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
at her cause of discontents Welcome the Damsell In their honors striuing To cheere her who as doubtfull still laments Not knowing yet how the young Prince shall speed Or what the prouident sisters haue decreed 64 The courteous virgins hearing the sad story Of vertuous Sybill and her sonne related Both for the mother and the Sonne are sorry And hauing with themselues a while debated They hold their womanish pitty much more glory Then to be rude and cruell estimated And now their studies are the Babe to hide And for his carefull fostring to prouide 65 They beare him to a Mountaine in whose brow A Câ—…ue was dig'd the round mouth was so strait That at the entry you of force must bow But entred once the roome was full of State This Cauerne for the darknesse they allow To shâ—…eld the Infant from the Fathers hate Which being selected as a place most meet The Damsell is againe sent backe to Creet 66 With milke of Goates they nurst him for a space Till Fortune on a time so well prouided That when to still the Babe who cride apace They sounded Cymbals and with tunes deuided Strook on their Tymbrels by some wondrous grace A swarme of Bees was by that Musicke guided Into the place who made the Caue their Hiue And with their Hony kept the Child aliue 67 By this the Damsell is return'd againe And all the newes to Vesta haâ—… related What prouident care the royall Dames haue tanâ—… To saue the Prince how well they haue requited Her former loue still Saturne thinkes it slaâ—…ne Being with the terror of his death affrighted Which in the Kings opinion to make good Vest a salutes him with a cup of blood 68 An Abbest stone into the bole was brayed It shew'd like the Babes hart beaten to powder The Dowager in funerall blacke arrayed With reâ—…erence to her Son and Soueraigne bowed her Women haue teares at will their wiles to ayde And she hath plenty to ber plot allowed her See here quoth she and as she more would say Griefe strikes her mute and tuâ—…s her head away 69 Againe she would proceed againe she faileth But the third time begins her sad Oration See heere thy sonne whose losse thy wife bewaileth Murdered and massacred in piteous fashion In vaine against the froward fate she raileth In vaine she teares her eies in extreame passion Saturne hath to this cruell act constrain'd her And see of thy young son the poore remainder 70 Now maist thou keepe thine oath with Titans feed Yet that thou cruell art I needs must tell thee Neuer did Tiger father such a deed In tiranny the Wolues cannot excell thee Now maist thou safely weare thy imperiall weed Can this thy issue from thy throne expell thee This blood can neuer gouerne in thy sted Alas poore Grand-child thou too late hast bled 71 Th' vnwelcome newes seeme welcome to his cares And yet he wishes they awhile had staide That the vil'd deed is done he glad appeares Yet in his gladnes he seemes ill apaid She moues the king with her laments and teares What cannot weeping women men perswade The king in sorrow of his sonne late dead Vowes euer to abiure Queene Sibels bed 72 And whilst the warme blood reck't before his eies No wonder if he purpost as he spake But when the beauty of his Queene he spies Her graces mou'd him and his vow he brake Such charming vertue in her beauty hes That he forgets the rash oth he did make And rather then his nuptiall sweets forbeare Hee 'l sacâ—…ce a young sonne euery yeare 73 These stormes blowne ouer and their sorrowes spent For violent tempests neuer long remain'd The king young Iuno to Parthemia sent There amongst Princes daughters to be train'd To doe her honors is his whole intent Since his sonnes bloud by timelesse Fate is drained Nor maruell if to honor her he striue Knowing saue her no Issue left aliue 74 Time keepes his course the King and Queene oft meet And once againe she hath conceiu'd a Male The Lad in secret is conveyde from Creet To Athens in a vessell swift of sayle Th' Athenian King they with the Infant greet Who the Babes fortunes sadly doth bewaile And the young Neptune fairely doth intreat And traynes him like the sonne of one so great 75 The husband-King who no such guile surmised Is by the crafty women mock't againe New teares are coin'd a second tricke deuised To make him thinke that Issue likewise slaine Once more the King with sadnesse is surprised Once more appeasd for teares he knowes are vaine Againe the King and Queene are met in bed And in small processe she againe is sped 76 A sonne and daughter at this birth she bare The sonne she hides the daughter she discloseth The sonne she Pluto named the winde stood faire And him into The ssalia she disposeth The messenger applies with earnest care Her tedious iourney for no time she lofeth Whâ—…st the twin-brother she is forst to hide Her daughter Glauca in her childhood dide 77 Neptune was nurst by Aruo after growing To manhood fairefoot Amphitrite hee would haue espousde but she her beauty knowing Despisde the Sea God thinking to liue free wherefore he sends the Dolphin who straight showing His masters thoughts the Louers soone agree For with the Dolphins signe to Heauen was â—…orne And plast on hye not farre from Capricorne 78 The vntam'd Gennâ—…t he did first bestride And made him seruant to the vse of Man Before him no man durst presume to ride Famous alone he was in Athens than He coupled first the Steedes and curbd their pride And by his Art the armed Chariot ran Therefore as greatest honor to his state The Horse to him was freely consecrate 79 And when he trauels o'rc the foamy waues With foure Sea-palfreys he is drawne along By sundry Nymphes and Girls whose loue he craues Four-score fayre sonnes he got surpassing strong Who Cittyes built and menaâ—… Hostile braues Gainst Tyrants that vsurpt their States by wrong He Riders grac't and Sea-men gladly cheared And by his hands the wals of Troy were rearâ—…d 80 To him three Temples consecrated were Of great Magnificence In Isthmus one In Tenarus a second did appeare A structure in that Isle famous alone A third to him the stowt Calabrians reare Semblant to these through all the world were none Vpon these shrines to make his glories full The people vsde to sacrifice a Bull. 81 Pluto whom some call Mammon God of gold Who after did the Tartar kindome seaze As â—…oue a Scepter in his hand doth hold Neptune the Trident so he graspes the Keies Some thinke this God inhabited of old Hiberia him the Pyren mountaines please Of whom and Proserpine his rauisht Btide Desist to speake what Iuno did betide 82 Thus eldest Iâ—…piter liues in a Caue Neere Oson nurst with Hony
Tros Tros Ilion next him stroue Laomedon and he got Priamus And when the Greekes from Troy Aeneas droue He by Creusa had Askanius Who after Carthaginean Dido past Vp through the Riuer Tiber â—…ayles at last 3 At Hostiaes Port the place the Gods behight Aeneas Landes Euander him receiues The Latines King whose Daughter at first sight Aeneas loues and for her sake bercaues The Tuskayne King of life in single fight Turnus being dead the fayre Lauinia leaues Her virgine vowes by whom the Troian Prince Siluius begot and Siluius Brutus since 4 Brutes Mother in her painefull throwes deceast Hâ—… his glancing Shaft his Father slew For which with melancholy griefes infest From Italy the Prince himselfe withdrew Ten thousand voluntary men vnprest Consort him strange aduentures to pursue Whom Corineus with many Troians more Mcetcs and assists new Countries to explore 5 Brute Grecian Pandras who denide him way And through his spacious Kingdome passage free O're-comes in battaile but denyes to stay Till he more Coasts and various Clymats see Fayre Innogen a Virgin fresh as May He marrieth and with Pandras doth agree For her rich Dower to haue a royall fleete Well furnisht for his Trayne with all things meete 6 He past Alcides Pillers euen to Guall Landing in Guien Guffor the proud King Denyes prince Brute to hunt but Mauger all He chac't his Deere and made his Buckes to spring Thence Albion he discries like a white wall Washt with the sea and longs his fleet to bring To a safe Harbour where he might suruay The long sought Isle where he his boues must lay 7 When Ayoth iudged Israell in the yeare Threescore and twelue of his command and state Aegiptian Danaâ—… daughters lauded heere After long search who for they had of late Theyr nine and forty husbands by th'austere Iniunction of their Sire brought to sad Fate Were in a Mastlesse ship to exile throwne And landinging heere cald this Isle Albion 8 Some say of these Viragoes spirits begot Gyants that were of huge and monstrous size Who when they grew to stature spared not Asfinity for Sonne with Mother lies Brother with Sister so the learned Scot Marian doth in his Chronicles comprize And of these lustfull Ladies in small while Twelue thousand Gyants peopled this large I le 9 PRince Brute with Corineus doth Albion enter At Totnes thirty monstrous Gyants kils And after much and dangerous aduenter Builds London cald new Troy his Throne he fils Twenty foure yeares then payes his last debenter To Nature Brittaine he to Locrine wils Scotland to Albanact Wales Camber swayes Israell was iudg'd by Samuell in their dayes 2 Locrine raign'd twenty yeares his wife him slew Because he Sabrine lou'd and her forsooke Mother and Child bold Guendolina threw Into the Seuerne streames who there name tooke From Sabrine In his dayes young Dauid grew And with a Sling the great Goliah strooke At Locrines death sterne Guendoline begun Her husband she succeeds and her her Sonne 3 Madan rul'd forty yeares and in his dayes Was beautious Absolom by Ioab slaine Memprisius twenty yeares the Scepter swayes Procuring first his Brother Manlius bane Whom Madan lou'd and had intent to raise In Lust and ryot he consum'd his raigne For which iust heauens their righteous vengeance powred Memprisius hunting was by Wolues deuoured 4 Him his sonne Ebranke in the Throne succeeds Who gouernes threescore happy Summers thorow Famous for many charitable deeds He builded Yorke Dunbar and Edenborowe Next him Brute Greene-shield don'd th' Imperiall weeds After twelue happy yeares his subiects sorrow For his vntimely Fate and in his raigne B'Elias prayer the Priests of Ball were slaine 5 L'Eill Brutes sonne raignd fiue and twenty yeares And Carleil built then did his seat resigne To young Lud Hurdibras lou'd of his Peeres Who gouernd Britaines Scepter twenty nine He Winchester and Canterbury reares With Shafts-bury then seekes a Throne deuine Whose Obits were in Brittaine long bemoned The propher Zachary in his dayes was stoned 6 BLadud Luds sonne raignd next and Bath erected A Sorcerer and did attempt to flye And hauing twenty yeare the Realme protected He brake his necke downe from a Steeple hie Amos and Amazia were directed In those dayes by the spirit of Prophesie Leir next him in whose time as Bookes say Ionas three dayes in the Whales belly lay 7 Leir built Leicester forty yeares was Crownd Famous in his three Daughters and their Loue The youngest most suspected faithfull found And they that promist most least thankefull proue Kindest Cordeilla that did most abound In filiall zeale next Leir sits aboue Morgan and Cunedadgius two false Peeres Depose their Aunt after fiue vnhappy yeares 8 They ioyntly raigne till Cunedadgius slew His Brother Morgan in Glamorgan-sheere From whom the Title of that Country grew And after gouernd three and thirty yeare Now Naum preacht Riuallo doth pursue The Kingdome next a Prince that had no peere In his dayes Propheside Esay Micheas The Prophets Adad Amos and Oseas 9 Forty six yeares he gouernd In his raigne Rome was first built wise Sibell gaue forth Sawes King Ezechy by God heal'd of hispaine Had fifteene yeares life promist for some cause The Sun full ten Degrees turnd backe againe Thales Milesius to the Greekes gaue Lawes In Brittaine it raind blood Riuallo wained And eight and thirty yeares Gurgustius raigned 10 Now Ioel taughts his Iliads Homer wrate And Glaucus Chius Sodering first inuented Sicillius next Gurgustius takes the state Forty nine yeares he gouernes well contented Amon in Iuda raind Zaleucus sate Iudge on his sonnes eye Ieremy lamented For the sad Tragedy of King Iosias Now flourish Olda Baruch Sophonius 11 Now Phalleris in Agrigentine swayde And thrust Perilles in his brazen Bull To tast the torment he for others made Iago next Sisillius makes vp full Twenty fiue yeares then in his Tombe was laide Nabuchadnezar sought to disanull The Hebrew Lawes susannaes fame increased By th'Elders wrongd by Daniels doome released 12 Fifty foure yeares Kinimachus was knowne After â—…ago in the Brittish Chaire Arion with his Harpe was o're-Boord throwne Whom through the Seas the pittious Dolphin bare Bell was cald God and fore him â—…rumpets blowne And the three Children in the robes they ware Cast in the fiery Furnace now I gesse Liud Solon Sapho the sweet Poâ—…tesse 13 Annaximander th' Horoscope first made Aesope in Birds and Beasts first figured men Next King Kinimachus Gorbodug swayde The Brittish Scepter In the Lyons den Daniell was cast Now Cyrus did inuade Cressus of Lydia t' was the season when Zacharias Aggeus Malack Propheside And the chast Lucresse by her owne hand dide 14 Next Gorbodug Ferrex and Porrex raigned
