Melancholy giuen we Saturnists doe call His Wife and Sister kissing ost her Nephewe and her Sonne For she his Aunt and Mother was with Vesta seeke to shunne The voted Fathers deadly doome to kill so sweete a Childe Their eyes and very soules abhorre who nothing so vnmilde Doe weeping kisse his laughing mouth in minde the Babe to saue Howbeit feare of Saturnes wroth contrary counsell gaue But when in haste the Babe his heart was sent for by and by So Saturne wild so Cybell must and Vesta not de 〈…〉 e It was a woe to heare their woe and death to see them die Vnhollowed wretch then Cybell sayd in wombe why did I beare This double Burthen happy Twins saue that my Twins they are So that my teeming with these throwes had ending well were I Or would I might not giue them life that liuing foorth with die Thy Scepter Saturne is not worth Perfourmance of thy vow Thy conscience doth a scruple holde that Gods nor men allow FroÌ„ Gods froÌ„ men from brutish beasts from nature nought doth grow But fosters what it bringeth soorth thou onely doest not so Thy Sonnes alone for slaughters serue and I mean while their mother Am Saturnes Wife lesse prowd of it then that he is my Brother Vnhappy Cybell borne to beare and therefore borne to woe And fruitlesse fertill to a man that soweth not to mow Now teares had drowned further speech till she as one bestrought Did crie that with a knife the Babe should to her bed be brought My selfe quoth she will be his death with whome my selfe will die For so may Sâ—turne saue and shunne his vow and destinie But Vesta countermaunds her charge yeat Saturnes will must stand For Ioue must die or they not liue A Damsell theare at hand Was then enforced to that charge Thrice toucht her knife his Skin But thrice his smiles did cause her teares she fourthly did beginne And fourthly ended as before Betide me death or life Liue still at least for me she sayd and casting downe the knife She kist that sweete and prety mouth that laughed on her lippes And brings him back to Cybels bed Her heart reuiued skippes Reuiewing life where reckned death had wrought repentant teares The Father fronted with a guile at length the Damsell beares The Infant vnto Oson Towne and in her Ladies name Intreates Melissus Daughters twayne to nourish vp the same Vp to a Mountaine beare they him and in a secret Caue A Mountaine Goat did giue him milke and so his life they saue His Nouâ—ses sounding Simbals once to drowne the Infants crie A many Bees the Muses birds into the Caue did flie Where making Honie Saturnes Sonne did long time liue thereby CHAP. III. IT doth remayne of Iupiter as how but then a Lad From Epire to Pelasgis him the Lordes Epyrote had To fetch their pledge Lycaon held when times of truce had ende Lycaon fayning to consent that did not so intend Next day as though he would dismisse the Legates with estate Did make to them a solemne feast when hauing slaine of late The noble pledge he brings his limmes and setteth them before His Countreymen to feede vpon in saused dishes store The Strangers and his Subiects too abhorring such a sight Sit gazing each in others face bereft of speech and sprite Vntill that lustie Iupiter a stripling to beholde Did take the limmes dismembred so and with a courage bolde Did shew them throw Pelasgis streetes declaring by the way The murther of their bloodie King which did so much dismay The Citizens that euen they detesting such vnright Did rise in armes against their King where youthfull Ioue did fight So valiantly that by his force Lycaon tooke his flight And after did by Robberies by blood and Rapines liue For which to him a Wooluish shape the Poets aptly giue IN Epyre and Pelasgâ—s thus Ioue first his honour wonne But greater things vntouched are by this same Worthy donne And partly in the monstrous warre that Titan and his Crue Did holde with Saturne when by search of Issues males he knew The which his brother had aliue against their couenant made When Titan Victor fast in hold was vanquisht Saturne laide Together with his wife and friends where sorrow much they past Till Iupiter did vnderstand his parentage at last He therefore landing tooke in Crete with well prouided men And â—lew his Vncle Titan and the Giant Tiphon then With most part of the Titanoies and sets his Father free By meanes whereof they reconcile and well a while agree NOt brooking then Apollos fault in that he enteâ—tainde The reâ—naunt of the Titanoâ—es that after warres remainde Apâ—llâ— was by Iupiter inforced for to flie His kingdome Paphos and to liue exilde in Thessalie There loue but chiefly penurie constrained him to keepe Vntill he was restored home the King Admetus sheepe And for his Sonne disdainefully enuied Ioue his praise Ioue was the same Phisitions death that dead to life could raise Whos 's same grew thus As Aesculap an heardsman did espie That did with easie fight enforce a Basiliske to flie Albeit naturally that Beast doth murther with the eye Apollos Sonne perceiuing him with Garland on his head Imagins as it was indeede some hearb such vertue bred And for a proofe he caused him to cast the wreath away When strait the beast her onely eyes the silly man did slay Then Aesculap himselfe did take the wreath and puts it oâ— And by that meanes he ouercame the Basiliske anon In hearbs that deeper force is hid then Science may containe I finde sayd he and hearb by hearb into his mouth did straine That lay for dead an hearb at last reuiuing him agayne Henceforth men thought him more theÌ„ man wheÌ„ by his wondrous skill He rendred life to many like so winning great good will But as he waxed famous thus he famous waxed proud Disdayning all yea Ioue himselfe for Peere he disalowd Vntill that Saturns angry Sonne reueng'd his pride by death Correcting iustly each abuse as Rector on the Earth THe Sonnes renoune thus added grace vnto the Fathers name But shadowes waite on substances and enuie followes fame Euen Saturne pompous Saturne ridde by Iupiter of Foes And feare of Titan did renewe his supersticious woes As touching former Oracle and hastie sommons sent Throughout his Realme to muster men in purpose to preuent By death of Ioue his destinie The men of Crete repinde To put on armour to his ill whom they had found so kinde But will they nill they so they must for so their King assignd And Saturne with his armed troupes into Arcadia went Where Iupiter forewarned of his Fathers ill intent Intreated peace to him denide so that perforce he must Defend him from his froward Sire or rather foe vniust Theare might ye see King Saturne fight like to a Lion wood Whilest Iupiter did beare his blowes and spares his Fathers blood And him that foe-like would him sley he friendly did defend Desiring Saturne to
wretch in miserie alwaies Cease further prate said Hercules in troth it greeueth much To see a King in this Distresse but since thy life is such As neither in aduersitie nor prosperous estate Thou canst afford one iot of good I purpose to rebate Thy wicked dayes by worthy death prepare therefore to dye When Cacus sawe he must perforce so harde a combate trye He by inchanted flames againe endeuored to flye But Hercules deluded once by that deuise before Had learned now for being so deceiued any more And casting feare aside did leape into the flaming Caue And theare by Arte did conquer Arte. The Gyant then to saue Himselfe did take his Axe in hand wheare Hercules and he Couragiously bestirre themselues vntill they did agree To trye it out in open ayre So doubtfull was their fight That Lookers on could not discerne to whether best should light The frighted Ladies did their best to helpe their fighting friend But Hercules had victorie and Cacus had his end CHAP. XII FOr Gyants of Cremona slayne and Cacus ridded so The Latine Princes prayse on him and presents did bestoe Wheare Rome is now Pallantia then Euander hee did frame A temple and to Hercules did dedicate the same And he intreated thereunto in Italie did stay To honor whome did Princes come from farre and euerie waye King Faunus had affaires abroad when from Laurentum came His wife Marica Facua some this louely Queene doe name From liking did shee fall in loue with Hercules and he More readie to haue made demaunde then like to disagree Conceauing her by circumstance so coupled by contract That had King Faunus neuer liu'd Latinus had not lackt Yeat home came Faunus fathering his late Corriuals act But whether gotten lawfully or thus in loue forbod Latinus Brute his Gran-dames Syer was sonne vnto a God WHilst that in loue of this same Queene and lande of all besides The vanquisher of Vulcans sonne in Italie abides Of Calabries a mightie host King Picus he prouides And in reueng of Cacus swore his Slayer should be slaine But he ere long that so did sweare vnsweared it againe When chased home into his holdes theare sparred vp in gates The valiant Thebane all in vaine a following fight awaites Who for dispatch did fayne himselfe a Legate to the King And him the Porters as the same before their Tyrant bring Then shaking off his ciuil robes his shining Armes appeare And renting downe 〈◊〉 â—roâ— sparre both Prince and people feare Some ran to Armor other some did fight with him their last Both court and Cittie in the end did lay vpon him fast Theare Picus worthely did winne of valiantnesse a name Yeat Hercules more valiantly by death did Picus tame And to attend their King his ghoste he sendeth flocke by flocke His furie was as fier to Ferne his foes as waues to Rocke Nor did his Lyons Spoyle giue place to darting or to knocke Meane tyme his men assault without whil'st he assayles within Wheare fighting to beate downe the Gates he so the Goale did win Within the King his ransackt Court he Iole espyes Whose teares then mounting froÌ„ her hart dismount theÌ„ froÌ„ her eyes King Picus now a lifeles corse was Father of this Mayde In vaine therefore did Hercules her pensiuenesse disswayde Nor could he but lament her fate and loue so sweete a face Whose person also did containe the type of female grace At first she was so farre from loue she rather seem'd to hate Yeat could she not so giue the Checke but that she tooke the Mate Then eithers loue was eithers life poore Deianira she Was out of commons yea of thought an other had her fee. WIth this so faire and portly wench he sayled into Thrace And heares how Diomedes did tyrannize in that place No Straunger scapes vnraunsomed but Raunsome wanting then He casteth them as prouender to Horses eating men A Garde of Tyrants like himselfe attending on him still Who richly did maintaine themselues by such their doings ill The Scourge of such was moued not to be remoued now By Iole whose louing teares such labours disalow With Diomedes and his Garde in Forrest did he meete Who with their common Stratagem the Stranger thinke to greete Hands of commaunded Hercules for Horse I am no hay All Straungers Raunsom once for all my comming is to pay Which sayd himselfe against them all began a noble fray The sturdie Thracians mightie men did hardly loose their ground But than the King a mightier man not any wheare was found These all at once assayle and strike and thunder on his Sheeld But number fitted to his force vnwonted so to yeeld For with his club he skuffles then amongst their Curets so That speedie death was sweeter dole then to suruiue his blo Well mounted comes the King himselfe whom he dismounts anon But reseued to his Horse againe away he would be gon Lesse hasâ—e he sayd I Harts out-runne noâ— shalt thou me out-ride Out stripping so the man-feade horse he topled ore his side The Monstrous King that resculesse to flying people cride Who lying all to frusâ—hed thus the sonne of Ioue did bring His cruell Iades that soone deuoure their more than cruell King The Thracians all submit themselues and ioye their Tyrants death And thinke some God had left the Heauens to succour men on earth From such as what they would they will and what they will they can And what they can they dare and doe and doing none withstan Nor thought they better of the man then did his deedes approue That neuer was a Conqueror vnto his owne behoue But to establish vertuous men and Tyrants to remoue This common Soldiour of the world with Iole did land In Lycia and the earth in peace discharged theare his band Sweete busses not sharpe battels then did alter man and minde Till he as others sorrowe in securitie did finde From Assur went the Empire then when Tonos he had time To court his Trulles Arbaces so espying place to clyme Secure in Tomyris her flight was valiant Cyrus slaine From Capua not from Cannas grewe braue Hanibal his baine The same to whose victorious Sword a second world was sought That Macedon in court not Campe to traytrous end was brought A louer not a Soldiour went Achilles to his graue And Caesar not in steele but silke to Rome his farewel gaue Euen so this second vnto none superior vnto all To whome did sooner Causes cease then Conquests not befall This monster-Master Hercules this Tyrant-Tamer hee Whose high Exploytes did leaue the earth from spoyl spoylers free In pleasures did he perish now that did in perils thriue A greeuous Taske I vndertake his dying to reuiue CHAP. XIII WHen Deianira vnderstood her busbands back returne She thought it strange that he froÌ„ her so strangely did soiorne Explorers sent to search the cause returne was made that he Did loyter in a Strangers Loue and Iole was she That euer hanged at his lips and hugged
