Meridian Iapheth the lesse Asia towards the West whence many Nations of Europe proceeded Sems sonnes were fiue Elam of whom came the Persians from him Xenophon deriueth Cyrus Assur of him came the Assyrians Ninus of him the Niniuttes and Badilonians Arphaxad of him the Caldeans and from his Nephewe Fber were dâ—…riued the Herbrues the word signifieth Trauellers or Strangers Of this line came Abraham Dauid and the Messias Aram of him the Syrians descended of which Damasco is the metropolis therefore it was thus written The head of Aram is Damascus The posterity of Cam was Chus of whom came the Aethiopians in the farthest Coasts of Aphrica and the Libians cald to this day Chirsita The sonnes of Chus were Saba of whome the Sabaans and Euila of wheme the Indians descended Nemrod first raignd in Babylon Misraim occupied Aegypt which the Arabians and Turks to this day call Mizri The sonnes of misraim were Lydas who pcopled Lydia a Nation that after seated themselucs in some parts of Itahe and Labain of whom the Sun-burnt Lybians are thought to descend Of Euaâ—…m came the Cyrenians who built the Citty Cerenaica of who came the Mauritanians and of him a famous Riuer that still beares his name Of Canaan came the Sydonians and Tyrians Heath built Hebron where Abraham dwelt and was buried Iebuseus possest Gaba and Ierusalem Iapheths sons were Gomor or Togerma of whom the Cinerians take their originall They are seated beyond Thrace neer the Meotiden Fenne where the Bosphort inhab te not farre from Cimbrica Chersonessus Of Magog came the Sâ—…thians and of them the Turks and to proue the Turke to be in God and Magor Ezechiell saith the Nations of Magog lie toward the south which in the latest dayes shall seeke the fall of Israell And the Apocalip Magog shall lastly Emperise the world Of Madai came the Medes Of Iauan or Iabu the Iouians or Graecians The sonnes of Iauan were Elisa of whome came the Aeolians in Asia minor Tharsis built Tharsis the chiefe Citty of the Cilicians Of Cethim came the Macedonians Of Adodanim the Dodoneans in Epire. Iauan was that Ianus that raignd in Italy Of Tubal came the Hispani and Iberi Of Mosoch came the Muscouites Of Tyrus the Thrasians The Sons of Gomer were Ascanes Riphat and Togorma Of Ascanes came the 〈◊〉 who after shifted theÌ„selues into other Prouinces and ofthem came the Cimbrians the Bythinians the Cancoues the 〈◊〉 and Heueti Of Riphat came the Riphei Gyants that inhabited the Riphean Hilles where the Sanromass then liued By the 〈◊〉 are meant all such as speake in the 〈◊〉 tongue From Riphat came also the Paphlagonians these 〈◊〉 themselues into Europe some inhabiting Russia Lytuania and Polonia from the Adriaticke shoare vnto Illusria Likewise Fistula Albis and Bohemia where before liued the Hermaduri and Boij Among the Sonnes of Sem Gether is numbred of whom came the Getes they were called Gotti or Gothes who inhabited Wallachia these speake the Almain toung and mixt themselues with the Germans whose name is deriued of Gerim and Ani which signifieth miserable Strangers The French are cald 〈◊〉 of Wallen which in the Almain toong signifies Wanderers From Brute cam the Britons since called Angli In Nemrod was the first Monarchy establisht he liued a hundred years after the Floud after 200. yeares Ninus built Niniuy in 〈◊〉 whose wife Semiramis after his death erected the walles of Babilon Ninius her sonne succeeded in whose time Abraham came into Palestine Him succeeded Amraphel king of Sennaar or Babylon Of these Assyrian Monarches Sardanapalus was the last whose proud name we thus deriue Sar a Captaine Dan a ludge 〈◊〉 a Destroyer He was ouerthrowne by phul-Belochus a Babilonian and Arbaces a Medean when Osia raignd in Iuda phul belochus raigned ouer the Babilonians and Niniuites forty yeares Arbaces ouer the Meades and Persians Belochus warred vpon Israel whom succeeded his Sonne Phal Assur called in the Scriptures Tiglat Peilassur He raigned 23. yeares him Salmanasser succeeded and raigned ten yeares he besiedged Samaria of him Hosea speakes Chapter 10. 〈◊〉 succeeded Salmanasser who besiedged Hierusalem and raigned ten yeares his Army was ouerthrowne by the Angels Assur haddon next ruld ten yeares In him declined the Monarchy of Assiria and Merodach became Monarch ouer the Chaldees Benmerodach raigned after his Father 21. after him Nabuchednezzar Primus 35. He warred against Aegipt Nabuchadnezzar Magnus raigned forty in Zedechias time he besiedged Hierusalem a 〈◊〉 and sixe monthes him succeeded euill Merodach who releast Ieconias he dead Balsaar succeeded foureteene 〈◊〉 he was a greet Blasphemer In his time Babylon was raced and the Monarchy transferred to the Persians he himselfe being slaine by Cyrus The kings of Aegypt in the times of this Monarchy were these Osyris with his Wife Isis who liued in the time of Abraham Orus Bochoris Busyris Miris 〈◊〉 who liued in the time of Samson pherones of whom all the Kinges of Egypt were called pharoes Proteus whom some call Cetes to him Paris and Hellen sayled in theyr returne from Greece Rampsinitus Cephus or Cheops Cephris Mycerinus Anycis Sabachus called in the Bible Sesach Sethen Psamneticus Nechos who ouercame Iosia by the Citty Megeddo and was after slaine Nabuchadnezzar 〈◊〉 Apries who sackt 〈◊〉 and slew the Prophet Ieremiah Amasis in whose time the Monarchy came to the Persians In Greece in the time of this Monarchy liued Iapethus the Sonne of Noah after whoÌ„ raigned Hellas now was the expedition of the Argonats Erictheus Perseus and his Acts. The warres of Troy 〈◊〉 with the Theban History notorious in Oedipus and Iocasta with the deathes of the two Brothers Eleocles and Polynices Now were the 〈◊〉 famous Rome in the time of this first Monarchy was bullt the tenth year of Achas King of Iuda It was 〈◊〉 by Kings 6244 yeares Rhomulis raigned 38. Numa 43. Tullius Hostilius 32. Aucus Martius 2 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 37. Seruius Tullius 44. In the last part of his raigne began the Persian Monarchy 〈◊〉 the proud 25. He was repulst his Kingdome by the Consull Brutus because his Sonne Sextus had 〈◊〉 rauished 〈◊〉 the wise of Collatyne The Persian Kings were first Cyrus who raigned 29. hee ouercame Cresus of Lydia besiedged Babylon and was after slaine by Tomyris Queene of Scithia In his time liued Thales Milesius Pithagoras borne in Samos Solon and Draco who first ordred the yeare 〈◊〉 the monthes added the Epact and collected first the Poems of Homor Cambises the second King who raigned 7. years added Egypt to his Empire and couered the Iudgement Seate with the skinne of his false Iudge Sisamnes The third Darius he by the neyhing of his 〈◊〉 was elected Emperor raigned 36. He by the craft of his Friend Zopyrus wan Babylon and added to his Dominions the Getes Cymerians and 〈◊〉 Now liued Hippias the Sonne of Pysistratus in 〈◊〉 and Miltiades This Darius was the Sonne
tast But when the Couenant long before decided Twixt him and Tytan he records at last It pierst his hart with sorrow for his life Seemes to him tedeous led without a wife 28 What bootes him all his Honours and ritch state His wealths-increase and all his worldly pleasure For whom doth he rise early and sleepe late Hauing no heyre to inherite all his Treasure He knowes he hath incur'd his Brothers hate Yet must his seed make of his kingdome seazure He enuyes his owne wealth bicause he knowes All his life time he toyles t' enrich his foes 29 He loues his Sister Sybill yet not so That if she châ—…dren haue their blouds to spill And yet his timerous passions howerly grow Nor can he on her beauty gaze his fill Faine would he marry her and yet doth know If shee haue Issue he her sonnes must kill So that he wishes now but all too late That for his vow he might Exchange his state 30 In this distraction many dayes he dwelt Till Loue at length in Saturnes hart preuailed Such feruent passions in his brest he felt That spight his Oath which he so much bewailed He feeles his soft thoughts in his bosome melt Needs must he yeild whom such faire Jookes assailed And now vpon this desperate point he stood To wade t' her bed thogh throgh his childrens blood 31 This can great Apis witnesse who that time Peloponessus gouern'd This records Iubalda who the Spanish seat doth clime This Craunus kneel'd to by th' Italian Lords This Satron who the Gaules rul'd in his prime Now to Semiramis Assyria affords The Monarchy who after Ninus dide Married her Sonne and perisht by his pride 32 The marriage rights with solemne feasts are done Sybill both wife and sister the first Queene That raign'd in Creete hath now conceiu'd a sonne Neuer hath lesse applausiue ioy bin seene At such a Brides Conception the time 's come The long suspensiue daies expired beene For if a male his blood the Earth must staine A male she brought forth and the Lad was slaine 33 For so the King commanded being a King He thought it base if he should breake his word Oh golden dayes of which the Poets sing How many can this Iron age afford That hold a promise such a precious thing Rather to yeeld their children to the sword Then that the world should say thy oath thou brakest Or wast so base to eate the word thou spakest 33 Such difference is twixt this and that of gold We in our sinnes are stronger Vertues weaker Words tide them fast but vs no bonds can hold They held it vil'd to be a promise breaker A Lyar was as strange in times of old As to find out amongst vs a true speaker Their harts were of pure mettall ours haue flawes Now lawes are wordes in those daies wordes were lawes 34 The Funerall of the first slaine infant ended And the sad daies of mourning quite expir'd At which the pittious Queene was most offended But now her spirits with dull sorrowes tired The King a second metting hath intended And the Queenes nuptiall bed againe desired Sibill conceiues and in her wombe doth cherish More children ready in their birth to perish 35 And growing neere her time the sorrowfull father Displeas'd to see his wife so apt to beare Who for his vowes-sake wish her barren rather The murther of his first sonne toucht him neare Sends through his Land a kingly traine to gather And makes for Delphos hoping he shall heare Some better comfort from the Delphian shrine Whose Oracles the king esteemes diuine 36 He therefore first his sacrifice prepares And on Apollos Altar Incense burnes Then kneeling to the Oracle his praiers Mount with the sacred sume which neare returnes Tell the pleas'd God acquainted with his cares Lookes downe from heauen sees him how he mourns Desiting that his power would nothing hide But tell what of her next birth should betide 37 With that there fell a storme of Raine and Thunder The Temple was all sire the Alter shooke The golden roofe aboue and pauement vnder Trembled at once about gan Saturne looke To see what heauenly power had caus'd this wonder Faine he the holy place would haue forsooke When th' Oracle thus spake thy wife growes great With one that shall depose thee from thy seat 38 For from her royall wombe shall one proceed That in despight of thee in Creet shall dwell So haue the neuer-changing fares decreed Such is the Oracles thrice sacred spell A sonne shall issue from king Saturnes seed That shall enforce his father downe to Hell This heard the discontented king arose And doubly sad away to Creet he goes 39 What shall he do faire Sibils time drawes neere And if the Lad which she brings forth suruiue The newes will stretch vnto his brothers eare To whom he sware to keepe no male aliue Besides a second cause he hath to feare Least he his father from his kingdome driue Then to preuent these ils he swears on hie Inspight of fate the infant borne shall die 40 Yet when the King his first sonnes death records In his resolued thoughts it breeds relenting The bloudy and vnnaturall act affords His troubled thoughts fresh cause of discontenting None dare approach his presence Queene noâ—… Lords That to his first childs death had bin consenting The first vnnaturall act appeares so vilde The king intends to saue his second childe 41 So oft as he the murder cals to mind So oft he vowes the second son to saue But thinking on his couenant grows vnkind And doomes it straight vnto a timelesse graue Againe the name of sonne would pitty find And for his oth some refuge seekes to haue But when the Oracle he doth recall The very thought of that confounded all 42 So deare to him his Crowne and state appeared That he his pompe before his blood preferred It ioyes him to commaund and to liue feared And now he thinkes his foolish pitty erred And setting light his issue seemes well cheared His fortune to the Goddes he hath referred Rather then loose his Scepter t is decreed Had he ten thousand brats they all should bleed 43 Resolu'd thus newes is brought him by his mother That Sibell late in trauell is deliuer'd Of two faire Twins a Sister and a Brother At this report his heart is well nigh shiuer'd Go spare the â—…one quoth he and kill the tother Alas saith she we women are pale-liuer'd And haue not heart to kill no beast so wilde Or brutish but would spare so sweete a childe 44 And shall a father then so madly fare With his owne issue his childs blood to spill And whom the Tigers and fell beasts would spare Shall reasonable man presume to kill The birds more tender ore their young ones are Fishes are kind vnto their issue still Fish bird and beast in sea Aire â—…arth that breedeth Though reasonlesse her tender young ones feedeth 45
Tros Tros Ilion next him stroue Laomedon and he got Priamus And when the Greekes from Troy Aeneas droue He by Creusa had Askanius Who after Carthaginean Dido past Vp through the Riuer Tiber â—…ayles at last 3 At Hostiaes Port the place the Gods behight Aeneas Landes Euander him receiues The Latines King whose Daughter at first sight Aeneas loues and for her sake bercaues The Tuskayne King of life in single fight Turnus being dead the fayre Lauinia leaues Her virgine vowes by whom the Troian Prince Siluius begot and Siluius Brutus since 4 Brutes Mother in her painefull throwes deceast Hâ—… his glancing Shaft his Father slew For which with melancholy griefes infest From Italy the Prince himselfe withdrew Ten thousand voluntary men vnprest Consort him strange aduentures to pursue Whom Corineus with many Troians more Mcetcs and assists new Countries to explore 5 Brute Grecian Pandras who denide him way And through his spacious Kingdome passage free O're-comes in battaile but denyes to stay Till he more Coasts and various Clymats see Fayre Innogen a Virgin fresh as May He marrieth and with Pandras doth agree For her rich Dower to haue a royall fleete Well furnisht for his Trayne with all things meete 6 He past Alcides Pillers euen to Guall Landing in Guien Guffor the proud King Denyes prince Brute to hunt but Mauger all He chac't his Deere and made his Buckes to spring Thence Albion he discries like a white wall Washt with the sea and longs his fleet to bring To a safe Harbour where he might suruay The long sought Isle where he his boues must lay 7 When Ayoth iudged Israell in the yeare Threescore and twelue of his command and state Aegiptian Danaâ—… daughters lauded heere After long search who for they had of late Theyr nine and forty husbands by th'austere Iniunction of their Sire brought to sad Fate Were in a Mastlesse ship to exile throwne And landinging heere cald this Isle Albion 8 Some say of these Viragoes spirits begot Gyants that were of huge and monstrous size Who when they grew to stature spared not Asfinity for Sonne with Mother lies Brother with Sister so the learned Scot Marian doth in his Chronicles comprize And of these lustfull Ladies in small while Twelue thousand Gyants peopled this large I le 9 PRince Brute with Corineus doth Albion enter At Totnes thirty monstrous Gyants kils And after much and dangerous aduenter Builds London cald new Troy his Throne he fils Twenty foure yeares then payes his last debenter To Nature Brittaine he to Locrine wils Scotland to Albanact Wales Camber swayes Israell was iudg'd by Samuell in their dayes 2 Locrine raign'd twenty yeares his wife him slew Because he Sabrine lou'd and her forsooke Mother and Child bold Guendolina threw Into the Seuerne streames who there name tooke From Sabrine In his dayes young Dauid grew And with a Sling the great Goliah strooke At Locrines death sterne Guendoline begun Her husband she succeeds and her her Sonne 3 Madan rul'd forty yeares and in his dayes Was beautious Absolom by Ioab slaine Memprisius twenty yeares the Scepter swayes Procuring first his Brother Manlius bane Whom Madan lou'd and had intent to raise In Lust and ryot he consum'd his raigne For which iust heauens their righteous vengeance powred Memprisius hunting was by Wolues deuoured 4 Him his sonne Ebranke in the Throne succeeds Who gouernes threescore happy Summers thorow Famous for many charitable deeds He builded Yorke Dunbar and Edenborowe Next him Brute Greene-shield don'd th' Imperiall weeds After twelue happy yeares his subiects sorrow For his vntimely Fate and in his raigne B'Elias prayer the Priests of Ball were slaine 5 L'Eill Brutes sonne raignd fiue and twenty yeares And Carleil built then did his seat resigne To young Lud Hurdibras lou'd of his Peeres Who gouernd Britaines Scepter twenty nine He Winchester and Canterbury reares With Shafts-bury then seekes a Throne deuine Whose Obits were in Brittaine long bemoned The propher Zachary in his dayes was stoned 6 BLadud Luds sonne raignd next and Bath erected A Sorcerer and did attempt to flye And hauing twenty yeare the Realme protected He brake his necke downe from a Steeple hie Amos and Amazia were directed In those dayes by the spirit of Prophesie Leir next him in whose time as Bookes say Ionas three dayes in the Whales belly lay 7 Leir built Leicester forty yeares was Crownd Famous in his three Daughters and their Loue The youngest most suspected faithfull found And they that promist most least thankefull proue Kindest Cordeilla that did most abound In filiall zeale next Leir sits aboue Morgan and Cunedadgius two false Peeres Depose their Aunt after fiue vnhappy yeares 8 They ioyntly raigne till Cunedadgius slew His Brother Morgan in Glamorgan-sheere From whom the Title of that Country grew And after gouernd three and thirty yeare Now Naum preacht Riuallo doth pursue The Kingdome next a Prince that had no peere In his dayes Propheside Esay Micheas The Prophets Adad Amos and Oseas 9 Forty six yeares he gouernd In his raigne Rome was first built wise Sibell gaue forth Sawes King Ezechy by God heal'd of hispaine Had fifteene yeares life promist for some cause The Sun full ten Degrees turnd backe againe Thales Milesius to the Greekes gaue Lawes In Brittaine it raind blood Riuallo wained And eight and thirty yeares Gurgustius raigned 10 Now Ioel taughts his Iliads Homer wrate And Glaucus Chius Sodering first inuented Sicillius next Gurgustius takes the state Forty nine yeares he gouernes well contented Amon in Iuda raind Zaleucus sate Iudge on his sonnes eye Ieremy lamented For the sad Tragedy of King Iosias Now flourish Olda Baruch Sophonius 11 Now Phalleris in Agrigentine swayde And thrust Perilles in his brazen Bull To tast the torment he for others made Iago next Sisillius makes vp full Twenty fiue yeares then in his Tombe was laide Nabuchadnezar sought to disanull The Hebrew Lawes susannaes fame increased By th'Elders wrongd by Daniels doome released 12 Fifty foure yeares Kinimachus was knowne After â—…ago in the Brittish Chaire Arion with his Harpe was o're-Boord throwne Whom through the Seas the pittious Dolphin bare Bell was cald God and fore him â—…rumpets blowne And the three Children in the robes they ware Cast in the fiery Furnace now I gesse Liud Solon Sapho the sweet Poâ—…tesse 13 Annaximander th' Horoscope first made Aesope in Birds and Beasts first figured men Next King Kinimachus Gorbodug swayde The Brittish Scepter In the Lyons den Daniell was cast Now Cyrus did inuade Cressus of Lydia t' was the season when Zacharias Aggeus Malack Propheside And the chast Lucresse by her owne hand dide 14 Next Gorbodug Ferrex and Porrex raigned
