene were reared 117 Great dearth in England For base murder dide at Salisbury Lord Sturton Callis lost Which was by England many yeares supplide Since the third Edward the proud Clergy mgrost all the spirituall fruits to glut their pride Phillip tooke fea and left the English Coast For griefe of which Mary soone after craisd and dide with Cardinall Poole in England raisd 118 Next whom the faire Elizabeth is Crownd a Princesse with all gracious Thewes indude She did the Gospell quicken and confound Romes Antichrist all such as he pursude With fire and Inquisition she guirt round With safety and her Lands pure face imbrude With blood of Innocents her prospetous raigne Cleard and wipt off each foule and bloody staine 119 Henry the French King in the â—…ilt was layde Breathlesse at Paris Paules is burnt a peace Betweene the Realmes of France and England made Newhauen siege and a great plagâ—…les increase Lord Henry Stewart to the hests obayd Of the Scotch peeres whose vâ—…gings neuer â—…ease Till to their generall comforts he was seene Espousd to Lady Mary Scotlands Queene 120 Now came the Baden margraâ—… with his wife To London she heere brought him a new sonne Whom the Queene Christend breathing a new life In his decaid estate Now was begun The Burse on Cornhill whose renowne grew rife In euery place where Traffickes gaine is won In Scotland to restore a kingdome torne Iames of that name the fixt this yeare was borne 121 Henry of Scotland was by Traytors slaine And Shan Oneile in Ireland put to flight By bold Sir Henry Sidney with the gaine Of a great battaile where theyr Treasons light Vpon the Traytors with a gallant trayne The Muscouite lands in his Emperors right T' establish Trafficke now as rebels stand Th'Earles of Nor thumber land and Westmerland 122 Debate with Scotland and in Norfolke grew Conspiracy the Queene in person came To Gressams Burse to take a princely view To which she gaue at his request a name Royall Exchange this yeare the Christians slew Many proud Turkes and beate them backe with shame Into theyr Foretresses and Citties walled This was the battaile of Lepantho called 123 A massacre in Paris now their heads The Norfolke Duke lost and Northumber land A blazing starre six months together spreds Her fiery rayes now by the violent hand Of one George Browne who murdrous futy leads Was Maister Saunders slaine the matter scand Anne Dreury for that fact and Saunders wife George Browne with trusty Roger lost his life 124 By Furbusher Cathaia was made knowne The Essex Earle this yeare at Dinelon dide In Ireland where his Fame was dreadfull growne Ioh 〈◊〉 Cassimerus did through London ride Desmond rebeld Drake that had compast rowne The world and many dangerous Fortunes tride Was Knighted by the Queene Mounsier arriued Thinking the English Monarchesse t' haue wiued 125 William the Prince of Orenge was betrayde And with a Pystoll by a souldier slaine Poland Musco into England made avoyage and did six months heere remaine Purser and Clinton Pyrars that denaide allegiance to the Queene at length were tane By William Barrowes Antwerpe sackt and spoyld By Parmaes Duke who long against it toyld 126 Northumberland himselfe in the Tower slew Iago Domingo and Carthagen By Drake and Furbusher whom most men knew Carletle and many gallant Englishmen Surprisd and â—…ckt the Earle of Liester grew Great in the Land and sayld to Flushing then Where his Commission he at large relates Being made chiefe Generall to the Belgian states 127 Embassadors from Denmarke gratulate Her highnesse raigne the Earle of Arundell Conuict aleague twixt England and the state Of Scotland Noble Candish furnisht well In two good ships well mand and builded late Compast the world the foureteene Traitors fell and suffer'd for the guilt at Zutphen dide Noble Sir Phillip Sidney souldiers pride 128 His death a generall griefe mongst souldiers bred a Parlyment The great At made of Spaine Rode on the English Coast and gainst vs sped But by our Fleet they were repulst againe at Tilbery the Campe was brauely led By Elizabeth in person in whose traine all Englands Chiualry mustred and met Leister meane time to Nature paid his debt 129 Portugall voyage Lodwicke Grewill prest For murder the bold Duke of Guise betraid And slaine by the third Henry when he least Suspected Death a Fryer no whit dismaid Incouragd by the Guisians as t is ghest Murdred the King then Henrie Burbon laid Claime to the Crowne whom England so supplies That by her ayde his warlike Fortunes rise 130 Whom Essex Willoughby Norris assist Sir Roger Williams with a many moe Strong Paris they besiege and as they list March thorough France maugre the common foe Hacket is hangd in Cheape who did persist In blasphemy In London gan to grow a grieuous Plague Lopes arraind and tride Drawne from the London Tower at Tyburne dide 131 Cales sieg'd and won the Duke of Bulloine lands In England th' Islands voyage this yeare came Embassadors from Denmarke from whose hands The Queene receiu'd rich presents Now with Fame Th' Earle Cumberland renownd in forraigne Lands Wan Iohn de Porterico sackt the same Lord Burleigh Treasurer submits to fate Since the sixt Edward Counsellor of state 132 Essex is sent for Ireland gainst Tyrone a Muster at Mile-end Essex comes backe With a small traine of followers after whom Lord Montioy speeds against the dangerous packe Of Irish Rebels whose braue valours showne In
