to prouide their second scourge saild Hercules away For comming back with Iasons Prize from Colchos he complaines Of churlish King Laomedon and so an armie gaines At Troy the Greekâ—sh Peeres and he did land their armed men Whome to resist Laomedon did range his Battailes then The Troyans they bestird them well the Grecians stood not still Laomedon fights valiantlie and many a Greeke did kill Till Hercules disgesting ill to see his Foe pursue Such good successe encounters him whom easilie he slue And hauing slaine the traiterous King he ceaseth not to die His Thaebian Club in phrigian bloud till all began to flie But with the Troyans Telamon and Hercules both twaine And by their valour all the Greekes the gates and Citie gaine And kill who so of Troy they caught and rased to the ground The Citie whilest that house by house or stone on stone they found When ventrous Telamon for that he entred first the gate For Prize had faire Hesione of Troy the latest fate For priamus to quit her Rape long after sent his Sonne To rauish Hellen from the Greekes So thirdly warre begonne Hesione the cause to Troy and Hellen to the Greekes And all did worke that Troyan Brute the Albian Climate seekes THE SECOND BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. VII THe twise-sackt Towne the Grecians then did merrilie forsake And Hercules for new affaires did land in Aegypt take There in a Porte hee did espie a Fleete of Shippes from farre Well fraught with Men Munition and what else pertaines to warre When Affer he chiefe Captaine was of that same Fleete did spie The Ensignâ—s of the famous Greeke he knew them by and by And entertaining on his knees the Owner of the same Reioyced to behold the man so honoured by fame With Affer sailed Hercules to Lybia to put downe The Gyant King Aniaeus that had aided to the Crowne Of Aeâ—ypt gainst th' Aegyptians willes Busiris lately slaine By Hercules in whose conduct the doubt not to obtaine The taking land in Lybia now and hauing in their sight The threatned Citie of the Foe his Tents did Affer pâ—ght And giâ—ts it with a sodaine Siege The Giant then did shake His hideous head and vow'd reuenge yea sharpe reuenge to take But isâ—ning out his Citie gates he â—ound the â—oe so hot That notwithstanding such his bragges the worst Antaeus got For Hercules did canuase so his carkes that at length He did retire himselfe and men as trustlesse of his strength His Libians slaine and he not sound Antaeus Truce did craue For graunt whereof vnto his Foes meane time he victuals gaue And whilest the Month of Truce did last the Giant brused sore Did heale his wounds and to his part sollicits Aiders more Meane while the Greeke to Mauritain did passe vnknowne of all And theare in King Antaeus aide he found supplies not small And for he looked souldier-like they brought him to the King Who offered pay not so quoth he I meane an other thing Discharge these Bands or else will I discharge thee of thy breath That all alone to thee and thine oppose me to the death When Atlas knew him Hercules that conquered of late The Iland which his daughters held and brought to latest fate His Giant that defended them and captâ—uated than His friend Philoctes he twixt feare and fiercenesse waxed vvan And looke how fast the ratling haile vpon an house dooth fall So fast they lay on Hercules that holdeth wage gainst all For as the Smith with Hammour beats his forged Mettall so He dubs his Club about their pates and sleas them on a row And whilest not daring to looke downe by heaps on him they flie Some stumbling on the bodies dead are smoldred so and die Some sliding in their slippery bloud where with the place did swimme Were strangled so some others whilest disorderedly at him They freat and foyne are crowded on by those that hindmost be And with their weapons spoyle themselues and fellowes two or three Some others with the wounding points of broken weapons die And others daring with their Foe their bootles force to trie Were in a moment slaine by him and thus in little space Without resistance Hercules had Lordship of the place And maugre swords or studied Starres brought Atlas to the Seas Whereas Philoctes did in time his pensiuenes appease And to his friend commends the Foe for bountie which at last Himselfe did finde and when as time his griefe