of Histaspes called in the Scripture Ashuerosh Husband to Hester called by 〈◊〉 Aristona as the Name of Vasts was Atossa Some refer the History of Iudith to these times Fourth Xerxes raigned 20. He 〈◊〉 Greece with an Armye of 10000000. Souldiers his cheese Captaine was Mardonius his chiefe Counseller Artabanus He was first repulsed by Pausanias of Sparta after expeld Greece by 〈◊〉 In these warres were famous Artstides and Cimon 4. Artaxerxus with the long hand ruld 40. He was thought to bee the Son to Darius and Hester In his time liued Esdras Haggeus Zachartus and Nehemiah About the time of the Pelloponesian Warre And now was Rome gouerned by the 〈◊〉 forme of gouernment infamous in the lust of 〈◊〉 to the chast Roman Lady Virginia Darius Nothus raigned 19 In his time hued famous Alcibiades and Sophocles Euripides two famous Tragedians Artaxerxes Memnon 40. he loued the famous Lady Aspatia the Noblest Greekes in his daies were Clearchus Anaxilaus Lisander who conquered Athens after gouerned by 30. Tyrants who were supprest by the 〈◊〉 of Thrasibulus Now happened the Wars betweene the Phocenses and the Locri with 〈◊〉 Leuctricum And now 〈◊〉 Conon and 〈◊〉 EpamaminoÌ„das in Greece about the 〈◊〉 that English Brennus sackt Rome Artaxerxes Ochus next Memnon raigned 26. In his time happened the Warre which was called Bellum sacrum 〈◊〉 raigned foure yeares he was slaine by Bagoas Him Darius succeeded in the sixt yeare of his raigne was slaine by Alexander the Great in whom began the third Monarchy translated to the Gracians Alexander by his Father Phillip deriueth his byrth from Hercules by his Mother Olimpius from Aeacus He conquered the World raigned as Emperor 12. years In the 32. of his age He dead the Monarchy was dâ—…ded into four parts Aegipt Syria Asia Mynor and Macedon The Kinges of Egypt after Alexander were these Ptolomeus the Sonne of Lagus Ptolomeus Philodelphus Alexander Philopater Epiphanes Philometer Euergetes Phiscon Alexander Lathurus Auletes Father to Câ—…patra Dionisius her Brother in whom ended the race of the Ptolomees and now Egypt came vnder the Iâ—…risdiction of the Romans The Kings of Macedon were Perdicas Craterus Antipater Cassander Antigonus 1. Antigonus 2. Demetrius Philippus and Perseus who was surprised by the Romans The Kings of Syria who after the death of Alexander possest Babylon Syria and Asia Minor were Antiochus Soter Antiochus Theos Antiochus Magnus who had these three Sons Seleucus Philopater Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius Demetrius after his Brothers decease had two Sonnes Demetrius Nicanor and Antiochus Sedetes The Son of Nicanor was Antiochus Griphus The Son of Sedetes was Antiochus Cyzenius These hauing slaine each other from theyr Issue Tygranes King of Armenia reâ—…t the Kingdome of Syria which first Lucullus and after Pompeius Magnus annext to the Roman Empyre These in the time of the third Monarchy were Captaines and Gouernors among the Iewes Nehemiah Ioconias Selathiel Zorobabel Resa Mesollam â—…ohanna Ben Resa Iudas Hircanus primus in his Dukedome Alexander flew Darius Iosephus primus Abner Semei Eli matathai Asa mahat Nagid Artaxad Haggai Eli Maslot Nahum Amos Sirach Matathia Siloah Iosephus Iunâ—…r Ianua secunâ—…s Hircanus And then began the race of the Machabees in Matathias whose Sons succeeded him Iudas Ionathas Simon Iohannes Hercanus The Kinges of that line were Aristobulus son to Hercanus Alexander Iâ—…neus Queen Alixandra his Wife otherwise cald Salome The Sonnes of Alexander were Hircanus and Aristobulus in theyr death ended the line of the Machabees Succeeding these in the 30. yeare of the raigne of Herod Tetrache was borne the Sauiour of the World vnto which we haue studyed to reduce the best knowne Nations of the Earth leauing the 4. Monarchy among the Romans who by this time awed the Earth whose warres and Fortunes being so commonly from many worthy Writers translated into our moderne tongue We here omâ—… letting this short Epitome onley serue in the Front of our Booke to instruct your memories and guide your thoughts through those vnknown Deserts in which without this direction many Readers may loose themselues bee this therefore their Pylot to direct them to the harbour of these latter Ages more familiarly knowne Argumentum TYTAN and Saturne differ their great strife Is by their carefull mother VESTA ended Saturane his Sister Sybill takes to wife And the heyre-males that are from theÌ„ descended He doomes to death faire Sybil saues the life Of Iupiter grim Saturne is offended And to the Oracle at Delphos hyes Whiles Titan thrugh the earth his fortune tries ARG. 2. The Worlds Creation gold from the earths veines Neptune and Plutoes birth ALPHA conteines CANTO 1. THis VNIVERSH with all therein conteined Was not at first of Water fashioned Nor of the Fire as others oft haue fcyned Nor of the Ayre as some haue vainly spred Nor the foure Elements in order trained Nor of Vacuitie and Atom's bred Nor hath it beene Eternall as is thought By naturall men that haue no further sought 2 Neither hath man in perpetuity bin And shall on earth eternally perseuer By endlesse Generation running in One circuit In corruption lasting euer Nor did that Nation first on earth begin Vnder the mid Equator some indeuour So to perswade that man was first begunne In the place next to the life-giuing Sunne 3 Neither was he of Earth and water framed Tempered with liuely heat as others write Nor were we in a former world first named As in their curious Problems some recite Others more ripe in Iudgement haue proclaimed Man fram'd of clay in fashion exquisite In whom were breath'd sparkes of Celestiall fire Whence he still keepes his Nature to aspire 4 But this most glorious Vniuerse was made Of nothing by the great Creators will The Ocean bounded in not to inuade Or swallow vp the Land so resteth still The azure Firmament to ouer-shade Both Continent and Waters which fulfil The Makers word one God doth sole extend Without beginning and shall see no end 5 That powerfull Trinity created man Adam of Earth in the faire field Damaske And of his rib he Euah formed than Supplying them with all things they can aske In these first two Humanity began In whom confinde IHBHOVAHS fix-daâ—…es taske From Adam then and Euahs first Creation It followes we deriue our Brittish Nation 6 Inspire me in this taske Ihoues seede I pray With Hippocrenes drops besprinke my head To comfort me vpon this tedious way And quicken my cold braine nigh dull and dead Direct my wandring spirits when they stray Least forren and forbidden paths they tread My iourney 's tedious blame not then my feares My voyage aymes at many thousand yeares 7 Oh giue me leaue from the Worlds first Creation The ancient names of Britons to deriue From Adam to the Worlds first Invndation And so from Noah to vs that yet suruâ—…e And hauing of Troyes
of whom Corinth tooke first name Electra daughter to King Athlas marryed From Lybia hath he fetcht the louely Dame And thence to Naples this rich purchase carried Corinth and Naples are indeed the same One Citty though by Time their names be varried These dying left behinde them to succeed Two Princes Lords of many a vahant deed 3 Whilst Corinth there Memnon all Egypt swayde In Italy Atleus Harbon Gaul Hesperus Spaine the Argine King was made Crassus in France King Ludgus gouern'd all Arming himselfe gainst such as did Inuade Syrus in Syria Assyrias crowne doth fall To Mancaleus which whilst he maintaind Orthopolis in Pelloponessus raign'd 4 Moyses was borne the selfe-same happy yeare That faire Electra was made haplesse Queene Who spake with GOD and saw the bush burne cleare By whom the Israelites deliuered beene From Pharaohs bondage whom the fiery spheare Guided by night when in the day was seene The Cloud to vsher them In whose blest daies Corinthus yssue their proud fortunes raise 5 One Dardanus that other Iasius hight Who strongly for their Fathers Crowne contend And to their aydes assemble many a knight By force of Armes their challenge to defend But Armes nor bloudy battell force nor fight Can vnto this vnnaturall warre giue end Till at the length a Treaty was appointed Which by accord should be the King annointed 6 Iasius to Parlee comes vnarm'd his brother Vnder his Robes of peace bright Armor wore And being met his vengeance could not smother But slew him dead The Lords his death deplore Thus pitiously the one hath kilde the other Iasius vnto his Sepulcher they bore But Dardanus that him so basely slew Vnto the Pallaee Royall they pursue 7 The people such a Traiterous practise hated And vow his blood shall for his murder pay Such as lou'd Iasius the rest animated And round begirt the place where Dardan lay Who cals such friends as on his person waited And in the dead of night steales thence away For well he knowes they Iasius lou'd so deerely That they his murder will reuenge seucrely 8 Before the dawne of day they shipping take The darkenesse of the night their purpose aideth Through the vast Ocean a swift saile they make But as the morning riseth and night fadeth The sterne Corinthians to their fury wake And euery man th'vngarded house inuadeth But when they entring found the brother fled They curse the liuing and lamâ—… the dead 9 Long they their weary Fortunes haue in chase Still in the mercy of the Seas and winde But where to harbor they can find no place Or in the seas wilde deserts comfort finde At length they touch at Samos Isle in Thrace A soile which yet contents not Dardans minde Ballast fresh water victuals he takes in And hoysing saile seekes further shores to win 10 By this the Asian Seas his ships hath past And now within the Helle spont he rides The Marriners the shore discry at last Where calling all their Sea-gods to their guides To their discouery they apply them fast And now their vessels neere the cost abides Not long about the briny beach they houer But Dardan landes the Iland to discouer 11 He finds it fruitfull pleasant and a soile Fit to inhabit hie woods champion fields He holds this countrey worth her former toile The place he likes and to this clime he yeilds And after all his trauell and turmoile He plants himselfe a Citty here he builds He casts a huge Ditch first then layes a frame And after cals it Dardan by his name 12 The time the groundsils of great Troy were layd Was Lacedemon built by computation In Athens Ertchthonius King was made And Danaus ruler ore the Argiue Nation Hercules Dasinas Phenitia swayde Egiptus Egypt now the first foundation Of great Apollos Temple was begun By young Eristhones King Cecrops sonne 13 In processe is much people there conuented Being a Citty well and fairely seated And all such people as this place frequented Were by him and his followers well intreated No stranger from the King past discontented No Marchant in his traffique was defeated In time his wealth and people both abound And here in Dardan Dardanus liues crownd 14 This Dardan on Candame got a sonne Eruton hight who the same state maintained Time keepes his course away the swift howers run The second King in Arts and Warres is trained Imagine seauen and forty Winters dun So long Eruton in this Citty raigned Troos his sonne the kingdome doth enioy And of this Troos came the name of Troy 15 A puissant King in Armes his valors fame Through all the Asian confines stretched far Kingdomes he doth subdue Invadors tame By him the two first kings ecclipsed are And the Dardanians change their auncient name And of King Troos so renowmd in warre Are Troyans cald for so King Troos chargeth And with his fame his new-built towne enlargeth 16 Now all the Graecian Citties Troy out-shineth Whose glory many neighbour kings enuy Yet none so bold that outwardly repineth Or date in publicke tearmes king Troos defie The strongest people he by loue combineth The weaker he by armes doth terrifie King Tantalus that liues in Phrigia crownd Most enuies Troy should be so farre renown'd 17 But leaue we him in enuy Troy in glory For enuy still lookes vpward seldome downe And turne to that which most concernes our story How Iupiter attain'd his fathers crowne How Sybill â—…oyfull was but Saturne sorry To heare his sonnes suruiuing in renowne How Tytan war'd on Saturne how Ione grew And in his fathers aid his Vnckle slew 18 Twixt the Pelagians and Epiriens riseth Contentious warre in Epire raigned then King Milleseus who in armes surpriseth Certaine Pelagians king Lycaons men Lycaon with his watlike troopes aduiseth By pollicy of warre both how and when He may awaite th' Epiriens the like domage And make their king vnto his state do homage 19 At length Ioues Guardian the great Epyre king Vnto the son of Titan offers peace In signe whereof they Oliue branches bring To signifie their hostile Armes surcease Lycaon sonne to Tytan whom wars sting Had likewise gald and spoild his lands increase Applauds the motion sweares to this accord Condition'd thus to leaue an Epire Lord. 20 An Epyre Lord as Hostage straight they take And in Pelagia with Lycaon leaue him There to abide till they amends shall make For all the spoiles th' Eperiens did bereaue him The King the daies doth watch the nights doth wake Least his Epirien hostage should deceiue him Lycaon of his couenant naught doth slacke The time expires the Lord should be sent backe 21 And to that purpose Melliseus sends Ambassadors from Epire to Pelage Who to Lycaon beares his kind commends Lycaon full of spleene and warlike rage To quit his former inâ—…ury intends And with much paine his fury doth asswage Yet giues them outward welcome they desire Their Hostage Lord to