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-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
part A valiant German that hight Martin-Swart 83 These Henry slew in battaile and arrear'd A Taxe of the Tenth-penny through the Land For which the Commons in the field appeard And kill Northumbers Earle with a strong band Henry inuaded France Columbus cleard The vnknowne Seas and boldly tooke in hand The Indies first discouery Insurrection By Perkin Warbeck in forraine protection 84 In Italy a Stone exceeding great Fell from the ayre Lord Audly now rebeld Henry and the Scotch King of peace intreat The Turke the bold Venetian forces queld Who at Dyrachium sought him to defeate Katherine of Spaine a Lady that exceld Was fianst to Prince Arthur Sforce subdude Milleine and all the French-men did exclude 85 Margaret King Henries Daughter was affyde Vnto Scotch Iames In Germany bloud raind Elizabeth the Queene in Child-bed dyde The French this yeare from Naples were constrainde By Ferdinand of Spaine Now in his pride Liu'd Prestor-Iohn Great Ismael Sophy gaind Vpon the Turke in many a warlike strife Henry the seauenth at Richmond ends his life 86 At eyghteene yeares Henry the eyght succedes And thirty eyght yeares raign'd his Brothers Wife He marries by the Popes dispence which breedes Among the Cardinals murmure and strife Emson and Dudley hated for theyr deeds To please the Commons were depriu'd of life Now Doctor Collet liu'd a man of fame Erasmus too deriu'd from Rhoterdame 97 The Turkish Tyrant Selimus by warre Two Aegiptian Souldans chast and slew The Muscouites the stoute Pollonians barre Some rights for which great battailes t'ween them grew France still retaines the memorable searre Of Henries valor who that time o'rethrew Turwin and Turney in whose streetes appeare Turrets as many as be daies â—…'th yeare 98 A peace with France King Lewes Mary wiues Sister to Henry and within few dayes Expyres Charles Brandon gainst the French-men striues At Tilt and Barriers where he won great prayse and fetcht the Queene thence Francis next suruiues The King of France Charles Brandon now assayes The Queene and marryes her in small while after Mary was borne King Henries eldest Daughter 99 Charles Duke of Austrich is made King of Spaine The Citties tumult chanc't on Ill-May-day Cardinall Woolsy flourisht now complaine The Popes allyes gainst Luther Turkes display Theyr Ensignes against Belgrade once againe Zuinglius began against the Pope t'inuaye Whose Doctrines learnd Erasmus seemde to abet Henry at Arde in France the French King met 100 Charles is Crown'd Emperor th'eyght Henry writ A Booke gainst Luther This yeare lost his head The Duke of Buckingham and now did sit In the Turkes Throne a Prince with fury led Who Belgraue did besidge and threatned it Great Solyman The Emperor Charles him sped For England where at Windsore he was called Vnto the Garter and there Knight installed 101 Christierne of Denmarke banisht with his Wife Enter this Land where they were well intreated The Earle of Surry in his Northerne strife In many sundry fights the Foe defeated Stormes and tempestuous Gusts this yeare were rife And in Granade a Prodince fayrely seared Were Citties swallowed the great Turke makes hed From whom the Hungars king drown'd as he fled 102 The Annabaptists sect was first begun Charles Burbons Duke sackt Rome and there was slaine Vaivad grew great in Fame this yeare the Sunne Appear'd three Sunnes at once Katherine of Spaine Before prince Arthurs wife the king is wun To be diuorst from this diuorse in vaine Cardinall Woolsie seekes by meanes to crosse Which to his ruine turnes and fauours losse 103 Tindall the holy Scripture now translated Th'arrested Cardinall at Leister dide And Ferdinand is King of Rome created Anne Bulloine next became King Henrtes Bride And Thomas Cromwell whom the Cleargy hated Made of the Counsell the Kings Sister tyde In marriage to Charles Brandon dyes forlorne Elizabeth was now at Greenewich borne 104 For Treason dyde the holy Mayde of Kent Lady Anne Bulloine like wise lost her head Erasmus after seauenty Winters spent Expi'd whose fame through Christendome is spread Lady Iane Seamors beauty did content The King so well he tooke her to his bed And on Saint Edwards Eeue this yeare tooke life noble Prince Edward by the kings late Wife 105 Fryer Forrest dyde for Treason One of Spaine For eating Flesh vpon a day of Fast Was hang'd in Paris and tooke downe againe His Lady burnt A full conclusion past Of Marriage tweene the King and Lady Anne Of Cleeue which solemne contract did distast The Kinges soone after who for her rare feature Wiu'd Lady Katherine Howard a fayer Creature 106 Cromwell next lost his head the disputation Begun at Rat'isbone Henry th'eyght is stiled The King of Ireland by his proclamation and Lady Katherine Howard who defiled Her vnchast body with much lamentation Led to her death now Luther was reâ—…led In the Popes Trident Counsell the King wed The Lady Katherine Lat'mer to his Bed 107 The Turkish Barbaressa famous grew In Germany at Mounster bloud did raigne Troubles with Scotland next these did insue The Counsell held at Spyre now once againe Henry inuaded France and did pursue The Bullenois since many did complaine Against the Stewes they were abandond quite The pope the Wormace Counsell did accite 108 Luther expyres soone after dyes the king Henry the eyght whom the sixt Edward then Succeedes at nine yeares old now first gan spring That reform'd Church which at first many men Impugn'd Masses no more the Church-men sing Next Musele-borrow field did happen when Much bloud was spilt a both-sides Bonner now Great in his Fathers dayes the king makes bow 109 Stephen Gardiner is cast into the tower The Brother Seamers falling at dissention By meanes of their proud Wiues begin to lower Each vpon other which without preuention Causd timelesse Fate both their sweet liues deuower First Arundell then Kit had firme intention To change the State but both were hang'd in chaines Bulloine was giuen vp by the French-mens traynes 111 At Feuersham was murdred by his Wife Arden by helpe of Mosby and Blacke-Will The Trade with Musco did now first grow rife Mong th' English Marchants by the Nauiall skill Of one Gabato he that first gaue life To these aduentures Many rumors fill The Land with newes that Edward lately dide Meane time the Lady Iane's made Guilfords Bride 112 Edward at sixteene yeares ofage deceast The Duke Northumberland proclaimes Queene Iane But soone her young and Infant title ceast The Commons by their power Mary maintaine Sister to Edward her high State increast And next her Brother she begins her raigne Guilford and Iane with whom the Queene 's offended Sent to the Tower where their sweete liues they enâ—…ded 113 Bourne preaching at Panles-Crosse the Masse maintaining A suddaine
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-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
sea Aegean wander Of which the Theefe Aegeon was commander 38 The blustring tempest hath diuorst their Fleet Only the Ship wherein the Centaurs saile With Ihoue and Ganimed the Pirats meet The rest were straide and of their Voyage faile Yet some amongst the rest take land in Creet Some bandied too and fro by euery gale Yet all their barkes liue none so neere to die As this the Pyrats from the shore discry 39 Sixe Gallyes they disanker from the Isle Cald Desert and their Barke incompasse round Ihoue and the Centaurs arme them in smal while And al their Martiall notes to battel sound Which the bold Troian hearing gan to smile In scornfull guise to see his armes fast bound Oh when quoth he stood Ganimed thus still To heare the Martial musicke of Kill kill 40 Is my opinion of knowne Armes so weake My name so poore the Centaurs scorne mine ayde Did we for this their maine Battallions breake And with our Armed breast their hoasts invade Why may I not in this case boldly speake Shal I stand still to see my life betraide Although a Prisoner yet this fauour show To guard mine Honor gainst a common foe 41 Not fighting against Troy we are a friend These Pyrats with your honors couâ—… mine Oh let the King of Creâ—… such grace extend That by his side I may in Armour shine To see how wel I can my head defend Some desperate Act vnto my charge assigne They hale vs neere our ship the Pirats boord For Honors sake giue me my Armes and sword 42 These words charme Iupiter and draw a vaile Betwixt his hart and Ganimeds disgraces The King relents the Princes words preuaile His bands he looseth and with kind embraces Sweares to him friendship that shall neuer faile Armd as they are they take their pointed places Ihoue in the Prow the Centauâ—…s at his beck To face their foes guirt round their vpmost decke 43 Their golden Eagle is displaide the Gallies Grapple on euery side their hooked steele Some from the Beak-heads some the wast make sallies But those the Centaurs make like Drunkards reele And drop downe to the Sea here no man dallies Some with long pointed Irons bare their Keele To sinke them others by the Ship sides crall The Centaurs lop their hands off downe they fall 44 Twice they are forst t'vngrapple and vnhooke Their double chaynes To this I may compare Thy boording valiant Greenvild thou didst brooke A hotter skirmish then the Pirats dare Who keeping one good Ship skornst to be tooke By a whole Fleet of Spanish men a-warre Fighting till powder shot and men were wasted And these consum'd euen til thine owne life lasted 45 As often as they boorded thee so oft Brauely repulst their sides bor'd through and through And three times with thy three Decks blowne aloft As high as heauen what more could valor doe Now thy proud Ship hath al her Ensignes doft Those sayles the Amorous winds with courtings wooe To tinder burnt thou profferd life despising Leau'st thy Reuenge euen with the waters rising 46 The Gallyes fasten still a watchword giuen By Iupiter at once they headlong skip Dispearst into such vessels as were driuen Within their teach and leaue their Cretan Ship Now many a Pirats skull is bruis'd and riuen Some heau'd ore boord some softly slip Into the sea for feare their liues to smother So by auoyding one death seeke another 47 Th' vndaunted Gyant-Theefe-Egeon now Kens Iupiter him Iupiter espies And facing him in his owne Gallies prow Thus with vndaunted