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A14779	Albions England Or historicall map of the same island: prosecuted from the liues, actes, and labors of Saturne, Iupiter, Hercules, and Æneas: originalles of the Brutons, and English-men, and occasion of the Brutons their first aryuall in Albion. Continuing the same historie vnto the tribute to the Romaines, entrie of the Saxones, inuasion by the Danes, and conquest by the Normaines. With historicall intermixtures, inuention, and varietie: proffitably, briefly, and pleasantly, performed in verse and prose by William Warner.; Albions England. Book 1-4	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1586 (1586)	STC 25079; ESTC S111586	85,079	130

my blisse or soone discharge my breath For if my prayers add no edge vnto thy begged doome The Uintage of my thristles loue is blasted in the bloome Be fauour able to my fier for thy swéet sake be bold I durst attempt euen Hell if hell so swéet a thing might hold Well thinke her coye or thinke her chaste my Censure I suspend Most women yeeld not at the first yet yeeld they in the end She gaue repulses to his lust and he Replies of Loue Not all the Wrights Diana had might Cupids Plaint remoue She countermaunding his demaund he ceased Courting now And did with her by vyolence what vertues disalowe And then departed leauing her in selfe-conceit disgraste More trespassed then some would thinke and yet perhaps as chaste Home came her Lord whose Browes had buds and found his wife in teares And foolish thing she told a troth for which reuenge he sweares But so the Man did proue a Beast he better might haue hid it Some such are mistically domme yet dombly doe forbid it His wifes Escapes done secretly if by the man detected Shewes hilled būpes supposed būpes mere hornes not hornes suspected At Denmarke in his Cosens Court he telleth of his wrong And gaines against his soueraigne Lord of Danes an Armie strong Hungar and Hubba and himself Conductors of this Oste Did with their forren Forces land and spoyle the Northerne Coste The vicious valiant Osbret that had vanquished ere then The King and Kingdome of the Scottes though wanting Armes men Thought skorne his Foes should beard him so barre him vp in walles And therefore issuing out of Yorke vpon the Danes he falles A bloodie Bargane then begonne no fight might fearcer bee And of the Danish parte were slayne for euery English three But manhood lost and number wonne the Danes they got the feelde And Osbret dyed valiantly that not to liue would yeelde MEane while the Danes with fresh Supplies ariue at euery Shore And warre almost in euery Shire infesting England sore With whom couragious Etheldred contended long in vayne By them was he King Ella and the holly Edmond slayne Nothing was done but all vndone till King Alured hée In daunger of his royall selfe did set his Subiects frée For euery day in euery place the Danes did so increase That he nor any English King enioye one day of peace Nor mightier men at Armes then they might any where be found Who in their diuers Warres els-where did diuers Realmes confound For as the Gothes the Vandales Hunnes and Saxons earst did range So now the Danes did plague the world as sent by interchange This Westerne and victorious King and greatest Monarke here Perceiuing of this spoyled Isle a toward Rewen nere Disguised like a Minstrell poore did haunt the Danish Tentes And with his feates and melodie the Enemie presents And of their sloth their gluttonie and Councels priuie so He tooke aduantage giuing them a sudden ouerthroe And slayeth Hubba Hungar and the Cause of their repaer And putteth all to Sword and Seas that vnbaptised waer Yet to Northumberland return'd fearce Gurmond with the Danes Meane tyme did King Alured dye the Hatchet of their Tranes But Adelstane one King betwixt not only clear'd the Land Of Danes but of all England had sole Empier in his hand Thus of this long dismembred Realme was he the only King In which till Egelred his raigne did prosper euery thing He raigning much of England then the Lordly Danes did hold Exacting Tributes euery yeare and selling Peace for Gold And which no doubt did hatch those Plagues the King a wicked one Did enter by his Brothers blood extorting thus his Throne KIng Edgar that subdew'd the Scottes and slaughtered the Danes And of the Welsh had Tribute Wolffes of whom it more remanes That as it were in Triumph-wise Eight Under-kings did roe Him Sterns-man on the Riuer Dee with diuers honors moe This Edgar by a former wife had Edward by an other This Egelred a Sonne vnto a kinde and cruell Mother For as she labors to preferre her owne by well and ill So to destroy her Sonne-in-law she wanted meanes not will And meanes did hit King Edward hunts and hunting lost his Trayne Whom Man-les at her Castell Corfe the