Persea by his name Where Bachmon in the kingdome him succeeds Erictreus did all the Nations tame By the red Sea and there his honoured deeds Are Chronicled great Scelemus thy fame Liues in Mecenes the Pontificke weeds Are for thy Royalty reseru'd alone In Thebes remaines twice-married Gorgophon 84 Alceus and Electrion from his line Discend Alceus was Amphitrioes Sire Electrion as Bochas doth deuine Alcmena got whose face all eyes admire Alcmena and Amphitrio combine Themselues by Hymens ceremoniall fire Of this bright Theban dame through Greece commended This Monster-tamer Hercules discended 85 But how great Ihoue with bright Alcmena lay Himselfe transforming to Amphitrioes shape Adding three nights together without day How Iuno enuious of her husbands rape Alcmenaes Child-birth hindred and did slay The vnborne infants who with wonder scape Her Hell-borne charmes how by Galantis smile Iuno was mockt Alcmena scapt her guile 86 How young Alcides in the Cradle lying Check't two inuenomed Snakes by Iuno sent To strangle him how Ypectens dying By those charm'd Serpents to Elisium went And how the Ihoue-star'd Lad his valor trying Vpon th'Olimpicke mount disgraced sent All such as came to haue their valours tride To leape to run to wrastle or to ride 87 How by the K. Eristeus he vvas taught Lou'd beautious Megera and fam'd all Greece And through the world renown'd aduentures sought Conquer'd great Cacus and the golden fleece How Achelous he to ruine brought Doted on Deianeira that faire peece And Iole who the more fame to win Made great Alcides on a distaffe spin 88 All these we leaue as tales too often told And rubs that would our running voyage let Not that our thoughts despise them being old For to antiquity we owe much debt But because Time that hath his acts inrold To many a Common sale his deeds hath set Therefore though no part of his worth to reaue him We now for matters more allide must leaue him 89 And now looke backe to Troy Laomedon Intends new wals about his Towne to reare But wanting coined Gold to deale vpon Solicits all the Gods such as dwelt neare Chiefely those two that rule the Sea and Sun Neptune and Phoebus Mony-maisters vvere Of whose rich Priests for so much coine he cals As may repaire his Citties ruin'd wals 90 They dispuruey their vestry of such Treasure As they may spare the vvork now being ended Demand their sums againe but out of measure At their request the Monarch seemes offended And saies he meanes to pay them at his pleasure The Gods by whom Troy vvas vvith wals defended Inrag'd at his ingratitude conspire With ioynt reuenge to vvreake their spleenfull ire 91 The vvrathfull Neptune first his Billowes raisd Aboue the high-built-Wals thinking to drowne Those lofty spires whom all the world hath praisd Hurrying his brinish waters through the Towne Now Dolphins play where barbed Steeds haue graz'd In euery pau'd-street Neptunes Billowes frowne Till being weary with the Citties sacke He drawes himselfe into his Channels backe 92 For by the fates appointment the proud God Must keepe his falling ebbes as well as flow Else pale-fac'st Cinthia at whose dreadfull nod Obedient Neptune shrinkes her rage will show For she commands his waues and his abod Is pointed by the Moone whether below In his Abisme or rockes appearing hire He guids his lookes by her immortall fire 93 But as he shrinkes his waters at her becke He leaues much slimy filth vpon the shore Now gan the God of Fire his beames reflect Vpon the drownded Continent that wore The sea-Gods wrath and now must bide his checke A hot contagious stemme not knowne before Poysons the Clime and as the heat increast The infectious pest consum'd both man and beast 94 Halfe-perisht Troy vnable to withstand Their double wrath her people from her flye Knowing they both offended Sea and Land And to abide their vengeance must needs dye The King himselfe that wants power to command The all-consuming Plague fears to come nye The wals he reard but must to Delphos trauell To excuse his Pride that with the Gods durst cauell 95 His due Oblations ended t is returnd That he must seeke th' offended