had ouerpast The same that for Astrologie the Skies support was said In such his Science Hercules a perfect Artist made The Month of Truce by this had end and Hercules returnes To Affer that incamped at the Lybian walles soiournes A second battell then begonne Antaeus like a Baer Bestires himselfe amongst his Foes whilest Hercules did faer As roughly with contrarie bloes till none to fight did daer But humblie all submitting them subdued by his might He gaue them grace and staied theare to doe them law and right Meane time Antaeus lately fled returnes from Mauritain And with a mightie Troupe of Moores renewed fight againe And all the Fields with Carcases of mangled men were filde And numbers failed to the Moores that Hercules had kild But when Antaeus saw his men to lessen more and more Resoluing or to win the Spurres or lose himselfe therefore He makes a bloudie glade vntill the Thaebane he espide And finding him bestowe on me thy bloes the Giant cride That am both able to endure and to repay the same A Flie is not an Eagles praie nor Mouse a Lyons game My death might countenance thy deedes if that it so would be But make account that I anon will triumph ouer thee In saying which he smites his Foe perfourming wondrous might And bodie vnto bodie they with equall dammage fight But Hercules disdaining that so long Antaeus standes With him in combat griping him betwixt his angrie handes Did crush his Carkasse in the ayre that life did leaue him so And thus did reape a Monarchie and rid a mightie Foe Then Hercules Antaeus dead with ease he ouercame All Lybia with Prouinces and Kingdomes of the same And maketh â—ffer King of all that beares the Donees name IN expedition of which warre when Hercules would dwell No longer time but purposed to bid his friends farewell A warlike wench an Amazon salutes him by his name And said know Hercules if it thou knowest not by same How that the Scythian Ladies late expeld their natiue Land By King of Aegypt haue contriu'd amongst themselues a bande And with the same haue conquered all Asia Aegypt and All Cappadocia Now for that we Victors vnderstand The Africanes are our Allies we minding to proceed In further Conquests tendring them haue therefore thus decreed That you two Champions shall elect and we will also send Two Ladies that for victorie shall with your Knights contend And if your Champions vanquish ours then we will tribute pay But if that ours doe vanquish yours then
erst wonne and more then all was lost Yeat of more multeous Armies we than Scotland were at cost No Land deuided in it selfe can stand was found too true To worser then the wars abroad the home-bred Quarrels grewe Grange gotten Pierce of Gauelstone and Spensers two like sort Meane Gentlemen created Earles of chiefe accoumpt and port Enuying all equalitie contrine of many a Peere The wrested death those fewe that liue liu'd mal-contented heere Good Thomas Earle of Lancaster on whom the rest relye The chiefe and grauest of the Peeres did ouer-warred flye Into the woods whereas himselfe and state he did bewray Vnto an Hermite vnto whom he sighing thus did say Happie are you sequestred thus from so I may deuine Our common wracke of common weale for how it doth decline Through wilde and wanton Guydes in part I feele in part I aime By Presidents too like and fire too likely heere to flame Heare if you haue not heard what fire our leisure fits the same CHAP. XXV THe Spartanes was for rapted Queene to Ilions ouerthrowe The Monarke of Assyria chang'd Latine Kings also For Tarquins lust yea how with vs a double chaunge did groe WheÌ„ Brittish Vortiger did doat vpoÌ„ the Saxons daughter And Buerne for his forced wife froÌ„ Denmarke brought vs slaughter I ouerpasse Who knoweth not Ireland our neighbour Ile Where Noe his Neece ere Noe his flood inhabited a while The first manured Westerne Ile by Cham and Iaphets race Who ioyntly entring sundry times each other did displace Till Greece-bred Gathelus his brood from Biscay did ariue Attempting Irelands Conquest and a Conquest did archiue Fiue kings at once did rule that I le in ciuill strife that droopes When fierce Turgesius landed with his misbeleeuing Troopes This proud Norwegan Rouer so by aides and armes did thriue As he became sole Monarke of the Irish Kingdomes fiue Erecting Paganisme and did