Quéene did intertayne He hauing seene to whom he came in curtesie to see Made haste away in Quest of them that still a Hunting bee And mounted when he should departe to him his Stepdame drinkes Whom pledging him an Hierling stab'd and lifeles downe he sinkes Thus Egelred obtaynd the Crowne but for his crowning so His Subiects grudge and he became the Preface to their woe For when this proude and vicious King was neither lou'd of his Nor liued safely for the Danes his secret Edict is That suddenly in one selfe hower throughout the Land should passe A common slaughter of the Danes which so performed was And Welwyn called Wealth-wyn then for promptnes in that charge Beginning other Townes as it themselues from Danes inlarge CHAP. XXI THis common Massacre of Danes was common mirth to all The English whom they did oppresse with slaueries not small Compelling men by greeuous Draught as Beastes to plough their Land Of whom the English as of Gods or Feends in terror stand The Husband durst not vse his Wife if liked of a Dane Nor House nor Goods nor aught he had for who resistes was slane That prankes and feedeth daintely this pynes and fareth ill And of his Sweat that hath the sweete and is imperious still Each house maintayned such a Dane that so they might preuent Conspiracies if any were and grope how mynds were bent Lord Dane the same was called then to them a pleasing name Now odiously Lur-dane say we when ydell Mates we blame When Swayne the Dacian King did heare his Danes were murdred so With bitter vowes he shipt his men for Englands ouerthroe And landing spaerd no Shrine nor Sainct nor Sex nor any State Not wanting Ayders English-men that held their King in hate Especially false Edricus the Admirall deceiues His King and Countrie oftentymes and Bribes of Swayne receiues And Egelred his cowardisse incouraged the Foe Till Swayne at length by Masses great was bribed hence to goe But making short returne the Péeres of England that disdayne Th'indignities of such a King that did féebly rayne Submit them Subiects vnto Swayne and Egelred did flye Unto the father of his Quéene the Duke of Normandie And Swayne possessed of the Land did shortly after dye His sonne Canutus present here had Seazen of the Crowne Till Egelred returning backe by Armor puts him downe Who scarcely giueth breathing tyme but that he backe resayles From Denmarke and by force by friends and Fortune here preuayles For in this Warre King Egelred did sicken and decease And then the broyles Canutus King did for a tyme decrease Till Edmund sonne of Egelred did interrupt that peace COnferring Armes to Edmunds age when Egelred did lye On Death-bed to

ALBIONS England Or Historicall Map of the same Island prosecuted from the liues Actes and Labors of Saturne Iupiter Hercules and AEneas Originalles of the Brutons and English-men and Occasion of the Brutons their first aryuall in Albion Continuing the same Historie vnto the Tribute to the Romaines Entrie of the Saxones Inuasion by the Danes and Conquest by the Normaines With Historicall Intermixtures Inuention and Varietie proffitably briefly and pleasantly performed in Verse and Prose by William Warner Imprinted at London by George Robinson for Thomas Cadman dwelling at the great North-doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Byble To the right Honorable my very good Lord and Maister Henrie Carey Barron of Hunsdon Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Lord Chamberlane of her Maiesties most Honorable Houshold Lord Gouernour of Barwicke Lord Warden of the East Marches for and anempst Scotland Lord Lieftennant of Suffolke and Norfolke Captaine of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners and one of her Highnes most Honorable Priuie Councell THis our whole Iland aunchiantly called Brutaine but more anchiantly Albion presently contaynyng two Kingdomes ENGLAND and SCOTLAND is cause right Honorable that to distinguish the former whose only Occurrants J abridge from the other remote from our Historie I intitell this my Booke ALBIONS ENGLAND A Subiect in troth if self conceit worke not a partiall Iudge worthie your Honorable Patronage Howbeit basely passed vnder so badd an Aucthor But for great Parsonages gratfully to intertaine the good willes of bad workmen is answerable to themselues and animating to feeble Artistes I therefore secure of your Honors Clemencie and herein not vnlike to Phaoton who at the first did fearfully admier euen the Pallas of Phoebus but anon feareles aduenture euen the presence of Phoebus hauing dedicated a former Booke to him that from your Honor deriueth his Birth now secondly present the like to your Lordshippe with so much the lesse doubt and so much to more duetie by how much the more J esteeme this my latter labour of more valewe and omitting your high Tytelles J