remaine Venson her food and Honey from the Bee The flesh of Elkes of Beares and Bores new slaine Her drinke the pearled brooke her followers maides Her vow chast life her Cloister the Coole shades 60 Her weapons are the Iauelin and the Bow Her garments Angell like of Virgin-white And tuckt aloft her falling skirt below Her Buskin meetes buckled with siluer bright Her Haire behind her like a Cloake doth flow Some tuckt in roules some loose with Flowers bedight Her silken vailes play round about her slacke Her golden Quiuer fals athwart her backe 61 She was the daughter of an antient king Cald Iupiter that sway'd the Attick scepter To her as suters many princes bring Theyr Crownes which scorning she a virgin kept her Yet as her beauties fame abroad doth ring Her suters multiply therefore she stept her Into the forrest meaning to exempt her From such as to their amorous wils would tempt her 62 This new religion famous in a Queene Of such estate and beauty drew from farre Daughters of Princes they that late were seene In Courts of kings now Dians followers are Where they no sooner sworne and entred been But against men and loue they proclaime war Many frequent the groues by Dians motion For fashion some and some too for deuotion 63 The old Plateenses holding her deuine Gaue her the sacred name of Euclia Their maids ere married offered at her shrine And then they freely chus'd their marriage day Without her leaue they neuer tasted wine Or durst in publicke with their husbands play Whole Asia ioyn'd to make a Church of stone Built by the Architector Chersiphrone 64 To this th'Aegiptian hie Pyramides Nor the great Iouiall portract could compare Mausolus Tombe the Manes to appease Rear'd by the Carian Queene but trifles are The huge Colossus that bestrid the seas And made Rhoades famous for a worke so rare Great Babels Tower nor Pharos stately Ile Could ranke with this for cost or height of stile 65 Two hundred twenty years it was in framing In length foure hundred fiue and twenty feet In breadth two hundred twenty Thus proclaiming Their feare of her they chast Diana greet Of all faire Damsels her the Goddesse naming And to her seruice in her Temple meet A Fabricke famous both for height and length Proportion beauty wormanship and strength 66 A hundred seauen and twenty Collumbs great All of white Marble in faire order stand Sixe hundred feet in heigth both huge and neat The like were neuer wrought by mortall hand Princes of sundry Kingdomes that intreat Her Diuine grace and yeild to her command Each one a high and stately piller bringes Full thirty sixe rear'd by so many Kinges 67 All these contend which should the rest exceed In large expence to make it more admir'd Herostratus that neuer did glad deed Neither with wit nor gracious Thewes inspir'd Knowing no meanes his owne renowne to breed In deuilish spleene this royall wonder fier'd The purpose why he did this deed of shame Was that the world should Chronicle his name 68 This when dispoiled Ephesus once knew They made a law with fine to him that brake it To make him lose the fame he did pursue His very name was death to him that spake it For many yeares it dide but times renew And from obliuious dusky Caues awake it Elce had their scilence from these ages kept This strange report that long amongst them slept 69 The world the very day it lost the grace Of this rare worke another Wonder bred Greater than this from royall Philips race That then tooke life when this in fire lay dead In Macedon a much renowmed place Young Alexander in that Temples stead Entred the world whose glories did aspire Aboue this structure then consumd with fire 70 Now is Calisto one of Dians traine And to th' Arcadian Forrest newly flitted Her beauty can scarce equald be againe Mongst al the Huntresses wheres she 's admitted Meane time Ihoue cheeres his friends Inters the slaine And all his businesse is by order fitted The State establisht Time in triumph spent And newes of all by posts to Epire sent 71 His great affayres determin'd the Prince now Hath leysure to bethinke him of that face To which his future actions he doth vow Now he remembers each particular grace That Loue that makes the Idle spirits bow Still giues occasions way and businesse place Abandon sloth and Cupids bow vnbends His brands extinguist and his false fire spends 72 For idlenesse makes Loue and then maintaines What it hathmade when he that well employes His busie houres is free from Venus traines And the true freedome of his thoughts enioyes He had no time to sigh that now complaines The good his businesse did his sloath destroyes Loue from the painfull flyes but there most thriues And prospers best when men lead slothfull liues 73 Being alone Calistoes shape imprest So deepely in his heart liues in his eie Shee 's lodg'd both in the Forrest and his brest And though farre off she is imaginde nie Phabe abroad beholds her mongst the rest Young Ihoue at home in his blind phantasie And now too late he wishes but in vaine Her still at Court or him of Dians traine 74 He haunts the Forrests and those shadowy places Where fayre Dyana hunteth with her Mayds And like a Hunts-man the wilde Stag he chases Onely to spy his Mistresse mongst the shades And if he chance where bright Calisto traces He thankes his fate if not his Starres vpbraids And deemes a tedious Summers day well spent For one short sight of her his soules content 75 At length he thus concludes I am but young No downy heire vpon my face appeare I 'le counterfet a shtill effeminate tongue And d'on such habit as the Huntresse weares When my guilt Quiuer crosse my brest is hung And Bore-speare in my hand such as she beares My blood being fresh my face indifferent faire Modest my eie and neuer shorne my haire 76 Who can discouer me Why may not I Be entred as an Ancresse mongst the rest This is the way that I intend to try Of all my full conclusions held the best My habit I le bespeake so secretly That what I purpose neuer can be gest My Lords assemble and to them shew reason Why I of force must leaue them for a season 77 Th' excuse vnto the Nobles currant seemes He takes his leaue and trauels on his way Of his entended voyage no man deemes Now is he briskt vp in his braue aray So preciously his mistresse hee esteemes That he makes speed to where the Virgins stay And by the way his womanish steps he tride And practis'd how to speake to looke to stride 78 To blush and to make honors and if need To pule and weepe at euery idle toy As women vse next to prepare his weed And his soft hand to Chare-workes to imploy He profits in his practise heauen him speed And of his shape assumed
enemies pike Had by the aime of some strong hand bin cast And side to side through all his entrailes past 45 He comes where all his Lords in counsell sat And tels them of three sons preseru'd to life The Peeres at first seeme much amaz'd thereat Yet all commend the pitty of his wife And praise her vertue intermitting that They next proceed to Tytans hostile strife And thus conclude their enemies to expell Whom they know Barbarous bloody fierce and fell 46 When calling him that the defiance brought This answere backe to Tytan they returne That they his brauing menace set at naught That their owne blouds shall quench the towns they burn That their immediate ruines they haue sought And they no longer can reuenge adiourne But the next sonne shall see strange vengeancetane Of all his Cretan subiects they haue slaine 47 The Messengers dismist while they prepare Armes and munition for the Morrowes field Meane time great Tytans sonnes assembled are Who all their Fortunes on their fury build Their hauty lookes their spleenfull harts declare Each brandishing his sword and ponderous shield Longing to heare from Saturne such reply That on his men they may their valours try 48 Nor do they tempt the Deities in vaine They haue what they desire to them behold The bassled messenger gallops amaine But ere the Knight his message hath halfe told So much the Gyant kings their braues disdaine That with their scornefull feet they spurne the mold Their browes they furrow and their teeth they grate And all the Gods blaspheame to shew their hate 49 Now hath the Sunne slid from his fiery Car And in cold Ister quencht his flaming head Blacke darknes risting from the earth afar You might perceiue the welkin to orespread Orions blazing lockes discouered are Pale Cinthia gouernes in Apolloes stead Bootes his waine about the pole hath driuen And all the stars borne bright that spangle heauen 50 The morning comes Tytan in field appeares In compleat harnesse arm'd from head to toe Next him Aegeon who no Corslet weares Or coat of Armes to incounter any foe Vnarmed as he is he no man feares A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow Made of the Peacockes traine his armes is strong In which he shakes a skeine bright broad and long 51 Creous huge sinnowy Armes and brawny thighes Are naked being tawnied with the sun Buskins he weares that boue his ankles rise Puft with such curl'd silke as Arachne spâ—…n A coat of Armes well mail'd that fits his size Laceth his body in these Armes he woon Of a huge Monster in the Isle of Thrace Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace 52 His knotted beard was as the Porphir blacke So were the fleecy lockes vpon his crowne Which to the middle of his armed backe From his rough shaggy head discended downe His fiery Eie-bals threaten Saturnes wracke Sterne vengeance rous'd her selfe in Caons frowne His sheild a broad iron dore his Lance a beame Oft with his large stride he hath Archt a streame 53 Typhon in skins of Lyons grimly clad Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds The hides of these imperious beasts he had From th'Erithmanthian forrest where his deeds Liue still in memory like one halfe mad The Gyant shewes in these disguised weeds The Lyons iawes gnawing his Helmet stood And grinning with his long fangs stain'd in blood 54 And yet his owne fierce visage lowring vnder Appeares as full of terror as that other Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder Next him appeares Euceladus his Brother Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder This was the onely darling of his mother His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oake With which he menac'st death at euery stroake 59 Hiperion in an armor all of Sunnes Shines like the face of Phoebus o're the rest This Gyant to his valiant Brothers runs Crying to Armes base lingering I detest Damn'd be that Coward soule that damage shuns Or from apparant perill shrinkes his brest Behold where Saturne mongst his people crownd His hornes and Clarions doth to battell sound 56 Saturne appeares as great Hyperion spake Borne in an Iuory chaire with bright stones stoodded Mongst which in trailes ran many an Anticke flake With rich Inamell azur'd greene and rudded At the first push their enemies rankes they brake He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded About him round their bowes his Archers drew A fight which yet their Foe-men neuer knew 57 The big-bon'd Gyants wounded from a farre And seeing none but their owne souldiers by them Amazed stand at this new kind of warre To receiue wounds by such as came not nie them From euery wing they heare their looses iarre They knew not where to turne or how to flie them The showers of Arrowes rain'd so fast and thicke That in their legges thighs brest and armes they stick 58 So long as their strong Bowes of trusty Ewe And silken strings held fast so long fresh riuers Of Crimson blood the Champion did imbrew For euery shaft the Archers Bow deliuers Or kils or woundes one of their countlesse crew But when they once had emptied all their quiuers And that the enemy saw their arrowes wasted To blowes and handy-strokes both armies hasted 59 Thou famous English Henry of that name The fift I cannot but remember thee That wan vnto thy kingdome endlesse fame By thy bold English Archers Chiualry In Agin-Court when to the Frenchmens shame King Dolphin and the chiefe Nobility Were with the ods of thousands forcst to yeeld And Henry Lord of that triumphant field 60 But such successe king Saturne had not then He is in number and in strength too weake His people are but one to Tytans ten Nor are his guards so strong their spleene to wreake The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men Into their foes Battallions rudely breake Their Polaxes and Clubs they heaue on hie The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly 61 The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaues and enter the great Citty Hauocke crying In Cretan bloud they drowne their Chariot Naues And slaughter all the poore Saturniens flying One hand sharpe steele the other fire-brands waues In euery place the grones of people dying Mixt with the Conquerors showts to heauen aspire and in their harsh sound make a dismall Quire 62 The Citty 's ceizd Saturne and Sybill bound Whilst Tytan Lords it in the Cretan Throne His reuelling sonnes for Pillage ransacke round And where they heare Babes shrike or olde men grone They showt for ioy meane time King Saturnes wound Sybill bindes vp and being all alone In prison with her Lord to him relates The fortunes of her sonnes and their estates 63 She tels him that young Ihoue in Epire famed For Martiall triumphs is theyr naturall sonne He that Lycaon queld Pelagia tamed And many spoyles for Milliseus woon No sooner did the King heare young Ihoue named But he repents the wrongs against him doon and proud of such an Issue so
Ledes Evrotes A'ntiopes Danaes Apollo exilde by Iupiter kept Admetus sheepe which Pindarus in pithicis affirme or his Oxen as Horace 1. carminum And therefore he had the title to be called euer after the god of pastures As Virg. 3. Georgic Te quoque Magne pales te memorande Canemus pastor ab Amphriso The end of the fourth CANTO Argumentum KIng Tantalus before the Troians flyes Saturne arriues in Creet and by Troas ayded Once more intendes his Kingdome to surprise Creet is by Troian Ganimede inuaded In ayde of Iupiter the Centaures rise Aegeons ful-fraught Gallies are disladed Danae and her young sonne are turnd afloate By Arges King into a Mast-lesse boate ARG. 2. PElops the two Atrides and Aegeon Vulcan the Gorgones in Epsilon CANTO 5. 1 WHose inspiration shall my heauy brayne Implore to make my dull Inuention light Or to a loftyer key my pen constraine Or raise my Muse that takes so low a flight Thou Ihoue-borne Pallas o're my numbers raine And musicall Apollâ—… giue me spright With the bright rayes that from thy temples shine To shew me way vnto the Muses nine 2 Of whom the eldest Clio first deuisd To Chronicle the Royall gests of Kings Strutting Melpomene in Gules disguisd In Theaters mongst Tragicke Actors sings But soft Thalya hath such straines despisd And to her Commicke sceanes shrill laughter brings Wind Instruments Entirpe best affects Terpsichore the stringed Lyre directs 3 The Geometricke figures Erato Hath in her charge as first by her disclosed But from Calliope hie Stanzoes flow For the Heroik numbers first composed The course of starres are by Vrania know And how the Planets we aboue disposed But Polihimnia smooth Rhetoricke chuses The youngest of Ioues daughters and the Muses 4 All these at once their sacred gifts aspire That may giue beauty to my taske in hand Affoording helpe when I their aide desire To guide my tost-Bark to desired Land A slender barke slow sayl'd and apt to tire And founder in the Sea weake and vnmand Apollo with the rest my voyage speed Whilst to Troyes fatall ruine we proceed 5 King Tantalus the sonne of Iupiter That rain'd in Attique brought an host 'fore Troy Which his sonne Pelops led how can he erre Being directed by so braue a Boy That vndertakes his army to transferre And Troos with his new Citty to destroy This Pelops with the King of Elis ran And in the course bright Hyppodamia wan 6 Her Father Oenemaus was betraid My Myrtolus his treacherous Chariot-driuer And in the race slaine Pelops by his aide Of many suters dead the sole suruiuer After the goale obtaind inioyes the maide Intending with all pompous state to wiue her Th'espousals ended Time with swift pace runnes And she in processe hath producst two sonnes 7 Thyestes and Atreus nam'd the first Ore-come with burning lusts insatiate heat Rauisht Atreus wife oh deed accurst For which Atreus doth him home intreat And takes his Children where the Babes were nurst To dresse their bodies for their fathers meat Some bak't some rost some sod oh bloody deed To make a father on his owne childe feed 8 Atreus two sonnes had the eldest hight Agamemnon who was after Mycenes king And Greekish Generall of the ten yeares fight Twixt Greece and Troy which we must after sing The second Menelaus in whose right The Argiue Dukes their puisant Armies bring Husband to Hellen when prince Paris sought her And Hellen Iupiter and Laedaes daughter 9 But we digresse gainst Pelops and his Sire Ilion and Ganimed from Troy appeare These are the sonnes of Troos many a bold squire They led with them to Ilion the first yeare He rain'd in Troy in bright celestiall fire Came the Palladium downe from heauens high spheare Which Ilions Towers long after did inioy Continuing till the vtter sacke of Troy 10 Their hostile Instruments to battell sound Ten thousand hands at once to heauen are raised Which in their fals as many strike to ground Cowards are scorn'd none but the bold are praised The Troyans haue begirt the Phrygians round Pelops aboue the rest his fame imblazed And Ganimed that doth bold Pelops see Fights as if none need kill a man but he 11 Such was the valour of this Troian youth Though Troos and Ilion both did wondrous well He onely stands defends breakes and pursueth Their standing battailes by his valour fell The Phrigian host now murdred without ruth Charon is tyr'd with ferring soules to hell The Troians follow with victorious â—…ries Whilst Tantalus and valiant Pelops flies 12 This was that Tantalus bright Plota bare Whom for a speciall grace the Gods admit To their high Counsell where they oft repaire He blabs their secrets therefore they held fit To punnish him in hell with torments rare In Laethe chin-deepe he must euer sit Hungry whilst Apples touch his lips and dry Whilst from his thirsty chin the waters flie 13 And this that Pelops whom his father slew And hewd his body into gobbets smal Whose Massacre the Gods in mercy rew And gathering vp his limbes to match them all They misse that peece to ioyne his body new Which from the throat doth to the shoulder fall Which they with Iuory peece and who more bolder Then new-made Pelops with his Iuory shoulder 14 And yet inforst to flie but had his men Bâ—…n euery one a Pelops none had fled He was the last in field preferring then Fore Coward runners the resolued dead But what can one alone gainst thousands ten Led by so braue a Prince as Ganimed Leaue we triumphant Troos now let our hand Direct sea-toyled Saturne safe a Land 15 Who from his sonne in the last battaile flying his Grand-child Archas to the sea-side chast We left him in a ship the Ocean trying Where he hath plowed strange Seas great dangers past Now entring th' Hellespont from farre espying After his tedious course a Towne at last His Martiners to shore their sailes imploy And Sea-beat Saturne touches land fore Troy 16 Which Troos amidst his plausiue triumphs seeing With Ilion Ganimed and thousand more Makes towards the harbor whilst old Saturne freeing His men from ship-bord hath imprest the shore He makes his habit with his stile agreeing The Troyans wonder at the state he bore Himselfe so well prepar'd his ships so faire Both to the barbarous Troians seeming rare 17 So small a number can no warre pretend Therefore their strange arriue they neede not feare As farre as doth their Hemisphere extend They view the sea but see no shipping neare Which makes the King salute him as a frend And aske the reason of his landing there Saturne replies Behold poore strangers throwne To vnknowne people on a Land vnknowne 18 Yet would you haue his Countrey Nation name That knowes not on whose earth his bold feet tread Nor with what breath he may his stile proclaime From his owne Natiue ayre so farre being fled If you perhaps haue relisht Saturnes