language he defies Behold thy fate see Ihoue thy ruyne vow Whom thou by Coward-ods sought to surprise Thou that by land my ruthlesse fury fled Shalt now by Sea be forst t' abide me dead 48 I am the sonne of Saturne by whom fell Tytan with al the Earth-bred Gyant seed Thy Sire and brothers I haue sent to Hell and thy destruction I haue next decreed At this th'inflam'd Egeon gan to swel Rage makes his language lagge his fury speed Action proceeds his words before he spake With his huge Axe vpon Ihoues helme he strake 49 The blow was put to loane while they two striue Prince Ganimed hath al the Gally cleared and mongst them all he leaues not one aliue Saue the graund-theefe who now not to be feared Ihoue hath subdude and gins his legges to gyeue Since in the Gyants rescue none appeared Bulke hands legs thighes the Prince at once inuirons and leads him with an hundred chaynes of Iron 50 In these the harmlesse Trauellers he bound Now his owne plague they that suruiue are fled and on the Seas disperst now doth Ihoue ground His loue vpon his new friend Ganimed He enters his owne ships and wanders round The spacious Vast where wind and waters led Crossing both Torrid and the frozen lines By this the Sunne had compast all the Signes 51 The Ramme of Helles and Europaes Bull Castor and Pollux Cancers burning Signe Th' Herculean Lyon and the Virgin-Trull The skale of Iustice and the Scorpions line Chyron the Centaur with the horned skull Of watry Capricorne next whom doth shine The Troian lad that from his lauer powres Last the two Fishes drilling Southern showres 52 And at the yeares end taking land in Creet After his tedious progresse on the streame Queene Iuno welcoms him with kisses sweet His subiects kneele to him as their supreame Fiue hundred Steeds presenting at his seet But he whose thoughts harpe on another theame Prisons Aegeon Ganimed sets free And in his grace saue Iuno who but he 53 But Iuno when his mind on Danae ran Shewd like a Crow vnto a siluer Doue Rose to a Black-berry Rauen to a Swan It makes him mad he cannot ayde his Loue Twelue Moones are fild and waind since haplesse man The day expir'd he should his valour proue And now though late hee 'l try his best endeuour To fetch her thence for better late than neuer 54 But loe amidst his hostiâ—…e preparation By chance a Lord of Arges rode that way Who knowne to be a stranger of that Nation The King demaunds of Danae to bewray What he hath heard he gins a sad Oration Which doth the Princes hoast from waftage stay In what remote Clime if by Rumor blowne Quoth th' Arges Lord was not bright Danae known 55 When she was Danae and whilst Darrain Tower Inclos'd earths-Beauty in her brazen hold But now shee 's cropt and that sweet smelling flower Is vaded quite and withered wrapt in mould The King at this lost all his vitall power His bloud forsakes his hart his braine growes cold His thoughts confuse his soule within him bleeds When th' Arges Lord of Danae thus proceeds 56 Of the Tower Darrains strength Acrisius guard Within how many gates of brasse inclosed Of their nocturnall watch Diurnall warde Twixt man and her what strong bars enterposed To keepe her chast what deafe man hath not heard Yet al these locks are with
of Iuno of which Ixion begat the Centaurs After adiudged by the Destinies to be tortured with the wheele in hell I hold Ganimed rather surprized by Iupiter in battaile then as some write to be stolne by him as his minion after this rape made his Cup-bearer Apulia where Danae was cast vpon the shore is now a part of Italy bordering vpon the Adriaticke sea Vulcan was Iupiters Smith an excellent workeman on whoÌ„ the Poets Father many rare workes among which I find one not vnnecessary to be remembred which Ouid speaks of and I thus English This Tale is blaz'd through heauen how once vnware Venus and Mars were tooke in Vulcans snare The God of Warre doth in his brow discouer The perfect and true patterne of a Louer Nor could the Goddesse Venus be so crewell To deny Mars soft kindnesse is a Iewell In any woman and becomes her well In this the Queene of loue doth most excell Oh heauen how often haue they mockt and flouted The Smiths polt-foote whilst nothing he misdoubted Made Iests of him and his begrimed trade And his smoog'd visage blacke with Cole-dust made Mars tickled with lowd laughter when he saw Venus like Vulcan limpe to halt and draw One foot behind another with sweet grace To counterfet his lame vneeuen pace Their meetings first the Louers hide with fear From euery iealons eye and captious eare The God of Warre and Loues lasciuious dame In publicke view were full of bashfull shame But the Sunne spies how this sweet paire agree Oh what bright Phoebus can be hid from thee The Sun both sees and blabs the sight forthwith And in all post he speeds to tell the Smith Oh Sunne what bad examples doest thou show What thou in secret seest must all men know For silence aske a bribe from her faire treasure Shee 'le grant thee that shall make thee swell with pleasure The God whose face is smoog'd with smoke and fiar Placeth about their bed a net of Wiar So quaintly made that it deceiues the eye Straight as he feignes to Lemnos he must hie The Louers meet where he the traine hath set And both lie fast catcht in a wiery net He cals the Gods the louers naked sprall And cannot rise the Queene of Loue shewes all Mars chafes and Venus weepes neither can flinch Grappled they lie in vaine they kicke and winch Their legs are one within another tide Their hands so fast that they can nothing hide Amongst these high Spectators one by chance That saw them naked in this pitfall dance Thus to himselfe said If it tedious be Good God of warre bestow thy place on me Of the Gorgons because there are many opinions we wil a little insist vpon their particuler discouery Of them there is a double kind some hairy some bald yet al born of Phorcus Cetus These three Sisters had but one common eye and one common tooth to feed with The Latines call them Lamiae à gutteris amplitudine which Lamia some thinke to bee the daughter of Neptune and the first Prophetesse cald Sibilla among the Aphrians They were also cald Pemphrado Prito and Dino to whom some haue likewise added Iaeno whose name both Aeschilus and Hesiod in their workes remember They were cald Greae and liue in the vtmost Islands of Iberia towards the West Some likewise number Silla amongest the Gorgons Others describe them not with snaky lockes but heads of Dragons and Girdles about their wasts of Vipers All concluding in this that their sight was immediat death which Aeschilus signified in this Sunt tres sorores his volucres non procul Serpentibus dirâ—…sque comptae Gorgones Quas intuens nemo diu spirauerit The Beast Nomades in Libia hath likewise the name of Gor-gon somewhat resembling a sheep which others describe more like a Sea-calfe It is said this monster by the infection of his eyes kils what beast soeuer he meets His hair couers his brows Many of Marius Souldiers marching against Iugurth followed this beast mistaking him for a sheepe and presentlie fell down dead by these Greae Phorci these Gorgons moÌ„sters of the sea is vnderstood nothing else but that knowledge and wisedome which is acquired by experience to purchase which it behoued Perseus to vse the aid of Pallas the helme of Pluto and the sword of Mercury by vertue of which he subdude those monsters Which the Poets haue amongst others thrust into hell Centauri in foris stabulant 〈◊〉 biformes Et centum geminus Briareus ac belua Lernae Horâ—…ndum stridens flammisque armata chimaera Gorgones Harpiaeque forma tricorporis vmbrae Argumentum PErseus the Gorgon kils then takes his way To Ioppen on his flying horse alone Destroyes the Monster frees Andromeda Acrisius saues turnes Atlas into stone King Pricus Wife the beauteous Aurai Doates on the valiant Knight Bellerephon The Troians are with fearfull pests annoyde By Hercules great Troy is first destroyde ARG. 2. IN Zeta Phineus fals Chimer is slaine Dis acts his rape Queene Ceres doth complain CANTO 6. 1 MInerua thou that hadst the power to make Monsters of them that thy high Name despise To turne a golde-Wire to a crawling Snake And change the beauty of bewitching eyes The Patronage of all my labors take More sacred Names thy God-hood may comprise Religion Vertue Zeale we may thee call Whose foes are vgly and with Adders crall 2 The three foule Gorgons by thy power disguised Were Lust insatiate Auarice and Pride These Sisters in Hisperia tyranised All looking with one eye who can deuide Their powers and Natures being three comprised Within one head and Sisters neere allide All such as on their strength themselues assure Sencelesse of good as stones they soone obdure 3 Therefore to arme vs gainst this horrid fiend Behooues vs to implore Myneruaes ayde Perseus bright shield vnto our arme to bind And then we boldly may such foes inuade His shield was Cristall and so bright it shind It dim'd the Gorgons eye and whilst she plaid In darkenesse and her killing sight forsooke Her monstrous head he from her shoulders strooke 4 About the time Perseus the Gorgon slew Busyris gouern'd in Egiptia Cadmus rul'd Thebes to Komos France was due Belochus Emperor of Assyria Othoniall Trumpets before Israel blew Prince Radamant raign'd King in Lycia Tyrhenus Italy and Triton Spaine Whilst Liber Pater all the East doth gaine 5 The Gorgons head with power to turne to stone Vpon his shield he fixt and of the blood That Issued from the wound swift Pegas shone And neigde out of the earth a Stallion good Whom Perseus backt and out of sight is gone Flying o're Mountaine Valley rocke and flood From Arctos vnto Cancers burning tracke And from hot Cancer to cold Arctos backe 6 In his high Airery progresse ouer all The Prouinces and Clymes beneath him spreading Where ere the purple drops from Gorgon fall Adders
and Snakes are bred the people treading Their secure steps see vgly Serpents crall Their venomous stings and fearefull hisses dreading Affrique doth Snakes in most aboundance store Because he longest did o're Affrique soare 7 Yet whilst his venomous spoyles were bleeding new But leauing Affrique forward Pegas flyes He now the Raemme now doth the Fishes view And mounts and stoopes as the winds fall or rise At length he leaues the Orient to pursue The farre Septemtrion keeping still the skies Till falling with Hyperion in the West He with the day-tyrd Phoebus couets rest 8 And stooping with the Sunne into these Seas Where night by night he sleckes his fiery Carre And Atlas of that Orchard keepes the keyes Where golden Apples in aboundance are Thus Perseus greetes him May your Highnesse please To be my royall Host who come from farre If greatnesse may my welcome more approoue Know thou in me receiuest the Sonne of Ihoue 9 If nouelty in strangers thou acquirest Behold my flying steed and couered shield Hence groome quoth Atlas thou hat rest desirest Lodge with the waking starres in the broad field To thee that to our Pallace thus aspirest We scorne all succour and reliefe to yeeld Thou com'st as Prophets did long since reueale From Hespery my golden fruit to steale 10 One of Ihoues yssue our D◅uiners say Must perpetrate such theft and thee I feare Thou lookst like one that aymes at golden pray And I my Aurea Mala hold so deere That I haue stopt vp each accessiue way Instead of pales high mountaines their heads reare About mine Orchard by a Dragon kept A wakefull Mon◅ter one that neuer slept 11 With that he violent hands on Perseus layes To beat him from his Pallace but Ihoues sonne The Gorgon-sheild vnto the King displaies Who instantly turnes to a hill of stone His haires and beard increase to Trees and sprayes His Bulke and Shoulders into hils are growne His head a Promontory top o're-peering The neighbour Rockes and other Mountains neering 