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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17119	Daphnis polystephanos An eclog treating of crownes, and of garlandes, and to whom of right they appertaine. Addressed, and consecrated to the Kings Maiestie. By G.B. Knight.	Buck, George, Sir, d. 1623.; I. W. S., artist.; Woutneel, Ioan, engraver.	1605 (1605)	STC 3996; ESTC S104803	24,580	61

〈◊〉 In dial 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cypresse-garland Cato apud Plin. lib. 16. The Veruain garland Vergil Plin. Iuy Garl Plin. lib. 16. The Garlands of Lillies Roses Thistles de his vide Pierium in Hieroglyph The Pine Garland Propertius lib. aeleg 1. The GENEST garland (1) Orpheus calleth Britain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Argonantic (2) Gentile hath diuers significations sometime it signifieth supremo grado de perfectione per natura percostumi per valor c. I. Ruscelli sometime it signifieth of or belonging to the same stock or nation as Gentilis clyteus gentile sacrum Gentilhuomo in Italian and as it is vsed here Sometime also it betokeneth mild or pliant as it is vsed stanz 3 and sometime a Hethen or Pagan as it is vsually taken in the holy scriptures and stanza The Garland of Genest Roses Chardons Lilies reserued for Daphnis Apollo's fauorite c. viz. K. IAMES * The oracle giuen to Augustus me puer Hebraeus c. recorded by Nicephorus and that reported by Eugubius Heutripodes lugete perit praesagus Apollo shevvs that these Hethen gods knevv Christ quod notet B. I. K Hen 2. vide praeface 1) Normandie not Neustria Pitheus 2) Litle Britain 3) Terrarum vl●ima Thule Seneca Island or Thylen sell that is Shetland secundum Gasp Peucerum ap G. Camd num K Rich 1. surnamed Coeur-de Lion maried Borengaria daughter of Garcia King of Navarre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Richard demeura en Asic la ou il fist plusieurs belles choses After the departure of the French K. Louys Du-Haillan li. 1. K. Ion brother to Ric. 1. surnamed Sās-terre he got Angolosme by marrying with Isabell daughter and heyre of Almery Earle of Angolesme and the I le of Man by conquest * VValter Buc brought 700 men out of Braband wan Ely and diuers Castles for this K. Ion. vide Camdenum in Ottadini Holinsh. K. Hen. 3. surnamed de VVinchester maried Elianor daughter of Raimond Erle of Prouence K. Edvvard 1. surnamed Longshank maried first Elianor daughter of the King of Castile she was heir of Ponthieu mother of K. Edvv. 2. by his second wife Margaret daughter of the French King he had Tho. of Brotherton from whom by Segraue and Moubray the Hovvards are discended (2) vide Tho. VValsingham in Edvvard 1. K. Edvvard 2. surnamed of Carmarvon maried Isabell daughter and heire of Philip le Bel K. of France K. Edvvard 3. surnamed de VVind sore maried Philip daughter of VVilliam Erle of Henalt c. hee tooke Calais wonn many victories of the French as at Crecy Slays c. Refused to be Emperour Paralipom ad Abb. Vrspergens The order of the Knights of the Garter instituted Edvv. de VVoodstock Pr. of Wales and of Aquitain maried Ioan daughter and heire of Edm. Plantagenet Erle of Kent Vn tel prince estoit digne de gouerner tout le monde Froisard 1) Hee ouerthrevv 60000. Spaniards and French in Spain betwixt Navaret Naiara Idem 2) Le ieune prince doublement victorieux aiant vaincuson enemi par valeur et par courtoisie laissant vne venerable trophè de son humanitè prudence c. Ie. de