implacable Prince his rage thus wreakes Behold what doome the Impartiall Deities Alot the wretch that Lawes of honor breakes So with his shiled Gergonian him pursude Hardning the face which he behind him skrewd 45 At th' instant his retorted necke waxt hard His spread Armes stiffe his fixt eyes shewing feare And you would thinke his shape all sence debard Spake as it stood words that a man might heare These tumults done and Hymens rights prepard The Prince intends another course to beare He takes his leaue consorted with his Bride And to his Mother his swift steps applide 46 In the Mid-way he youthfull Danaus meets His hopefull Brother who at the first sight Salutes him and his wife with kind regreets In many a sweet discourse they spend that night At length the Murke and Palped darkenesse fleets From the skies azurd forehead with the light The Princes rise and speed them to the shore To which the mast-lesse boat their mother bore 47 Now Phrigian Mydas famous for his eares In giuing Apolloes honor to God Pan And for his golden wish the Scepter beares Of Phrigia In Israell that good man Samgor was Iudge whose power so great appeares He of the Philistyns kild many a man And in one battaile whilst the Trumpets blew VVith an Oxe-goade sixe hundred Heathen slew 48 But in these passages great Saturnes Sonne That with the Troians was at broad hostility At Ganimeds request a league begun Now Ihoue and Troos are one he whose ability Could not defend his Troy from being ore-run Now can commaund Troyes foes with much facility So to yeeld way rebates the greatest stroake So softest walles hard bullets soonest choake 49 T'wixt England and great Spaine two potent Nations Like enmity hath long time beene commenced And whilst Eliza liu'd her proclamations Oppos'd their pride and her owne Prouince fenced But now with mutuall kind Congratulations All iniuries on both sides are dispensed And our great Englands Ihoue for Spaines best vse Hath at their suite granted a termine Truce 50 Troos yeelds his due to Nature him succeeds Ilion his Sonne who Ilions high Towers reard More famous for his buildings then braue deeds A royall Prince and more beloud then feard He for a present sends foure milke-white Steedes To Cretan Ihoue a Present much indeerd Who by the Knight that such a treasure brought Re-sends a pretious gold-branch quaintly wrought 51 Much richer gifts in enterchange of state Our Soueraigne to the lofty Spaniard gaue The warlike Constable who came of late From Hespery a fiue yeares truce to craue More precious presents and of dearer rate Bare Englands Admirall both rich and braue When from K. Iames sent with a princely traine He was the great Embassador for Spaine 52 Ihoues branch cald the Palladium the King plac'st In Pallas royall Temple where it stood Till Troyes proud wals were quite deiect and rac'st And Islions lofty Turrets swam in blood Great Islion dies and he that next him grac'st The Troian Crowne a prince not all so good Laomedon of whom vve heere vvill stay To beare the Sonnes of Danae on their way 53 Who as they past the desart from a farre They might espy a goodly Knight lie spread Vpon the grasse he seem'd a man of Warre For he was arm'd at all points saue the head On his faire brow appear'd no souldier scarre It seemes he had not Armes long managed Exchanges past of many a kind salute Thus speaks the ◅med Knight whilft they stand mute 54 Who hath not of the great Acrisius hard Acrisius hē that built the brazen Tower Novv Arges King no longer but debard His nat◅e kingdome by his Brothers power His Brother Pricus hath against him ward And all his glor◅s reft him in an hovver Stay there quoth Perseus you haue toucht me neerly Acrisius vvrongs King Pricus shall buy deerely 54 Weare Acrisius Grand-child and discended From beautious Danae and that fort of Brasse That Lady Rumor hath so farre commended Who in Gold-liquid-showre-drops courted was Oh! vvhere vvas I Acrisius t' haue defended With Pricus blood to haue staind the Argiue grasse Both Abas sonnes a Prince frugall and thrifty He Linceus sonne the sole remaine of fifty 56 Is Brother-hood abroad so light esteemed That kingdomes can such holy knots vnty Let me no more Ihoues Royall soone be deemed But for Acrisius wrongs King Pricus die He that in all the world austeerest seemed And stood vpon most points of honesty Hath prou'd the greatest Hypocrite like those Without precise within religious foes 57 Assist me Noble Knight in this aduenture Quoth the great Gorgon-tamer when replide The armed stranger by the firme Inde◅ture Of honor I am else-where bound to ride But if with me you will my voyage enter And see what shall my Chiualry betide My Noble taske atchieu'd I then wil lead you To Pricus where my knowledge much may sted you 58 When I the Triple-shapt Chimere haue slaine Whose dreadfull forme makes all Sicilia quake Bellerephon will then returne againe And your attempt gainst Pricus vndertake The Princes wonder at Chimeraes name And that one knight his desperate life should stake Against such ods asking what Imposition Hath sent him on this dangerous expedition 59 Or whether vncompeld he be so mad To seeke assur'd destruction and to scale The Deuils den where nothing can be had But certain ruine his tough skin is Male A terrible huge Lyons head which drad A Chieures body and a Serpents tale Him whose vast gorge whole armies cannot fill Why should one desperate Knight attempt to kill 60 Bellerephon replies by Pricus doome Not my owne will I am compeld to go Else in my growing yeares that yet but bloome I 'de flesh my sword on a more equall foe But in Sicilia I must seeke my Toombe Or kill the triple-Monster dreaded so Sayth Perseus then VVhat makes him so seuere Attend quoth he great Princes you shall heare 61 Oh! Why did Nature frame these Women fayre And make theyr outward features Angell-bright When their blacke insides staynd and spotted are With Lust with Pride Contempt disdaine Spight Why should the snowy Swans in beauty ◅re Haue such blacke feet Why should the Lilly white Beare such ranke smel Can men withstand their fates When golden vessailes bring in poysoned cates 62 I thought I might haue gatherd a fresh Rose And not haue prick't my finger with a Thorne Or a sweete flower out of the Garden chose But not a Nettle in my hand haue worne Still next the sweetest flower the Nettle growes The rarest beauty hath the rudest scorne The Rouers Shippe beares the best promising sayles The foulest Serpents the most golden skales 63 By a fayre Woman is my youth mispent My Innocent youth that neuer loue imbraced Her deuillish mind to mallice wholly bent My fortunes hath o're turnd my Name disgraced And I through her maleuol◅t entent Like a poore exile from my Countrey chaced Oh woman
And cries alowd poore Troy shall burne in flames Oh had not changelesse Fate made deafe their eares They had bin mou'd Th' vnhappy King she blames The credulous Queene rash Paris and all Troy That giue consent their Citty to destroy 90 But as her Deuinations neuer fayled So were they neuer credited for true Till Troy vnwares with mischiefe was assayled And then too late their misbeliefe they rue They that now held her mad ere long bewailed Their slacke distrust when threatned Ils ensue But t was a Fate their Sawes were still neglected and till prooud true by processe false suspected 91 Apollo in whose sacred gift remaines The true presage and ken of future things Dotes on Cassandraes beauty and complaines To her chast eares he tunes his golden strings The crasty Girle that in her heart disdaines The gold as she had earst despised Kings Demands a boone which Phaebus hath decreed To grant Cassandra in sure hope to speed 92 He sweares by Styx an oath that cannot change That he will graunt what she shall next impose him She askes to know the skill of secrets strange And future Prophesies withall she shewes him Her beauty where his eyes may freely range The amorous God of Fire securely throwes him In her faire lap and on her Iuory brest Laies his bright head so grants her her request 93 But when she feeles a deuine spirit infus'd Through all her parts this Phoebus did inspire She fled his loose imbraces and refus'd By any meanes to accomplish his desire He mad with anger to be thus abus'd Thus sayes Thou think'st to mock the God of Fire Thy Sawes though sooth yet shall do no man good Not be beleeu'd or else not vnderstood 94 This was the cause the King remain'd vnmou'd The Queene vntoucht with her lamenting cries And all those Princes that their safeties lou'd Though long for-warn'd her Counsell yet despise Her Spels haue credit when th' euents are prou'd Till then though true they are esteemed lies But leaue Cassandra to her ceaselesse care And Paris to his Troian Fleet prepare 95 Who with his Brother Deiphebus sends To hast Aeneas to the Seas with speed Polydamus Anthenor and such frends As in this generall voyage were agreed His Souldiers most Pannonians he entends Shall rather see his Aunt from Aiax freed Or some bright Graecian Queene for her disgrace Shall Captiue liue in faire Hesiones place 96 Imbarckt and passing diuers Seas at last In Lacedemons Port they safely Land But what twixt Paris and bright Hellen past What fauours he receiu'd from her faire hand How the Greeke Spartan Queene the Troian grac'st You in the sequell Booke must vnderstand Some small retyrement at this time we craue What you want heere another place shall haue TOuching the Dignity of Poets I referre you to Ouids 3. Booke De arte Amandi omitting others translating him thus SEe see What alterations rude time brings Poets of old were the right hands of Kings Large were their gifts supreame was their reward Their meeterd Lines with feare and reuerence hard Honour and state and sacred Maiesty Belong'd to such as studied Poetry Ennius by Scipio the great was sought And from the Mountaines in Calabria brought Dishonoured now the Iuy Garland lies The Ancient worship vnto Poets dies Yet should we striue our owne fames to awake Homer an euerlasting worke did make His Illiades cald else who had Homer knowne Had Danae in her Tower an old wife growne And neuer vnto publish view resorted How had her beauty bin so farre reported And in another place proceedeth thus We in our flowing numbers beauty praise And in our Poems your deserts can raise We first bestow'd on Nemesis a name Cinthia by our admittance keeps hir fame Lycoris neuer hath bin knowne before By vs she sounds in euery forraine shore And many proffer me large gifts to know Who my Corinna is whom I praise so In vs there is a power shall neuer perrish Vs the Pierides and Muses cherrish A Godhead raignes in vs with the stars We haue Trafficke and acquaintance holding wars Which none saue Barbarisme our Sacred spirit We from the bye Deuinest powers inherit POlydor was sonne to Priam and Hecuba who was committed to Polynestor to be kept in the time of the Troian warres with a great sum of money The description of the Troians be according to Dares the Troian who liued in the warres of Troy and writ their vtter subuersion The Peletronij were the Lapithes who first found the vse of Bridles Bits and Snaffels so cald of Peletronium a Towne in Thessaly Castor and Pollux were two twins whom Iupiter begot of Laeda Kings in Achaya Brothers to Helena The Fortunes of Paris his casting out to bee a Sheapherd after the ominous dreame of his Mother with the vision of the three Goddesses in the mount of Ida are more at large expressed in his Epistle to Helena Cassandraes Prophesies true and neuer credited alude to the Prophet Tyresias a Southsayer of Thebes Who vvith striking two Adders ingendring became forthwith a Woman Seauen yeares after he likewise finding two Serpents stroke them and was immediately turned againe into a man and participated both the affection of man and vvoman It so fell out that Iupiter and Iuno arguing fel into great difference Shee holding obstinately Women lesse wanton then men Hee affirming men lesse Lasciuious then Women and who can better moderate this discention then Tyresius that had felt the desires of both to him they appeale He tooke Iupiters part and averd Women to be most Luxurious At vvhich Iuno inraged strooke him vvith blindnesse vvhich because Iupiter could not helpe for one Godde cannot vndoe what another hath done she gaue him the guift of Prophesie to vvhich the spightfull Goddesse added also this that his Prophefies though true yet they shoulde neuer bee beleeued Clazemonij vvere people of Ionia Of that Country Artemō was cald Clazemonius It was the name of a Physitian in Pliny also a beautiful young man much loued of al Women Mideus wat called Messenius of Messe a Towne in Peloponesus Of Acrisius vvee haue spoake before the Father of Danae ' his Brother Praetus sought to dispossesse him of his kingdom and they are said to be the first that vsed a shield in battaile Of the Palladium what it was many writers differ Palladia are all such Images as are made without hands or such as fell from heauen to Earth such was the Palladiū of I roy and light first in the Citty Pessinus a Mart-Towne in Phrygia where Sibell had a Temple Others thinke it to be giuen by Iupiter to Icus the Brother of Ganimed whose censure we most allow Though others write this Palladium to bee made by Asius a great Phylosopher and a Mathematitian of whom the thirde part of the world was called Asia being modeld with this Vertue that the Citty which inioyed it shoulde for the time be inuincible The like things
Menelaus his sad howers in anguish wasts By this the Graecian Kinges his sorrowes know And of themselues assemble offering free Theyr hostyle ayde and in Troyes fall agree 14 To bring so huge a Nauy on the Seas Behooues vs know theyr names that first deuisde These noble vessayles whether for their ease Whether Ambitious they the Land despisde Whether the Creatan Minos did first please The sutges God or Neptune enterprise The foaming billowes being by Saturnes motion Made Admirall of all the brinish Ocean 15 Whether Ericthris in the red Sea sayled And first made Boats which others would impute To the Meones such as neuer sayled In th'Hellespont or whether the pursuit Of Danaus in the Egyptian Sea preuailed An honour which to him most attribute Or whether Navigators first had place In Atlas kingdome or in Samo-Thrace 16 This I averre his Arke first Noah made Fore th' vniuersall Deluge since his dayes Iason the Greeke who Colchos sought to invade Composde the Galley which next him assayes Sesostris King of Aegypt In this Trade Eytheus flourisht whom our Anthors prayse For Marine skill his Barge did first deuide The Surges with two Oares on eyther side 17 First with three course of Oares Amocles rowed The Carthagens with foure as many write With fiue Nesichthon These were first bestowed By the bold Romans in the great Sea-fight At the first battayle Punicke He that owed The sixe-Oard barge to do Zenagaras right Must yeld it him in Siracusa dwelling For ship-wrights Craft all other much excelling 18 Hyppias the Troyan the broad Lyter framed The Cyrenens the Hoy which some more fine The Gallioon call with Barks the Cyprians tamed The rude sea-Rouers Cockboates some diuine Th' ◅lyrians built the Keele and Craer were named By the Phenetians first the Brigandine The Rhodians rear'd the Canoas now in trade In India by the Germans were first made 19 The Copians found the Rudder the broad Oare The sly Plateans by their Art composed Young Icarus the saile not knowne before Which some affirme King Aeolus disclosed With Masts and Sayle-yards Dedalus did store The Cretans but the sterne Typhis disposed The stemme Pyseus Anacharsis wrought The Tackle Anchors first the Tyrhens sought 20 Athens first ferried men whether we must draw Th'Graecian fleete the great'st that hath bin seene Such store th' amazed Neptune neuer saw No not when France and England met betweene Callice and vs where after many a flaw Phillip gaue place to the third Edwards spleene Before the blacke Prince by wars prosperous chance Quater'd our Lyons with the Flowers of France 21 Nor when the stout Venetian Gallies frame Their expedition gainst the Turkes Armade Nor when Sea-wars Malta or Rhodes proclaime Whose ponderous hulkes the Oceans backe nie swayde Nor when th'◅uincible huge Nauy came In the yeare Eighty eight England t' inuade Were there so many Vessailes well prouided As by the Argiue Pylots are now guided 22 Great Agamemnon they Grand-Duke create Of all their powerfull hoast who in the ayde Of Menelaus as one of hyest estate With full an hundred ships at Athens staide All stuft with Armed Knights sworne to the Fate Of threatned Troy whome they with scornes vpbraid With forty ships faire rig'd and well supplide In Athens road doth Menelaus now ride 23 For Athens was their