12 His bones to stones his bloud to Christall springs And by the Gods decrees he so increaseth And with his growth such height and vastnesse brings That heauens huge weight the two strong poles releaseth To rest them on his shoulders the Larke sings The Sun his earely note the night surceaseth Acrisius Grand-child doth with Phoebus rise And to his arme his shield Gorgonian ties 13 His hooked skeyne he fastens to his thigh So mongst the clouds on Pegas backe he sores The Swaine below that filles his wandering eye Leaues off his labor and the helpe implores Of powers deuine t'explaine this nouelty He passeth diuers Seas and sundry shores Euen to th' Aethiopian Clime and thence To where Cepheus makes his residence 14 There for her Mothers guilt Andromeda By vniust Hammon was condemnd to die Whom as yong Perseus in his Ayery way Did from amongst the racking clouds espy Saue that the winds her golden haires display And drops of Pearle raine from her watry eye He had mistooke her being chain'd alone For some faire Image of white Marble stone 15 But when he saw no Marble was so white Nor Iuory to her skin to be compared He raines his winged Steed and staies his flight And greedily vpon her beauty stared To shake his flaggy wings forgetting quite He loues and greeues to see how ill she fared And now his toong no longer he refrains But sayes oh you vnworthy these rude chains 16 Much fitter for a louers kind embrace Tell me your stocke your Nation and your name And why such beauty should possesse this place Or for what crime into these bands you came Faine would the bashful girle haue hid her face Saue that her hands were bound she blusht for shame Twice did he vrge her she was silent still Yet the third time tels al against her will 17 How bright Casseipe her beauteous Mother Knowing her daughter to be wonderous faire The pride her hart conceiued could not smother But with Nereides must needs compare For which they ◅l complaind to Ihoues great Brother Neptune who with infection taints the ayre Nor can the pest cease or the Towne be spared Til she there dy that was with Nimphs compared 18 But in the midst of her discourse behold Ere she can end her lamentable tale A huge Sea-monster with his long traine rold In curled knots makes the poore Girle looke pale The frowning billowes are by him controld Bo◅e which h'aduanceth many a shelly skale She shreekes her Sire and Mother both dispaire The people with shrill out-cries pierce the ayre 19 Which Danaes sonne espying thus he saies Vnto the Queene and the lamenting King The time you see is short the Monster staies Assur'd destruction to yon maid to bring If then Ihoues son his towring fames can raise And pierce yon huge Sea-Dragons skaly wing Destroy the Monster and presetue her life Shal the bright Virgin be my troth-plight wife 20 Who doubts but the sad Parents soone agree They paw ne their honors to this sudden motion Phineus besides the Maide doth promise free Resigning vp his right with much deuotion The Couenantsmade and now from farre they see The Whaly Monster beare a-brest the Ocean And driuing with his Fins whole Seas afore In making to the Virgin on the shore 21 When suddenly young Perseus mounts the skies His shadow danc'st vpon the siluer waues Which when the wrathfull Serpent did espy Against the idle shape he fumes and raues And as his drowned traine appeares on high Aboue the brine in which so oft he laues The dantlesse Prince whose courage neuer failes Strikes with his Faulchion fire out of his scales 22 And as you see a towring Eagle when She spyes a speckled Serpent soone her spangles Vpon the greene brest of some Moorish Fen Stoopes downe and in the Dragons Crest intangles Her talents least his Iawes turning againe Ceaze her proud Sears and whilst in vaine she wrangles And threatens ruine to the princely Fowle She tires on euery knot and curled rowle 23 So Perseus sowses on the horrid Beast He hewes and beats him till he makes him reele Possessing still his backe which much increast The Monsters fury such strange weight to feele Sometimes aboue the Sea he lifts his brest And Perseus still pursues him with his steele Somtime beneath the blood-stain'd waues he shrinks The whilst his woūds like graues whol billows drinks 24 Whilst he the Sea the Prince the Ayre supplies Waiting aloft to see the fiend appeare Whose yawning chaps aboue the Billowes rise Ready to swallow all the Confines neare Whom as the valiant Prince againe espyes He makes to him amaine all voyde of feare And on his winged Steede against him tilts Shouing bright Harpe vp euen to the hilts 25 The wounded Whale casts from his hillish Iawes Riuers of Waters mixt with purple gore But from their force the wary Prince withdrawes And strikes behind on both sides and before
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
Made of Enuy Pride and Lustes Woe to the man that to thy weakenesse trusts 64 My hopes quoth Perseus I on this haue layde And thinke her heart to be her beauties peere Nor where I trusted most am I betrayde Andromeda I know still holds me deere The stranger Knight quoth she that doth vpbrayde Our sex so much me thinkes is too seuere To blame all women for one Ladies deedes At this all silence made whilst he proceeds 65 In Pricus Court my Child-hood I haue spent And there the grace of many Ladies gained But I whose thoughts were all on Knight-hood bent Regardlesse of their lookes their loues disdained Among the rest Queene Aurea often sent Gifts and smooth Letters fraught with lines vnfaigned This beautious Q. whose thoughts were at such strife Was my dread Soueraigns spouse King Pricus wife 66 Morethen her rauishing beauty could intice Th' allegiance to my King with me preuailed The more the wanton Queene incites to vice The more her sighes and amorous Courtships failed I held my name and honor of more price Then basely yeild when womanish lust assailed At last with such hot flames her entrailes burnd Thar being disdain'd her loue to rancor turnd 67 She that before held of my person deerely Now damnes my presence to the deepest hell And in her hart vowes to reuenge seuerely My loyall scorne I know no hate so fell As that which was once Loue It toucht her neerely Where loue once log'd such poysonous hate doth dwell That now she aimes her enuy at my head Nor can she liue Belerephon not dead 68 Forthwith she cites me to King Pricus throne And as a Rauisher I am accusd She sweares that when I found her all alone I would her royall person haue abusd And then round pearles about her eyebals shone Which dropt downe by her cheeks such craft she vsd Oh heauen what cannot cunning women doo By oaths and teares to win their husbands too 69 I pleaded Innocence but what God wot Could my weake plea against her teares preuaile And to accuse her spouse-breach booted not Her whom teares helpt could protestations faile Besides in honor I could lay no spot Vpon her loyalty rather bewaile Her want of grace and the hy-Gods importune To assist my Innocence and guide my fortune 70 When I askt witnesse of such foule abuse She thus replide commixing words with teares When lustfull men aime at such horride vse They watch all spyal-eyes and listning eares Nor can the want of witnesse plead excuse For who that to a woman fancy beares Will when he seekes t' inforce her gainst all reason First call his witnesse to such hated Treason 71 Rather he watcheth the most silent houre When man and beast is sunke in leaden slumbers And Morpheus he that hath on midnight power The world with vniuersal darkenesse cumbers When sauing Lust and Murder al the powers Of earth lie husht and charmd vvhen no man numbers The yron toongs of Clockes such a blacke time Should haue bin guilty of his more blacke crime 72 For double vvitnesse in this case I stand Pricus you are my Husband and my King And where should Aurea if not at your hand Seeke Iustice at that word fresh sourses spring From her drownd eies what need the cause be scand With more sufficient proofe What needs she bung More arguments Since euery teare she split Perswades her loyalty my heinous guilt 73 The King though inly mou'd with wrath and spleene Yet in his calme lookes moderates his Ire He cals to mind how faithfull I haue bin Since when I seru'd as Knight before as Squire Loath would he vnreuenged leaue his Queene As loth doth he my Innocent blood desire Therefore twixt both this rigorous doome he gaue That the Chimeraes wombe should be my graue 74 His tale thus ended the two Princes vow To lend him all assistance by their aide Belerephon hath made Chimera bow Which done they ioyntly Pricus Realme invaide Acrisius by their armes is raised now And Pricus slaine In Arges they are staide By old Acrisius who repents at last Of Danae mongst the ruthlesse Billowes cast 75 The Noble Perseus he adopts his sonne And makes him Heyre aparant to the Crowne Sorry for all the spight against him done And now bright Danae he accounts his owne Sending young Danaus and Bellerephon With royal gifts soone to the Princesse knowne Shewing by these his reconciled hart But with the warlike Perseus hee 'l not part 76 Whom the same day he Arges King creates Himselfe in Darraine liues a life retyred Perseus Andromeda his Queene instates In the like pompe a Lady much admired Fiue children he begat so would the Fates More valiant with their Fathers gifts inspired Rich Scelenus great Bachmon and bold Demon Noble Erictreus and faire Gorgophon 77 This Gorgophon is held to be the first That in those daies was knowne to marry twice Her husband dead alone this Lady durst Proue second spousals which was held a vice The chasest Matrons her example curst Who held their constant loue in Soueraigne price Our hinder widowes Saint her name in heauen Some foure some fiue nay some haue told to seauen 78 His sonnes takes wiues Acrisius still suruiuing Who glories in his warlike Grand-childs seed Their honors from their Fathers acts deriuing For by their swords did many Tyrants bleed But leaue them in their deedes of valour striuing And of Acrisius timelesse fate proceede Forgetting what was told him long agone That Danaes Sonne must turne him into stone 79 When Perseus had in Arges gouernd long Vpon a night he much desird to see Acrisius and to Darraine that was strong With triple gates alone ascended he There knocks the Porters had forgot his toong and with bold words denyde him entrance free At which inrag'de the Prince his Harpe drew And at first stroke th'Ill-languad'g Guardian slew 80 The vprore flowes apace Clamors arise From all parts of the Fort to the Kinges eare They come at last who with the Warders cryes Astonisht to the tumult preaseth neere Thinking t' appease the broyle and riotyze But haplesse man vnwares he perisht there The inraged Prince that mad-like layde about Struck with a blow his Grand-sires life-bloud out 81 Perseus the vnauoyded fates now blames And layes Acrisius in his Marble graue He that on earth intoyes the hy'st-stilde-names Vnto theyr doomes must yeeld himselfe a slaue From all delights the Prince himsefe reclaymes In Arges Throne he no delight can haue But for his sake that th' Argiue Scepter bore he leaues the Prouince neare to see it more 82 His Court vnto Mecenes he transported But thither did his sorrowes him pursue and therefore with a huge hoast brauely sorted himselfe into the Orient he withdrew his army he with warlike phrase exhorted Gainst Lyber-Pater whom in armes he slew and where the Easterne Monarchs bloud lay spilt Persepolis a stately Towne he built 83 He cals the prouince
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