Serres * K. Ric. 2. his sonne surnamed de Bourdeaux maried Anne of Luxembourg daughter of the Emperour VVenceslaus § K. Ric. 3. surnamed de Fotheringay duke of Glocester c. maried Anne Nevill daughter of Rich. the great Earle of VVarvvik K. Hen. 4. surnamed de Bolingbrook maried Mary daughter heyr of Humfrey Bohun Erle of Hertford c. He vvas Duke of Lancaster in the right of his mother Blanch daughter of Henry Duke of Lancaster c. § Of this Dolphin vide Tho. VValsingham in An. Do. 1392. Hee conquered France for the most part K. Hen. 5. surnamed de Monmouth maried Katharine daughter to Char. the 6. the French King * Hee died at Bois de Vinciennes nere Paris K. Hen. 6. surnamed the Saint built a college at Eaton and the Kings college in Cambridge maried Marg. daughter of Renè K. of Sicil Duke of Aniovv K. H. 7. sollicited the Pope to canonize K. H. 6. vvho refused Rich. duke of Yorke heire generall of the crovvne Regent of France maried Cecily Nevil daughter of Rafe Erle of VVestmerland K. Edvv. 4. maried Eliz. VVidevile daughter of Ant. Erle Riuers extinguished Lancaster Q. Elizab 1. K. Edvv. 5. K. Hen. 7. Erle of Richmont maried Elizab. Plantag daughter heire of K. Edvv. 4. For them Christopher Colonus offered to discouer the Indies R. Hakluit to 3. Hen. Erle of Richm. vvanne both the field and the crowne at Bosvvorth Margaret his mother vvas an heyre of the house of Somerset hee extinguished the male line of Yorke Vide Ouid in Metam these Roses were the devises of Yorke Lancaster Margaret their daughter was maried to Ia. 4 K. of Scotland by whō she had K. Iames 5. who maried Mary daughter to Claud duke of Cuise who bare to him Mary Queene of Scotland and of France heyr apparent of England and mother of our Souerain Lord King Iames. K. Hen. 8 maried Katarine daughter of Ferdinand King of Castle by whom he had Q. Mary he had Q. Elizabeth by Anne Bolein daughter of the Erle of VViltshire Hee had K. Edvv. by Iane sister of the Duke of Somerset Doctor Cooper B. of Lincolne in Chronicis K. Edvv. 6. Quem dij diligunt moritur Iuvenis Menander Q. Mary maried to Philip 2. King of Spaine Q. Elizabeth 2. shee added Virginia to hir Empire c. Ric. Erle of Cornvvall brother to K. Hen. 3. elected K. of Almayin or Romanes Ion of Gant Duke of Lancaster K. of Castile Lion by Q Constāce his wife K. Hen. 4 vt supra Ion Duke of Bedford 3. sonne of K. Hen. 4. regēt of Frāce where he tooke the great Champion of France Ieane la pucelle ouerthrew the vicont of Narbone at sea wann the bataile at Vernueil which as Serres saith Faisoit porter le dueil a toute la France * K. Charl. 7. was called in scorne Le petit roy de Bourges Artur Plantag Erle of Britain sonne of Geffrey 3. sonne of K H. 2. heir apparent proclaimed by K. R. the first Mary daughter and heire of Iam. 5. King of Scotland by Mary de Loraine daughter of the Duke of Guise vt supra 38. S. Peter calleth the crowne of immortall glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. epist. ca. 5. DAPHNIS K. Iames is high Seneschall of England Scotland and France by private heritages viz. by Leicester Ab. Aniovv Vide Epigramma Latinum in calce libelli Sic Minerua dicta Olivisera ab Ovidio Tria iuncta in vno It is the mott of his Maiesties devise for the Knights of the Bath Anne Queene of great Britain daughter of Frederick 2. King of Denmarke Henry Prince of great Britain Prince Henry K. Henry the 2. buried in Frontenaulx in France DAMAETAS In Stanz 4.

