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A12317	The history of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this island to this present raigne of or [sic] happy and peacefull monarke K: Iames, by Will: Slatyer.	Slatyer, William, 1587-1647.	1621 (1621)	STC 22634; ESTC S117415	259,478	280

Natura hoc muneris Almi Concessit chara cum Cretâ altrice tonantis Solis nulla suis edant vti sibila in oris Terrifici tabo creti Phorcynidos angues Fortè quoque illati compressis faucibus atris Viroso pariter vitam cum sanguine ponant Degentesque ferox inclultis horrida syluis Gens habitat saeuo mauortia pectora bello Qui cursu Alipedes norunt praeuertere Ceruos Ierna feris faecunda fouet Generosa Caballos Egregios Armenta boum pecorisque niuosi Lactea dona sui miratur educat vuas Pampineis ramis quamuis nec amata Lyaeo Nec Cereri nimiùm Laedaeos flumine cygnos Piscososque lacus profert voiucrumque paludeis Omnimodûm lustris faetas stannique fodinas Et puri argenti venas quas terra refossis Visceribus maneis imos visura recludit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Albionis aduentus in Britanniam QVin redeo ad susceptum opus A dominisque verendis Dicta ferunt Samothe nostra Anglia iamque Britannis Plusquam tercentos annos dominantur in oris Samothei Celtae donec freta caerula pando Myoparone secans Neptunius Albion oram Milite stipatus forti turmisque suorum Attigit Albionis fataliaque inuenit arua Regna heu Samothidûm miserè vastata furentûm Cumque Britanniaco proles Neptunia Rege Bergion aduenit cui subdita Ogygia Ierne Haebus Ila suâ atibusque imperuia Thyle Sub ditione iacent Iapetiadasque furore Neptune geniti per litora saeua Tyranni Exagitant fessos lucemque oculosque perosos Quos super accumulat Chemnita per inuia rura Infand●s strageis miseranda piacula Dirae Sortis vti exortae propter contagia pestis Iam verò ingemuit tellus cladisque miserta est Albion inque sinus placidos accepit opimos Heroes Titaniadas quibus vsque vocata est Albion à dominis deducens nomina dudum Virgineo cultu speciosaque colla comasque Ornata in qualem iussu Sirena Deorum Formosam posses mutari credere Nympham Nautis inuisam quam perdidit acer Vlysses Neritius quondam cum iam Scironia saxis Fluctibus in medijs mutarier à Ioue possent Ossa Seuerinis ità nostra Britannia nummis Rupibus vnà ac Nerëidum super insidet albis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad sequentem librum Historiam NVnc Caelireserate vias Heliconacolentes Diuae opis indigeo vestrae iuuat ire per astra Iuuerit astrigeris humeris insistere Atlantis Hinc homines instar pecudum rationis egenos Despectare procul lubet contemnere curas Rerum humanarum fluxus ediscere Coelos Sperare ferriclarum super aethera mente Musavola resonis pete candida sydera pennis Dic antiquum Argos Argiua Aegyptaque castra Quamque papyriferi septemflua flumina Nili Rege nouo Graiam fluctu innuectare carinam Fama refert Tellus vberrima cuius inundans Littora Nilus aquis immersit arua meatu Illa virum nouit cui coniux Inachis Iö Memphitis Dea funeribus qui raptis iniquis Non styga perpessus Phlegetontideué obrutus vndâ Surripuit Templis altaria lucida flammis Considet inque epulis Diuûm coeloque receptus Numen habet terris genitus Ioue magnus Osyris Odae primae Finis PALAE ALBION The first Ode Entituled SAMOTHES THE ARGVMENT First Ancient'st records that we finde Enrolled in the Towre of Fame Samothes and his by Fates assign'de T' our I le thence call'● Samothea came Who long time herc as Kings did raigne Till cha●t hence by rude Albions traine CANT I. The scope of the Poeme and by deducing Storie from the beginning the Creation touched FAine would I visit Phoebus shrine And Dodon Oracles diuine Parnassus hill and Phocis fields That sacred Cells and Solace yeelds Pierian sisters honored Nymphs Lou'd and ador'd by Learnings Imps. Pallas faire Sol and Memnosine O Gently fauour my designes And shew me out of stories old The warlike acts of Britons bold Or guide me to the Towre of Fame To find their first birth Ere heauens frame Or Earth or Sea was Chaos was And out of that Confused Masse Natures Commander did produce Bright star's for heauen heau'n for earths vse The flowry vales the hills and woods Fresh Riuerets and salt swelling floods And earth and aire and sea brought forth Their wondrous Creatures sundrie sorts The golden Sunne appeares in skie And dainty showres in Clouds on hie Whiles Atlas on his shoulders beares The burden of the starry Spheares Then mightie Ioue cuts