such Tortures anguish smart That Gods aboue nor Deuils damd could beare That stung his breast and pierst his Noble hart he growes Impatient that could neuer feare Infernall panges Infusde in euery part he striues the poysonous Shirt away to teare But with the cleauing Linnens forst to draw The Brawnes from off his armes and leaue them raw 101 The poysond boyles and he that could confound Gyants so late to his immortall fame Now from the head to heele is all one wound The raging venom-drops his flesh inflame Sometimes he grouels on the senceleâ—…e ground Sometimes those powerfull hands that Monsters tame plucks down huge rocks cleaues theÌ„ with his stroaks And sometimes by the roots rends vp huge Oakes 102 Mad with these Torments Oeta Mount he traces Where creeping in a hole he Lychas spies When stalking to his Caue with leasurd paces About his head he wheeles him in the skies And that being done the whole Mount he defaces A groue of Trees dispoyld about him lies A thousand Oakes he heapes vp on a pile And kindling thâ—…m sayes with a fâ—…ornfull smile 103 Whom neither Iunoes wrath nor Plutoes hell Whom neither Lyons Buls Dogs Dragons Whales Whom neither Tyrants grim nor Gyants â—…ell against that spirit a womans gift preuailes Her iealousie hath power that hart to quell Whom Serpents feare with their â—…uenomed skales Since none on earth deserues our blood to spill The great Alcides shall Alcides kill 104 The fire burnes bright he Philocletes cals And vnto him bequeaths his shasts and bow Who at his warlike fâ—…et confounded fals The Club and Lyons case his bold hands throw Into the flame then he whom noughts appals Cries Ihoue I come and boldly leaps in so That life that mortall did the heauens aspire Now with Immortall wings climes heauen by fire 105 Alcides dead and Priam backe returnd From his successefull Battailes in the East He sees his Country spoyld his Citty burnd His Father slaine which most his griefe increast These losses with his Sisters rape he mournd Nor are such weighty sorrowes soone surceast we for a while will leaue him to his care His Syre t'intoombe his Citty to repaire MEdea some thinke to be the daughter of Eta some the daughter of the Sun some the Daughter of Hecare Apollod lib. 3. Cals her Aeea Heraclides writes her to be the daughter of Neaera of the Nereides Dionisius Milesius cals her the daughter of Eurelytes others of Ipsaea that Chalciope was her sister She had a sonne cald Medus by Aegeas Demodocus a Harpers name in Homer of whom the Country Medea tooke name Iopas a King of Affrica one of Didoes wooers a skilfull Musition Iason committed to the charge of his Vnkle Pelius in his minority because Pelus was loath to resigne to him his kingdome deuised for his Nephew the dangerous enterprize of the golden Fleece which lason contrary to his Vnckles supposition with his Argonants valiantly atchieued In memory of Absyrtus there are still certaine Islandes in the Venetian Sea cald Absyrtides of Absyrtus there slaine by his sister Medea Phrixus was sonne to Athamas and Brother to Helles of whom the Ram that bore the golden fleece was named Phrixeus Helle with her Brother Phrixus was drowned Of whom that Sea is still called Hellespontus Because we onely remember 〈◊〉 and the Mynotaur and haue no further Trafficke in our History with his life I holde it not much amisse in these Annoaations to remember that History and how the Mynotaure was begot Ouid arte Amandi Ida of Caedars and tall Trees stand full Where fed the glory of the Heard a Bull Snow-white saue twixt his hornes one spot there grew Saue that one staine he was of milky hew This faire Steare did the Heyfers of the Groues Desire to beare as Prince of al the Droues But most Pasiphae with adulterous breath Enuies the wanton Heyfers to the death T is saide that for this Bull the doting lasse Did vse to crop young boughes and mow fresh grasse Nor was the Amorous Cretan Queene affeard To grow a kind Companion to the Heard Thus through the Champion she is madly borne And a wilde Bull to Minos giues the horne T is not for by auery he can loue or loath thee Then why Pasiphae doest thou richly cloath thee Why shouldst thou thus thy face aâ—…d lookes prepare What makest thou with thy glasse ordering thy haire Vnlesse thy glasse could make thee seeme a Cow But how can hornes grow on that tender brow If Mynos please thee no Adulterer seeke thee Or if thy husband Mynos do not leeke thee but thy la â—…ciutous thoughts are still increast Deceiue him with a man not with a beast Thus by the Queene the wilde Woods are frequented And leauing the Kings bed she is contented To vse the groues borne by the rage of mind Euen as a ship with a full Easterne wind Some of these strumpet-Heyfers the Queene slew Their smoaking Alters their warme bloods imbrew Whilst by the sacrificing Priest she stands And gripes their trembling entrailes in her hands At length the Captaine of the Heard beguild With a Cowes skin by curious Art compild The longing Queene obtaines her full desire And in her infants byrth bewrayes the Sire This Mynotaure when he came to groath was inclosed in the Laborinth which was made by the curious Arts-maister Dedalus whose Tale likewise we thus pursue When Dedalus the laborinth had built In which t' include the Queene Pasiphaes guilt And that the time was now expired full To inclose the Mynotaure halfe man halfe Bull Kneeling he sayes Iust Mynos end my mones And let my Natiue soile intoombe my bones Or if dread soueraigne I deserue no grace Looke with a pittious eye on my sonnes face And graunt me leaue from whence we are exild Or pittie me if you dâ—…ny my Child This and much more he speakes but all in vaine The King both Sonne and Father wil detaine Which he perceiuing saies Now now tisfit To giue the world cause to admire thy wit Both Land and Sea are watcht by day and night Nor Land nor Sea lie open to our flight Onely the Ayre remaines then let vs try To cut a passage through the ayre and fly Ihoue be auspicious to my enterprise I couet not to mount aboue the skies But make this refuge since I can prepare No meanes to fly my Lord but through the ayre Make me immortall bring me to the brim Of the blacke Stigian Water Styx I le swim Oh human wit thou canst inuent much ill Thou searchest strange Artes who would thinke by skill A heauy man like a light Bird should stray And through the empty Heauens find a fit way He placeth in iust order all his Quils Whose bottoms with resolued waxe he fils Then binds them with a line and being fast tyde He placeth them like Oares on eyther side The tender Lad the downy Feathers blew And what his Father meant he
Knights to bring All expert Archers with whom Stupex traded A valiant Duke and in his youthfull spring Next him sat three Boetian Dukes Fortunus Duke Samnus and the bold Duke Ausernumus 25 These led twelue hundred Knights next whom tooke Two Brother-Kings the bold Boetes first place The other Epistemus of one race Both Princes in the Realme of Burtia nurst They brought a thousand Knights the Greekes to chace Men of great spirit and such as all things durst Next them was set a Gyant dreaded sore Philemus of the Realme of Paphlagore 26 The Aethiopian Perseus Rauen-blacke And the King Thiclion of the selfe-same hue With Symagon in whom there was no lacke Of heart or skill his foe-men to pursue These Kingly Moores that Priam come to backe Next to the lofty Gyant sit in view Three thousand sunburnt knights that brauely fought From Aethiopia they to Phrygia brought 27 This State was full and lower one degree Another longer Bench runs crosse the Hall Where mixt with Priams valiant sonnes you see More of these leagued Kings in order fall First of the ranke was Hector next him be Two potent Kings Thelemus hye and tall And young Archilochus a valiant Boy These with a thousand good Knights strengthen Troy 28 Paris next them and by his amorous side Two Princes raigning in Argrestes Land They brought twelue hundred Knights to see them tride Next these was Troylus plac'st on the left hand And Deiphebus full of warlike pride Mixt amongst these a King of great command Epistropus that beyond Scythia came Twixt Greece and Troy his valour to proclame 29 He brought a thousand Knights and a strange Beast Halfe horse halfe Man two perfect shapes deuided A Sagittary cal'd not dreaded least An expert Archer his strong shafts were guided With wondrous ayme and cunning which increast His dread among the Greekes at first derided Next great Epistropus rankt by their yeeres Sat Priams Bastard-sonnes next them his Peeres 30 Next them a Prince in Iewels rich and Gold That many Knights brought from Meander flood The barbarous Meones Duke Nastes told By whom vpon a costly foot-pace stood Tentumidas by some sirnam'd the Bold Now aged in his prime a Souldier good By him Prince Pindarus aduanct his head Next him Hyrtacides in Sestos bread 31 Adrastus Amphius Merops Princes three Are ranked then by whom Ennonius sits And Chronius vnder whom the Mysians bee Pylemen the next empty place well fits Prince o're the Paphlagonian Chiualry Pyrechmes next whose fiery Horses bits The Paeons manage Good Euphemes then Whom the Cicintans led all expert men 32 Ascanius and Dius who doth guide The Halizonians next in order fall Then Pyrous who his Thracian Souldiers tride And warlike Mnemon boldest of them all Pyleus and Hypothous them beside These the Pelasgians vnto battle cal Warlike Aeneas of the Noblest race Next whom the Lords and Barons take chiefe place 33 Anthenor with Polydamus his sonne The glistering Ladies keepe another State Aboue them all Priams hye throne begun To lift it selfe where he in glory sate Benches of Dukes and Earles from all sides run Apparel'd in rich Robes of greatest rate Thus was the King prepar'd when the two Greekes Presse forward to his throne with blushlesse Cheekes 34 At their approach the Lords amazed rise And at their bold intrusion musing stand Vpon these two the Kings fix all their eyes Prepar'd for some strange Nouell when his hand Vlisses wafts for silence and applyes His speech to Priam thus Hee whose command Rauisht from Sparta great Atrides wife Forfeits to Greece his Country Crowne and Life 35 If thou beest he whom all these Lords adore I summon thee in Agamemnons name Backe to her Lord Queene Hellen to restore With full amends done to the rauisht Dame And to present thy lustfull sonne before The bench of Argiue Kings t' abide such shame That he in after times to our successors Be made a terror to the like Transgressors 36 Else shall th' inraged Princes spoile thy Townes Thy Matrons in their husbands armes defloure Slaughter thy Sonnes and bury their renownes And with thy peoples blood the channels scoure Of these confederate Kings ceaze all the Crownes When death that swallowes them must thee deuoure Say wilt thou to preuent this and much more Punnish thy sonne and Hellen backe restore 37 To this th' incensed King replies againe Th'vnable Greekes alas are much too weake Wanting the power thy proud vants to maintaine Or to make good what thou doost rashly speake They rauisht our faire Sister whom in vaine We re-demanded her despights to wreake Our Sonne the amorous Paris crost the deepe To fetch thence Hellen whom the Boy shall keepe 38 Haue they not slaine our Father spoyld our Citty Pillag'd our people wiues nor Matrons spared Eucn Babes and Infants mangled without pitty And in their barbarous rigor all things dared Then in faire Hellens rape what wrong commit I Since not the least of these Greece hath repair'd Since whilst our Sister leads a Strumpets life Hellen is grac'st to be young Paris wife 39 You shall repent King Diomed replies This insolence which we will punish deerely By vs the Generall of the Greekes defies Priam and Troy whom wee 'l chastice seuerely Vnto whose ruines seauenty Princes rise Whose forces shall begirt you late and earely These words promist the Troians so disdaine them That many drew their Faulchions to haue slain them 40 But euer Honoured Hector qualified The sudden vprore and appeas'd the brall Their passage by the multitude denide Hector makes free and Vshers them through all Yet many proud braues past on either side Twixt the strange Kings and them i' th Pallace Hall At their departure casting vp his eye King Diomed by chance doth Cresseid spy 41 As she with Hecuba and Hectors wife Creusa and Pollixena was plac'st Him thought he neuer saw in all his life A Lady better form'd or Sweet-lyer grac'st His mutinous thoughts are in themselues at strife To see a face so faire an eye so cha'st Beauty so full of charme with which inchanted He craues her name by whom he seemes so danted 42 When vp starts netled Troylus and thus sayes Her name is beautious Cressid whom you seeke And Troylus Mistresse to whose heauenly praise My soule hath bin deuoted many a Weeke And if thou aym'st my graces thence to raise I challenge thee the combat valiant Greeke He would accept it but he needs must part His body goes he leaues behind his hart 43 The dantlesse Troians now prepare for warre Whilst to th'incamped hoast the Legat Kings Relate King Priams answere and how farre He stands from peace the Grand-Duke now begins Like a good Captaine to foresee what barre May lie twixt him and safety with swift wings Achilles is dispatcht to crosse the Scas With Telephus the sonne of Hercules 44 Because