English Kings vntill this day And from him this poesy is a continued pedegree vnto Queene Elizabeth the first and from Her to your Maiesty and to your Maiesties most excellent Sonne Henry The Prince of Great Britaine Now it resteth that I answere or excuse some faults found in this Poesy for some note that I am too long in my induction notwithstanding I propound in the first stanze Others reproue me because I began no higher Others charge me that I haue concealed and coloured the faultes of bad Princes ANGLIAE REGVM PROSAPIA A TEMPORE QVO ANGLIA APPELLARI CAEPIT NIMIRVM AB EGBERTO REGE PRIMO EIVSDEM MONARCHA VSQVE AD HENRICVM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. W. S. delineauit But to conclude shortly whatsoeuer be the faults of the booke or of the Buc I most humbly submit them to your Maiesties most gracious censure who next to the omnipotent Lord of Lords are vitae necis Arbiter and not onely the supreme and highest iudge but which is best the best iudge i. the most wise the most learned and the most clement iudge And so therefore eftsoones prostrating my selfe my small talent or rather mites and all at your sacred feete not seeking either praise or thankes nor so much as one branch or leafe of any of these your many Garlands but with the old Poet Veniam pro laude peto laudatus abundé Si fastiditus non tibi Daphnis ero And with the new inauguratorie hymne still pray to the Almighty that Your happy dayes may not be done Till the great comming of his Sonne And that your health your ioyes your peace May as your raigne and yeres increase AMEN THE PREFACE OR Argument of this Poësy DAmaetas hauing long bin a woodman had obserued the natures propertyes of many trees and apprehended there was some mistery and some peculiar maiesticall matter in the Genest more then he could discipher Whereupon hee went to Silenus a man of great learning and authoritie for he was held a Pro●het and exposeth to him his conceit and prayeth earnestly his ayde Silenus entertaineth him curteously and is very willing and by the meanes of a late accident well able to rese●ue him for saith he there was a complaint mad●●ately to our great God Apollo against certaine vnworthy fellowes which presumptuously tooke garlands of his ancient tree the Laurell without leaue Whereat he hauing indignation determined to take order for that and such like abuses And foorthwith calling the Muses to counsell in Helicon established ordinances for the due wearing of that of al other Ghirlands And because the ancient Ghirlands were abused prophaned with common and vnworthy vse hee made choice of a new tree viz the Genest and instituted Ghirlands thereof and gaue to them praerogatiues aboue the rest appropriated them to one imperial family seated in Leuceessa with expresse defence that none else should weare them And that not all the Princes of this family should haue Garlands hereof but to some of them better deseruing should be permitted a chappelet and to the rest but a branch or Plante of the Genest But the chiefe Garland of Genest complete and adorned with diuers sacred flowers should be reserued for his fauorite Daphnis the most puissant and the most vertuous and in briefe the most true heroycall Prince of that imperiall race ordained long-since by the highest aeternall wisedome to reconcile the olde and vnnaturall fewd betweene Locrine and Albanact to reduce all the Britannik Isles into one entyre monarchy to restore the ancient vnity of religion lawes and language in this great Iland and finally to extend the limit of his Empyre as farre as they were in the times of Albion of Brutus of Artur of Edgar or of any other our monarkes whose dominions were largest Thus farre Apollo's decree After this Silenus declareth more particularly who and what these royall Worthyes were which should beare or weare Chappelets or Garlāds of the Genest tree and lastly the Garland complete Beginning with that great Henry sonne of the Empresse Matilda the first King of this Iland surnamed Plantagenet and so deducing a genealogy from him through his royall posterity to our present sacred Soueraign IAMES his now next heire and nephew whom the Prophet herein styleth the true Polystephanus the Peace-maker King Arturs successor great Aedgars heire high Seneschall of Albion the great Briton c. And crowneth his head with this imperiall Polyanthine Ghirland and his raigne with all the blessings of peace victory long life a rare fayre wife hopefull Princely issue and a perpetuall succession of their posterity in the Empire of great Britain And now to that obiection touched in the dedicatory and made because I deriue not this title and genealogy from some of the ancient monarkes of this Isle Britons or Saxons or at the least from King William the Conquerour I must answere that to haue chosen any of the most ancient Kings I must haue looked so farre backe as I should not onely haue made this Eclog ouer-long and tedious but also haue lost my selfe in the cloudes of obscurity by soring too high amongst them as they know which know what our ancient storyes bee But as for William the Conquerour there be many reasons why I should not begin with him although I goe as neere him as his sonnes daughter for firstly he was a bastard and yet not that of the blood royall of England hauing no title to the Crowne but violence and his sword as he confessed and thereof had remorse of conscience at his death Secondly he was neuer possessed of the one halfe of Britain for hee had neither Scotland nor Wales and in Ireland he not one foote Furthermore Girard Du-Haillan and other French antiquaries according to their Salike heraldry say that his lyne ended in his sonne King Henry the first for all they holde as a maxime La famille se continué es masles et se finist aux filles And yet Du-Haillan notwithstāding or forgetting this affirmeth in an other place that the race of the Kings of England issued out of the house of Aniow viz from our great Henry and his ancesters continueth vntill this day From whom there be many reasons on the other side why I should deduce the genealogy of our Kings passed and of our present Soueraigne Lord King IAMES for this great Henry was not onely rightfull heire and King of England but also the greatest King of whom there is any credible story extant which hath been in this Isle of Britain since the time of the Romaine Emperous who were reputed Lords of all the world and which thus I demonstrate and briefly He was King of England in the right of his mother Matilda the Empresse daughter and heire to King Henry the first by Matilda Bona daughter of King Malcolm Canmoir and of Margaret his wife who was the daughter of Edward Exul the Saxon Prince the sonne