Randeuous and there King Archelaus and Prothenor stay With fifty Ships that of Boetia were With fifty Ships from Orconomies bay Helmius and Duke Ascalaphus appeare The Kings Epistrophus and Sedius way Their Anchors next and to the Spartan King Thirty tall ships rig'd from Phociden bring 24 King Telamon launcht fifty Souldierd well From Salamine and in his princely traine Duke Theuter Polyxeme and Thebes fell With Duke Amphimachus from Pylon came With three-ag'd Nestor fifty ships t' expell The Troians from the Hellesponticke Maine Thoas with fifty ships the harbour sought whether K. Doxunois likewise fifty brought 25 King Telamon Chileus three times ten And six good Ships rig'd in the Spartans Quest Amphimachus and Polibetes men Of high rcsolue accompany the rest With thirty saile King Idumeus then And Cretan Mereon their loues exprest They fourescore and two Frigots brought in place And thirty two Vlisses weighed from Thrace 26 Twelue Ships from Phrygia Duke Tynelus brings And from Phtlaca fifty two arriue at the great charge of two imperious Kings Prothocathus The Prince to that did wiue Laodomeia faire whose praise Fame sings Prothesilaus Collesis seeks to driue With foure and twenty Craers th'opposed fleets Whom King Machaon by appointment meets 27 Machaons Sonne Pollydris thirty three Achilles two and twenty hath in store King Thelaphus as many these agree By their ioynt Armes to win the Troian shore Eruphilus hath likewise vowd to free The rauisht Queene with two and fifty more Anthipus and Amphimachus are seene From Rustican with Hulkes and Hoyes thirteene 27 King Polybetes that from Rythee came Bring sixty two and in his friendly ayde His Brother the Duke Lopius mou'd with fame Of these great warres seekes Phrygia to i◅ade King Diomed of Arges threats the same Fourescore and two tall Vessailes he displaide Eurialus and Thelanus in sight Of all the hoast beneath his Ensignes sight 29 Thirteene K. Fureus Polyphebus nine Prothoylus fifty two as many led The King Carpenor of the Bresseian line Theorius foure and twenty colours spread In foure and twenty ships all these in fine In the Athenian part meet and make head Twelue hundred twenty Ships make th' Ocean trēble In whom full sixty nine bold Kings assemble 38 But ere we further enter or proceed In these Heroike wars we hold it fit Before the Graecians or the Troians bleed To memorize their shapes ere we admit The Argiue Peeres all in one thought agreed To be reueng'd on Troy and ransacke it Hellen the first as Pearelesse through all Lands As Venus picture that in Coos stands 31 She was nor dwarfe-like statur'd nor too tall Nor foggy fat nor yet Consumptiue leane Her Wast not grosse nor yet too slender-small Her saire proportion was smooth quaint and cleane Her habit shadowed no extreame at all She was all shaped by the Golden meane So rare that neuer eye dwelt on her Checke But lost it selfe and had his light to seeke 32 What should I with harsh Language slubber o're Exact perfection Shall my ragged quill In seeking Natures cunning to explore Iniure the worke in which she shewes such skill T' expresse such Graces as the Gods adore In Hellen would a spacious Volume fill And asko should I her beauties al recite A world of Paper and an Age to write 33 And all my Subiect should be Hellen she That in the Vniuerse can find no peere Hellen the scope of all my
is figured in his face And in his lookes the eye of Gorgons burnes The Greekes blunt sword can scarce his Helmet race So weake a foe inflamed Hector scornes Vpon his Crest his Faulchion he lets fall And cleaues the Greeke helme body armes and all 59 The emulous son of Thetis crost by chance The blacke goar'd field and came to view this blow And mad in mind against him charg'd his Lance In hope the towring Prince to ouerthrow Him Thoas seconds and doth proudly'aduance His reeking sword late crimson'd in the foe Both with remorflesse blowes the Prince offend And his bruisd Shield about his arme they bend 60 Had not his helmet beene of mettall pure With Axes they had hewed it from his head But he that made it was an Arts-man sure Else had his braines bin on his harnesse spread Nor had he long bin able to indure Such tedious battry had not Fortune led Paris Aeneas Troylus and the rest To rescue valiant Hector thus opprest 61 At their approch the Achive bands retire Whom to their Pallisadoes they pursue By this in heauen ten thousand Lampes of fire Shine through the ayre and now both Hoasts withdrew The re-assembled Greekes Hector admire And mongst themselues into sad counsell grew Since not by force of Armes by what sly traine The neuer-daunted Worthy may be slaine 62 More honoured Hector in his royall braine Reuolues on milder thoughts how bloud to saue It pitties him to see so many slaine And come to such a generall timelesse graue Then that no more red bloud may Symois staine And change the coulour of her siluer waue He by a generall challenge will deuise For thousands safeties one to Sacrifice 63 Against all Greece hee 'l flyng his hostile gage And to a single Fight their Princes dare That two bolde Champions may the combat wage And in their mutuall Fury thousands spare Meane time blacke night from th' vniuersall Stage Of Earth is cha'st and driuen Now all prepare For th' early Field and with Apollo rise To shine in Armour by his rhadiant eies 64 The Princes to the place where Hector lay Throng in theyr Armes and his command attend After they had tooke and giuen the time of day with him they to the aged King descend Before whom Hector briefly doth display his purpost challenge which they all commend For well his Father and his Brothers know Hector hath power t' incounter any foe 65 The Sunne vp the steepe Easterne hils clymes fast Th'embattaild Greekes vpon the plaines appeare To them the faire-rankt Troians march in hast Within the reach of Hectors armed speare Both Hoasts attend the charge when vnagast The Prince first wafts that all the Campemay may heare Then leaning on his Iauelin makes this boast Euen in the face of their assembled hoast 66 You curled Greekes that haue vnpeopled quite Threescore vast Kingdomes of theyr ablest men To throng our fieldes with numbers infinite All hopelesse of theyr safe returne agen Among these sixty Kings that shine so bright In burnisht Steele vpon this sanguine Fen Can you select one boulder then the rest T' encounter armed Hector Creast to Creast 67 Or if your Princes be too weake a number Can all those threescore Climats yeild one hand Amidst this world that coms our Realme to cumber That dares betweene these hoasts gainst Hector stand Or doe you all feare deaths eternall slumber As well your Kinges as those of common band That with a braue breath'd in so many eares No soule more valiant then the rest appeares 68 If any of these Princes proue so free His prodigall life against ours to ingage Know by exposing his whole thousands be Sau'd from the spoyle of warres infernall rage Oh let me then that thrifty Champion see That will spare Graecian blood with him â—…wage wage Equall contention with my liues expence I will maintaine the Troians eminence 69 A Prince shall meet that Prince as neere allide To thundering Ihoue as he that 's best degreed If in his warlike Chariot he will ride I in my Chariot will conâ—…tont his speed March me these foure white Coursers Greece hath tride These faire Andromache doth mornely feed With her white hand with bread of purest wheat And waters them with Wine still when they eat 70 Xanthus Podargus Lampus Aethon deare To Hector you my armed Coach shall draw And in this fierce exposure shall appeare Before the best Steeds that the Sun ere saw But all Greece cannot match your swift Carrere Not Diomedes Steeds that fed on râ—…w And mangled limbes that in their Mangers bleed Can equall you in courage or in speed 71 Therefore I le cease that oddes and once againe Leauing the Kings to common men I turne Among such clusters growing on this plaine In no warme brest doth so much valor burne But shall so many shewers of blood still raine On Symois banke so many widdowes mourne For their slaine Lords so many Children cry For their poore Fathers that heere slaughtred die 72 If not for Loue of honour in despaire Methinkes some one our puissance should accost For noâ—… two soules that heere assembled are Shall scape the â—…y of our Troian hoast Death and deuouring ruin shall not spare One of your infinites you are ingrost All on destructions File then let some Greeke Despairing life a death with honor seeke 73 Yeilds our besieged Towne a Nobler spirit Then sixty assembled Kingdomes can produce That none dares enterpose his hostile merit But all put off this combat with excuse Among such infinites will none inherit A name with vs Feares Greece our hand shall sluce Their Vniuersall blood That feare can slaue So many Legions with one Hectors braue 74 I beg it of you Greekes let some forth stand To try what puissancelyes in Hectors sword If I be foyl'd by his all-daring hand The Spartan Hellen shall be soone restord And all the spoyles brought from the fertile Land Of Cythara made good and he ador'd With these ennobled armes the sword and crest Of Hector Honors more then all the rest 75 If I subdue your Champion Greece in peace Shall ease our burden'd earth of this huge weight Hostility betweene our hoasts shall cease You with your men and armes your ships shall freight And from our bloud-stain'd soyle free this large prease So shall illustrate Hector reach his height When th' Vniuersall world hath vnderstood Hector gag'd his to saue his Citties blood 76 Oh let it not in after times be saide Twice thirty kingdomes could not one man finde Prince Knight or Swaine durst equally inuade A Troian Prince in Armes and height of mind Nor let succeeding time the Greekes vpbraide To heare such lofty spirits so soone declinde Behold heere stand I to abide the rage Of his arm'd hand that dares but touch our gage 77 These words thus breath'd a generall showt is giuen Through al the Trâ—…n army which aspires And strikes against the Marble floores of heauen Where fixed are
whose skill Ouid remembers By art of Sayle and Oare Seas are diuided By art the Chariot runs by art Loue 's guided By art are Bridles rain'd in or let slip Typhis by art did steare th' Hemonian ship And Tymes succeeding shall call me alon Loues expert Typhis and Antomedon The reason why Achilles kept his Tent and was not in the field when Hector breathed his chalenge is not fully resolued some thinke he was discontent about a difference betwixt the Generall Agamemnon and him who kept away perforce Briseis a beauteous Lady claimed by Achilles as his Prise which wee rather follow in our History then to lay his absence on his Loue to Polixena whom hee had not yet seene and the promise which for her sake he made to Hecuba to keepe himselfe and his Mâ—…midons from the battaile Achelous was sonne to Oceanus and Tellus viz the sea and the Earth whence all Riuers are deriued who beeing vanquisht by Hercules hid himselfe in the Riuer called of himselfe Achelous a famous stoud in Greece diuiding Aetolia from Acatnauia This Achelous was before called Thoas and riseth from the Mount Pindus but Plutarch calleth it Thestius of Thestius the son of Mars and Pisidices who had three daughters Calirhoe Castalia and Dirce of whom the famous Greeke Poet Akeloou thugater diska c. Oh Acheloi filia venerande Virgo dierce The Flouds of Achelous were so famous that all the waters vsed in the deuine sacrifices were by the Oracle cald Aquae Acheloae The Poets faine him to transhape himselfe in a Bul because Riuersplow the earth as Oxen make Furrowes or because Buls draw neere to the brinkes of riuers when they bellow for fresh pasture else because waters breaking violently through any fall make a confused noise like the roarings of many Buls together He was â—…ald a Dragon by his many indented windings and turnings Hercules being leagued with King Oeneus vndertooke to suppresse this raging riuer whose many inundations had much damag'd his Kiingdome who extenuating his maine streame by inforcing it into many riualets by that meanes made the country more fertil therefore it was moraliz'd that Hercules breaking off his horn receiu'd in the same all fruits of plenty To this Cornucopia or horne of abundance Iupiter gaue this property that whosoeuer held it and wisht should receiue according to their desire The rarieties of the most choise fruits and wines of all kinds how delicious soeuer to tast the Pallat. This vertue was first prou'd by Amatthea daughter to Hemonius King of Aetolia though some take Amatthea to be the Goat that nurst Iupiter with her milke when Rhea had giuen him to be brought vp to Adrastea and Isde. The end of the twelfth CANTO Argumentum A Chilles dotes on beauteous Polixaine And at her faire request refraines the fielde The Truce expierd both Hoasts prepare againe For battaile with proud harts in valour steel'd The Greekes are beate backe many kild and taine Patroclus don's Achilles Armes and shield Him Hector for Achilles tooke and slew Whose Armor gone his Mother seeks him new ARG. 2. TRuce after Combat Hecuba is wonne By Paris meanes to league with Thetis sonne CANTO 13. 1 AWake soft Muse from sleepe and after rest Shew thy selfe quicke and actiue in thy way Thy labouring flight and trauell long opprest Is comforted no longer then delay But with thy swiftest winges fly in the Quest Of thy prefyxed goale The happy day In which this Kingdome did her wide armes spread To imbrace king Iames our Soueraigne Lord head 2 And you great Lord to whom I Dedicate A second worke the yssue of my braine Accept this Twin to that you saw of late Sib to the first and of the selfe-same straine That onely craue the shelters of your state To keepe it from all stormes of Haâ—…le and Raine Who neither dread the rage of winds or Thunder whilst your faire roofe they may be shadowed vndâ—…r 3 Your fauour and protection deckes my phrase and is to me like Ariadnes clew To guide me through the Laborinthean Maze 〈◊〉 which my brain 's intangled T is by you That euery vulger eye hath leaue to gaze and on this Proâ—…ct takes free enter view Which but t' expresse a due debt yet vnpaid Had still remain'd vnperfect and vnmade 4 Proceed we then and where we left repaire About his head the Tree rough Aiax flings Like to a threatning Meteor in the aire Which where it lights exitiall ruin brings Such seemes th'vngrounded Oake leauelesse and bare Who shakes ore Hectors Crest her rooted strings And with such rude impetuous fury fell T' haue dingd him through the Center downe to hel 5 But Hector with his broad shield waits the fall Which shiuers all the plates of his strong Targe The Graectans too much fury strikes withall The plant from his owne hands in his rough charge Vnarm'd once more they grapple to make thrall Each others strength their armes sinnowy and large About their sides with mutuall strength they cling and wrastling striue which can each other fling 6 When loe the Kings on bothsides much admiting Their neuer equald valour loth to lose Such Champions in whose charging or retyring Their spring of victory declines or Flowes Their Conquests droop towards earth or rise aspiring The generall of each hoast his Warder throwes Betweene the Combattants who still contend By slight of strength to giue the difference end 7 Two Guards from either Army step betweene Their heated furies till their blood retyr'd For with fresh breath they both abate their spleene And cease that Combate thousands late admyr'd Instead of blowes their friendly Armes are seene T'infold each other with new loues inspyr'd Aiax his Belt pluckes from athwart his brest And giues to Hector of all Knights the best 8 Who takes a good sword flesht on many a foe And enter-chang'd with Aiax but oh Fate Two ominous Tokens these good Knights bestow Which to themselues prou'd most vnfortunate To Hectors heeles must Aiax Baldricke grow And three times drag him by each Troian gate Whose sight whole Troy with clamorous shricks shal fill With Hectors sword Aiax must Aiax kil 9 These passages of friendship giuen and tooke Behold a Herald from the Towne appeares Who greets the proud Greekes with a friendly looke From Priam reuerent both in state and yeares Them whom but late the Troians could not brooke Troy now inuites and for a space forbeares All hostile hate betweene both hoasts proclaiming A day of Iubile for feast and gaming 10 The Faith of Hector as best hostage giuen Th'inuasiue Kings in peace the Citty enter Whom Priam feasts with all that vnder heauen Can be found rare or bred aboue the Center The Dames and Damsels all pale feare bereauen Amongst the dreadfull Greekes dare freely venter And they that late did fright them aboue measure Haue liberty to sport and Court their pleasure 11 Vnpeered Hector