Lady Flood of Floods the Ryuer Thamis it Did seeme to Brute against the foe and with himselfe to fit Vpon whose fruitful bancks therefore whose bounds are chiefly said The want-les Counties Essex Kent Surrie and wealthie Glayde Of Hartfordshire for Citties store participating ayde Did Brute build vp his Troy-nouant inclosing it with wall Which Lud did after beautifie and Luds-towne it did call That now is London euermore to rightfull Princes trewe Yea Prince and people still to it as to their Storehouse drewe For plentie and for populous the like we no wheare vewe Howbe-it many neighbour townes as much ere now could say But place for people people place and all for sinne decay When Brute should dye thus to his Sonnes hee did the Isle conuay To Camber Wales to Albnact he Albanie did leaue To Locrine Brutaine whom his Queene of life did thus bereaue THe furious Hun that drowning theare to Humber left his name The King did vanquish and for spoyle vnto his Nauie came Where Humbars Daughter Parragon for beautie such a Dame As Loue himselfe could not but loue did Locrine so inflame That Guendoleyne the Cornish Duke his daughter Locrins Queene Grewe in contempt and Coryn dead his Change of Choyse was seene To Cornwall goes the wrothfull Queene to seaze her Fathers Land Frō whence she brought to worke reuenge of warriours stout a band And bids her husband battell and in battell is he slaine And for their Sonne in Nonage was she to his vse did raine The Lady Estrild Locrins Loue and Sabrin wondrous faire Her husbands and his Leimans impe she meaning not to spare Did bring vnto the water that the wenches name doth beare There binding both and bobbing them then trembling at her yre She sayd if Scythia could haue hild the wandring King thy Syre Then Brittish waters had not been to him deserued bayne But Estrild snout-fayre Estrild she was sparde forsooth to traine With whorish tricks a vicious King But neither of you twaine Thou stately Drab nor this thy Brat a bastard as thy selfe Shall liue in triumph of my wrong first mother and her Elfe Shall fish in Flood for Humbars soule and bring him newes to hell That Locrins wife on Locrins whore reuenged her so well They lifting vp their lillie hands from out their louely eyes Powre teares like Pearles wash those Cheekes where naught saue beautie lyes And seeking to excuse themselues mercie to obtaine With speeches good and praiers faire they speake and pray in vaine Queene Guendoleyne so bids and they into the Flood are cast Whereas amongst the drenching waues the Ladies breath their last As this his Grandame such appear'd Mempricius Madans sonne Whose brother Manlius traytrously by him to death was donne And since of noble Brute his line prodigious things I tell I skipping to the Tenth from him will shewe what then befell ABout a thirtie yeares and fiue did Leir rule this Land When doting on his Daughters three with them he fell in hand To tell how much they loued him The Eldest did esteeme Her life inferior to her loue so did the second deeme The yongest sayd her loue was such as did a childe behoue And that how much himselfe was worth so much she him did loue The formost two did please him well the yongest did not so Vpon the Prince of Albanie the First he did bestoe The Middle on the Cornish Prince their Dowrie was his Throne At his decease Cordellas part was very small or none Yeat for her forme and vertuous life a noble Gallian King Did her vn-dowed for his Queene into his Countrie bring Her Sisters sicke of Fathers health their husbands by consent Did ioyne in Armes from Leir so by force the Scepter went Yeat for they promise pentious large he rather was content In Albanie the quondam King at eldest Daughters Court Was setled scarce when she repines and lessens still his Port. His secōd Daughter thē he thought would shewe her selfe more kind To whom he going for a while did franke allowance finde Ere long abridging almost all she keepeth him so loe That of two bads for betters choyse he backe againe did goe But Gonorill at his returne not onely did attempt Her fathers death but openly did hold him in contempt His aged eyes powre out their teares when holding vp his hands He sayd O God who so thou art that my good hap withstands Prolong not life deferre not death my selfe I ouer-liue When those that owe to me their liues to me my death would giue Thou Towne whose walles rose of my welth stand euermore to tell Thy Founders fall and warne that none do fall as Leir fell Bid none affie in Friends for say his Children wrought his wracke Yea those that were to him most deare did lothe and let him lacke Cordella well Cordella sayd she loued as a Child But sweeter words we seeke than sooth and so are men beguild She onely rests vntryed yet but what may I expect From her to whom I nothing gaue when these doe me reiect Then dye nay trye the rule maye fayle and nature may ascend Nor are they euer surest friends on whom we most doe spend He ships himselfe to Gallia then but maketh knowne before Vnto Cordella his estate who rueth him so poore And kept his theare ariuall close till she prouided had To furnish him in euery want Of him her King was glad And nobly entertayned him the Queene with teares among Her duetie done conferreth with her father of his wrong Such duetie bountie kindnes and increasing loue he found In that his Daughter and her Lord that sorrowes more abound For his vnkindly vsing her then for the others crime And King-like thus in Agamps Court did Leir dwell till time The noble King his Sonne-in-lawe transports an Armie greate Of forcie Gawles possessing him of dispossessed Seate To whom Cordella did succeede not raigning long in queate Not how her Nephewes warre on her and one of thē slew th' other Shall followe but I will disclose a most tyrannous mother CHAP. XV. GOrbodugs double Issue now when eighteene Kings were past Hild ioyntly Empyre in this land till Porrex at the last Not tyed so by brotherhood but that he did disdaine A fellowe King for neuer can one Kingdome brooke of twaine Did leuie secrete bands for dread whereof did Ferrex flye And out of Gallia bringeth Warre in which himselfe did dye Then Porrex only raigned heere and ruled all in peace Till Iden mother Queene to both her furie did increase So fearcely as she seekes reuenge euen in the highest degree Why liueth this quoth she a King in graue why lyeth he Dye Iden dye nay dye thou wretch that me a wretch hast made His ghost whose life stood in thy light commaundeth me of ayde Nor want I Ferrex will to ayde for why the Gods I see Deferre reuenge nor with a Deuill the Deuils disagree The heauens me thinks with thūderbolts should presse his soule to hell
Vpstarts and all Were ouercome So Spencers both from heauen to hell did fal Put to a fowle and shamefull death with others that misled The King in Out-rages more great than earst in England bred Prolers Blood-thirstie Parasites Make-shifts Bawdes did thriue Nor was an ancient English Peere vnbanisht or aliue For forraine and domesticke Swords Plague Famine and Exile Did more than tythe yea tythe the Tythe of men within this I le Of Baldricks Hoodes Tabrides and Furres from Knights disgraded tore Attaintures of Nobilitie and Armes reuersed store So many Spurres hewen off the heeles and Swords broke ouer head Were through a King so light and lewd a Councell neuer read The King in prison and depos'd tyrannised he dide By Trecheries of Mortimer that ruld the Roste that tide Whilst Edward in Minoritie his Fathers throne supplide CHAP. XXVIII THIS third of that same Name as yet in Nonage for a time Although a King was vnder-kept by some that ouer-clime Queene mother proude Mortimer familiar more than should Did and vndid more than they might not lesse than as they would Till Edward better counselled hong Mortimer the death Of many a Peere who Earle of March and haughtie for his birth Was Lord of nine skore dubbed Knights his other traynes except For greater pompe than did his Prince this Lord of VVigmore kept But more he had bene happie though lesse hautie in his Halls More honour in humilitie than safetie in walls Proud Climers proue not monuments saue onely in their falls The senselesse pride of Fooles therefore whome reuerently we ride Should lessen at the least because that earth their earth shall hide The Countrie purg'd of Fleecers and of Flatterers the Court The King became a Mars for Armes a Iupiter for Port Th Olympâ—ds the Pythea and the prowesse of the Earth Did seeme euen now and not but now to haue in him their birth East South and North gaue ayme farrc off admiring so the West As if that Mars discarding them had set our Realme his Rest. Philip Valois Dauid Bruz of power and courage more Than any French or Scottish Kings since or of long before Confedrate with three other Kings and Princes farre and neere Warre all at once on Edward but did buy their warring deere Dauid debelled left his land but lastly did returne And whilst our King did war in France much did he spoyle burne And proud of mightie Troopes of men of vnresisted prayes And Edwards absence prosperously he on aduantage playes Vntill not sending hence for helpe the Queene did muster Knights And with the Foe though tripled-wise victoriously she fights The Scots for most did perish and their King was Prisner taine And Scotland wholly for a pray to England did remaine Meane while was Paris scarcely left to rescue Philips Goale Whom Edward ferrits so from hold to hold as Fox from hoale That Melancholie he deceast and valiant Iohn his sonne Was crowned King of France and then the wars afresh begonne But after many fieldes vnto the Foes continuall wracke The French King captiuated to the English Monarke backe His Victor sayles the Prince of VVales Edward surnamed blacke The flower of Chiualrie the feare of France and scourge of Spaine Wheare Peter dispossest of Crowne was crownde by him againe Fower yeeres the French eleuen yeres was the Scotch K. prisners heere Whose the Dolphines