earth and heauen By zones degrees and portions eauen Farre North or South are frosts and snowes I' th midst sweat Cancers scorched pawes Both sides beene temp'rate zones the windes Eurus and Zephyr to both Indes Auster to th' Aethiops hyes apace Boreas to Scythia North and Thrace CANZ. II. The creation of Man his Fall the Gyants Floud and World re-peopled THen new borne earth puts on Mans feature Of all the last but perfitt'st Creature Inspir'de by Gods immortall Breath Though set whence tane to till the Earth The stately Pine on Hills remaynes Not forc't to plough vp th' Ocean playnes No Trumpets sound doth Mars enrage In this the truely golden Age But Apples Milke and Honey there Pure Nectar and Ambrosia were Whiles Ceres with her golden Tresses Glads many a Field which no man dresses Eternall Spring on Earth abode With Man till Man forgot his GOD Then Vertue fled then Paradise Did fade away and in came Vice Men-Deuils then a Gyant race Heapt sinne on sinne Heau'n to out-face Like Ossa laid on Olymp hie To pull downe Ioue and scale the skie Till Heauens dread Roy to mocke their pride Remembring fell Lycaons deed To quench their malice thought it good T'orewhelme the World with Noes flood The Winds sent from th' Aeolian Caues From Sea to Shore bring Nereus waues And Neptune with his Sea Nymph traines Doth driue the Land Nymphs from the Plaines The cristall Brookes and their cleere Springs Let loose to hurt helpe drowne all things And sweepe from Fields and Mountaines steepe Woolues Lyons and whole flocks of Sheepe Swift Tygres nor the winged Quire Could scape the furious Oceans ire No Shores appeare but all 's wild Sea O're Townes tops wanton Dolphins play And Mermaid monsters of the floods Dance in the hyest Hills and Woods When all flesh sayes the sacred spell Di'de saue what Noe in 's Arke-like Cell Sau'de whose Arke lastly rested at Th' Armenian Mountaynes Ararat Whence sprung this newer latter race That now ore-spreads the Earths broad face Yet who so lookes on this our Time Might scarce thinke th'Adder-footed line Of Gyants were extinct to see Heauens scorne so rife on earth to bee The second worlds first Father then Into all Lands that now agen Their heads aboue the flouds shew sorth Sends out his Sonnes East West and North As farre

conceiu'd for their new Roy T' was neede aswell for his owne good As for reuenge of others bloud Of fresh supply from Brittish realmes From Trent Thames and faire Scuernes streames Fierce enemies to encounter thoe And force of such a furious foe His Brother Bergion comes from Thyle With powers of Irish Orkes and I le Ioyn'd like two Thunder-bolts of warres Mated to be by none but Mars Alcides leauing then his Loue Ioues Eagle takes for Venus Doue His Lyon-skin stead of softer tyre And winded Hornes for warbling lyre So from her Chamber to his charge His iust designements shewne at large Drawes with him of his presence fayne Celts mingled troopes with his owne trayne Who late more fearefull then the Deere Hunted to toyle though now of cheere To front their proudest foes his fame Their fainting hearts did so inflame Signes of true valour shewne they forth Such courage giues the Captaines worth CANZ. XII Albion and his powers vanquished and slaine BOth sides prepar'd now for these warres Alcides and those twinnes of Mars Neither of them euer match't till now Eith'r ayming others ouerthrow Haste on right sore with might and mayne Greene fields with purple gore to stayne Fierce as the Giant-troopes that stroue From heau'ns high towres to pull downe Ioue For Albions tree-like traines did yeeld Like monsters as fought Phlegra field These met on Frances floury pride Like raged boystrous windes that tyde Whose furious force sends flames of fire From blowes redoubled in their ire Their steele-strokes glittring lightning seeme Their clamors thunder and betweene Heau'n clouded with hurld weapons store Th' ayre fild with groanes ground fild with gore When as'twere heau'ns cause gainst these rude Heau'ns and earth's out-lawes that fell feude 'Gainst right rais'd Gods good hests and Ioues Ioue showr'd downe from his realmes aboue Such stormes of stones with vengeance mixt Sent many of these fiends to Styx The place they say as yet is showne Le-Craux in Narbone coasts by Rho'ne Monument as 't were of that strange shower The stony Shore cald to this hower The rest of them that so not fell Hercules sent with their Lords to hell CANZ. XIII Hercules marrieth Galathaea Daughter to that Lycus King of France which