Gods t' appease Else the hot plague his peoples entrailes burnd Shall all the remnant of his subiects cease Nor must his fearefull pennance be adiournd Nothing can Neptune and Apollo please But monthly to a Monster of the flood To yeild a beautious maide of the Kings blood 96 This couenanted the Troyan King prepares Alotted Virgins now th' infection slakes At length alas for bold Fate all things dares The lot the beautious maide Hesione takes The Kings sole Daughter Fortune nothing cares For him whose hand th' Imperiall Scepter shakes The hood-winckt Goddesse dare on all sides strike Beggers and Kings in lots are both alike 97 Imagin her with thousand Virgins guided Vnto her fearefull Toombe her Monster-graue Imagin how the hulky Diuell slyded Along the Seas smooth breast parting the waue Alasse poore naked Damsell ill prouided Whom Millions without heauens help cannot saue Yet see help coms behold the pride of Greece Deck't in the conquest of the Golden fleece 98 Along the glassie Hellespont by chance Alcides sayling sees vpon the Land The all-dispoyled Virgin in a Trance Wayling her ruine on the bryny Strand Aboue the Waues he sees a Whale aduance His dreadfull shape at whose sight all that stand Vpon the Beach some sounding as halfe dead Others dismayde backe to the Citty fled 99 Such onely whom the cause concerned most And vnto whom the Virgine was allyde Attend her swallowing on the Marine coast For whom no Mortall safety can prouide Now great Alcides with his Greekish hoast Lands on the Continent vnterrifide And while the Troian King with terrour shakes The Virgins Rescue boldly vndertakes 100 Two barbed Steeds the best that Asia bred Are by the King ordaind the Victors meâ—…d By whose strong hand the Sea-Whale shall fall dead The Virgine liue and Troy from pest be freed Now fals his huge Club on the Monsters head With such impetuous weight and violent speede As if Heauens greatest Collumne should downe fall That beares the high roofe of th'Olimpicke Hall 101 The hydious Augur slaine and she releast The periur'd King the promist meede denies And seeing Troy both wal'd and free from pest Excludes the Greeke for his bold enterprise Who sayles from Greece after few months of rest Doth burne Larisse and Tenedos surprise Ruinates Troy expels Laomedon Beates downe the wals made by the Sea and Sunne 102 In which atchieuement Philicteles fought Made of Alcides vanquisht foe his friend The King Eristheus there for honor sought And Creon to this dreadfull fight gaue end The Noble Theseus his assistance brought Theban Amphitrio did his arme extend Gainst Asiaes pride and with the rest returning Ayded great Hercules in Troyes first burning 103 These as they were a Ship-board hauing fild The vast Wombes of their Barkes
with wealthy spoiles Insulting in the Troian bloud they spild Discoursing of their fightes and dangerous broyles And such great victories attained but seild Though with more labours and Insudate toyles Cups of Greeke Wine vnto this Conquest crownd Thus King Eristheus boards the Princes round 104 Now the first Vigill of the night is entred With some discourse le ts ouertake the Sunne Who flying is by this beneath vs centred And whilst the waking Stars their courses runne Discourse who first the Tartar gates aduenterd And by whose hand that bold attempt was done Of Orpheus and Euridice and in fine Of Pluto and the rauisht Proserpine 105 When Theseus thus Since you desire to know The true report of these Tartarian bralles Which none can better then Alcides shew Or Theseus Present by th' Aetnean Walles The Waters of Pergusa gently flow And thence into the Neighboring Riâ—…er fals Crownd with a groue through which the lake doth run Making his bowes a Bon-grace from the Sun 105 Hether fayre Proserpine repayring still With Daysies Daffadils and Lillies white Roses and Mary-golds her lap to fill And to returne home laden a sweete sight Chaplets to make or Gyrlands by fine skill By chance the God of shades in edge of night In his blacke Ebon Chariot hurrying by Vpon the Virgine casts a Rauishers eye 106 He spyes and loues and catches vp at ones Th' affrighted Virgine who lets fall her flowers he beares her ouer hils Dales Rocks and stones She cals on Mother Friends and teares she powers Mother nor friend can heare her shriekes and groanes Through pooles and Lakes the God of Tartar skoures he yerkes his hot Steedes with his wyery strings And from his Coach Wheeles rusty darknesse flings 107 And cals his Ietty Stallions by their Names Whose hard hoofes make the vaulted Center-sound his ratling Chariot through the ayre proclaymes his feare and flight with burnisht Brasse shod round Nor once lookes backe the dreadfull God of flames Or thinkes his rape safe on the vpper ground But with