eiect the Christian lawe And thirtie yeeres tyrannizing did keepe that I le in awe Nor any hope of after helpe the hartlesse Irish sawe Alone the wylie King of Meth a Prothew plying fauor Stood in the Tyrants grace that much affected his behauor For what he sayd that other soothde so ecco'ing his vayne As not an Irish els but he a pettie King did raigne Turgesius friends that Vice-roy for his daughters loue the rather And therefore for his Leiman askt the Damsell of her Father Ill wot I what they knowe that loue well wot I that I know That that browne Girle of mine lackes worth to be beloued so I haue a many Neeces farre more fairer then is she Yeat thinke I fairest of those faires vnworthie you quoth he But she and they are yours my Lord such Beauties as they be This Preface likâ—e the Tyrant well that longed for the play Not well contented that so long the Actors were away Oft iterating his demaund impatient of delay Now haue I quoth the King of Meth conuented to your bed My Neeces and my daughter loath to loose her Maidenhead But doubt not Sir coy Wenches close their longings in their palmes And all their painted Stormes at length conuert to perfect Calmes Alonely if their beauties like as likelier haue we none You may conclude them women and the Goale therefore your owne To morrow seuered from your Traine vnlesse some speciall few Expect them in your chamber where I leaue the game to you Yeat when your eye hath serude your heart of her that likes you best Remember they are mine Alies vntoucht dismisse the rest Sweete also was this Scene and now vnto an Act we groe The Irish Princesse and with her a fifteene others moe With haÌ„ging Glybbes that hid their necks as tynsel shadowing snoe Whose faces very Stoickes would Narcissus-like admire Such Semeles as might consume I oues selfe with glorious fire And from the Smith of heauens wife allure the amorous haunt And reintise the Club-God Dys and all his diuelles to daunt And make the Sunne-God swifter than himselfe such Daphnes chaced And Loue to fall in loue with them his Psichis quite disgraced These rarer then the onely Fowle of Spice-burnt Ashes bread And sweeter than the Flower that with Phoebus turneth head Resembling her from gaze of whome transformde Acteon fled From Meth came to Tergesius Court as Presents for his bed In secret was their comming and their chambering the same And now the lustfull Chuffe was come to single out his game His Pages onely and a youth or twaine attending him Wheare Banquet Bed Perfumes and all were delicately trim He giues them curteous welcome and did finde them merry talke Meane while the Harbengers of lust his amorous eyes did walke More clogd with change of Beauties than King Midas once with gold Now This now That and one by one he did them all behold This seemed faire and That as faire and letting either passe A Third he thought a proper Girle a Fourth a pleasant Lasse Louely the Fift liuely the Sixt the Seuenth a goodly Wench The Eight of sweete Complection to the Ninth he altreth thence That mildly seem'd maiesticall Tenth modest looke and tongue Th' Eleuenth could sweetly intertain the Twelfe was fresh yonge The Next a gay Brownetta Next and Next admirde among And â—ury feature so intycte his intricate affection As liking all alike he lou'd confounded in election Sweete harts quoth he or Iupiter fetcht hence full many a Thefte Or hether brought he Thefts that here their Leiman Children lefte Heere wandring Cadmus should haue sought his missed Sister wheare Faire Leda hatcht her Cignets whilst nor Cocke nor Henne did feare How many view I fairer than Europa or the rest And Girle-boyes fauouring Ganimâ—de heere with his Lord a Guest And Ganimâ—des we are quoth one and thou a Prophet trew And hidden Skeines from vnderneath their forged garments drew Where with the Tyrant and his Bawds with safe escape they slew Of which yong Irish Gentlemen and Methean Ladies act The Isle was filled in a trise nor any Irish slackt To prosecute their freedome and thâ—amased Norgaines fall Which was performed and the King of Meth extold of all Those Rouers whose Originals and others not a fewe As Switzers Normaines Lumbardes Danes from Scandinauia grew A mightie Isle an other world in Scythian Pontus Clyme Thus wrackt left Ireland free vnto our second Henries time When farre vnlike the Methes that earst their Countrie did re 〈…〉 ore An Amorous Queene thereof did cause new Conquests and vprore Dermot the King of Leynister whom all besides did spight Did loue belou'd the Queene of Meth to whom he thus did wright THy King sweete Queene the hindrance of our harts-ease is away And I in heart at home with thee at hand in person stay Now is the time Time is a God to worke our loue good lucke Long since I cheapned it nor is my comming now to hucke But since our fire is equall let vs equally assist To finish what we fancy say Maligners what they