ransomes were as great as good their cheere PRince Edw. Iohn of Gaunt all their Fathers sonnes might boaste Of famous Sier and he of sonnes matchlesse in any Coaste Howbeit King and Prince at last misled by counsell ill Through Taxes lost a many hearts that bore them earst good will Thence finding Fortune contrary to that she was before Yeat either dying seaz'd of French and Scottish Conquests store Yea Callice late and Barwick yet of their Exployts is lest Though Sonne before the Sier and both of liues long since bereft When Barwick was besieged and stood brauely at defence Sir Alexander Seiton theare chiefe Captaine had pretence To linger forth the Siege till Scots should draw the English thence In rescue of Northumberland and therefore sent his sonne A Pledge of treated Truce and when the guile-got Truce was done And Barwick not releeued nor resigned as it ought Two sonnes of Seiton were before the walls besieged brought They ready for the Iybbet and their Father for his Graue For eyther he must yeeld the Towne or them he might not saue In griefe he then his Countries cause and Childrens case reuolues But partiall vnto either he on neither Choyce resolues To be a loyall Subiect and a louing Father too Behooued him but both to bee was not in him to doo Nature and honour wrought at once but Nature ouer-wrought And but his Ladie it preuents to yeeld the Towne he thought O what pretend you Sir quoth she is Barwick woorth no more Than error of such loue I ioy that I such Children bore Whom cruell Edward honoureth with such a cause of death For that especiall cause for which we all receaue our breath Euen for their Countries cause they dye whose liues for it be dewe Why see their faces constantly she did their faces viewe The same my Seiton seeme so farre from dreading any woe As if they skornde that Barwicke should redeeme them from the Foe Full deere they were to me vnborne at birth and borne and now And Mother like I moane their death and yet their death allow Moe Sonnes and such you may beget your honour if you staine Defected honour neuer more is to be got againe Preuent not then your selfe your Sonnes and me so great a blis Adiew dye sweet Sonnes your soules in heauen shall liue for this With such perswasions did she win her husband from the walls And Edward executes their Sonnes and to assault he falls So long that Barwicke yeelds at length and still vs master calls THese were the dayes when English armes had eu'rie where request And Edw. knights throughout the world had prick praise for best Not Knights alone but Prelates too Queenes whereof were twain The quondam in esse Queenes by Armour honour gain By Warre the Queene that was did cease her husbands tragicke Rayn And by the Queene then being was the Scotch King Prisnet tayne It followes then that as the Pawnce doth circkle with the Sonne So to the vice or vertue of the Prince are people wonne O that our Muse might euermore on such a Subiect ronne But Vulcan forgeth other Tooles and sharpneth deadlier swords For little els then ciuill warres our following Penne affords French Expeditions badly thriue whereof we cease to speake Not forraine but Domestick warres grew strong to make vs weake Melpomen here might racke her wits Sylla Marius hate Pharsalian Fields were gentle Frayes regarding this debate The second Richard sonne vnto the blacke Prince Edward dead Was crownde an Infant and from him the Stratagem was bread The bace attempts of Ball
A Supersedeas for her loue was euery new-come frend And being now in much request and waxing proud of fauour By artificiall pryde she chang'd her naturall behauour Her face was Maskt her locks were â—url'd her bodie pent with buske And which was needles she more sweet her rayment sented Muske By all she did might seeme to be vnlike her selfe she me 〈…〉 Yeat worst of all to sanctum-Sinne too aptly is she bent Erickmon when that followed her vnpitied not vâ—pearst Reform'd his wits his sute and hope of her not now as earst And scornd her mind that scornd his loue to her so firmly geason For whyâ—shee offred double wrong to wrong and scorne a reason Thus whilst he hopt he hild her least so altereth the caâ—e With such as she Ah such it is to build on such a face This sayd he and for this he sayd I for the ruth of this Did vowe that who so once were mine I would be onely his Why this concern'd not him nor shewd a maÌ„ distraught quoth he Nay heare the rest of his vnrest it followeth thus quoth shee Then sheading teares he to the Tree so spoken to would say Was not Gynetta false that did Erickmon so betray But hath my Mistresse cause to change what cause thinke you should moueâ— I fram'd me hers she fayn'd her mine my loue is euer loue May y e faire face proue one foule botch those shining eies proue bleard That sweete breath stench like proofe to all that faire or sweete appeard In her that wrongs her true-loue let her loathed euer lust Begge may she and vnpittied pine rot perish on the dust And dead be damned that vnto her true-loue is vniust Yee men say all Amen or if amend your selues ye must Curse not this Mad-man sayd but sweare that women be vntrew Their loue is but a Mummerie or as an Aprils dew Got with a toy gon with a toy gifts flattrie gawdes or wine Will make her checke flie to game lesse faire perhaps than thine More amorous than men and men conuay their loue lesse fine If such they are as such they are and will be whilst they be Why am I then so true of loue because not borne a she Witlackst thou then fond Foole I sigh to say true ayme you giue Wheare grew that lacke fond Foole I sigh to say wheare now I liue Whence grew that lacke fond Foole I sigh to say froÌ„ ioyes remou'd When grew that lacke fond Foole I sigh to say when first I lou'd And doest thou loue ah too too well I wot I loue indeede Why doest thou loue with lucke too ill I loue for louers meede Whome dosst thou loue ah too too well I wot a louely She. What time in loue with lucke too ill in loue too long for me Wit lackst thou then that wilfully doest erre and nourish it Wit doe I lacke not wilfully then blame not will but wit How shall I doe my Heart is lost and I am left in woe Met any man a poore tame Heart the Heart good Folke I owe Strucken maimed all of gore and drouping doth it goe A Lasse once fauour'd or at least did seeme to fauour it And fosterd vp my frollicke Heart with many a pleasing bit She lodg'd him neere her Bower whence he loued not to gad But waxed cranke for why no Heart a sweeter Layer had But whether that some other Deere estranged her or not Or that of course her game is Change my Heart lackt brouse I wot Despysd displeasde and quite disgrac'st my Heart euen to this day Dislodged wandring woe begon I wot not wheare doth stray But see ah see I see how Loue casts off Desire his Hound A fell fleet Dogge that hunts my Heart by parsee each-wheare found Sweet Cynthea rate the eger Curte and so thy foe preuent For loe a farre my chased Heart imboste and almost spent Thankes gentle Goddesse now the Lad pursues a bootles chace My Heart recouers Couert wheare the Hound cannot hold pace Now tappas closely silly Heart vnrowse not and so liue The Huntsmans-self is blinde the Hound at Losse doth ouer-giue But list alas Loues Beagles be vncoupeld Beautie praites And driues my Heart from out the thicks and at Receiâ— awaites Vaine-hope and either now falls in and now my Heart must dye Now haue they him at Bay and now in vayâ—e he fights to flye Auaunt Desire ha Curre auaunt the Bore so rase thy hyde Vnto the fall of my poore Heart see see how Loue doth ryde Hearke how he blowes his death ah see he now the Say doth take Of my poore Heart that neuer more for Loue shall pastime make Thus liu'd he till he left his life and for the ruth of this I vow'd that who so once were mine I would be only his Yeat sayd her Sutor he not she was punisht as may seeme Yes yes quoth she a Conscience prickt is deeply plagu'd I deeme Then Scotland warr'd on England and in that same waâ—re did end The Knight that had coryued so the Ladie lost each frend Oft saw I her in teares and oft I heard her to complayne For faith erst lost for losse now sound deuiding â—â—ghs in twayne There be that say if truely sayd vnbodied Soules haue walkt And of the Ghosts of these two Knights the like abroad was talkt Her eares had this and shee the heart that dared not her eyes For thether whence the brute did grow she feareles faultie hies Her Followers stood aloofe when she alone approaching sayd Beloued both what meanes this fight they seem'd as if they srayd Ah pardon me sweet First-belou'd my guile I graunt was great So is my griefe My latter Loue refraine let me intreate But whilst she spoke of deadly wounds they both did seeme to fall And after vanisht leauing her perplext in feare not small Who thenceforth fared as the Knight that did for her distraught Stil haunted of the Ghosts haunts y e place where they had faught Vntill of her despayring life her selfe the Period wraught Thus liu'd she till she left her life and for the ruth of this I vow'd that who so once were mine I would be onely his Tush this was but a Phantasie quoth he of subtill Feends Deluding her simplicitie in figure of her frends I heare not that they said or did aught taching her vntruth But foolish was her feare the like I censure of your ruth And shall I tell what they did tell and say what they did doe I will for so perhaps you will surcease quoth she to wowe The Ghost resembling him to whom she had disloyall bin Sayd I and This and thou be thus and shal be doom'd for sin For dotage in my loue for his deceitfull lust wetwaine Of freesh-sore wounds do hourely faint hurt heale heale hurt againe Nor can I vtter halfe we see and feare and suffer still Of endles Torments onely thou art Auctresse of such ill Who loue belou'd beleeue no life but wheare their loue doth
perish fewe disperse and all were out of harte Yea Brenn himselfe discouraged did change in euery parte He looking after and vpon the scattered and the slayne Did seeme a second Cadmus saue lesse patient of his payne And shaming to be seene to weepe deuoured sightles teares And in these words his heartie greefes did number to their Eares Sweet Soldiours leaue me to my selfe it likes me that ye leaue me More takes your tarriance frō my health than can these plagues bereaue me Each of these Masse of Corpses dead hath bin a death to me Deliuer then mine Eyes of you too many deathes I see Suruiue and tell the Westerne World what we exployted haue How that to Rome amidst her Roofe the mayden Sacke we gaue Tell of our Battels Booties and our Buildings lastly tell An honor to our Ouerthrowe that we at Delphos fell By wounds deuine no humane Armes But God who so thou be Lesse is thy courage than Commaund els would'st thou cope with me As Pluto with Alcides did and Mars sometimes with men Do me like honor and these Graues shall lightly greeue me then But thou full little darest so Nay I doe dare too much That with my so vnhallowed tongue thy Deitie dare touch Ah see these Slaughters and reserue aliue this small Remayne Let lastly me and only me eike number to the slayne But bootlesse on a ruthles God I see my prayers spent As haughtely doest thou reuenge as humbly I repent Well God of Delphos since our teares this Incense nor these Graues Appease thine yre persist to plague this flesh that henceforth craues No pitie to the Hebrewe God of power exceeding thyne Men say appeale I and bequeath the Soules of me and myne Accept my simple Legacie O Godhood most deuyne Sayd Brenn. And with a selfe-wrought wound did perish and his men Departing wonne and left the name to Gallo-Grecia then The righteous Gorboman might add fresh Subiect to our Muse But skipping