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
Coward tast confusion all The Sun looks pale heauen red the green earth blusht To see their bones beneath his Chariot crusht 83 Whos 's valour Thesus seeing nobly spake Great Hector I admire thee though my Foe Thou art too bold why dost thou vndertake Things beyond man to seeke thine ouerthrow I see thee breathlesse wherefore dost thou make So little of thy worth to perish so Fond man retyre thee and recouer breath And being thy selfe pursue the workes of death 84 Prince Hector his debility now finding Thankes royall Thesus and begins to pawse And bout the field with his swift coursers winding Vnto a place remote himselfe withdrawes Meane time King Menelaus the battaile minding Wan in the dangerous conflict much applawse Heere Celidonius valiant Moles slew Moles that his discent from Oreb drew 85 By Mandon King Cedonius lost an eye A Graecian Admirall Sadellus kils And Aix Telamonius doth defie Prince Margareton King Menestheus spils The Galles red blood Prothenor low doth lie By Samuels Speare renowned Hector fils The field with wonder he his Carre forsakes And Milke white Galathee againe he takes 86 At his first entrance he espies his friend Polydamas by thirty souldiers led Amongst whom spurring they themselues defend But scarce one man hath power to guard his head Vnto their dayes great Hectors sword gaue end And freedome to Polydamas nye dead With shame and wrath next to the battell came King Thoas to redeeme the Argiues Fame 87 With him the King Philotas who adrest Themselues gainst two of Priams Bastard Sonnes Young Cassilanus puts his Speare in rest And with great fury against Thoas ronnes He brake his staffe but Thoas sped the best As to their bold encounter Hector comes He sees his young halfe-brother he held deare Through-pierst alas by Thoas fatall Speare 88 Hye-stomackt Hector with this obiect mad hurries through the thicke prease and there had slaine Whole thousands for the death of that young Lad But his red wrath King Nestor did restraine For with six thousand Knights in armor clad he fortifies the late forsaken plaine Gainst whom marcht Philon of the part of Troy Their battailes ioyne each other they destroy 89 Polydamus and Hector taking part With Philon aged-Nestor growes too weake For Cassilanus death the Greekes must smart They through their flankes wings rankes and squadrons breake When Aiax Telamon spide what huge wreake The Troian Worthy made his men take hart And with King Menelaus them dispose To rescue Nestor and assault their Foes 90 Gainst them Aeneas with the hoast arriues And ioynes with Hector on the Argiue side Philoatas with three thousand souldiers striues all proued Greekes whose valors had bin tride Aeneas and great Aiax gage their liues To equall conflict whom their troopes deuide Philoatas on great Hector thinkes to proue him In vaine he from his saddle cannot moue him 91 But him the Woorthy stounded with a blow A flatling blow that on his Beauer glancst Vlisses and Humerus next in row With twice fiue thousands Knights on Hector chancst But Paris hapned with as many moe On Hectors part where numbers lye intrancst Paris a keene shaft from his Quiner drew Whose fatall point the King of Cipresse slew 92 This Ciprian Kinsman to Vlisses was In whose reuenge the Ithacan defies Prince Paris who in Arch'ry did surpasse These two in field against each other rise And with their mutuall blood they staine the grasse But parted by the tumult they deuise On further massacre neere to this place Troylus Vlisses meets and wounds his face 93 Nor scapt the Troian wound-free in this stower Was Galathee beneath Prince Hector slaine And he on foot the Greekes with all their power Begirt him and assault the Prince amaine But he whose fame aboue the Clouds must lower From all their battering strokes still guards his braine Till Dynadorus Priams Bastard son Against well-mounted Polixemus ron 94 A strong Barb'd horse the Noble Greeke bestrid a Worthier Maister now the steed must haue The Bastard youth gainst Polixemus rid Vnhorst him and his Steed to Hector gaue Who mounted farre more deeds of Honor did Leauing the Greekes most Coarses to ingraue a troope of Archers Deiphebus brings Who expell the Greekes with arrowes darts and slings 95 At the first shocke the Prince King Theuter hit and carâ—…'d a deepe wound on his armed face The well steel'd point his sword-proofe Beauer split and now th' assaulted Greekes are all in chace Some saue themselues by swiftnesse some by wit Young Quinteline of Priams Bastard race and King Moderus haue surpriz'd by force Thesus and spoyl'd him both of armes and horse 96 Whom when the Dardan-Worthy saw surpriz d He cals to mind the cur'sie to him done By whom nye breathlesse he was well aduis'd The future eminence of warre to shunne King Thesus whom his Victors much despis'd Hector releast and by the glorious Sunne Sweares not to leaue him till he see him sent With safe conduct vnto his warlike Tent. 97 Here Thoas by whom Cafsilanâ—… fell Is by great Hector beaten from his Steed Who razing of his Helme to send to hell A soule he so much hated was soone freed By Menesteus who makes on Pell-Mell With a huge hoast and rescues with all speed Th' astonisht King not long the day he tride Till Paris with an arrow pierst his side 98 Humerus glaunst a Iauelin through the sight Of Hectors Beauer that it racst the skin Th' inraged Prince on proud Humerus light And with one stroke he cleft him to the chin Proceeding on hee still pursues the fight The Grecians loose and now the Troians win They beate them to their Tents where some inquire For pillage whilst the rest the Nauy fite 99 In this pursute Hector and Aiax meete Who after interchange of hostile blowes Part on eeuen tearmes and with kind language greet For the two kinsmen now each other knowes Aiax intreats the Prince to spare theyr Fleet And saue theyrtents whose flame to heauen-ward grows Which courteous Hector sweares to vndertake For Aiax and his Aunt Hesiones sake 100 Oh Il-stard Hector Thou hast ouerseene A Victory thou canst not reach to more Hadst thou to him inexorable beene Thou hadst sau'd Troy and freed the Dardan Shore Duke Aiax prayet hath wrought Troyes fatall teene And hath the power lost Grecia to restore Oh hadst thou tane the aduantage of this day all Greece had perisht that now liues for aye 101 But there 's a Fate in all things Hector blowes His wel-knowne horne his Souldiers all retreat The Greekes to quench theyr Fleet themselues dispose and re-instaure their tents whose spoile was great The next day from the campe to Priam goes A Herald to surcease all hostile heat Demanding truce till they the dead haue grounded And both of Campe and Citty cur'd the wounded 102 T is granted from the Towne with Coffins com Pale widdowes winpled in their mourning weeds To fetch their husbands coarses cold and nom To
is figured in his face And in his lookes the eye of Gorgons burnes The Greekes blunt sword can scarce his Helmet race So weake a foe inflamed Hector scornes Vpon his Crest his Faulchion he lets fall And cleaues the Greeke helme body armes and all 59 The emulous son of Thetis crost by chance The blacke goar'd field and came to view this blow And mad in mind against him charg'd his Lance In hope the towring Prince to ouerthrow Him Thoas seconds and doth proudly'aduance His reeking sword late crimson'd in the foe Both with remorflesse blowes the Prince offend And his bruisd Shield about his arme they bend 60 Had not his helmet beene of mettall pure With Axes they had hewed it from his head But he that made it was an Arts-man sure Else had his braines bin on his harnesse spread Nor had he long bin able to indure Such tedious battry had not Fortune led Paris Aeneas Troylus and the rest To rescue valiant Hector thus opprest 61 At their approch the Achive bands retire Whom to their Pallisadoes they pursue By this in heauen ten thousand Lampes of fire Shine through the ayre and now both Hoasts withdrew The re-assembled Greekes Hector admire And mongst themselues into sad counsell grew Since not by force of Armes by what sly traine The neuer-daunted Worthy may be slaine 62 More honoured Hector in his royall braine Reuolues on milder thoughts how bloud to saue It pitties him to see so many slaine And come to such a generall timelesse graue Then that no more red bloud may Symois staine And change the coulour of her siluer waue He by a generall challenge will deuise For thousands safeties one to Sacrifice 63 Against all Greece hee 'l flyng his hostile gage And to a single Fight their Princes dare That two bolde Champions may the combat wage And in their mutuall Fury thousands spare Meane time blacke night from th' vniuersall Stage Of Earth is cha'st and driuen Now all prepare For th' early Field and with Apollo rise To shine in Armour by his rhadiant eies 64 The Princes to the place where Hector lay Throng in theyr Armes and his command attend After they had tooke and giuen the time of day with him they to the aged King descend Before whom Hector briefly doth display his purpost challenge which they all commend For well his Father and his Brothers know Hector hath power t' incounter any foe 65 The Sunne vp the steepe Easterne hils clymes fast Th'embattaild Greekes vpon the plaines appeare To them the faire-rankt Troians march in hast Within the reach of Hectors armed speare Both Hoasts attend the charge when vnagast The Prince first wafts that all the Campemay may heare Then leaning on his Iauelin makes this boast Euen in the face of their assembled hoast 66 You curled Greekes that haue vnpeopled quite Threescore vast Kingdomes of theyr ablest men To throng our fieldes with numbers infinite All hopelesse of theyr safe returne agen Among these sixty Kings that shine so bright In burnisht Steele vpon this sanguine Fen Can you select one boulder then the rest T' encounter armed Hector Creast to Creast 67 Or if your Princes be too weake a number Can all those threescore Climats yeild one hand Amidst this world that coms our Realme to cumber That dares betweene these hoasts gainst Hector stand Or doe you all feare deaths eternall slumber As well your Kinges as those of common band That with a braue breath'd in so many eares No soule more valiant then the rest appeares 68 If any of these Princes proue so free His prodigall life against ours to ingage Know by exposing his whole thousands be Sau'd from the spoyle of warres infernall rage Oh let me then that thrifty Champion