tree vppon the same she strangled her Others report that Hellen waxing old seeing her beauty wrinkled and quite faded in griefe therof hanged her selfe as a iust reward of her former incontinence Some thinke the Palladium to be bought by Vlisses of the priest of Pallas Others that it was stole by Vlisses and Diomed others that it was Merchandized by Aeneas and Antenor In which sale the famous Citty of Troy was betrayed to the Greekes These opinions are vncertaine but when Ilus was to build the Pallace of Islion following a party-couloured Oxe he praied to the Gods that some auspicious signe might satisfie him from the Heauens that his buildinges were pleasing to the dietyes then to him descended the Palladium an Image of three Cubits height which seemed to haue motion and to walke of it selfe in the right hand holding a Speare in the left hand a Distaffe or Rocke and a Spindle and where he further proceeded to the Oracle to know the vertue of this Palladium it was them aunswered him that as long as that was kept free inviolate and vnprophaned so long TIOY shold be in peace and security which accordingly happened For till Vlisses had either bought or stolne away the Palladium the Greekes had neuer any apportunity or meanes to vse any vielence vpon the Citty The end of the 14. Canto Argumentum ON th'Hellesponticke Sands Epâ—…us reares A brazen horse the Graecians hoise vp saile And feigning to depart Synon with teares Tels to the inuaded King an ominous tale The Fleetereturnes by night After ten yeares Troy is surprisde and the proud Greeks preuaile The Citty a burnt and after tragicke broyles The Greekes returne laden with Asiaes spoyles ARG. 2. LAocon and Polites Hectors Ghost K. Priams death Troyes Fate Crevsa lost CANTO 15. 1 TReason whose horrid Front I must vnmaske And pluck the Vizor from thy Fiend-like face To paint thee out in coulours is my taske And by thy clouen foote thy steps to trace In which I still Diâ—…ine assistance aske Hell gaue thee Byrth and thou 〈◊〉 thy race From the grand Prince of darkenesse in whose Cell Thou first tookst life and 〈◊〉 returne to dwell 2 Tâ—…y thou wast strong and thy defence was good But Treason through thy strength made bloody way Hadst thou not harbour'd Traitors thou hadst stood And to thy age annext the longest day But Treason that most thirsts for Princes blood And of the hyest kingdomes seekes decay Enters thy Court and couets to destroy With thy proud buildings euen the name of Troy 3 Thy enuy stretcht to our Chast Maiden-Queene Whose Vertues euen her foes could not but praise Yet gainst her graces didst thou Arme thy 〈◊〉 Thinking by Parries hand to end her dayes But God and Truth whose Patron she was seene Against their Cannons did hye Bulwarkes raise Such Bullet-proofe that neither priuate Traine Could reach her â—…or the open arme of Spaine 4 What Parry mist fourteene fierce Traitors moe Stir'd vp by Rome tooke Sacramentall vowes That God that kept her 〈◊〉 th'invasiue foe Against these bloody Butchers knit their browes Heauen gaue them all a fatall ouerthrow For heauen no such 〈◊〉 act allowes But to all them a blacke end hath appointed Whose bold hand dares to touch the Lords anointed 5 If such Aeneas and Antenor were That would for Coyne their King and Country sell Like plots with them our late Arch-traitors beare To whom for aye they may be ranked well And thou Gui 〈◊〉 that neuer yet foundst peere For a damn'd purpose bred in Earth or hell He whom all pens with most reproaches taint Symon with thee compat'd is found a Saint 6 He told a forg'd tale to a forraigne King With hope his King and Countries fame to raise But thou from strangers didst thy complots bring He a strange Countrey not his owne betraies The poysons from the head of Treasons spring False Guide suckt which fed him many dayes Treasons Milkt tasted seemes to quench the thurst But once tooke downe it 〈◊〉 men till they burst 7 That fate which he and his confederates had May all receiue that beare their Treacherous mind Their purpose cuill and their ends were bad A Fate to all men of their ranke affignd And that great King whose safety hath made glad The hearts of three great Kingdomes 〈◊〉 confind Long may he raigne still guarded by those powers Whose hands Crowne Vertue her foes devowers 8 That the same state that was in hazard then May in this peacefull Kingdome long endure The King to guide his Peeres Peetes Common men Whose summon'd Parliaments may plant secure Brittaines faire Peere for many a worthy pen To Chronicle These acts black and impure We cannot iustly on Aeneas lay In whose reproach we must our Censures stay 9 Since some whose hy workes to the world are deere Whose grauity we reuerence and admire His Fame vnto posterity would cleare And in his Innocent applause desire T' were pitty he that two New-Troyes did reare As famous as that one consumde by fire Rome and our London for the double gaine Of one lost Troy should weare a Traytors staine 10 The bruised Greekes 〈◊〉 with rough stormes of War By Pallas art 〈◊〉 a Timber-steede Whose Backs Tree 〈◊〉 of such huge vastnesse are That they in all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wonder breed The Mountaine structure may be seene from far Which finisht they amongst them haue agreed To stuffe his hollow 〈◊〉 with great store Of Harnest men so 〈◊〉 it on the shore 11 This done their new-calkt Nauy they winde thence As if they to Myâ—…ne would backe repaire Beneath a promontory not farre thence They Anchor East where they concealed are Now Troy secure and dreadlesse of offence Looseth her selfe from her Diurnall care Wide stand the Ports the people yssue free Th'vnsouldierd fields and Deserts plaine to see 12 Where Hector did 〈◊〉 inuade Where Nestor pitcht where Troylus wan the day Where grim Achilles log'd where Aiax made His hot incursions hewing out his way Where Agamemnon with his forces plaid Where with his 〈◊〉 Vlisses lay Where such men fought and such their valours tride Where some men conquered others brauely dide 13 Some wonder at Myneruaes stately piece Saying t' were good to place it in her fawne Since the Pelasgians are return'd to Greece Their brazen horse may through their wals be drawne Other more staide know they are come to Fleece And pillage them this leauing as a pawne Of some strange Treason whose suspected guile Seemes to frowne inward though it outward smile 14 Thus is the multitude in parts deuided Some wonder at the Module being so rare Others whose braines are with more iâ—…dgement guided would rip his wombe which some desire to spare Ardent Laocoon thinking to haue decided This generall doubt as one that all things dare Is seene from top of a high Tower discending A threatning speare against the Machiâ—…e bending 15 Crying from farre you foolish men
his Brothers vow Like homage and in State haue entertaind Vter Pendragon to whose throne they bow Sixteene whole yeares He doats on Cornwayles wife and for her loue bereaues her Husbands life 63 Of her he Arthur got In France Clodouens Gouernd as King the first that was Baptiz'd In Italy great Theodoricus King of the Astrogothes who enterprisde Gainst Odeacer battaile bold Honoricus Gouernd in Affricke who so much despisde True Fayth that he for th' Arrians in one hower By shops exild three hundred thirty foure 63 Arthur the worthy next the State ascended Fought twelue set battailes and the order made Of the Round Table whose renowne extended Through all the world whilst Arthur doth inuade Forraine Dominious and Christs Faith desended Mordred at home his Crowne ' and Queene betrayde Twixt whom at Arthurs backe returne againe War was commenst in which both Kings were slain 65 Next Arthur Constantine Duke Cadors Sonne After his Vncle sixe and twenty years Had gouern'd England his estate begonne Slew Mordred Sonnes in fight with Saxon Peeres That ayded them in battaâ—…le these warres donne After foure Sommers he ascends the Spheares Iustine a Swine-heard by ambition fierd By crafty meanes th' Imperiall Seate aspyerd 66 Now liu'd in Italy the famous Dame Analasiantha with Athalarius Her Son by whom her Soueraignty first came She could both Greeke and Latine well discusse Whose reuerence many Histories proclayme Daughter to th' Emperor Theodoricus Iustinian the Gracian Empyre swayes The Persians to their State Cosroe rayse 67 Iustinian in his Captaines much renowned Narses the Eunuch a right 〈◊〉 Knight And Bellisarius whose name was crowned Through all the world Twice Carthage won in fight Twice rescude Rome his fame in Persia sowned Thrace Greece th'Affricke Gâ—…aths he put to flight For much more seruice th' Emperor from his head Tore out his eyes he for'st to beg his bread 68 Aurelius Conanus slew in field Constantine Arthurs Nephew three yeares swade Then did his due to death and nature yeild And Vortigore his Sonne is Soueraigne made Who did but foure yeares Brittans 〈◊〉 weild When Malgo did the 〈◊〉 inuade Who slew his first Wife her chast Bed for sooke And to his Bride his Brothers Daughter tooke 69 King Totylus sack't Rome the second time What in the first he spoyl'd he now repayred Altinus king of Lumbards full with Wine Cals for a Mazer which he might haue spared Of his Wiues Fathers Scull for which in fine She loath'd her Husband and yet further dar'd Vnto his loyall Bed she prou'd vntrue With Helme-child who after Albine slew 70 CAreticus by help of Irelands King Cald Gurmond Brittan Malgo did expell Whom after three yeares Ethelfrid did bring To ruine and in battaile prosperd well About this time Sybert th' East Saxon King Erected Westminster Ethelfrid fell And Cadwan Duke of Northwales him defeated And two and twenty yeares in peace was seated 71 Queene Tredegunde of France in the meane season Lawdry the Earle of Soysons deerely lou'd And for his â—…ake destroyd the King by Treason Gainst Gregory sir-nam'd the great was mou'd By â—…ohn the Patrâ—…arch against all reason The Churches Primacy which he improu'd Arabian Mahomet his Alkeron made Frensh Brunchild liu'd who had Princes ten betrayde 72 CAdwallin Cadwans Sonne next Bittan guided Benet the Monke Paynting and Glazing found The Sarasins by Mahomet prouided Wan Persia where Ormisda long sat crown'd And in short space hauing their powers diâ—…ided Conquerd all Aegypt with the Climats round Damascus likewise was subdude by them So was rich Antioch and Hierusalem 73 Three yeares Cadwallader esteem'd the last Of Brittan Princes gouernd and he dead The Kingdome wholly to West-Saxons past Of whom King Iue first impald his head And next him Ethelard whose raigne was grast By reuerent Beda of whose workes we read Of Clearkly Bookes on seuerall Subiects stil'd Threâ—…ore and eyghteene Volums well compil'd 74 Next Ethelard raign'd Cuthred whom succeeds Sigebert and he not one full yeare did raigne But was deposde for many tyrranous deedes And after besely by a Swine-heard slaine Kinulphus to the Kingdome next proceedes Who after by a man of Sigeberts traine Was murdred in the night as he should passe Vnto his Mistris a braue Brittish Lasse 75 The Sarasins pierce Europe Rhodes they wasted The Firmament two daies appeares to burne The Emperour Constantine his Army hasted The Sarasins by armes to ouerturne Where thirty thousand Pagans of death tasted When Constantine expites the Christians mourne His Throne and State Iustinian next maintained And from the Turkes Affricke and Libia gayned 76 The next West-Saxon King was Brithricus Who eyghteene yeares after Kinulphus fall Raign'd King came from the blooud of Cerdicus And queld the Danes in many a bloudy brall Wiu'd Ethelburgh by whom as Bookes discusse He poysond was yet whilst he gouern'd all S. Albons Winchcombe Abbeyes were both built Blood rayn'd which seem'd like Crosses where t' was spilt 77 Egbert the Sexon thirty seauen supplyde The Soueraignety now raign'd Prench Charles the great Eyghteene whole dayes the Sunne his light denyde Hyren the Empresse from th' Imperiall Seat Her young Sonne Constantine deposde through pâ—…de And after did him cruelly intreat She causd his eyes be torne out of his head And foure yeares after gouernd in his stead 78 King Ethelwolfe the fore-nam'd Egbert's Sonne As Chroniclers affirme Oxford erected a Priest at first in Orders he begon Till after marrying he the State affected The Warlike Danes his Kingdome ouer-ron But are expled Sergius is Pope elected Whose name Os Porcy seem'd so vile that they Chang'd it and from him all Popes to this day 79 Foure Sonnes each other in the State succeedes King Ethelwald who gouern'd not a yeare When Ethelbert his Brother don'd the Weedes Imperiall and next him doth appeare The third Sonne Etheldred whose body bleeds By the bold Danes who after slaughterd were By the fourth Sonne at Brixium as Bookes tell Three dayes together bloud in thicke shewers fell 80 Young Alured from Ethelwolfe the last Twenty nine yeares sixe monthes the Scepter bore Hungar and Hubba quite through Scotland past Bels were first vsde in Greece not knowne before In sixe set battailes Alured disgrast The warlike Danes then dyde The Peeres adore Edward his elder Sonne who nobly beares The Brittish Scepter foure and twenty yeares 81 Nine Popes in lesse then nine yeares were instald Adelwald Edwards Brother twice rebelling VVas by the Elders Prowesse twice appald And after slaine the Huns and Hungars quelling All Europe were much feard a Princesse cald Elflede King Edwards Sister much excelling after the throwes in her first Child-birth tryde For euermore her
Husbands Bed denide 82 And proouing armes by them she honor sought She tam'd the VVelch-men and the Danes disgraced Next Edward Adelstane the battailes fought Of the bold English and the Castles raced as the proud Danes reard and to ruine brought The Sarafins euen from Hetruria chased Th Italian Guards they Gâ—…n ouerthrow VVhere bloud three dayes out of a VVell did flow 83 Now Gui of Warwick Danish Colebrand slew And England of all Tribute quite releast King Edmond did the Soueraignety pursue When Adelstane at Malmsbury deceast Slaine after fiue yeares by succession true Eldred his Brother raignes whose pomp increast Edmonds two Sons being young the Peeres coÌ„plaine and thinke their Vncle of more worth to raigne 84 France Tuskaine Germany the Hungars wast Hugh King of Italy by Fire destroyes The nauy of the Sarazens then past To Traxinetum Edwin next inioyes The Scepter Eldred hauing breath'd his last At Kingstone crown'd whose hart was set on toyes He Dunstan banisht his Landes and Treasure lauisht and his neere Nâ—…c vpon his Crowne-day rauisht 85 And next he slew her Husband for all which after foure yeares he was depriude his state Edgar his Brother a Prince wise and rich In all things â—…ust seuere and Fortunate ascends the Throne no Sorcerer nor Witch His sentence spard Theeues Bribers he did hate To him Ludwallis Prince of Wales obayd Three hundred Wolues for Tribute yearely payd 86 Forty seauen Monasteryes this King erected Red Crosses made and on mens Roabes were seared When Duffus had foure yeares the Scots protected Donewald a Scotch Lord that no bad thing feared Him basely slew and from his Throne derected From which â—…xe monthes no Moone or Sunne appeared The Turkes by Euecus Earle of Bygar Were Spaine expold he first King of Nauar. 87 King Edgar in his sixteenth yeare expyres When his Sonne Edward was at Kingstone crownde Slaine by his trayterous Stepdame who desires The Crowne for her Sonne Etheldred he founde Exter Abbey Swayne of Denmarke fires Citties and Townes in England burning round King Etheldred raign'd in this Kingdome free Thirty eyght yeares His murdred Brother three 88 Now Stephen was made first King of Hungary And thirty nine yeares raign'd Alphons of Spaine Besiedging great Visenum valiantly Was with an arrow kild and strowed the plaine All the Lord-Danes that liu'd here tyranously Were by the English Wiues in one night slaine Ierusalem was by the Turkes possest Whom twice the bold Venetian Duke distrest 89 King Edmond sir-nam'd Iron-side next his Father Inioyes the Kingdome gainst whom Swanus Son The bold Canutus all his Danâ—…s doth gather Twixt whom were many battayles lost and won After much bloods effusion they chose rather By single strife to end the broyles begon Theyr valors were in epuall ballance tryde and after Combat they the Land deuide 90 Edrick of Stratton valiant Edmond slew And from Canutus had a Traytors meede The valiant Dane in Stiles and Honors grew He Scotland wan and Norway To his seed Leauing foure Kingdomes Vice he did eschew Nor euer did a juster Prince succeed English and Danâ—…s he atton'd vnto his doome and after went on Pilgrimage to Roome 91 Robert the Norman Duke for valor famed Hyes to the holy warres in Palestine He gone his young Sonne William is proclaymed The Norman Duke Now seekes a Throne deuine Canutus when he twenty yeares had raigned and Harrold Harefoote vnto whom incline The Danâ—…s in England next the Scepter swayes and three yeares past at Oxford ends his dayes 92 Hardi-canutus the same number fild and drinking dide whom the good Edward Sainted For holy workes succeeds no bloud he spild Nor with knowne sinnes his high profession taynted He married as the great Earle Goodwin wild Th'Earles Daughter Edgitha and nothing wanted That a iust Prince should haue one and twenty years In zeale and clemency the Crowne he weares 93 This Goodwin Alphred Edward younger Brother Traytorously slew and by his power he yoaked The King himselfe betray de his Soueraigne Mother By Byshop Robert to these illes prouoked But Heauen no longer could such mischiefe smother Swearing by Bread he by the bit was choaked The swallowing Sea deuour'd all his Lands Which to this day beare name of Goodwins sands 94 William the Bastard Duke first landing heare Was by the King receaued and Englands Crowne Promist by Edward which no English Peere Was knowne to contradict after lenthome With greatest pompe and Harrold the same yeare Earle Goodwins sonne a man of great renowne Arriude in Normandy and with oathes deepe Sware the King dead for him the Crowne to keepe 95 But Edward dead Harrold vsurpes the seate Whom Fauston and the Norwey King inuade Vpon the North both whom he did defeate And brauely slew in battaile William made A new Incursion gainst whom in t' is heare Harrold his Ensignes in the field displayde The Norman Duke preuaylde and Harrald slaine William the first so cald begins his raigne In Brutes time whilst he gouernd Brittan Anaeus Siluius raigned amongst the Latines Dercitus in Assyria Athletets in Corinth Pipinus in Thusâ—…an Codrus in Athens in whose dayes the Arke of God was taken by the Philistims In Locrynes raigne Dauid was annoynted King ouer Israel In Guendolins raigne he 〈◊〉 Vriah and marryed Bersheba In Madans dayes Salomon built the Temple c. From Brute to Caelar the Brittans were not Tributary to any the gouernment of the Romans from Caesar to Theodosius lasted 483. years In Theodosius the youngers raign the yeare of Christ 443. the Tribute 〈◊〉 The gouernment of the Saxons continued the space of 600. yeares in continuall warre and hostility either with the Brittans the Danes or the Normans The opinions of those that write of the first inhabiting of this Iland are diuerse and how it came first to receiue the name of Albion some thinke of the Chalky and white Cliffe which seemes to wall it in from the Sea But Hugh Genisis a Roman Chronicler writing of all the Kinges and Kingdomes of the World from the Vniuer sall Deluge to Christ. Writes that Danaus King of Greece had fifty Daughters and Aegiptus as many Sonnes who being married and the women the first night murdring their Husbands were for the offence banished and sayling on the Seas were driuen vpon this Island which Albiana called after her Name Albion vvith these Ladies he reports that Spirits engendred and begotte Gyants who laie with their Mothers and Sisters led onely by their lustes till they had multiplyed themselues to the number of twelue thousand But Idoubt not but that this Land may contend with any other whatsoeuer for her antiquity being inhabited with the first which beeing continually vexed within it selfe with ciâ—… 〈◊〉 and forraine inuasions her Monuments and remembrances