to his Fathers Sonnes of them it thus ensewes FIue yeeres had Archigallo raign'd when hated doing wrong He was depriued of his Realme and liued vagrant long And fearing all that frended none kept close the Woods among Theare Elidurus hunting found his wretched Brother and They gasing each in others face with sighes and weepings stand A King as Elidurus is once was I thinkes his Brother A wretch as Archigallo is I may be thinkes the other The lowlie King alights anon and when they had imbrac'd Then Archigallo secretly in Ebranks Towne was plac'd In which the King commaunding so the Nobles did conuent To whom did Elidurus thus informe of his intent If Fortune had bin crosse my Lords to me or any feare Of Armor were approching vs I should perchaunce appeare Faint and false-hearted in my charge but euer lackt the one Nor hath the other likelihood for quietler ruleth none Yeat Kings may thinke their heads too weake their Dyademes to sustaine For endles cares concurre with Crownes a bitter sweete is Raine Howbeit Subiects falsely iudge their Princes blessed are When both of peace and perils they containe the common care And yeat for this they grudgingly from Pounds a Penny spare Not these my Lords make me disclaime in it which all pursue But Iustice bidds my Brothers right I should commend to you This one Request includes I knowe exceeding dangers twaine To me if for a priuate life I change a publique Rayne To you if whom ye haue depriu'd ye shall restore againe But for I haue done right no wrong though Iustice wants not foes And though vnto a Magistrate disgrading bringeth woes Yeat gainst the bad a conscience good may safe it selfe oppoes Nor be ye fearefull of reuenge that did no more than right Euen Archigallo will confesse his sinne and cleare your spight Whose restitution were he wrongd at least shall you acquite You hassard lesse re-kinging him then I vn-king'd to bee And Danger ouer-dares if it from Iustice disagree Then good my Lords doe right his wrong at least-wise doe him right Whose smarte no doubt hath wrought in him a reconciled spright Iust Gorboman his brotherhood succeeding in their Line Then Archigallo should be King to him let me resine So much the King did vrge this Text that Archigallo rayn'd And Elidurus willingly in priuate life remaynde The one restored for his late depriuing nothing mou'd The other wonders tell I now dis-crowned yeat belou'd Tenne yeares did Archigallo raigne beloued well and dyed And Elidurus once againe the Kingly Throne supplyed Vntill his Brothers secondly depose him of his raine But they deceasing thirdly he was crowned King againe And so vntill his Dying day with honor did remaine A many Kings whose good or bad no Wrighter hath displaide Did follow Lud and Hely for their stately buildings made Rest chiefly famous Nor forget King Bledgrabed I shall Whom Brutons did their Glee-god for his skill in Musicke call The next whose dayes gaue famous deedes Cassiuelan is sayde Whom Caius Iulius Caesar did with Armour thus inuade CHAP. XVII THis Conquerour of Gallia found his Victorie prolong'd By Brittish Succours and for it pretending to bee wrong'd Did send for Tribute threatning els to bring the Brutons Warre The latter going forward first the Albinests to barre A common foe concurre as friends and now was come the Spring When Caesar out of War-wonne France victorious Trowpes did bring But easlier wonne the Grecians land at Pargama by much Than got the Latines footing heere their Contraries were such Yee might haue seene of Hectors race then thousand Hectors heere With pollicie on either part the Romanes buying deere The bloodie Shore the water yeat lesse deerer than the land To them whom valiantlie to proofe the Ilanders withstand Ofte battell they the Brutons still victorious and in vaine Their foes were valiant onelie heere was Caesars force in waine And as our men vnto his men were as tempesteous Thunder So did his ankred Shippes on Seas by Tempest dash in sunder But twice quoth Caesar Fortune thou wert opposite to mine But thirdlie heere to Caesars selfe thou wontles dost decline Conuaying then his wearie men into his wasted Shippes To Gallia there to Winter them he miscontented slippes Of this same Victorie did spring securitie and strife The Scottes and Pichtes did sunder hence the Brutons ouer-rise In Largesse making frollike Cheere a quarrell then aroes Betwixt the King and Luds false Sonne and they dis-ioyne as foes That Caesar slippes Aduantage such were error to suppoes Euen of the Brutons some there were recalling backe the Foe And Winter past with doubled power he backe againe did roe The Romaines more the Brutons they farre fewer than before Offend defend fight for fence from to winne and warde the Shore But Caesar landed and ensew'd continuall cruell fight Thrice put the fierce Cassiuelanes the Caesarines to flight And still the King incouraging in euerie wing appeares So giuing needlesse spurres to fight his Souldiours brooke not feares Nor little did the Cornish
I might be ouer-seene He was victorious making one amongst the Worthies neene But with his pardon if I vouch his world of Kingdomes wonne I am no Poet and for lacke of pardon were vndonne His Scottish Irish Almaine French and Saxone Battelles got Yeeld fame sufficient these seeme true the rest I credite not But Bruton is my taske and to my taske I will retire Twelue times the Saxon Princes here against him did conspire And Arthur in twelue Battles great went vanquishor away Howbeit Saxon forces still amongst the Brutons stay This King to entertaine discourse and so to vnderstand What Accidents in after-times should happen in this Land He with the Brutish Prophet then of Sequelles fell in hand Of sixe long after-Kings the man not borne of humane seede Did Prophesie and many things that came to passe in deede Now Arthur chiefe of Chiualrie had set his Crowne at stay And to his Nephew Mordred did commit thereof the sway When with his Knights the wonders of the world for Martiall deeds Beyond the Scas in forren fights he luckely proceedes Till faithlesse Mordred cal'd him backe that forward went with fame For at his Vncles Diadem he traiterously did aime Twise Arthur wonne of him the field and thirdly slewe his Foe When deadly wounded he himselfe victorious died so INterred then with publique plaints and issules ensewes A drouping of the Brittish state the Saxon still subdewes Howbeit worthy Kings succeed but destiny withstood The auncient Scepter to iniure in Brutes succeeding blood Vnlou'd Careticus was he that lost the Goale at length Whenceforth in vaine to win their losse the Brutons vse their streÌ„gth Yea God that as it pleaseth him doth place or dispossesse When foes nor foiles nor any force their courage might suppresse Seem'd partiall in the Saxon Cause and with a Plague did crosse The Brutons that had els at least rebated from their losse For Cadwane and Cadwallyn and Cadwallader the last But not the least for valorous of Brittish Princes past Brought out of VVales such knightly wars as made their foes agast The Plague worse spoyler then the Wars left Cambre almost waste Which to auoid the remnant Brutes into their Ships did haste Cadwallader in leauing thus his natiue Shore he fixt His eyes from whence his bodie should and with his sighes he mixt His royall teares which giuing place he speaketh thus betwixt Sweet Brutaine for I yet must vse that sweet and ceasing name Adew thy King bids thee adew whose flight no weapons frame But God coÌ„maunds his wrath commandes al counter-maund is vaine Els for thy loue to die in thee were life to thy Remaine Thus tymes haue turnes thus Fortune still is flying to and fro What was not is what is shall cease some come and others goe So Brutaine thou of Nation and of name endurest change Now balking vs whome thou hast bread and brooking people strange Yeat if I shoot not past mine aime a world of time from me Part of our blood in highest pompe shall Englands glorie be And chieflie when vnto a first succeeds a second She. But leauing speeches ominous Cadwallader is woe That seeing death determines griefe he dies not on his foe Ah Fortune fayleth mightie ones and meaner doth aduance The mightiest Empier Rome hath change then Brutaine brooke thy chance Let it suffice thou wert before and after Rome in fame And to indure what God intends were sinne to count a shame Nor vaunt ye Saxons of our flight but if ye needs will vaunt Then vaunt of this that God displac'd whom you could neuer daunt This said the teares coÌ„trould his tong sailes wrought land froÌ„ sight When saue a Remnant small the Isle was rid of Brutons quight THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XX. THe Brutons thus departed hence Seauen Kingdomes here begonne Where diuerslie in diuers broyles the Saxons lost and wonne King Edel and King Adelbright in Diria iointly raigne In loyall concorde during life these Kingly friends remaine When A delbright should leaue his life to Edel thus he sayes By those same bondes of happie loue that held vs friends alwaies By our by-parted Crowne of which the Moyetie is mine By God to whome my soule must passe and so in time may thine I pray thee nay I coniure thee to nourish as thine owne Thy Neece my Daughter Argentile till she to age be growne And then as thou receiuest it resigne to her my Throne A promise had for this Bequest the Testator he dies But all that Edel vndertooke he afterward denies Yeat well he fosters for a time the Damsiell that was growne The fairest Lady vnder Heauen whose beautie being knowne A many Princes seeke her loue but none might her obtaine For grippell â—del to himselfe her Kingdome sought to gaine And for that cause from sight of such he did his Ward restraine By chance one Curan Sonne vnto a Prince in Danske did see The Maid with whom he fell in loue as much as one might bee Vnhappie Youth what should he doe his Saint was kept in Mewe Nor he nor any Noble-man admitted to her vewe One while in Melancholy fits he pines himselfe away Anon he thought by force of Armes to win her if he may And still against the Kings restraint did secretly inuay At length the high Controller Loue whom none may disobay Imbased him from Lordlines vnto a Kitchin Drudge That so at least of life or death she might become his Iudge Accesse so had to see and speake he did his loue bewray And tells his bearth her answer was she husbandles would stay Meane while the King did beat his braines his booty to atchieue Nor caring what became of her so he by her might thriue At last his resolution was some Pessant should her wiue And which was working to his wish he did obserue with ioye How Curan whom he thought a drudge scapt many an amorous toy The King perceiuing such his vaine promotes his Vassall still Least that the baseuesse of the man should let perhaps his will Assured therefore of his loue but not suspecting who The Louer was the King himselfe in his behalfe did wowe The Lady resolute from Loue vnkindly takes that he Should barre the Noble and vnto so base a Match agree And therefore shifting out of doores departed thence by stealth Preferring pouertie before a dangerous life in wealth When Curan heard of her escape the anguish in his hart Was more then much and after her from Court he did depart Forgetfull of himselfe his bearth his Country friends and all And onely minding whom he mist the Foundresse of his thrall Nor meanes he after to frequent or Court or stately Townes But solitarily to liue amongst the Country grownes A brace of yeeres he liued thus well pleased so to liue And Shepherd-like to feede a flocke himselfe did wholly giue So wasting loue by worke and want grewe almost to the Waene But then began a second Loue the worser of the twaene A