see That will spare Graecian blood with him â—…wage wage Equall contention with my liues expence I will maintaine the Troians eminence 69 A Prince shall meet that Prince as neere allide To thundering Ihoue as he that 's best degreed If in his warlike Chariot he will ride I in my Chariot will conâ—…tont his speed March me these foure white Coursers Greece hath tride These faire Andromache doth mornely feed With her white hand with bread of purest wheat And waters them with Wine still when they eat 70 Xanthus Podargus Lampus Aethon deare To Hector you my armed Coach shall draw And in this fierce exposure shall appeare Before the best Steeds that the Sun ere saw But all Greece cannot match your swift Carrere Not Diomedes Steeds that fed on râ—…w And mangled limbes that in their Mangers bleed Can equall you in courage or in speed 71 Therefore I le cease that oddes and once againe Leauing the Kings to common men I turne Among such clusters growing on this plaine In no warme brest doth so much valor burne But shall so many shewers of blood still raine On Symois banke so many widdowes mourne For their slaine Lords so many Children cry For their poore Fathers that heere slaughtred die 72 If not for Loue of honour in despaire Methinkes some one our puissance should accost For noâ—… two soules that heere assembled are Shall scape the â—…y of our Troian hoast Death and deuouring ruin shall not spare One of your infinites you are ingrost All on destructions File then let some Greeke Despairing life a death with honor seeke 73 Yeilds our besieged Towne a Nobler spirit Then sixty assembled Kingdomes can produce That none dares enterpose his hostile merit But all put off this combat with excuse Among such infinites will none inherit A name with vs Feares Greece our hand shall sluce Their Vniuersall blood That feare can slaue So many Legions with one Hectors braue 74 I beg it of you Greekes let some forth stand To try what puissancelyes in Hectors sword If I be foyl'd by his all-daring hand The Spartan Hellen shall be soone restord And all the spoyles brought from the fertile Land Of Cythara made good and he ador'd With these ennobled armes the sword and crest Of Hector Honors more then all the rest 75 If I subdue your Champion Greece in peace Shall ease our burden'd earth of this huge weight Hostility betweene our hoasts shall cease You with your men and armes your ships shall freight And from our bloud-stain'd soyle free this large prease So shall illustrate Hector reach his height When th' Vniuersall world hath vnderstood Hector gag'd his to saue his Citties blood 76 Oh let it not in after times be saide Twice thirty kingdomes could not one man finde Prince Knight or Swaine durst equally inuade A Troian Prince in Armes and height of mind Nor let succeeding time the Greekes vpbraide To heare such lofty spirits so soone declinde Behold heere stand I to abide the rage Of his arm'd hand that dares but touch our gage 77 These words thus breath'd a generall showt is giuen Through al the Trâ—…n army which aspires And strikes against the Marble floores of heauen Where fixed are
who had neuer seene Achilles but on Horse-backe arm'd before Eyes him with pleasure and forgets all spleene And Thetis sonne that but in blood and gore Stain'd and besmear'd had neuer Hector seene Freely surueighs his shape his robes he wore His brawny Limbes broad bulk his face and stature Nor can he but applaud the pride of nature 12 To whom Achilles thus Hector I see A presence I could Loue but his Fame hate T is thy renowne alone doth blemish me And makes me in these warres vnfortunate I neuer yet dropt blood but drain'd by thee For which my teene is growne inueterate Nor could I rellish pleasure but still trusting To end thy dayes by sword-fight or by iusting 13 To him the Heroë mildly thus replies Aeacides pursues a double wrong That comes from Greece our Citty to surprise And race our wals that we haue builded strong Your Loues we hold deere but your hates despise As opposites that dare not front vs long If more thou wouldst To armes referre the rest Sit for th' art welcome freely tast our feast 14 Priam and Agamemnon take chiefe place The rest are rankt vnto their states or fames Troylus and Diomed sit face to face and gin to brall for Diomedes blames Troylus and Troylus him to his disgrace The iarres appeas'd for see the fairest Dames Of the best bloods of Troy richly attired Bring in the Queene whose state the Greekes admired 15 Hellen Troyes Fire-brand sat at this hye feast Nor did she blush to see her husband there Him Paris thinkes a bold vnwelcome guest and that to Hellen he was plac'st too neere Alone he tasts no dainties mongst the rest Her very sight hath cloyd him without cheare On Hecuba faire Pollixene attended Whose beauty great Achilles most commended 16 Now the reuolted Calâ—…has free time found Gainst Troian louely Cresseid to perswade With Arguments and words so firme and sound The Troian now no more may Court the Maid King Diomed must henceforth be the ground Of all her passionate Loue she can be staid In Troy no longer though she wisht it rather Shee 's but a Child and must obey her Father 17 Whilst all the Kingly Leaders had lowd chat Of Chiualty hye Bloods and deeds of warre And as their humors led of this or that Of many a bleeding wound and grisly skarre Whilst some spake much and some sat mute thereat Achilles eye fixt on a brighter starre Then any shines fixt mongst the heauenly fires The rarest Pollixene alone admires 18 He neither can dilate of Noble deeds Nor enter-change discourse of slaughtered Kings What comes of peace or what of warre proceeds What profit rest what hurt inuasion brings His new dissolued heart within him bleeds And from his Rocky brest a Fountaine springs Of passion onely by her sight ingendred In place of which old hate is quite surrendred 19 It now repents him he hath lift a blade Against the Syre that such a childe hath bred Or to the place that foster'd that sweetmaide His bloody Myrmidons to battaile led Or that his dreadfull hand did once inuade Her Brother for whose Loue hee 's well-nye dead To gaine whose beauty he could find in hart Greece to renounce and take the Troians part 20 Queene Hecuba obserues Achilles passion Thinking to make it vse-full to her good That the most strong of all the Argiue Nation Shall for her daughters sake spare Troian blood By this the feast and Royall preparation Breakes vp the Kings that on their honors stood With bounteous thanks take leaue bent on the morrow This Truce-full ioy to mix with hostile sorrow 21 The selfe-same night by Hecubaes aduice Vnto Achilles Tent faire Paris sends Offring his Sisters loue held at hye price Mixt with the aged Queenes most kind commends With courteous words the bold Greeke they intice To leaue the siege which Thetis sonne intends Her nuptiall bed being promist with much ioy Answer 's return'd hee 'l warre no more gainst Troy 22 Now while he rests him in his Idle Tent And to his amorous Harpe Loue-Ditties sings Both Armies sundry Stratagems inuent Great Hector to the field his puissance brings Vpon the plaine appeares incontinent A gallant hoast led by th'incamped Kings Warres Musicke sounds Mars trots vpon his Steed Ore thousand mangled sides that freshly bleed 23 Sometime the Troian Leaders with their powers Euen to their Pallisadoes beat the Foe Whence being repulst the camp the Champion scowers And fore Troyes gates their purple Launces grow Whom th'yssue from the Citty soone deuoures Againe the Greeke sustaines great ouerthrow Againe relieu'd the Troian powers they face Whom to their Tents againe the Dardans chace 24 Full thirty daies together Fortune striues To make their Conquest doubtfull in which time Vnnumbred Knights on both parts lost their liues Some in their waine of yeares some in their prime Some slaine out-right some captiu'd put in Gyues Some loose their Fame and some to honors clime Amongst whom Hector in the first ranke stands For deeds of name wrought by his warlike hands 25 Though farre-fear'd Aiax did hye workes of Fame And blacke-hair'd Agamemnon boldly fought Though strong-limb'd Diomed his worth proclame By Martiall Acts midst fields of slaughter wrought Though Nestor oft-times to the battaile came And to his strength and age for honour sought Though Menelaus oft in field was seene Vlisses too more full of guile then spleene 26 Though these and more among themselues contended With aemulation to atchieue most praise Yet when great Hector to the field discended Back't by his Brothers their swift current stayes Aboue them all his glorious worth extended The Greekes grow warre-tyr'd after thirty dayes And beaten to their Trenches much decayd They ioyntly flocke t'implore Achilles ayd 27 Who with his Myrmidons from field abstaines In hope to gaine the fairest Dame aliue Still through the fields remorselesse slaughter raines The Greekes beyond their Parapets they driue Still they intreat he still their words disdaines Within the Campes skirts he may heare them striue Yet all this notwithstanding he seemes loath To Arme himselfe against a sacred oath 28 But when he saw the wounded souldiers run Their bleeding heads amongst the Tents to hide Heard by their swords so many slaughters done Beheld some mangled that before him dide Found how the foe their Campe had well nye won Perceiu'd the fire burne bright on euery side Himselfe surcharg'd with Flames in his tent sweating And all the princes by his bed intreating 29 He then relents and at their faire request Hee 'l keepe his oath and yet affoord them ayde For now the man whom he esteemed best He whom alone his bosome friend he made Patroclus don's his armes his shield his Crest And to his thigh girts his victorious blade And with three hundred Myrmidons attended He yssues where the Campe was least defended 30 At his appearance when those armes were seene So well among the Troians knowne and feared They
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
life and Crowne Could the prince Henry lesse his sorrowes hide Then Hectors Brothers who still guard the Towne The vniuersall Citty doffes her pride The King himselfe puts on a Mourners gowne The Queene and Ladies with their leagued Kings Bury with him their best and costliest things 6 So when from Rome great Tully was exild Full twenty thousand Cittizens the best In garments Tragicke and in countenance wild For twelue sad Moones their loues to him profest But Troy euen from the Bed-rid to the Child From Crutch vnto the Cradle haue exprest A generall griefe in their lamenting cryes Lookes gestures habits mournefull harts and eyes 7 Now when the Fountaine of their teares grew dry And Men and Maâ—…ons him bewayld their fill With one Ioynt-voyce for iust reuenge they cry On him that did the Prince by Treason kill They lay their sad and Funerall Garments by The souldiets long to proue their Martiall skill And try their strengths vpon Scamander plaine Thinking themselues too long Inmut'd in vaine 8 T is Questionable whether greater woe In Troy then glee within the Campe abounded They hold themselues free from that late dread foe Who with his Steed had oft their trenches rounded And neuer but to th' Argiues ouerthrow appear'd in field or to the battaile sounded With shrill applause they proud Aehilles Crowne And with Brauadoes oft-times front the Towne 9 Thus when re-spirited Greece had Dominear'd and brau'd the fieged Troians at their gates Old Priam for his age now little fear'd With Troylus and the rest of warres debates For Hectors slaughter to them all indeer'd They vow reuenge on those hye Potentates That were spectators of the ruthlesse deed When Hectors coarse thrice round the wals did bleed 10 And yssuing with their power the aged King Puts acts in execution much aboue His age or strength he youthfully