of their sonne Galates or Celtes tooke name Diuers stories hereof are here reconciled ALbion and Bergion slaine was so France freed from feare of Giant-foe And almost all the world was clear'd Of Cy●lops-monsters whom they fear'd Hercules returnes incontinent To Venus bower from Mars his Tent. Then Court and Countrey Nymphs not coy And Fawnes and Syluanes sung with ioy Their nuptiall Hymens sweete Napaeas Hercules Loue and faire Galathaea's Queene Iuno too chiefe president Of marriage rites gaue all content So from this noble paire there came Galates that gaue the Celts their name Niceus though sayes Celts they bee Of Celtus Celtices sonne and shee Hercules wife Bretanus Impe who names Vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Greeke Idiome frames Wher 's Prytus then Araxe's Impe Lycus Brute or Britone Candyes Nymph Vnlesse Bretanus may Lycus bee Celt Galates Celtica Galathey As oft wee see names so much chang'd Wondrously from themselues estrang'd Let others iudge hereof there beene Say Hercules and his mother Queene Dame Isis came into these parts And Gaules and Germanes taught good Arts Others Isis and Osyris bring To Marsus ancient Germane King Makes me thinke their sonne Hercules so His name might be Osyris too CANZ. XIIII Their issue Kings in France afterward whose names only there recorded the next Ode pursueth the story of the remainder of those Giants in this I le of Albion BVt leaue we Hercules now to seeke Aduentures whether Gaule or Greeke With his faire charge his tender spouse Whose race French Kings old story showes With Lugdus and a number more Belgius that nam'd the Belgique shore Paris Reme and Francus till they sayne Pictus by Coryne ta'ne or slayne The end of the second Ode A briefe type of the third Booke or Ode of PALAE-ALBION called GIGANTES The third Ode contayneth 1. THe description of the confused Chaos of a Kingdome not well ordered Seene in the Anarchy or Inter-regnum of the Giants the race or remnant of Albion and Samothes traynes liuing disorderly like brute beasts many hundreds of yeares without any discipline of State or politique Gouernement in their Land 2. The comming in of Danaus daughters to these Giants whence were descended those monstrous Creatures that Brute and Corynaeus found at their arriuall here by reason whereof the stories of Belus and Danaus with the occasion of these Ladies comming are briefly touched and set downe 3. The arriuall of Brutus in this Iland and his aduentures and trauels to Greece and other parts of the world before he came hither with a short Apologie both for his and the other precedent Histories of Albion and Samothes PALAE ALBION Ode tertia Inscripta GIGANTES ARGVMENTVM Terti●que Oda canit quota inhospita saecla Gigantum Relliquiae saeuae littora nostra tenent Queis Neptunigenis ortam Danaique puellis Cyclopeam sobolem trans Styga Brutus agit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Odae propositum proaemium NVnc interregnum Albionis rabiemque Gigantum Albione occiso nullo dominante per arua Musa refer Sine Regerudeis sine lege Britannos Viuenteis Satyrûm in syluis aut more ferarum Quos Neptunigenas inter Danaique puellas Ceu sama est oritur malè sana Gigantea moles Quos aliquot post saecla accedens Troius Heros Littoribus nostris Plutonis ad ostia Brutus Praecipitesque nigro misit Corinaeus auerno Iam chorus alme faueto precor dum singula paucis Expediam cunctique sciant quid Numina possint Castalides mecum castae doctaeque sorores Et quanquam in tenebris priuati lumine caecis Errabundi agimur tamen eruite ista Camoenae Vt tandem videant nostri sua stirpis auitae Gesta Gigantaeos contra reliquûmque furores Siqua fides dubijs chorus alme referre stupendam Annuite ô sobolem vatique haec diciite vestro Albione Albionis caeso Iernesque Tyranno Foelicem heu nimiùm quae diceris Olbion olim Si poteras Dominos non agnouisse Tyrannos Insula sed Dominis nimiùm nudata seueris Amplius inuenit nullos moderamina rerum Qui caperent quid sanctum esset iustúmue docerent Nec quis erat tantâ fretus probitatè fideque Qui regere Imperio vel Lege rudique popello Aut premere aut laxas sciret dare iussus habenas Donec vti perhibent Troiano sanguine cretus Longum post tempus quingentos plus minùs annos Brutus in Angliacas serò deuenerat Oras Tum rudis vsque adeoque ferox Gens Daemonas esse Credimus Historijs dictos pietate carenteis Nulla Lege nefas aut Relligione reuinctos Inter se sociosque hinc fabula forsitan illa Daemonas in Danai gnatis genuisse Giganteis