a great Rebellion in England occasioned by a Priest Of Queene Elizabeth wife to Edward the Fourth chap. 35. pag. 168 Of Perken Warbeck and his rebellious Complottors Of the malicious Duchesse of Burgoine Of the great Constancie of a chast Ladie wise vnto the same Perkin pag. 169 Of a Scottish Knight distraught through his Ladies disloyaltie Of his mad passions and speeches of his Death and of her euill ending chap. 36. pag. 171 A Tale of the Bat and the Moole c. chap. 37. pag. 179 Of the Cuckooe and the Owle part of the former Tale. pag. 185 Of Perken Warbecks End Of a Third rebellion pag. 187 Of Empson and Sutton aliàs Dudley pag. 188 The Eight Booke OF King Henry the Eight Of his Sister Mary the French Queen and Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk chap. 38. pag. 190 Of Queene Katherine Dowager c. pag. 191 Of King Edward the sixt his vertuous Raigne c. chap. 39. pag. 192 Of Edward Seimer and Lord Protector Duke of Somerset chap. 40 pag. 195 Of Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland pag. 195 Of the Lord Gilford Dudley and Lady Iane his wife pag. 196 Of Queene Mary chap. 41. pag. 198 Of fayre Rosamund and King Henrie the second pag. 199 Of a Ladie who by patience and quiet policie reclaimed her Lord from wantonnes chap. 42. pag. 202 A Catalogue or Epitomie of all the most valiant and famous Kings of this Land and of their Acts from Brute to her now Maiesties most blessed Raigne chap. 42. pag. 206 An obseruation touching the letter H. pag. 208 The ninth Booke A Fiction alluded to our now most gratious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth her Persecutors Persecution and her passage thereout chap. 44. pag. 212 More of her Maiesties Troubles wonderful deliuerie pa. 212. c. Of the vntimely Ends of most our English Dukes since the Conquest by way of Caueat to Parasites Rebels and Conspirators chap. 45. pag. 214 The Tale of Narcissus and Eccho chap. 46. pag. 216 A Fiction of their Authoritie from Hell Their present corrupting of Mankind and wherein pag. 218 Of the Chat passed betwixt two old Widowes concerning new Fangles now vsed by women chap. 47. pag. 220 More of their Chat. chap. 47. pag. 222 Of Spaynes ambitious affecting Kingdomes chap. 48 What the Spanyards in Councell cōcluded touching English Papists at their pretended Inuasion of England and of the small securitie wherein Spayne standeth pag. 225. c. The ouerthrow of the Spanish Armada that anno Dom. 1588. threatned the Conquest of England chap. 49. pag. 227 How Sathan by the only sinne of Pride hath euer preuailed cap. 50. pag. 229 The Legend of S. Christofer Of the Popes Drifts and Infirmities pag. 230. and 231 Of the Spanish Inquisition chap. 51. pag. 232 Of the beginning of Iesuists An admonition to such of them as bee our Natiues Of chiefe poynts wherein the Papists dissent from vs in Opinion pag. 233. and 234 Of the Combat betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit chap. 52. pag. 235 How our Religion is autenticall Of the chiefe poynts wherein we dissent from the Papists pag. 236. c. A Commendation of our prosent Gouernment With a remembrance of somewhat that in some Persons faulteth cap. 53. p. 239 Of the Hypocrites of our time pag. 240. c. The Tenth Booke HOw the King of Spayne and Pope first quarrelled vs receiued armed abetted our Rebels and Fugitiues Of the Popes arrogant Bull and of the Scottish Queene c. pag. 242. c. Of the Scottish Queene he Pretexts and intemperate affecting the Crowne of England Her many and most daungerous Conspiracies with a Catalogue of most her trayterous Complottors c. chap. 55. pag. 245. c. Of her lawfull and orderly Triall Of the most deliberate and mercifull handling of her cause c. chap. 56. pag. 