espies Doth seeme to haue a soule at least doth thriue by such surmies For what is it but reason that humaine from brutish tries But man or beast neither hath troth that this for true denies He hath enough that hath wherewith pure Nature to suffies In ouerplus an ouercharge for soule and body lies For Souldiors Lawyers Carrions Theeues or Casualties a Prize His comber-minde that liues with it and leaues it when he dies From whome to catch it scarce his heire staies closing of his eyes O wretched wealth which whoso wants no Fortune him enuies Here maiest thou feast thee with a Mad here no Pickethanke pries Into thy life nor words well spoke to ill vnmeant applies No Flatterer to vndermind no tongue no eare for lies No gleaning from the Orphant no oppressed widowes cries No bribes to giue no hands to take no quarrelling for flies No wronges to right no lawes to breake because no law that ties But what wee lust we doe nor doe nor lust badd enterprize And finde lesse want in Nature than wits-want in Arts disguize Nor any heere in force in friends fraud wealth or wit affies O doe thou not so rich so safe and iust life despies Theare lacketh not of noble Births to star the courtly skies Theare be enowe Politians thou maiest for thy Soule be wise Then leaue thou matters of estate to States I thee aduise And rather sit thou safely still than for a fall to rise Not for shee was my Elder or mine Eame but for the place I hild my peace that would haue sayd her Moolships minde was bace But she perceiues me to dissent and saieth Cosen Mouse Doe as you like you shall not finde a prison of my house Stay while you will goe when you will come returne at pleasure And euer welcome Vertue is an vncompelled Treasure This past thence passe we through deepe darke waies saue here theare The vaines of gould and pretious stones made light in darke appeare Vaste Vaults as large as Iles we passe great Riuers theare did flow Huge wormes Mōsters there I saw which none on earth do know On goe we till I saw a glimps and she heard noise of flame Then said shee praiers bidding me to blesse me from the same I musing frain'd her meaning She her meaning thus did tell That flaming Region euer such quoth she is Plutos Hell All gould all mettals wealth and pompe that nourish Mortals pride Are hence and his and hether they doe theare Mis-guiders gide He them inchaunteth and the same inchaunt the folke on Earth Vntill their dying dotage theare finds heere a liuing death Still nertheles I wisht to see the hellish Monarch Dis When he more ready to be found then for our profite is Ore-heard vs and vnhid himselfe and shinde in rich array And seem'd a glorious Angell and full gently thus did say That slandrous blind bace-minded Moole friend Mouse deceiues thee much And prates of me of Hell and Earth more than is so or such Beleeue him not but rather do beleeue thine eyes and see If any earthly pleasure is vntripl'd heere with mee Then shewde he sights which since I found illusions to betray Of greater worth than Earth affords or I haue Art to say Nay more he bids me aske what so I would and I should haue it Then did I pause bethinking what was rarest I might craue it My Holes were stor'd with corne croomes on Earth I walkt at will And in her Bowels now had seene indifferently my fill Vpon it nor within it not sufficing to my pride I asked winges scarce asked when they grew on either side Short leaue I tooke mounting left the Hell God and the Moole And soared to the open Aire through many a sory hoole It was at Twilight and the Birds were gone to roust but I Inchaunted with the noueltie of flight vnweared flye And had the Sunne been vp I ween such pride bewitcht my wit To Egel-fie my selfe I had assayd to soare to it Not seeing that my limber wings were Leather-like vnplum'de But at the Dawning also I of wing-worke still presum'de The Swallow and I weene it was this Sallowes father he Was earliest vp with him I met and he admired me I hild him wing and wistly he suruaies me round about And lastly knowing who I was did giue me many a flout And fled to tell the other birds what vncouth Fowle was bred Who flockt to see me till with gibes and girds I wisht mee ded Then shifting out of sight I hung till Twilight in a hoole Transformde derided hunger-spent and minding still the Moole In vaine I wisht reducement of my shape and which was worste My hap was harder than to owne in that distresse a Cruft Then fled I to my wonted Holes of hoorded food to get Too narrow by mine added wings that did mine entry let Now Mise fled me not to the Moole I would returne for shame To Dis I durst not mong'st the Birds I was a laughing game Then curst I mine aspiring minde then knew I Dis a Diuell The Diuell the Prince of Pride and Pride the roote of euery euill Hell Earth Aire Heauen and what not then conspiring mine vnrest What might remaine but death for me that liued so vnblest But as I fainting flew that night your Ladiship Dame Owle Did call me to your Todd and glad to see a new night-fowle Did take me to your seruice thence your Chamberlaine to be Ha Iupiter reward it you that so releeued mee It is a sweete continuall feast to liue content I see No daunger but in high estate none enuy meane degree Then all this processe quoth the Owle doth tend belike to this That I should eate no Mouse-flesh Nay Sir Bat so sweete it is That thou so neere of Kinne to them shalt also serue my lust And there withall in ruthles clawes the haplesse Bat she trust HEere meant the Courtior to haue left whom Perkens Lady prayes To tell what end such wowing had And thus hereof he sayes The Swallow saw that cruell pranke and flies aloofe and sayde Vngratefull Glutton what offence hath that thy Seruant made Choke mayst thou with the murther So he left her and vnto The Cuckooe telleth what the Owle vnto the Bat'did doe Varlet he waxed cholericke and what of that quoth he Was not the Bat her bond-Slaue such as thou art now to me What tel'st me then of other newes then what her answere is Vnto mine amorous Message sayes my Lady nay or yis The Swallow told him that through such occurrant of the Bas. He interrupted came away vnaunswered in that A mischiefe quoth he both on that and thee ill sauoured Elfe And in a stammering chafe he fled to wowe the Owle himselfe The Swallow Man 's him thether whom the deu'lish Owle did hate And all because he had reprou'd her tyrannie of late The Cuckooe offering to haue bilde she coyely turnde her face T is more quoth she
Throne NOr superstitiously I speake but H. the letter still Might be obserued ominous to Englands good or ill First Hercules Hesione and Hellen were the cause Of warre to Troy Aeneas Seede becomming so Out lawes Humbar the Huâ—n with forren Armes did first the Brutes inuaide Hellen to Romes Emperiall Throne the Brittish Crowne conuaide Hengest and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this I le Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed heere long while At Harold had the Saxon ende at Hardiknought the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Raine Fourth Henrie first to Lancaster did Englands Crowne obtaine Henry litigious Lancaster and Yorke vnites in peace Henrie the Eight did happelie Romes Irreligion cease The Father of our Mother Nurse our common Ioyes increase Which double H. and H. H. heere our homely Poemes Lee He saue that salueth all our sinnes And God voutsafe thou me A prosperous Course in sayling through the Ocean deepe and large Of her now-Highnes Scepter for I heere assume that Charge TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD SIR GEORGE CAREY Knight Baron of Hunsdon c. THough late I wright too soone I wot I heere Occasion take May this to none wish I but me Retreate to Sorowe make Both to remember Hiâ— We meant our Penn-Lee tore-use As to trans-patronize from him to you mine orphant Muse. Not one aliue that shall not die thrise happie then the same That as your Noble Father shael suruiue them selues in Fame Both Epitaphes and Elegies his Ghoste hath many an one Alas what can I say not sayde or more than moend him mone Not matter more than much nor more for â—ruth than matter skante Or lesse of Glorie than of both would to his Poet want But were a Non-plus of his Praise all were but this in grosse His Good to his owne Soule is Good his Death to vs is Losse What should I adde his auncient Creasts and noble Petegrae Such as that Henrie Primer of you Hunsdon Barons bee Your Lordshippe to your Countrie Prince and such in high Degree And such as you when you are not succeed the Careys blood In stiil-Descents and than this wish how may I wish more good My Syrinx sounded first to you and may eare long anewe Bâ— you Mecaenas also to this Poesie doth ensewe His had it been had he yet been that had the rest which now Yeelds humblie yours if it for yours your Lordshippe shall alowe Most humblie your Honors William Warner THE NINTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XLIIII AVert your eyes and eares all yee that enuie her the fame Of more renowmed Regment than our fluent Thoughts can name Yee that conceite such Poemes as more learned not conceaue Reade not the rest but silently euen at this line doe leaue Ridled Poesies and those significantly flowe Differ in eares as doe in mouths the Apricock and Slowe Phisitians bylles not Patients but Apothecaries know Some moderne Poets with themselues be hardly inward so Not intellectiuely to write is learnedly they troe Whereby they hit Capacities as blind-man hits the Croe. Nor Those not These feare thou my Muse but mildly sing the prayes Of these our present times lesse grosse than those of elder daies Our world hath made it course that as the Moone doth wax waine From gold to siluer then to iron and now to golde againe Of whose faire-cured Leaprosie from former twaine to golde For in a Quintessence was all eare Gods worlds-curse of olde The vndeluding Alcumist is that Elizabeth Whom English yea and Alients hold a Goddesse on the Earth Elizabeth by Peace by warre for Maiestie for Milde Inriched feared honor'd Lou'd at wel meant Toyes hath smilde Let then Mnemosines controule as well they may our Muse We shall such grace wheare we transgresse for Supersedias vse Phoebus thine humbled Phaeton this second boone doth aske ' That thou wouldst giue and ioyntly guide to with me thy Taske Infuse Apollo too into thy selfe thy selfe in me Yeat then our mightie Subiect threats will much omission be But what implore I Fictions that I well imploye my penne Eternall God say thou which thou all-only canste Amen When Iupiter and Arcas yong the Sier and Sonne had clos'de Saturnus in Italian Hell not to be baylde suppos'de Then Proserpin blacke Dis his wife inlargd the Wrangler thence To vex her Sister crosse her Siers and Brothers sownd pretence Then she euen she whom Cynthia some and some doe Pallas call Yt skils not whether Eithers lawdes doe aptly her befal By Saturne Dis and Proserpin giltles molested longe Vnto the God y'clip't I-Am thus motioneth her wronge O mightiest Mightie that of nought createdst all that is And gauste to Man thy noblest Worke him selfe and all for his And saue Obedience didst impose on him no other Fine And disobaying didst redeeme his Losse with decrest Thyne Which selfe same Thyne and still same-Oures I also intercesse For thee professing being wrong'd to haue at length redresse Scarce this was sayd when thus ensewd the Three weare rapted hence Saturne and Dis confinde their Hells Proserpin her offence Growen through Mis-Guides Veniall perhaps we censure in suspence And faire lou'd feard Elizabeth heere Goddiz'd euer sence For me to wreste from Hercules his Club as easie weare As in the Ocean of her fame with choysest sayles to beare That fraight y t with the IndiaÌ„ wealth may more then much coÌ„pare Yeat how th' Italian Feends did freat and hetherto inuaye Against thy glory gracious Saincte weare ouerlong to saye But he that of a Prisnor thee so great a Prince did frame Thy louing and beloued God to thee is still the same King Phillips-selfe so doting on his Pope-created Crewe That he it suffring his owne Son and heire those Locusts slewe Because they feared he would proue vnto the Gospell trewe Euen Phillip now that raketh hell for rascall brybed Skomes To ridde thee hence indignities that badly him becomes Once had thee then not hauing power to doe thee any harme It is the worke of God let Rome vncursse let Spaine vn-arme That thou art Queene to plant his word when we could hope it least When Ours all the Kings had cast their Crownes before the beast When greedely the Preists of Baal did for thy ruine gape Thou didst vnharmde the Lyons denne and firie Ouen escape Euen theÌ„ when Tryumphs were in hand bells ronge bonfires made Because Queene Mary of a sonne deliuered was said Euen then I say God mortifide that womb to bring to passe That vnto thee his Queene-elect no Issue letting was That soone Religion and our Realme might welcome wished peace Maiest thou the Cause thereof suruiue long after my decease But if it be his will to whom are all Euents fore-knowne That Papistrie shall in our Land againe erect her Throne Let Spaniards or what Tyrants els be Masters heere so thay Take also with our Land our Liues and rid vs out the way For not they only die but die in