haue by these warres bin de◅oured which haue left the certainty of our first Antiquity doubtfull to the world and not truely re◅embred by any that haue undertooke her first discouery Here moreouer wee could haue tooke fit occasion to haue recorded all the Genealogies before the flood with a briefe report who after the floud peopled euery other Kingdome and from whom euery Region tooke her Name but it had bin a course too strange and different from our purpose which is onely to finde out such thinges as haue alliance to this Land of Brittan and the memorable things best knowne to us We infist not much in Aeneas trauels of his landing at Carthage his loue to Queene Dldo her killing her selfe at his departure from her land the funer all of his Father Anchises with his warres against king Turnus for the beautious Laninia These because they are amply set downe in Virgils 12. Bookes of his Aeneids wee thought better rather superficially to passe them ouer with a bare remembrance then to bee too palpably tract in a History so common to all men Which we the rather to omit because we hasten to the antiquittes and the successiue Souer aigneties of our natiue Island whose age our purpose is to deriue from the first Inhabitantes and so to continue it euen to this present government The Antiquity of London was helde to bee longe before Rome For Brute landed here in the yeare of the Lord 2855. in the yeare before Christ 1108. Rome was built long after in the time that Riuallo ruld in Brittain the yeare after the floud 155◅ after Comerus the first king of Italy 1414 after the destruction of Troy 432 after Brute arriuedin in this Land of B◅tain 355. The end of the sixteenth CANTO Argumentum OF all great Brittans Kinges truely descended From the first Conqueror next we shall intreat How they haue sayld or how their hands extended Through any forraine Realmes by Conquest great How they begun and how their raignes they ended Till royall Iames claymes his Monarchall Seate In whom three kingdomes first by Brute deuided Vnited are and by one Scepter guided ARG. 2. From Norman William a true note collected Of all the kinges and Queenes that here protected CANTO 17. 1 William the Norman Duke is next inuested Sixt of that Dutchy entring by sterne warre A troublous raigne he liu'd and sildome rested From rough rebellious armes yet euery barre His Sword remou'd Hertford his pride detested But for his Treason was confined farre Earle Walter too into that faction led Disclosde the plot and for it lost his head 2 Duke Robert Williams Sonne by th'instigation Of the French King doth Normandy inuade Against whom William raysde the English nation And when no Prince betwixt them could perswade They met and fought with much loude acclamation Robert vnhorst his Father and then stayde His warlike hand whom by his voyce he knew And raisd him for which peace betweene them grew 3 William inuading France in Caan expyerd And there lies buried by his warlike Peeres after he many Towers and Townes had fierd Raigning o're England one and twenty yeares Foure Sonnes he left one Danghter much admierd Robert and Richard who ascends the Spheares Before ripe age William who next doth sway Henry cald Bewclack and fayre Adela 4 Whilst our great Conqueror liu'd the King of Danes Canutus by the English Out-Lawes ayded Inuades the North but William him restraynes Henry the Emperor Bauaria inuaded Malcolm that ore the troublous Scots then raignes Peirces Northumberland at this time vaded The Saxons glory Otho them defaced after the Thuringas he by armes had chaced 5 Eudochia who had seuen yeares worne the Crown Of Graciaes Empyre was by maryage tyde Vnto Rhomanus one of high renowne Sir-nam'd Diogenes Gregory denyde Marriage to Priests the Russ. Duke was put downe By Prince Demetrius neare to him allyde William foure Castles built his Foes to tame At Yorke at Lincolne aud at Nottighame 6 Henry then Casar for some sinne detected Did by the Pope stand excommunicate and being of his Feudor King reiected To Gregory submits him and his State Now liu'd the famous Oswald much respected Byshop of Sarum Casar absolu'd late The second time condemnd gainst Gregory sped Stating Rauennaes Robert in his sted 7 Vradislaus was the first King made Of Boheme and of all the Countries neare Ansell who then Galisiaes Scepter swayed Did gainst the Sarazens in armes appeare And wan from them Tolledo by the ayde Of Christian Princes Rufus gouernd heer Next after conquering William thirteene springs He sat inuested in our Throne of Kings 8 Twice Robert made incursion but supprest By Williams power the Scots inuade againe But are appeasd the Welshmen Rees inuest Who in a conflict was by William slaine lerusalem by Pagan Armes opprest Th' assembled christiā kings by force maintain Where dide in battaile as the rumor ran The Babilonian Souldan Soliman 9 The Norman Robert chusd King by election Of Palestine refusd the Sacred stile Which Bulloin Godfrey tooke to his protection Scotch Malcolm with his sonne entring by guile Northumbers Marches came to the deiection By valiant Robert who was Earle that while Both slaine in field K. William the same yeare Erected the great Hall in Westminster 10 Duncan vsurpes in Scotland not two yeares He gouernd there but in his bed was slaine Donnald restor'd not long the Scepter beares But Edgar that ambitious was to raigne By armes supprest him and the Dia'dem weares Rufus being hunting Tyrrell of his traine By glauncing of an Arrow the King slew Henrie next gouernes by succession true 11 Thirty fiue yeares did Henry Beauclarke guide Th'Helme-Royall he for Thest strict lawes decreed Robert returnd from Palestine defide Henry who after parley were agreed Long their truce lasted not Beu-clarke denide His Brothers pension great dissentions breed After much warre Duke Robert they surprise Who for a prisons breach forfeits his eyes 12 Norwich Cathedrall Church is founded new S. Bartholmewes built by Reior a Musitian In Belgia great Inundations grew Being almost drown'd Now vpon good condition Peace twixt the Emperor and King Henry grew Whose daughter was with much hye superstition Made Empresse Maud the English Queen being dead Henry takes Adelisia in her stead 13 The King of England with French Lodwicke tryes Great discords where the English gaine the best In their returne by Sea great Tempests ryse Where all the yssue-Royall most and least Perisht with many Nobles grane and wise Where eight-score soules at once are sent to rest Of all the ship one Butcher and no more Escapt the seas and swam vnto the shore 14 Geffrey plantagenet the Emperour dead Wiues Maud the Empresse vnto whom she bare Two sonnes Henry and Geoffrey now life fled From Beu-clarke who to Stephen resignes his Chaire
But ere he rests him in his earthy bed He is renown'd for many buildings rare Dunstable Priory Reading Abbey and Windsore fayre Castle that on hye doth sland 15 Duke Bohemond in Asia warres maintaining Was by the Turkes surpriz'd restor'd againe By Tanered who in Puell after raigning Infinite Turkes were by his valour slaine Baldwin defies the Souldan thereby gaining Two famous Townes Now Alphons rules in Spaine Lawes the groâ—…e in France in Scotlands rights Malcolms first 〈◊〉 that Alexander â—…ight 16 Alexius did the Gracian Empire sway Henry in Rome the Pope-â—…om Pascall guids In Hungary 〈◊〉 Stephen about that day A blazing-Starre appeares and long abides Two Moones are seene and in Flaminia Blood raignes Michaell the Duke of Venice rides Against the Pagans who were made his pray At â—…oppen After in his 〈◊〉 feturne He many of the Emperours townes did burne 17 Charles Earle of flaunders in the Church was slaine By the proud Bâ—…ggis prouost which related William the sonne of Cort-hose did complaine And by French Lewes was next Earle instated Balach the Parthian did proud warres maintaine Gainst Baldwin which was by rough steele debated Baldwin surprizd fayre Stons Towers quite raced And faire Ierusalem once more defaced 18 Stephen Earle of Bulloin sonne to th' Earle of Bloys and Addela next Henry rules as King Though Maud the Empresse had th'applausiue voyce Of many English peeres through which warres spring Gloster and Chester Earles after much choise Of fields and battailes such an Army bring That Stephen is tooke and vnto Bristow sent After releast by London and by Kent 19 These Counties rayse an army and surprize Gloster for whom the Barons change King Stephen Dauid of Scotland doth gainst England rife after much warre then discords are made ecuen By th' Empresse meanes his Barons him despise First Stephen preuailes the Lords their Lands bereauen But gathering head at Wilton they preuaile Where the King flyes whom Gloster doth assaile 20 Henry Maâ—…ds sonne after K. Stephens decease Is proclaim'd King which soone attones their strife By which mild Stephen raignes all his dayes in peace His sonne the French Kings Sister takes to wife Gersa the sonne of Bela gan encrease His fame among the Hungars and his life Was fearefull to the Germans Lewes swayd France The Turkes grim Alaph to their Crowne aduance 21 Earle Roger rul'd Sicilia Almany Great Barbarosse Romes Empery Conrade Adrian of England held the Papacy In Scotland raignd Malcolm a beautious mayd The English Iewes at Easter Crucifie A Christian child and life for life they paid Next Stephen King Henry second of that name Sonne to the Empresse Maud the Peeres proclame 22 Thirty fiue yeares his prosperous raigne doth last In which he Englands 〈◊〉 augmented With Scotland Ireland and then further past To th'Orcad Isles whose forces he preuented Brittaine Poictou and Guien he made fast To th' English Crowne 〈◊〉 that but late dissented His sword appeasd and after well protected Which done great Rutland Castle he erected 23 Two Sunnes at once within our skies apeare And in the Moone a bloody Crosfe was seene Lewes of France sent ouer Margaret heere His daughter to be made young Henries Queene By which the discords that both Realmes did feare In this alliance quite dispersed beene Once more the King gainst Scotland is prouoked Pope Adrian drinking with a Fly was choked 24 Vradislaus for his valour showne At Milleins siedge was by the Emperour made Bohemians second King his Armes well knowne A faire red Rampant Lyon Baldwin layde On his blacke hearse Almerious is growne King of Ierusalem who brauely staid Th ` Aegiptian power and in one gloriouâ—…day Wan from the Souldan Alexandria 25 Now Thomas Bâ—…ket who before had fled To Rome and there complaind him of the King Was to his Sea restor'd after strooke dead In Canterbury Church a pâ—…tious thing Him Rome Cannoniz'd for a Saint which bred Much superstition Salladine doth bring A puissant host â—…his Conquests he began And by the sword Egipt and Sarry wan 26 Henry King Henries sonne was twice instated And Crown'd in England in his Fathers dayes By which much vprore was by warre debated The sonnes against the father tumults raise The Pope gainst th'Emperour Fredericke animated Fredericke submits and at his foot he layes His princely head whilst with a Lordly checke The Pope his foot sets on the Emperors necke 27 Andronicus hauing his Maister slaine The childe Alexius left to his tuition Three yeares the Gracian Empire doth maintaine Baldwin the fift a Chiln of faire condition Is Crowd in Syon Saladin againe Gainst Palestine doth make new expedition Subdues Ierusalem and â—…nce his dayes The Infidell the holy kingdome sways 28 Henry the sonne before the Father dyes Whose warres his Brother Richard takes in hand And by hostility the King defies Vnable gainst his puissant sonne to stand Sickenesse and griefe of thoughts the King surprise Who dying to Prince Richard leaues the Land Richard in Aâ—…nes a bold reputed Knight Who for his stout heart Cordelyon hight 29 Eleuen full years nine months and twenty dayes He sat inthrâ—…'d Now Bayliffes first begun In London many Christian princes raise Fresh powers to gaine Ierusalem late wun Almaine France England Burgoine whom most praise To this Sicilia Venice Pysa run And quell the Pagans Richard Cipresse tooke And Acon where the French King him forsooke 30 Frederick the Empetor hauing late subdude The lesse Armenia where his Fame was sowned Through greatest part of Asia gan inttude And of that Tri-part world was soueraigne Crowned But by misfortune or by rashnesâ—…ude Was after in the flood Selephins drowned Richard exchang'd with Gui of Lessingham The Crowne of Cipresse for Ierusalem 31 Grac'st with the title of the holy King Returning with a small and slendet traine Towards England where his Brother Iohn vsurping Tooke to himselfe a short rebellious raigne The Austrich Duke King Richard enuying Surpriz'd him first then gaue him to be slaine To s fierce Lyon whom vnarm'd he beat And from his bulke his warme heart tore and eat 32 Thence ransom'd after warre prince Iohn submits Whilst Saphandenus Egipts Empire swayde In Spaines Tribunall the eight Alphons sits Emericus Hungariaes King is made To Innocent the third th'Emperour submits Who eighteene years the Papall Crosier staide He first deuisd Auricular confession Which since his time the Popes keepe by succession 33 Richard besideging Gailerd long with Steele Was with an Arrow from the Castle wounded Shot by the hand of one Peter Bazeele He slaine Retrait the valiant English sounded His want the Cleargy Peeres and Commons feele In whom Religion power and state abound Next him King Iohn succeeds by the Lands doome Who whilst he raign'd despisd the threats of Rome 34 Raign'd seuenteene years him phillip King of France