doth spring Vpon his Steed and for his Hectors loue Amongst the throng of Greekes dares any thing Himselfe gainst Diomed he longs to prone and scapes vntoucht then gainst Vlisses rides and still his age doth equipage their prides 11 Forthwith gainst Agamemnâ—… he contends and on his Beauer raught him many a blow Who like a souldier his renowne defends amazd that weake age should assacult him so The King his puissance further yet extends Against the Spartan King an equall foe Whom with his speare he did so ill inrreat Faire Hellens husband sits beside his seat 12 From them he further to the throng proceeds And deales about great Larges of grim wounds Admir'd alone for his renowned deeds Some with his sword vpon the Caske he stounds This day old Nestor by his Iauelin bleeds With many more and still the field he rounds Against old Priam not a Greeke dare stay Who soly claimes the honour of that day 13 Yet the meane time the King was in this broyle Bold Deiphebus kept the rest in fee With bloods and death whilst Paris made great spoyle Of such as in their valour seem'd most free Aeneas strongly mounted gaue the foyle Vnto th' Athenian Duke whose warlike knee Bended to him yet in an vpright hart Achilles in his rescue claimes a part 14 The King Epistropus amongst them fought So did Sarpedon gainst th'incamped Kings The stout Pelasgian strength they dreaded nought Now mongst their renged squadrons Treylus flings And on their foyl'd troopes much effusion wrought In him the life and spirit of Hector springs Twice he Achilles met and twice him feld Who all the other Kings of Greece exeld 15 A hundred thousand Troians were that day Led to the field to auenge Prince Hectors life Double their number on Scamander stay To entertaine them in their aemulous strife Duke Aiax Telamon then kept in play Troylus whilst murder through the field grew rife The sterne Polydamas did Nobly fight And was the death of many a gallant Knight 16 But Troylâ—…s that succeeds Hector in force In courage and in all good Thewes beside Whom ere he met that day did braueâ—… vnhorse Till his white Armour was with Crimson dide For Hectors sake his sword vsd no remorse His warre-steel'd spirits to slaughter he applyde No man that saw him his bright weapons weild But sware another Hector was in field 17 This day is Troyes and now repose they borrow From the still night to giue the wounded cure And such of note as dide t'intombe with sorrow They that 〈◊〉 themselues with armes assure And so prepare for battaile on the morrow Some to be siedge the rest the siedge t' indure Or if they can to their eternall praise The forren Legions from their Trenches raise 18 Six Moones gaue nightly rest to th'Hostile paines Ofiust so many dayes for full so long Troy without respight the proud Campe constraines Howerly to proue whose puissance is most strong Blood-drops by Plannets on Scamander â—…nes Horrid destruction flyes the Greekes among Troylus still held the Noblest Armes professor And Hectors equall though his late successor 19 T'omit a thousand Combats and Contentions Hostile Encounters Oppositions braue Such as exceed all human apprehensions Where some win liuing honour some a graue With Stratagems and sundry rare inuentions The Towne to fortefie the Campe to saue And contrary to stretch all human reach The Hoast t'indamage and the Towne t' impeach 20 In all which Troylus wondrous Fame atchieued His sword and Armour were best knowne and feared Aboue the rest the Argiue Dukes he gricued By his sole valour were the Troians cheared In acting wonders scarce to be beleâ—…ud The life of Hector in his blood appeared Priam and Troy now thinke themselues secure So long as Troylus mongst them may indure 21 Achilles by his valour mated oft And as he thinkes much blemisht in renowne To see anothers valor soare aloft But his owne bruitfull fame still sinking downe His downy bed to him appeares vnsoft He takes no pleasure in his regall Crowne The best delights to him are harsh and sower Since in one arme rests a whole Citties power 22 The Greekes thinke Hector in this youth aliue To stop whose honors torrent they deuise For since by force of armes in vaine they striue To catch at that which soares aboue the skies They to the depth of all their Counsels diue How they by cunning may the Prince surprise Being well assur'd that whilst his honors grow In vaine they seeke Troyes fatall ouerthrow 23 The sonne of Theâ—…is feeles his armes yet sore By the rude stroakes that from his fury came His armour heere and there be sprinkt with gore Of his owne wounds that he is well-nye lame With often iustles and can no more Indure the vertue of his strength or Fame For since his brest 's in many places seard Hee 'l flye vnto the rescue of his guard 24 Since neyther the broad-brested Diomed Can in the course his rude incounter stay Since last when Telamon against him sped He was perforc'st to giue his fury way Since all those 〈◊〉 Agamemâ—…
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
strange Monsters breed One bore a Child that had the face of man and body of a Lyon th' other bred One with two bodies from the Girdle-sted 54 The Scotch King dying Issulesse contention In Scotland grew who should succeede the State The strife Edward atton'd and after mention Made of their Title which these Lords relate He arbitrates theyr fierce and hot dissention And to Iohn Balioll priz'd at hyest rate He giues the Crowne which pleased Scotland well Madock and Morgan now in Wales rebell 55 Edward thrice war'd gainst Scotland and preuayled The French Kings Sister Margaret tooke to Wife and to his Sonne the Princedome he entayled Of Wales proud Ottoman began great stufe With Christendome and many Townes assayled In him the Empire of the Turkes tooke life Pope Boniface the eyght suruiued than He first in Rome the Iubilee began 56 Creat Tamor Caâ—… gouernd Tartaria Albert the Empire France King Phillip guided Prince Ladislaus ruld Hungaria Clement the fift the seat of Rome deuided Transporting it to France which from that day Seauenty foure yeares continew'd vndecided Seraph th' Egiptian Souldan-ship supplide Edward the first in his Scotch garboiles dide 57 The second Edward him succeeds and raignes Full eighteene yeares a Prince of no renowne He ryots Lusts and wantonnesse maintaind Mongst priuate vnthrifts and his peeres put downe Henry the Emperour hauing brauely gaind Many great fields was with an yron Crowne at Milleine Crownd where he aduancst his name The Crutched Fryares first into England came 58 Peirs Gaueston twice banisht by the Peeres Was by the King recald Iohn Tamer rose In rebell armes destroyd by his owne feares Phillip the long their King the French-men chose The hauty Spencers triumpht many yeares Ouer the Nobles who themselues oppose against their pride the Spencers they exile Whom the loose King reuoked in small while 59 Twenty two Barons for the Spencers loue The King cut off the Sun six houres appeared Of sanguine hew his glorious brightnesse stroue with his red Maske which at the last he cleared Edward his force did twice gainst Scotland proue Both times the soyle with English blood besmeared The Queene and Prince the Spencers could not brook And like two exiles their owne Land forsooke 60 Sir Iohn of Henault Lands in the Queenes ayde And hy the Barons helpe the King pursued who after in strong Barkley Castle layde Sir Roger Mortimer a man indude With Pride and Tyrrany the King betrayde and with the Kings bloud 〈◊〉 Tower Imbrude Baldock the Spencers Minions to the King The Conquering Peeres vnto destruction bring 61 Edward King Edwards Sonne fifty yeares bore Englands rich Scepter Charles the French King dide Leauing no issue of the Royall store Therefore King Edward being next alyde Claymes France to which the Doncipeeres restore Phillip Valois and Edwards clayme deride Sir Roger Mortimer long graft boue reason By the Kings Mother was condemn'd of Treason 62 Edward the Blacke-Prince was at Woodstocke borne King Edward fought the fiâ—…ld cald Haldonne Hill In Scotland After some few dayes out-worne The King his clayme to France doth menace still Petrach the Laureat liu'd the French in scorne Foure hundred Sayle with armed Souldiers fill These Edward meetes at Siuce whom fame hath sounded Thirty three thousand of French t' haue slain drowned 63 The order of the Garter was first made Soone after was the famous Cressie field Don Petro by his Spanish Peeres betrayde Was to their violent fury forst to yeild Edward wan Callis Iohn next Phillip swayde In France and mena'st with his warlike Shield The braue Black-Prince at Poytieres battayle wonne The field the French King Prisoner and his Sonne 64 Melchella was now Souldan Amurath Emperor of Turky and with Conquest fought A persecutor of the Christian Fayth The French King-Iohn hauing his peace now bought at Sauoy dide and Charles the sixt next hath The Crowne of France Don-Peter ayde besought Who late exiled from the Crowne of Spaine Was by the Black-Prince repostest againe 65 The Duke of Laâ—…caster France ouer-run Vnfought withall Sir Robert Knowles likewise Marcht by the Citty Paris now begun Great Baiazeth among the Turkes to rise The braue blacke Prince from France where he had won So many Noble fields returning dyes The King himselfe as our best writers say Expird of Iune the two and twentith day 66 Richard the second sonne to the bold Prince Edward sit-namd the Blacke at yeares eleuen Began his rule whom many men conuince Of wanton ryot and a course vneuen Well tutor'd in 's minority but since He manag'd state too much neglecting heauen Gunnes were deuisd first by a Germaine Fryer France doth the Kingdome of Nauar desire 67 Queene â—…ane of Naples flourisht Bohemes King Vinceslaus was Almaine Emperor made Twixt Portugall and Castile discords spring Two Popes contend the Genowayes inuade The bold Venetians and to battaile bring Their Nauall powers both Ensignes flye displaid Iacke Straw dyes stabd in Smithfield by the care Of William Walworth at that time Lord Maior 68 A wondrous Earth-quake did whole England shake King Richard thâ—… Almaine Emperors daughter wiude The Turkes in Christendome great vprores make Iohn Galeazo in those dayes suruiu'd Duke Iohn of Gaunt doth a braue voyage take To conquer Spaine and in his purpose thriu'd The Barons of the Realme themselues with-drew And many of the King seducers slew 69 The Duke of Lancaster his daughter Kate Married to Henry Castiles eldess sonne His second daughter had the Queene-like state Of Portugall by which all warres were done The Turke in Hungary suppreft but late Seekes by his power all Gâ—…eece to ouer-ron Against Constantiâ—…opolis he layde at eyght-yeare siedge now Colleines Schoole was made 70 Robert of Scotland dying Iohn his heyre Succeedes next Richard Queene Anne beiug dead Espousd French Isabel then did prepare For Ireland where 's voyage slowly sped He put to death his Vncles for the care Of him and his Realmes safty sore misled Hereford and Norfolke Dukes the Combat clayme and both are banist in King Richards name 71 The Sâ—…ithian Tamberlaine the Turkes subdude and kept theyr Emperor in an Iron Cage Hereford against his sentence durst intrude Himselfe int'England and gainst Richard wage A threatned warre the Peeres Richard exclude From gouernment who in his strength of age Resignes his Crowne his Dignity and Fame To Henry Bullingbrooke fourth of that name 72 Gainst whom the Duke of Exeter Richards Brother The Dukes of Surry and Aumarle conspyre With Glocester who his hatred cannot smother And Salsbury all these his life conspyre and for it lost their lyues with many other Of the same faction seeking to aspyre Richard is slayne in Prison after showne Through London streets to haue his death wel known 73 Owen
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