to hide Least should as would and cleerely doth their Cosning be espideâ— Wherby euen ipso facto is their Cause against them tride The sinne of Pride made Lucifer gainst God him selfe rebell And through that sinne he so seduâ—'t that Adam also fell Then plaid he Rex ore all the Earth except a faithfull Fewe Till Christ incarnate on the Crosse Synns Kingdome did subdewe Then Christ was powrefull in the world for Faith had practice right And what could more our Ghostly Foe then Faith Practice spight His auncient Stratageme therefore to plant he casts anew And by the pride of only Workes from Faith a many drew Then were such Honors heapt on Popes Worlds-Aâ—iects ere that time That Lucifer him selfe than they presum'd not more to clyme Their golden Legend though not it autenticke be in aught To vs doth teach a Storie that to them might now be taught Theare was a Man of stature bigge and bigge withall in minde For serue he would yet One thaÌ„ whoÌ„ he greater none might finde He hearing that the Emperor was in the world most great Came to his Court was 〈…〉 tertaynd and seruing him at meate It chanc't the Diuell was nam'd wherat the Emperor him blest When as vntill he knew the cause the Pagane would not rest But when he heard his Lord to feare the Diuell his ghostly Foe He left his Seruice and to seeke and serue the Diuell did goe Of heauen or hell God or the Diuell he earst nor heard nor carde Alone he sought to serue the same that would by none be darde He met Who soone is mett the Diuell was intertayn'd they walke Till comming to a Crosse the Diuell did fearefully it balke The Seruant musing questioned his Master of his feare One Christ quoth he with dread I mind when doth a crosse appeare Then serue thy selfe the Gyant said that Christ to serue I 'le seeke For him he askt an Hermit who aduisde him to be meeke found By which by Faith and works of Almes would sought-for Christ be And how where to practice these he gaue Directions sound Then he that skoâ—nd his Seruice late to greatest Potentates Euen at a common Ferry now to carrie all awaites Thus doing long as with a Child he ouer once did waide Vnder his Loode midway he â—aints from sinking hardly stayde Admiring how and asking who was answered of the Childe As on his Shoulders Christ he bore by being humblie milde So through Humilitie his Soule to Christ was reconcilde And of his Carrage Christo-fer should thenceforth be his name Then lett this popish Scripture Popes at least you Conuerts frame Of which Conuerting Christo-fers yee thenceforth shal be said If not apply and perish in your Luciferring Traid Ye know I know that but in Christ may no Redemption be So your greate friend our Gardner on his death-bed could agree But to the Vulgars open not gainst Rome that gap quoth he So miserable is your state who seeing will not see That Christofer eare Christo-fer was Atheist lesse than yee Well answered once a King of ours the Pope that bod him free Two Pâ—elates terming them his Sonnes The King seem'd to agree But sent their compleat Armor looke are these thy Sonneâ— quoth he False Hesket too not falsely spake reporting lately this That such as Papists would seduce and of seducing mis Are marked dead For he to whom he so did say feare I Earle Ferdinando Stanley so dissenting so did trie As other Peeres heere and els-where haue found the like no lye Nor preached he the Pope amis that did to him applie This Tex to witt This is the Heire come on and let him die Th' Inheritance let vs inioye Nought seeke they els for why Those bad be good that giue those good be bad that Giftes deny From Annanias literall fault they Consciences would tye These death-eide Basilisques therefore in euerie Sense doe flie Be of Religion iumpe with them in all their Toyes affâ—e A Peter-Penny if withhild knocks all the rest awrye Hell Heauen Bulls Pardons Pope and to be Pope doth mony buy Yea too blasphemous they inâ—roch vpon the Deitie Though of these 〈…〉 ifers haue been that perish through a Flie. Each sinne gainst God how vile so-eare will Popes with Pardons fit Crosse but the Pope pardon thou him he will not pardon it For Faith his common Plea is sword and fire against his foes But who but fooles beleeue that Faith exacted is by bloes Than those three Mightie Emperors Fift Charles with Ferdinand And Maximilian with the Pope did none more partiall stand Yeat suffred they the Consciences of Protestants in peace But Philip nor the Pope will now their Inquisition cease Though Either suffer Iewes and Stewes because of Gaines increase CHAP. LI. THis Spanish Inquisition is a Trappe so slylie sett As into it Wise Godly Rich by Blanchers bace as fett Direct or indirectly then to answeare all is one From those Inquisitors escape but verie fewe or none Euen so by racking out the ioynts or chopping off the heade Procustes fitted all his Guests vnto his iron beade Aue Maria Credo and the Pater noster say In Latin els they pennance thee and take thy goods away Nay these though said both say and doe as they yeat all for nought They will exact by Torture what thou thinkest and hast thought Of Masse the Pope Popish points til in the Lapse thou fall Then Mercie God amongst those men no mercie is at all A bloodier Law vsde bloodierly was neuer heard or shall Tormenting men vntill they gesse by whom they are acus'de Which gessed it against themselues for Euidence is vs'de As who would say so be it must because it so is mus'de Phillip abusiuely seduc't and World-deceiuing Pope Peruse all Lawes euen Paganizme past vnder heauens coope And rightly pondring those with this theÌ„ speak your thoughts indeed Was not your Draco Sathan that himselfe could thus exceede Here adde for badde we might your League if That of This had need O happy and thrise happy Realme of ours and other Lands Wheare touching death by Clergie-doomes the Pollicie withstaÌ„ds THen freated Paule Pope Paule the Third when Peter came in Plea No Maruell Luther preached gold and glorie from his Sea But see an helpe Ignatius then conceited had his Sect And crau'd Confirmance of the Pope which Paule did then reiect But when he heard that Orders vowe might cheefly him auayle Them Iesuists he incorporates nor they his Pope ship fayle But for his onely Doctrine are Apostles and as trew As to the Diuell the deadly-Sinnes to Popes this Order new Yeat these be those are vnder-hand deceiu'd whilst they deceaue Witnes the Gallowes wheare for most they end those webbes they weaue For vnaduised are me thinks our Iesuistes in this In Cell-life since so strict and here they hanging seldome mis That for Applause at least although euen so weare bacely badde They change not Treachers vnto them to whom from vs they
Princely her Allowance and more stately as is sayde Than had she been in Scotland nor was Libertie denayde Of Hauking Hunting and Disports that had she been content Her merriest and securest daies a Prisoner she spent Scotland though labourd of our Queene would not receiue her and Such Treacher though imprison'd here prou'd she to either Land That death awaited her at Home and had we let her goe She was the Leagues shot-Anchor might our Queene and State o'rethroe Percie and Neuell auncient Earles This yet in Spanish paye Though bacely ill too well for him his Countrie would betray That other headed both her Wreckes wee touch but by the way With that succeeding County who concurring with his brother Once pardon'd still conspyred and Lawes Progresse so to smother Dispatcht himselfe Paget and moe like guiltie as those other Whose faultes falls had Rome Spayne their Father her their Mother Omit we Noâ—folks House from first of Howards made a Prince Though fauor'd of the Commons haue defected euer since As Absolom vs'd Curtesie but as Ambitious smoake Last Thomas Duke of Norfolkâ— so did his aspyring cloke WhoÌ„ promis'd faith once fre'ed but that promise soone he broke Him for Confedrate with those Earles rebelling Proofes did touch And with this Scottish Queene that he Intelligence had much Her Marriage that he closely sought and her Escape pretended And in her Right had fadg'd their wrong her Highnes Raine had ended Of Rising neer to London and to take it Plots they layde From Netherland the Spanish King had promised them ayde From Scotland into Spaeyne should be the Infant-King betrayde Ireland meane-while with aduerse Armes should also be ore-layde And hereof to and fro the Pope weare Letters still conuayde All which and more directly prou'd he piâ—ied lost his head Nor ought his death from being such did stand his Sonne in steade So hardly finde we Great-men in their Greatnes satisfide Or for their Greatnes not to be of other Men enuide But what is All to those haue All when but in Trifles crost Disgrace or Greese or Grudge vn-queare no lesse than all weare lost Conclude we then all Riches Forme Pompe Worlds-Applause but Winde Conclude we then to Monarchize is to coÌ„mand the minde Throckmorton yeat more priuie and more practising than those With her Mendoza Papists here forren and Land-leapt Foes Did Mischiefes that imported more our practiz'd State disclose But when of Parry Babington and their Attempts I thinke With whome this Scottish Lady in their bloody hopes did linke All foresaid Practises seeme then Epitomies to it Whereto these folliall Traytors did themselues and Senses fit Our Centinels almost too late the Larum bell did ring Yeat hardly then to arme her selfe our Generall they bring The Queene of Scots froÌ„ Ours almost her Crowne life had priz'de Eare to preuent the same she would by audience be aduis'de When gentle Durance might not salue that Daunger did remaine Which God and Nature tolerate slea rather than be slaine To which our Parliament aduis'd our Queene but long in vaine So far was she from foing her that sought her life and Rayne CHAP. LVI NOw thirtie sixe our greatest Peeres and States had power to heare And to determine and as found her to condemne or cleare By Statute passed in our Queene her seuen and twentith yeare These noble Tryers iustly then examining the Cause With reuerent Note of her who heard and spoke to euery Clause Did after diuers Daies so spent adiudge