248. c. Of her Death c. pag. 250. c. Of what Councell the ciuill warres in France had Originall chap. 57 The beginning of the same ciuill warres By whom and against whom pag. 253. c. How the Spanyard in those Tumults drifted for France The Popes incharitable acting therein Of our Queene her charitable and necessarie succours to the oppressed French and the Progresse of those ciuill warres c. chap. 58. pag. 255 The tragicall historie of King Dauids Children applied c. chap. 59 pag. 256 More of the same Historie chap. 60. pag. 263. c. Of the warres in the Low Countries c. chap. 61. pag. 265. c. The Eleuenth Booke OF Sir Iohn Mandeuil and faire Elenors loue his Prowesse for her sake performed and his departure to trauell strange Countries pag. 296. c. Of Sir Hugh Willough by his Voyage and death Of Chancelor performing the same Voyage pag. 273 Of Discoueries by Chancelor his stately Intertainment and succesfull dispatch of affayres in Russia pag. 274 More of Mandeuil and Elenor and of his Letter sent vnto her c. pag. 275. c. A description of Russia Somewhat of their Manners Religion and Policie c. chap. 65. pag. 278 More of Chancelors laudable Actions and of his death pag. 279 Of Elenor her speeches to one Stafford in answer of Mandeuils Letter c. chap. 66. pag. 281 Of Burrough his Discoueries c. chap. 67. pag. 283 Of Ienkinson his Discoueries and succesfull imployments pag. 284 More of the same pag. 285 Of Mandeuil offered a great Marriage in Aegypt Of Women and Marriage and a Censure of Either chap. 68. pag. 286 More of Ienkinson labouring our affaires in Persia c. chap. 69. pag. 289 The Twelfth Booke OF the meanes whereby Elenor thereof before ignorant had notice that Mandeuil was her Knight beloued cap. 70. p. 292 Of East South Southeast Discouerers and Discoueries c. chap. 71. pag. 295. c. A Woman simply deliuering the Soothe concerning her owne Sexe c. chap. 72. pag. 297 Of the Seuenteene Kingdomes in Tymes by-passed whereof her Maiestie is now sole Monarch c. chap. 73. pag. 300. c. Old Rome discribed in her Ruines chap. 74. pag. 302 Of Romes politicke Gouernement from the Originals vnto Constantines Donation c. pag. 304 Of the Gouernors and Gouernment of Rome since the Papacie chap. 75. pag. 305 Of the free-States in Italie pag. 306. c. A new Reuiuer of an olde Merriment of one crossed in his amorous drifting chap. 76 pag. 307. c. Of Mandeuil and Stafford met at Rome c. pag. 309. c. The residue of the former Merriment chap. 77 pag. 312 Mandeuil and Elenor met and of their loues Euent c. pa. 304 c Aeneidos in Prose pag. 317. c. FINIS ALBIONS ENGLAND THE FIRST BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. I. I Tell of things done long agoe of many things in few And chiefly of this Clyme of ours the Accidents pursue Thou high Director of the same assist mine artlesse pen To write the gests of Brutons stout and actes of English
I might be ouer-seene He was victorious making one amongst the Worthies neene But with his pardon if I vouch his world of Kingdomes wonne I am no Poet and for lacke of pardon were vndonne His Scottish Irish Almaine French and Saxone Battelles got Yeeld fame sufficient these seeme true the rest I credite not But Bruton is my taske and to my taske I will retire Twelue times the Saxon Princes here against him did conspire And Arthur in twelue Battles great went vanquishor away Howbeit Saxon forces still amongst the Brutons stay This King to entertaine discourse and so to vnderstand What Accidents in after-times should happen in this Land He with the Brutish Prophet then of Sequelles fell in hand Of sixe long after-Kings the man not borne of humane seede Did Prophesie and many things that came to passe in deede Now Arthur chiefe of Chiualrie had set his Crowne at stay And to his Nephew Mordred did commit thereof the sway When with his Knights the wonders of the world for Martiall deeds Beyond the Scas in forren fights he luckely proceedes Till faithlesse Mordred cal'd him backe that forward went with fame For at his Vncles Diadem he traiterously did aime Twise Arthur wonne of him the field and thirdly slewe his Foe When deadly wounded he himselfe victorious died so INterred then with publique plaints and issules ensewes A drouping of the Brittish state the Saxon still subdewes Howbeit worthy Kings succeed but