his Ebon-Mace the earth inforces Which cleft sinkes him his Chariot and his horses 108 The Queene of Plenty she that crownes the land With seuerall graine and Neptunes Kingdome bounds Searches about but cannot vnderstand Of her fayre Daughter yet the world she rounds And day by day she takes this taske in hand But in her bootlesse search her selfe confounds Aurora finds her in her trauels rising The setting Sunne still sees her ease dispising 100 But in our labors we our pen must rest Least in her search vve our Inuention loose Which finding tyr'd vvith trauell vve hold best A vvhile to cherish therefore rest we choose Heere therefore let vs breath ere vve disgest Troyes second fall as that vvhich next ensues Our Muse vvith Phoebus sets and vvith the Sun To Morrovv rising is our taske begun THe Gorgons were cald by other names Pemphrado Erito and Dino to whom was added a third Iaeno Pegasus taking his flight out of Helicon striking the earth with his hooues there presently sprung out the pleasant Fountaine Hippocrene after consecrate to the Muses Some moralize this winged Horse to a swift-saild Ship in vvhich Perseus saild in all his forraine aduentures Aurea Mala which the Latines conster golden Apples the Greekes call golden Sheepe the word importing so much Atlas for his exquisite skil in Astronomy was said to beare heauen on his shoulders Of this Sea-monster S. Augustine speakes in his Booke de Ciuitate Dei affirming that one of the bones was in his time still vncon sumed and kept The monster Chimere described with a Lyons head a Goats belly and a Serpents taile was a mount aine in Sicily whose top was full of wilde Lyons the middle of Goats and the foote and lower part swarmed with serpents This hill Belerephon by the ayde of Perseus cleared of all these Sauadges after made it habitable Where Iupiter is said to put three nights into one som haue ingeniously imagined it to be about that time when at Iosuahs prayer the Sunne staide his Diurnal course till he had the slaughter of his enemies which being kept away from a Countrey so farre remote must of force lengthen the night by his absence as it prolonged the day by his presence Galanthis by her craft deceiuing Iuno was by her after in her anger transformed into a Weasill Philocletes sonne to Paean and after his surprisall companion with Hercules in all his trauels to whom at his death he gaue his arrowes poysoned in the bloud of Hydra The length of that night before mentioned may else be alluded to that in the 2. Kings Chap xx where Zedekiah beeing promist by God fifteene yeares life after his extreame sicknesse and crauing a signe God commanded the shadow of the Sun to go backe ten degrees which was incontinently performed in the Diall of Ahuz as it was promised him by Isaiah the Prophet The Nereides with whome Andromeda was compared were the daughters of Nereus the son of Oceanus The-tis his daughters were nimphs of the sea he had by the nimph Doris these three children Halia Spio Pasithae Ligea with others to the number of fifty whose names Hesiodus re-members and Apollodorus Laomedon besides Hesione whom he best loued had 3. daughters more Aethasa Astioche and Medicastes but Hesione being deerest to him Neptune and Apollo chuse her to be deuoured of the Sea-monster The end of the sixt CANTO Argumentum EVridia stung with a Snake and dying Sad Orpheus trauels for her sake to Hell Among th'Infernals Musickes vertue trying Much honoured euen where fiends deuils dwel Ceres to Hercules for vengeance crying Th' vndaunted Greeke seekes Pluto to expell Iasons rich Fleece proud Troy once more racst By Hercules in our next skeades are placst ARG. 2. WHo Musick found hell sakt Perithous harms Eta describes with great Medeas charmes CANTO 7. 1 MVsicke by which the Spheares are taught to moue And tune their motion to their makers praise Approues it selfe deuine first found aboue After bequeath'd fraile man to cheare his daies Whether t' were taught vs by the Birds that proue Their harmony in their sweet-Chirping layes Or whether found by man of this I am sure It hath bin Ancient and shall long endure 2 Let Homers Demodocus witnesse beare And Virgils Iopas with this heauenly skill Some say Amphion rauisht first the eare Which Zephus did with Notes and Crotchets fill But others Dionisius hold most deare As one that made his Ayers lowd and shrill Men diuersly deriue Musickes soft feet Some from Arcadia likewise some from Creet 3 On Shalmes Trezenius Dardanus first plaid On Cranes legs first but after fram'd of Reed Bright Mayaes sonne on a parcht Tortoys made Th'vnshaped Harpe most Writers haue agreed That Tubal gaue it forme with pins that staid The tuned strings to make his Musicke speed Pan found the Pipe to play at Syrinx sute Tymarias