by Verdict trew Her guiltie of most trayterous Conspiracies not fewe And then from Fotheringhaye themselues to Parliament with-drew Of this Infection that our Peers and People had and would Remediles impoyson if not medeine it we should By some Decision of the Lymme whence all the bayne did floe Our publike Weales Phisitions much did argue to and froe Did neuer English Parliament fully conuented then Consist of Noblier Learneder Wiser and Worthier men By these it was debated how this common Foe might liue Without her death whom God to vs a common Blisse doth giue Much was it labord wished much some Course herein might holde But to resolue of any none had reason to be bolde Her still obdurate Malice to her Maiestie was cleere If she preuaild Religion was assurd an Altring heere Our Nobles Crocodile at home and hence our Foe-hop't Head Then must our Queene Religion Realme or She for them be dead Wherefore from Either House were sent the chiefest Men to craue Her Highnes that the passed Doome might Execution haue Whereof She askt to be aduisde and earnest her to saue Dismissed them with louing words and biddeth them expect Her Answer shortly nor did She the sending it neglect Though contrarie to it that all did hopingly affect For she perplexed in that case did lastly them direct To studie Meanes how Both might liue the Perill ouer-past Which much amaz'd yeat solemnly they handell it at last Mercie to her Malice in her might happily preuent Was sayd but not resolu'd for oft she Mercie vnder-went When rose the Earles and other times yeat neuer did repent But of our Queene to be destroyd had made her Testament A straiter Garde Bonds Hostages were also nam'd in vaine For should she prize our Queene who then durst her or theÌ„ detaine Or what were these to recompence the Losse we should sustaine For Loyaltie to take her Oth was thought to purpose small Such Othes she oft had falsifide nor thought it Sinne at all To breake them to an Heretike our Queene so Papists call To banish her were to possesse our Foes of their desier For vs to rid away the Smoake and runne into the Fier To set her free to make a Head for them against our Queene In few no safetie for vs but in her Death was seene So wholly by the Parlament concluded was and so Reported to her Maiestie still pitying her Foe In more sententious learned and delibrate sort than I Can set it downe past all toucht heer So did her Maiestie In answering earst and now to them her Aunswer Aunswer-lesse Sweet Adumbrations of her Zeale Mercie and Wit expresse But with her Oracle that bod them do and doe it not Play'd they as Alexander did with King Gordians Knot OF Spayâ—s huge Nauy toucht before great Rumor now was spread And that th'Inuaders meant to make this Scottish Queene a head For which continued doubt of her in English hearts was shead Not in the Vulgats only but some Nobles of this Land Who had not knowing it our Queene then got into their hand The Writ of Execution that her Heading did purport The which was executed soone and in a solemne sort This nature-frended Ladie had she bin as wise as witrie Who by the Massacres in France had learnt to leaue off Pittie Made there too apt for bloody Acts the Pope for it too blame To take her death too much deseru'd her selfe did meekly frame She bids commend her to her Sonne and will him to
in that Climate Frozen dead shut vp with isie Driftes Thus died he and all with him if so to die be death But no saith Heauen no saith their Fame suruiuing them on Earth Then Chancelor his onely Ship remayning of that Fleete For Fynmarke at the VVardhouse sayles with his Conforts to meete There day it is two months of length and Mal-strands Poole it makes Such hidious rore deuouring floods that tenne miles distance shakes Wheare frustrate of his Friends in quest with courage not deiect He for the Course preposed did his ventrous Sayles direct KIng Arthur Malgo Edgar once to haue subdewd are saide Orkney Gotland Island and those former in that Traide Gronland VVireland Curland and colde Scrikfyn them obayde Newland with others and those Isles wheare men saue Eyes alone Are hid in hides of Beasts and Beasts saue Fish haue Fothernone Now Chancelor ariuing mong'st the Laplandeâ—s at last They seeing vncouth Men and Shippes weare wondringly agaste For eare that day was heard no Shippe that churlish Pole had past The Lapland Bay wheare he ariu'd now cald Saint Nicholas Bay Though Russiah fifteene hundreth Miles from Mosco is away Theare Winterd he at Newnox till safe-Conduct being sent Thence to their King on swift-drawne Sleads through frozen waies he went Not like Sarmatian Scithians for the Moscouites be so He found them plaine but rather much in Pompe to ouer-floe They neuer in the Russian Courte till then did English see His intertainment therefore was as stately as might be In sundrie Roomes weare hundreds seene in Gold and Tyssue clad A Maiestie Augustus-like their King inthroned had Let passe what paste in speech betwixt our Pilot and their King Full well could Chancelor demeane himselfe in euery thing Let passe how in Basilius Court most royally he fead Suffise it that our Agent of his arrant thither spead That is that Ours might trade with theÌ„ of which large leaue is read More not vnworthie note here of our purpose is to say But this be first of Mandeuil remembred by the way CHAP. LXIV WE left him form'd a Trauelet braue Pilgrim Knight farewell And Elenor sweete Soule in Loue with whom she could not tell He trauels for to leaue his Loue not caring where he lose it She for her Loue to finde it skils not whom so him that Oose it The greene-Knight be whoso he shall her heart had branded hers Wheare is that Second She that Loue for Vertue so prefers Her onely speede howso he shall his heart had branded his Wheare liues that second He that so by louing betterd is T' is often seene Loue works in Man a weake deiected minde T' is euer seene a Womans Loue doth alter as the winde Example then be Mandeuil for Men not to be idle In Amorous Passions Labor is to loue at least a Bridle Example too be Elenor But let vs say no more For Women euer alter saith the Gospell preach't before Conclude we then when Elenor and Mandeuil did die The Method of true louing did with them to Heauen flie For euer since too feruent in their Loue are Men for most But Iris-like in Womens Hearts Loue too and fro doth poste One Stafford of a Noble House a Courtiour of good hauor A friend and fast to Mandeuil and in the Prince his Fauor From Gyprus from his Friend receiu'd two Letters one was his The other sent to Elenor and that purported this Of you receiued I a Ring a Token to your Minde If so I met it and it is my fortune it so finde For if the Heart may as it might for Minde be vnderstood My Heart is yours your Ring so mine Harts interchang'd were good More did I feare than euer in your Ladiship I found Disdainefull Lookes froÌ„ those faire Eyes that me with loue did wouÌ„d Now speake I Loue far from those Lookes so forceable to kill Howbeit that I loue is not to worke or wish you ill Not more than this though Princes Frownes beare death with them feard I For had you lou'd the King mislikt what had I for'st to die Wheare I haue been were blasphemie from Women to detract Great store of Beauties haue I seene but none as yours exact Courts also more than stately with faire Ladies in the same Which seemed common Formes to me remembring but your name When in the Holly-land I prayd euen at the holy Graue Forgiue me God a sigh for sinne and three for Loue I gaue Against the fearce Arabâ—ans I the Soldans Pay did take When oft at Oâ—set for Saint George Saint Elenor I spake The Amazones those lustie Girles beleeue me lik't me Well But nothing in the best of them but doth in you excell I look't vpon the sterile Lake where Heauen-fir'd Sodom was For one thought I here such as you not so had come to pas Most sweete and Soueraigne Balsamum in Indian Fields I saw More soueraign sweeter SeÌ„ts thought I my lips froÌ„ yours could draw Nere Aethiop when the spice-sweete Well of youth I saw I saide My Lady lacketh not hereof Perfection needs not Ayde I sawe nor wonder you I should who sees you sees as much The onely Phoenix Foule and Faier but it and you none such But flying thus about your Blaze your Gnat doth burne his wings To my despairing Passion more your praised Bewtie brings Not Trauell tiers my Loue a whit but Loue doth tire on me Which should I wish me better or you baser of degree Be still the same you are let me exile my selfe for euer Two diffidenses I conceit will let me hope you neuer The first my selfe vnworthy you the latter and the least The Kings Consent But well I wot Loue is a Lordly Feast Aguize so should you so and so despayre is part releast One comfort is before you doome is Execution done My voluntary Banishment already is begon Which if you neuer shall repeale shall neuer end or when Ah can I hope it should you not for vs is England then Nor is it but our minds that make our natiue Homes our Graue As we to Ours Others to theirs like parciall Fancie haue Transmute we but our Mindes and then all one an Alien is As if a Natiue One resolu'd makes euery Country his Your Answer that by Pen our speech to this return'd shall be Voutsafe it vnto Stafford for an Other-I is he In perfect Friendship no suspect for two are one in all Communitie or doubling ioy or making griefe more small But would you to an Vnitie of hearts twixt vs incline Wheare Friendship is angelicall our Loue should proue diuine More write I not blest may you liue teares ouertake this Line When Stafford present Elenor this Letter had perus'de She said as else-where shall ensew Now is in vs infus'de Fresh matter of Discoueries How Chancelor he speade Is said before of Russia thus remaineth to be reade CHAP. LXV AVaste and spatious Empier is Moscouie in the same Bee Riuers Tanais Volga and Boristhenes of fame With
fully found Yeat still to gratefull Eares may those Negotiators sound To wit although an Alien good Pinteado abus'd By moodie VVindam Guinte first and Benyn these perus'd Next Gainsh then Towrson diuers times and theare my Father dide Since rife that Voyage Brasile and to Cape-verd Isles beside Gold â—iuet muske graines pepper woad iuory thence be brought In Barbarie old Mauritaine like Trade this raigne hath wrought Of Affrick and America by Ours no part vnsought In Tewriâ— Sirta Aegypt Greece the Turks whole Empier now Our Queene is gratious our Commerce and Agents they allow Of World-admired Drake for of his Worth what argues more ThaÌ„ fame enuide Some for was his so rich thought theirs too poore And his braue Breeder Hawkins yeat be honord euery Pen That howsoeuer honor them as high resolued Men In Fiction or in Mysterie to reade would lesse delight Than would significantly some their glorious Ior 〈…〉 es wright The paines of such inuited Pens such subiect would requite Adde Gilbert Greenuill Frobisher of Knights to make vp fiue All in their better Parts with God with Men their Fames aliue Adde â—hilton Oxnam Fenton VVard Dauis an other Drake With diuers here not catalog'd and for a Cheefest take All actions Candish and of these eternall Pen-worke make And for a gowned Cicero and one that did not liue But to his Prince and Countrie Lawdes to VVaisingham doe giue The 〈…〉 ds and Aeâ—eados for Text and Truth might yeeld Vnto that learned Muse that should manure that plentious Field Was neuer Prince imployed Peace with praise to profit more Or Râ—alme could in the Raigne of one boast worthy Men like store Out Foes can also witnes her armipotent in few ReligioÌ„ Vertue Wealth Peace War her Throne with same indue And here mine altred Muse this Theame surceaseth to pursue Of These East