owe and your Lordship expecteth espetiall duetie at the hands of your Seruaunt And thus right Honorable hoping better then J can performe and yet fearing lesser then J may offend desirous to please despret of praise and destitute of a better Present J make tender only of good will more J haue not for your Honors good worde lesse J hope not Your Lordships most duetifull and humble Seruant W. Warner To the Reader WEll knowe I that Pearles low-prised in India are precious in England that euen Homer was slightly aucthorised in Greece but singularly admyred els-wheare and that for the most part the best Authors find at home their worst Auditors how beit whatsoeuer Writor is most famous the same is therefore indebted to his natiue Language Neither preferre I aboue three speeches before ours for more sententious Onely this error may be thought hatching in our English that to runne on the Letter we often runne from the Matter and being ouer prodigall in Similies wee become lesse profitable in Sentences and more prolixtious to Sence Written haue I alreadie in Prose allowed of some and now friendly Reader offer I Verse and Prose attending thine indifferent Censure In which if grosely I fayle as not greatly I so feare in Veritie Breuitie Inuention and Varietie profitable patheticall pithie and pleasant so farre of shall I be from being oppynionat of myne owne labours that my selfe will also subscribe to prescribe the same for obsurd and erronious But in vayne is it either to intreat or feare the curtious or captious the one will not cauell nor the other be reconscyled My labor is past and your liking to come and thinges hardly founded may easely be confounded Arrogancie is Lynx-eyed into aduantage Enuie capiable of the least error and inconsiderat and selfe conceipted Readers to detract from other mens Trauailes deale as did sacraligious Denys in the Heathen Temples who to stripp the Idolles of their golden Ornaments alledging the same for Sommer to hot and for Winter to colde so inriched himself and robbed the Sainct But such are good minds and the Contraries of these men in reading of Bookes as were the Paganes in reuerencing their Gods sacrafising as deuoutly to a woodden Jupiter as to a golden Jupiter to an Oxe a Cat or vnreuerent Pryapus as to the Sunne the Starres or amiable Venus deuotion and discretion being euermore senceles in ditraction Of the latter sorte therfore I craue pardon presupposing their patience to the former presupposing impatience I offer pardon resting to either and to you all in good will such as I should Yours W. W. ALBIONS ENGLAND ¶ The first Booke of ALBIONS England CHAP. I. I Tell of things done long agoe of manie thinges in few And chieflie of this Elyme of ours the Accidents pursue Thou high Director of the same assist my Artlesse pen To write the gests of Brutons stoute and acts of Englishmen When arked Noah and seuen with him the emptie worldes remain Had left the instrumentall meane that landed them againe And that both man and beast and all did multiplie with store To Asia Sem to Affricke Cham to Europe Iapheth bore Their Families Thus triple wise the worlde deuided was one language common vnto all vntill it came to passe That Nembroth sonne to Chus the sonne of Cham olde Noah his sonne In Chaldia neuer seene vefore an Empire had begunne· As hée and his audatious crewe the Tower of Babell reare Pretending it should checke the cloudes so to auoide the feare Of following flooddes the Creator of creatures beheld The climing tops of cloud-high Towers and more to bée fulfilde To cut of which ambitious plot and quash their proude intent Amongst a worlde of people there hee sundrie spéeches sent So that vnable to conferre about the worke they went The Tower was left vnfinished and euerie man withdrewe Himselfe apart to ioine with those whose language best hée knew And thus confused tongues at first to euerie nation grewe THE Babylonian Saturne though his buildings speede was bad Yet found the meanes that vnder him hée manie nations had Hée was the first that rul'd as king or forraine landes subdude Or went about into the right of others to intrude Ere this aspiring mindes did sléepe and wealth was not pursude His sonne Ioue Belus after him succeeded hée puruaide For dreadfull warres but aw●esse death his dreadfull purpose staide Then Ninus prosecutes the warres preuented Belus sought And filde the wronged world with armes and to subiection brought Much people yet not capable of such his nouile fight From Caldia to Assyrea he translates the Empier quite And caused fire on horses backs before him euer borne To be adorned for a God Thus out of vse was worne In Caldia and Assyria to the honour rightly due To high Iehoua God indéed Idolatrie thus grewe From Ninus first he first of al a Monarchie did frame And built in