Inuades in Arthur Duke of Brittons name Whose powers the English Iohn surprisd by chance Imprisoning Arthur whence these Garboyles came The Persians Dauid to the Throne aduance Who with his Indian Troopes marcht with much Fame Of Parthia and Armenia Conqueror And of Tartaria the first Emperor 35 Fiue Moones were all at once in Torkeshire seene After which portent many stormes insude prince Iohn hauing incurd the popes fell spleene Stands with his Land accurst which some allude To Byshop Lanchton who at Rome had beene And sought in Canterbury to intrude In Suffolke was a strange Fish tooke that bore The shape of man and six months liu'd a shore 36 The Maior and Shrieffes in London were first made Wales twice rebelling was by warre appeasd Th'English at Sluce the Nauy of France inuade A thousand twenty sayle at once they ceasd Pope Innocent great Coesars pompe all aide Making such Lawes as searce the Empire pleasd Onely such princes should as Emperors stand As should receiue their Crownes at the popes hand 37 Of whom the Saxon Duke Otho was first Venice subdues Coreyra and the Iles Adiacent Otho by the popeaccurst For taking to himselfe the Empires stiles Against him Menace warre pope Innocent durst and traind into these broyles by prayers and smiles Fredericke the second who the Diadem weares after Duke Otho three and twenty yeares 38 Iohn for a yearely tribute to Rome payde Of twice fiue hundred Markes absolues his Land King Alexander is the Scotch King made After deceased William to command He twenty and foure yeares the kingdome staide Against King Iohn the English Barons stand And to their faction the French Lewes bring Whom in Iohns stead they seeke t'elect as King 39 Amidst these tumults Iohn by fate expires As some suppose by poyson whom succeeds Henry his sonne him more the Land desires Then Lewes hated for some bloody deeds For him the people make triumphant fires A generall ioy his hye instalment breeds at nineteene yeares the kingdome hee attained and fifty fix yeares o're his subiects raigned 40 Our Ladies Church in Westminster he reared Now Hocata the second puissant King Of great Tartaria was renownd and feared He first the Title of great Caan did win The drooping Scotch King was by Henry cheared To whom he gaue his Sister next of Kin Faire Ioane Robert Graciaes Empire swayd Who to his Empresse tooke a beautious Mayd 41 She was before betroth'd to a great peere Of Burgoine he the Emperours pompe despysing Entred his armed pallace without feare The Damsell in the Emperors armes surprising He first cut off her nose reuenge seuere And from that place himselfe disguising To her'fore bribed Mother posting fast Th'in constant Dame into the Seas he cast 42 The Scots in Cathnes their proud Byshop burne Because he curst such as their tythes denide Wards were first graunted Frederick doth returne Towards Asia and the Souldan puft with pride Vanquisht in field and now no longer mourne Those Christians that in Palestine abide England with France makes warre and after peace Tumults in Wales arise but soone surcease 43 Frederick King Henries Sister takes to wife Cald Isabell Henry takes Elanour Daughter to th' Earle of Prouence ending strife Twixt them before begun about that houre His spousals were solemniz'd and ioyes rife In th' Element appear'd a war like power Of men in armes of diâ—…ers wings compacted The Merton Statute now was first enacted 44 This yeare the famous faction first begun Of Guelfes and Gibelines Tartarian Caan Inuades the Hungars and their kingdome won Where their King Bela was in battaile slaine The Mother eats her Childe and Sire the Sonne So great was hunger mongst the Hungars than Now London Aldermen were first elected and Frederick once more by the pope reiected 45 Pope Innocent the fourth from th'Emperour flying To Lyons to the Cardinals first gaue Red hats A Iew in Spaine Christs faith denying picrst a huge rocke there found a hallow Caue In it a Marble stone which with Steele trying He finds a Booke inclosd with praecepts graue Which spoke of Christ by which the Story saith The stiffe-neckt Iew was turn'd to Christian faith 46 Henry with London Citty late displeasd For sentence gainst one Margaret Viell past Into his power the Cities Charters ceasd Which by submission they regain'd at last Young Alexanders Father long diseads Expir'd in Scotland the young prince in hast at nine yeares Crownd to whom Henry affide His Daughter Mary whom he tooke to Bride 47 In Italy bloud issued out of bread As out of woundes French Lewes was surprisd By the great Souldan Mango Caan 's made head Of the rude Tartars who being well aduisde Receiued the Christian Fayth and after sped against the Turkes in Crosses red disguisde Alphons of Spaine bestowes his Daughter fayre On young Prince Edward Henries hopefull heyre 48 Richard of Cornwall Brother to the King At Aquisgraue was Emperor elected and Alphons of Castile the State affecting Was by the Electors from the State reiected Albertus Magnus flourisht in his spring And Michael Paleologus respected For his great warres in Greece who Baldwin slew and thirty fiue yeares in the Empire grewe 49 At Oxford the mad Parlement began King Henry with his Barons doth contend They fought neare Lewes many a valiant man Of Noble bloud came to a timeless end The King against his Peeres the best he can Striues by the Sword his Barons to offend Who Manger all his force the battaile wonne Surprisd the King his Brother and his Sonne 50 Prince Edward entred Asia and there fought against the Turkes where he atchieued much fame at length his life was by a Sarazan sought Who with a Knife to his Pauilion came Empoysoned and his death had almost wrought For in his princely arme he fixt the same Richard King Henries Brother and Romes king First dyes and after Henry the same spring 51 Next whom Prince Edward Long-shankes was inucsted and thirty foure yeares raign'd admir'd and feared Th'vsurping pride of Priests he much detested Bounty and Vertue in this Prince appeared Nicholas the third made Pope from th' Empire wrested Two Kingdomes for two Nephewes much indeered Of lewes at once that in their wealth tooke pride Two hundred eyghty foure for Coyning dyde 52 Lewellen next rebeld slaino by the hand Of Roger Mortimer After not long Dauid his Brother did gainst Edward stand A daungerous Rebell and infaction strong Yet perisht likewise with his warlike Band Of Welch reuolted other things among King Edward ioyes to quell the French-mens scorne and for Prince Edward at Carnaruan borne 53 Alexander Issu-lesse fell from his Steed And brake his necke the Carmelites began Phillip the fayre in France was King decreed Two Women in Heluetia liued than Who in their Wombs did two
strange Monsters breed One bore a Child that had the face of man and body of a Lyon th' other bred One with two bodies from the Girdle-sted 54 The Scotch King dying Issulesse contention In Scotland grew who should succeede the State The strife Edward atton'd and after mention Made of their Title which these Lords relate He arbitrates theyr fierce and hot dissention And to Iohn Balioll priz'd at hyest rate He giues the Crowne which pleased Scotland well Madock and Morgan now in Wales rebell 55 Edward thrice war'd gainst Scotland and preuayled The French Kings Sister Margaret tooke to Wife and to his Sonne the Princedome he entayled Of Wales proud Ottoman began great stufe With Christendome and many Townes assayled In him the Empire of the Turkes tooke life Pope Boniface the eyght suruiued than He first in Rome the Iubilee began 56 Creat Tamor Caâ—… gouernd Tartaria Albert the Empire France King Phillip guided Prince Ladislaus ruld Hungaria Clement the fift the seat of Rome deuided Transporting it to France which from that day Seauenty foure yeares continew'd vndecided Seraph th' Egiptian Souldan-ship supplide Edward the first in his Scotch garboiles dide 57 The second Edward him succeeds and raignes Full eighteene yeares a Prince of no renowne He ryots Lusts and wantonnesse maintaind Mongst priuate vnthrifts and his peeres put downe Henry the Emperour hauing brauely gaind Many great fields was with an yron Crowne at Milleine Crownd where he aduancst his name The Crutched Fryares first into England came 58 Peirs Gaueston twice banisht by the Peeres Was by the King recald Iohn Tamer rose In rebell armes destroyd by his owne feares Phillip the long their King the French-men chose The hauty Spencers triumpht many yeares Ouer the Nobles who themselues oppose against their pride the Spencers they exile Whom the loose King reuoked in small while 59 Twenty two Barons for the Spencers loue The King cut off the Sun six houres appeared Of sanguine hew his glorious brightnesse stroue with his red Maske which at the last he cleared Edward his force did twice gainst Scotland proue Both times the soyle with English blood besmeared The Queene and Prince the Spencers could not brook And like two exiles their owne Land forsooke 60 Sir Iohn of Henault Lands in the Queenes ayde And hy the Barons helpe the King pursued who after in strong Barkley Castle layde Sir Roger Mortimer a man indude With Pride and Tyrrany the King betrayde and with the Kings bloud 〈◊〉 Tower Imbrude Baldock the Spencers Minions to the King The Conquering Peeres vnto destruction bring 61 Edward King Edwards Sonne fifty yeares bore Englands rich Scepter Charles the French King dide Leauing no issue of the Royall store Therefore King Edward being next alyde Claymes France to which the Doncipeeres restore Phillip Valois and Edwards clayme deride Sir Roger Mortimer long graft boue reason By the Kings Mother was condemn'd of Treason 62 Edward the Blacke-Prince was at Woodstocke borne King Edward fought the fiâ—…ld cald Haldonne Hill In Scotland After some few dayes out-worne The King his clayme to France doth menace still Petrach the Laureat liu'd the French in scorne Foure hundred Sayle with armed Souldiers fill These Edward meetes at Siuce whom fame hath sounded Thirty three thousand of French t' haue slain drowned 63 The order of the Garter was first made Soone after was the famous Cressie field Don Petro by his Spanish Peeres betrayde Was to their violent fury forst to yeild Edward wan Callis Iohn next Phillip swayde In France and mena'st with his warlike Shield The braue Black-Prince at Poytieres battayle wonne The field the French King Prisoner and his Sonne 64 Melchella was now Souldan Amurath Emperor of Turky and with Conquest fought A persecutor of the Christian Fayth The French King-Iohn hauing his peace now bought at Sauoy dide and Charles the sixt next hath The Crowne of France Don-Peter ayde besought Who late exiled from the Crowne of Spaine Was by the Black-Prince repostest againe 65 The Duke of Laâ—…caster France ouer-run Vnfought withall Sir Robert Knowles likewise Marcht by the Citty Paris now begun Great Baiazeth among the Turkes to rise The braue blacke Prince from France where he had won So many Noble fields returning dyes The King himselfe as our best writers say Expird of Iune the two and twentith day 66 Richard the second sonne to the bold Prince Edward sit-namd the Blacke at yeares eleuen Began his rule whom many men conuince Of wanton ryot and a course vneuen Well tutor'd in 's minority but since He manag'd state too much neglecting heauen Gunnes were deuisd first by a Germaine Fryer France doth the Kingdome of Nauar desire 67 Queene â—…ane of Naples flourisht Bohemes King Vinceslaus was Almaine Emperor made Twixt Portugall and Castile discords spring Two Popes contend the Genowayes inuade The bold Venetians and to battaile bring Their Nauall powers both Ensignes flye displaid Iacke Straw dyes stabd in Smithfield by the care Of William Walworth at that time Lord Maior 68 A wondrous Earth-quake did whole England shake King Richard thâ—… Almaine Emperors daughter wiude The Turkes in Christendome great vprores make Iohn Galeazo in those dayes suruiu'd Duke Iohn of Gaunt doth a braue voyage take To conquer Spaine and in his purpose thriu'd The Barons of the Realme themselues with-drew And many of the King seducers slew 69 The Duke of Lancaster his daughter Kate Married to Henry Castiles eldess sonne His second daughter had the Queene-like state Of Portugall by which all warres were done The Turke in Hungary suppreft but late Seekes by his power all Gâ—…eece to ouer-ron Against Constantiâ—…opolis he layde at eyght-yeare siedge now Colleines Schoole was made 70 Robert of Scotland dying Iohn his heyre Succeedes next Richard Queene Anne beiug dead Espousd French Isabel then did prepare For Ireland where 's voyage slowly sped He put to death his Vncles for the care Of him and his Realmes safty sore misled Hereford and Norfolke Dukes the Combat clayme and both are banist in King Richards name 71 The Sâ—…ithian Tamberlaine the Turkes subdude and kept theyr Emperor in an Iron Cage Hereford against his sentence durst intrude Himselfe int'England and gainst Richard wage A threatned warre the Peeres Richard exclude From gouernment who in his strength of age Resignes his Crowne his Dignity and Fame To Henry Bullingbrooke fourth of that name 72 Gainst whom the Duke of Exeter Richards Brother The Dukes of Surry and Aumarle conspyre With Glocester who his hatred cannot smother And Salsbury all these his life conspyre and for it lost their lyues with many other Of the same faction seeking to aspyre Richard is slayne in Prison after showne Through London streets to haue his death wel known 73 Owen
Glendoure raysd armes Hotspur rebeld Woorster Northumberland with others moe Whom Edward met at Shrewsbury and queld Giuing those Lords a Mortall ouerthrow The Milleine Duke that many yeares exceld In Tyranny at length was layde full low Leauing to Iohn his Sonne the Dukedomes Seat This yeare was stated Mahomeâ—… the great 74 Charles of Cremona by the Treason dide Of base Cabrinus Fundulus his slaue Th'Arch-Byshop Scroope that Edward late defide Surprizd in field came to a timelesse graue In Poland at Cracouia full of pride Was founded th'Accademy some depraue The Burgoin Duke that did his hands imbrew In Orleance blood whom he by Treason slew 75 Saint Andrewes Vniuersity begon In Scotland Iohâ—… the Milleine Duke is slaine Of his owne Subjects Ladislaus won The Citty Rome which he gaue vp againe King Edward dying left vnto his son Henry the fift a faire and prosperous raigne Ten yeares he did his Royall fame aduance and to his Crowne annext the Realme of France 76 Great Amurath sway'd Turky Iohn Castile The sixt Charles France Pope Martin Peters Chaire at Henries claime to France the French-men smile With many taunts they Englands puissance dare King Henrie crost the seas and in small while at Agin-court manag'd a fight so rare That in one battaile he the Land ore-tun Leauiug the Crowne successiue to his son 77 Ieremy Prague and Iohn Husse dye by fire about religious causes Ziscaled The Thaborytes and further gan aspire against the Emperour to list his head French Katherine was Crownd Queene by great desire Of all our English peeres Duke Clarens sped against the Dolphin but alas in vaine By multitudes he was ore-set and slaine 78 Henry t' auenge his Brothers death prepares againe to inuade France where he breaths his last Pale death that in his rigour no man spates Beteaues him life his infant sonne not past Eyght months of age assumes the Lands affayres Vnder protection Bedfards Duke was great With Regency of France a Sorceting Maide Fought on the Dolphins part and brought him ayde 79 Who in small time was King of France proclaymde at Orleance braue Mountacute is slaine Prince Sigismond is Roman Emperor nam'd Eugenius doth the papall Sea maintaine Phillip guides Milleine now was Talboot fam'd Who many lost Townes did in France regaine Now flourisht Francis Forza in his pride The Lyons in the Tower this yeare all dyde 80 Zeuza liues Persiaes King for Sorcery Dame Elen Cobham the Protectors Wise With diuers others were found treacherously To haue cnnspyred against King Henries life Dame Margaret to the King of Scicily Sole-Daughter which began much future strife To Henries Bed with Suffolke crost the Scas now liu'd the braue Prince Huniades 81 Humphrey the Duke of Gloster was depriu'd His harmelesse life at Bury Suffolke now Was banisht England where he long had striu'd By the Kings grace to make the Barons bow Iacke Cade a mutit ous Rebell now suruiu'd Dating the Kings Edicts to disalow This was the yeare of Iubilee In Menz Faustius first printed at his owne expence 82 The Turkish Mahomet sackt and despoylde Constantinople at this time was fought Saint Albons battaile where the King was foyld and by the Duke of yorke a prisoner blought To London the sixt Henry being much toyld With Kingdomes cares his peace and quiet sought Making proud yorke protector now was fam'd George Castriotus Scanderbag sir-nam'd 83 Great Warwicke at Northampton the King met In battaile of the Barons many slew Surpri'd the King in person without let The Duke of Torke reuiues his claime anew Whom many of the chiefest Lords abet And in the Parlement his right pursue Being Titled heyre apparant to the Crowne at Wakefield him King Henries Queene put downe 84 Great Warwiâ—…ke at Saint Albons she made flie Rescuing the King her husband in small space Torkes sonne the Earle of March gan to defie and sought by armes King Henry to displace Neere Torke both powers each other soone discry Where the fourth Edward hath the King in chace and now the victors Lord it where they please Whilst Margaret with her young son crost the Seas 85 Twelue Kingdomes and two hundred Citties more Great Mahomet subdues next Exham field Was fought by them that Henry would restore But to King Edwards powers perforce they yeild Who wiues the Lady Gray she that before Was wife to Sir Iohn Gray Warwick his shield aduancst against the King whom he had Crownd and for French Bona seekes him to confound 78 Edward flyes England Henry is restord and Edward with an army Lands againe Where Warwickes pride vpon his shield is scord Edward ore-comes his powers on Barnet plaine Earle Warwicke by the Commons is deplord Edward the fourth once more vsurpes his raigne Gloster kils Henries sonne then madly fares Gainst Henrie whom he murdred at his Prayers 87 Cassanus gouernd Persia Mistris Shore Was famous for her beauty Hungary Mathias ruld The Pope not knowne before at twenty fiue yeares made the lubily The Duke of Clarens is lamented sore Being in a Wine-but murdred treacherously Edward expyres two sons he leaues behind Three Daughters and a Brother most vnkind 88 The eleauenth of Aprill and the eleauenth sad yeare Of his young age fift Edward gins his raigne But eare he yet was Crown'd Richard too neare His Vncle did his hands with murther stayne Both Edwards Children by his doome seuere Were Butcherd in the Tower and fouly slaine now famous wearc Gaza Sabellicus Pycus Myrandula Aldus Minutius 89 George Valla Hermolaus Barbarus Pelitian Platine with a many moe Marcilius Ficinus Pomponius Latus With Iohannes de monte regio Now Venice and Ferara peace discusse Great Baiazeth sustaines an ouerthrow By the bold Souldan next instated came Vsurping Richard cald third of that name 90 Two yeares two months and two dayes he inioyes Regality whilst Charles the eyght swayes France And Innocent the eyght his power imployes In Rome his Bastards to inhance Richard the Duke of Buckingham destroyes Who thought the Earle of Richmond to aduance Henry Earle Richmond Mâ—…lford Hauen sought Where landing he the field of Bosworth fought 91 Richard there slaine Henry the seauenth sits Crown'd Twenty three yeares Vgnerus Persia guides Fredericke the Empire Henry to make found The breach that Torke and Lancaster deuides a happy nuptiall contract doth propound With fayre Elizabeth whom soone he brides She heyre to yorke This yeare a disease new The Sweating sicknesse first in England grew 82 Spaines Ferdinand the kingdome of Granade Wan from the Sarazens Lambert a Child Taught by a Priest cald Simon came to inuade England with a new stile by him compil'd As Sonne to Clarens in this claime were made Chiese Leaders Francis Louel once exil'd Broughton and Lincolnes Earle with whom took