Indian Goa South South-east People moe And of their memorable Names those Toyles did vnder-goe Is one elaborated Pen compendicusly doth floe Omitted then and named Men and Lands not here indeede So written of as they deserue at large in Hakluit reede To him and who deserues like-well of England both as Any Haue wrote of England Camden and to English Poets Many Of which are some praise-worthy though that towre their Wits too hie To make a Pitch for Loue wheÌ„ they at fairer Fowles might flie Now vaile I Bonnet Rest thee Muse abrode what need we rome Our seauenteene Kingdomes once now One yeeld Work enough at Home All which her Highnes owneth now as shall anon be saide But of our English Louers first be this Addition made CHAP. LXXII NOw at Constantinople once Byzantium in old Thrace Had Mandeuil to Stafford wrote should be his Wintring Place Next Summer would hee bee at Rome That Stafford should direct For either Place his Letters which he longing did expect So Sâ—efford had to Elenor the same informed who And Dorcas euermore their Loues did argue fro and too They may quoth Dorcas make more nice but few or none I troe That labour not of our disease and why I pray you noe To be with God what good more good For it we all should aske But for by death it must be done but few affect the Taske Virginitie though praised is alike perform'd for why As much the Flesh is fraile therein as in the feare to dye What was it sayd to all but vs Increase and Multiply No Clarke will so expound that Text God shield they should say I. All yeeld that Marrage is no sinne if chastly then we liue And Man and wife their Bodies each to other wholly giue If so as so is granted what needs curious strugling then Since God and Nature formed Men for vs and vs for Men. Ill match those dallying Girles pray I that intertaine by Arte All Louers giuing Hopes to all of all to make their Marte And hauing blaunched many so in single Life take pride When not a Strumpet Men so much abhorre and more deride Aswell as too remisse in choyce we may be too precise And lose as Aesops swimming Dogge a Substance for Surmise But if we marke in matching this which perfecteth Content That in the Man of Vertues be and Loue a Couplement For either Fortune worke we that we neuer shall repent We coyly may consume our Youth till times may alter so Or forme friends wealth or fame that we out of Request may groe But lose that list their Prime since now I haue that may delight He shall participate my best that must my baddet Plight For true it is as Vessels of first Liquors euer taste Loue seasned so with Sweets of Youth the same doth euer last Nay should my Stafford God forbid lesse kinde than think I proue I neretheles would still be his in chaste and cheerefull Loue. No men troe I the rascall Sort except but women may In Patience temporizing well informe and erring stay And reason were there Scripture none so bidding we forbare In men their Moodes because of vs they wholly take the care Admit we bring them Portions great and beautie sought of Many Alas what bring we one that might not els haue hap't to any For let me speake it to no Blab it is a Question whether That longer think it we or Men vntill we come together Well Wanton well quoth Elenor if Men should heare your chat This last I meane at least they would conclude for vs in that Concerning which vpon my Tongue shall mine Opinion dye Though should I say to it and all Amen I sooth'd no Lye Saint Stafford thine Saint Mandeuil for me God for vs all I haue bin a 〈…〉 and will be still resolu'd what ere befall In saying which came Stafford in and wils them to dispatch To Ship-boord for before had they determin'd of that Match Alreadie had he shipt their Stuffe lack't only they a boord Which Opportunitie did now that time and place affoord How they escap't or how disguisde what skils it scap't they are All three imbark't for Italie and had the winde so faire That almost thither had they reach't before they missed weare For them great search and sorrow much was made but all in vaine None knew or wheÌ„ they went or whence or where they did remaine Here see you what can mightie Loue in either Sexe effect Here see you also friends for friends nor weale nor woe respect Here see you one that fear'd to speake is followed farre to speede Here see you that a Woman dares if she conceits the Deede Here see you one in loue not moop't at home but mapping Lands Here see you how gainst all things els for Ladies Vertue stands Here also heare what they ariu'd in Italie did see And first at Rome when first shall this of Else-what spoken bee CHAP. LXXIII ELizabeths now-Monarchie ore seauenteene Crownes of old As formerly was promised shall briefly here bee told Before the Scots did plant them Heere own'd ancient Brutaines All And still take I
disclayme to haue it so pardon therefore yee Gods 〈◊〉 desiring it him deseruing it Troth is it this one Sacrifice shall giue end to mine infinite sorrowes but not alas with these burnings rather found guiltie of new beginnings but with my hearts blood the latest Ceremonie wanting to this Exequse Scarcely had these words passed her mouth when with Aeneas his Sword she pearced her Brest so performing on herselfe a Tragedie sought for and to hers a terror vnlooked for WHilest Dido so named of this her death or as haue some not lesse probable of so preuenting Htarba menacing her marâ—â—age was thus passionate and did thus perish Aeneas after weary Sea-saring much sorrowe many people and places seene and sayled from arriuing in Sicisie was â—oyfully entertained of this auncient friend King Aceâ—â—es and there as the yeare before at Drapenum did solemnize and Anniuersaâ—ie at the Tombe of his father Anchises The Masteries feates and actiue pastimes tried here by the Troian and Sicilian youth with land and sea Skirmidges the running riding leaping shooting wrestling and such like with Bacing on foote and on horsback this last a sport lately vsed of our English youthes but now vnpolliuckly discontinued Or how the Women of Troy whereof many were also imbarked from thence tyred with the perils of the Sea and intised with the pleasures of Siciâ—ie to preuent further sayling fired their Ships not without great losse rescued Or how Aâ—neas building there the Citie A 〈…〉 peopled the same with his women and impotent Troâ—â—ns Or of the drowning and Reuise of Palinurus and many Occurrents hapning here at Cuma Caieta else-where I omit as lesse pertinent to our purpose then the hastning of Aeneas into Italie Wherefore shipping him from Sicilie I now land him in Latium in which part of Italie raigned and was Resident in his Citie Laurentum the King Latinus to whome Aeneas addressed an hundred Knights one of them deliuering this Ambassie Ignorant are we not most gratious King for in that Title art thou famous and in that triall may we proue fortunate of thy Consanguinitie with the Troians by noble descents from Dardanus our auncient Progenitor neither canst thou but know that Troy is sacked and her people for the most parte slaughtered onely know if already thou knowest it nâ—t that Aeneas our Duke with a few his Followers after more than seauen yeares sayling are lastly and lucki lie I hope arriued in thy Countrie Howbeit of many places for pleasure and ferulitie most worthy manuring haue wee abandoned the quiet possession yea many the greatest Princes of Europe and Affrica haue voluntarily desired our Tariance denied only infinit Seas haue wee sayled and more sorrowes sustained to seeke this Clime from whence wee Troians deriue our Originals and whither our Gods haue directed vs by their Oracles This thy Countrie in respect of the bignesse may easily affoord roome for a new Troy to be builded A plot more spacious we doe not aske A smaller suite thou canst not graunt if with our present extremities thou also peise our purposed loyalties Neuer were wee thy foes and euer will we continue thy friends Seated wee must be and here wee would be We dare not disobey the Gods commanding it nor would we discontent thee in demaunding it graciously therfore conceiue of our Petition and gratefully receiue from Aeneas these Presents Hauing thus sayd he in the name of Aeneas presented the King with a most rich Mantell or Robe with an inualuable Crowne of Golde enchased with precious Stones with the late royall Scepter of King Priamus and with other Treasure which Latinus cheerefully receiuing returned the Troians this answer Had not the Gods commaÌ„ded your hither repaire which I gainsay not were we not of consanguinitie wherein I disclaime not Or my Kingdome not roome-some enough to receiue you as it is Or had ye not brought precious and peaceable Presents as ye haue yeat to dismisse Wayfarers vnrested and vnreleeued were contrary to the Gods of Hospitalitie and which they defend that I should therein offend Latinus his honour Ouer fast he sitteth that securely siâ—â—eth for as he that is timorous hath 〈◊〉 little prouidence so he that is feareles hath too much presumption yea lesse grieuous are expected than vnlooked-for euils I speake not this as I feare to fall but as I fore-see I may fall for the vnpearching of others should be fore-preachings to vs. Priuie am I vnto your distresse applying the like possibility for me so to decline for who is priuiledged from becoÌ„ming such And who is such that would not haue succour Sorrie I am that ye haue so ill cause to estrange your selues from home but glad that I am in so good case to entertaine you here Let Ae 〈…〉 feare him and prosper yee in Italie my land well may abide it and my selfe brooke it Yea more for the Oracle of my minde consorts no doubt with those of our Gods Lauinia my sole daughter and heire forbidden a Natiues and behighted a Strangers Marriage hath found a Husbande and I a Sonne-in-lawe at the least I wish it would bee and hope it will bee Make my thankes to Aeâ—eas for his Presents and bee you Masters of your Petitions The Troians being then sumptuously feasted euery man on a giuen Courser brauely and richly mounted dismissed returned and Latinus his answere and Present deliuered Aeneas neuerthelesse as farre from being secure as ioyous of such Tidings knowing the good speede of a Stranger to be an Eye-sore to the people and therefore not careles suspitious of it that might causeles succeede strongly inmured his Men in a new-built Fortresse In the meane while their Arriuall and Entertainment with Latinus occupied and for the most part offended all Italie Enuiously stormed Amata Queene that Lauinia her Daughter and Darling should be wedded to a Stranger an Exile as she termed him and therefore when she could not disswade the King by flatterie shee incensed his Nobles and Subiects to resist it forcibly On the other side Turnus Prince of the Rutiles in person exceeding all for comelinesse and in Armes equall to any for his courage to whom Lauinia was before promised in Marriage as Malcontent as any for being thus circumueÌ„ted by Aeneas held a Counsell in his sumptuous Citie Ardea scituate in the territorie of Latium how to intercept the Troians by wiâ—es expell them by Warres weaken them by wants disappoynt Aeneas and possesse himselfe of Lauinta Often sent he Messengers and sometimes Menaces to aduertise Latinus that he was promised he should and to assâ—re him hee purposed hee would enioy her or anger him But by how much more Latinus was religiously vnremouable in his Resolution for Aeneas by so much the more did Turnus giue loose raines to his headie anger Howbeit sufficient matter wanted for his malice to worke vpon vntill by euill happe his choler tooke aduantage of this colour Ascanius with diuers Troian Gentlemen his Friends and others his Attendants hunting in a