destiny withstood The auncient Scepter to iniure in Brutes succeeding blood Vnlou'd Careticus was he that lost the Goale at length Whenceforth in vaine to win their losse the Brutons vse their streÌ„gth Yea God that as it pleaseth him doth place or dispossesse When foes nor foiles nor any force their courage might suppresse Seem'd partiall in the Saxon Cause and with a Plague did crosse The Brutons that had els at least rebated from their losse For Cadwane and Cadwallyn and Cadwallader the last But not the least for valorous of Brittish Princes past Brought out of VVales such knightly wars as made their foes agast The Plague worse spoyler then the Wars left Cambre almost waste Which to auoid the remnant Brutes into their Ships did haste Cadwallader in leauing thus his natiue Shore he fixt His eyes from whence his bodie should and with his sighes he mixt His royall teares which giuing place he speaketh thus betwixt Sweet Brutaine for I yet must vse that sweet and ceasing name Adew thy King bids thee adew whose flight no weapons frame But God coÌ„maunds his wrath commandes al counter-maund is vaine Els for thy loue to die in thee were life to thy Remaine Thus tymes haue turnes thus Fortune still is flying to and fro What was not is what is shall cease some come and others goe So Brutaine thou of Nation and of name endurest change Now balking vs whome thou hast bread and brooking people strange Yeat if I shoot not past mine aime a world of time from me Part of our blood in highest pompe shall Englands glorie be And chieflie when vnto a first succeeds a second She. But leauing speeches ominous Cadwallader is woe That seeing death determines griefe he dies not on his foe Ah Fortune fayleth mightie ones and meaner doth aduance The mightiest Empier Rome hath change then Brutaine brooke thy chance Let it suffice thou wert before and after Rome in fame And to indure what God intends were sinne to count a shame Nor vaunt ye Saxons of our flight but if ye needs will vaunt Then vaunt of this that God displac'd whom you could neuer daunt This said the teares coÌ„trould his tong sailes wrought land froÌ„ sight When saue a Remnant small the Isle was rid of Brutons quight THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XX. THe Brutons thus departed hence Seauen Kingdomes here begonne Where diuerslie in diuers broyles the Saxons lost and wonne King Edel and King Adelbright in Diria iointly raigne In loyall concorde during life these Kingly friends remaine When A delbright should leaue his life to Edel thus he sayes By those same bondes of happie loue that held vs friends alwaies By our by-parted Crowne of which the Moyetie is mine By God to whome my soule must passe and so in time may thine I pray thee nay I coniure thee to nourish as thine owne Thy Neece my Daughter Argentile till she to age be growne And then as thou receiuest it resigne to her my Throne A promise had for this Bequest the Testator he dies But all that Edel vndertooke he afterward denies Yeat well he fosters for a time the Damsiell that was growne The fairest Lady vnder Heauen whose beautie being knowne A many Princes seeke her loue but none might her obtaine For grippell â—del to himselfe her Kingdome sought to gaine And for that cause from sight of such he did his Ward restraine By chance one Curan Sonne vnto a Prince in Danske did see The Maid with whom he fell in loue as much as one might bee Vnhappie Youth what should he doe his Saint was kept in Mewe Nor he nor any Noble-man admitted to her vewe One while in Melancholy fits he pines himselfe away Anon he thought by force of Armes to win her if he may And still against the Kings restraint did secretly inuay At length the high Controller Loue whom none may disobay Imbased him from Lordlines vnto a Kitchin Drudge That so at least of life or death she might become his Iudge Accesse so had to see and speake he did his loue bewray And tells his bearth her answer was she husbandles would stay Meane while the King did beat his braines his booty to atchieue Nor caring what became of her so he by her might thriue At last his resolution was some Pessant should her wiue And which was working to his wish he did obserue with ioye How Curan whom he thought a drudge scapt many an amorous toy The King perceiuing such his vaine promotes his Vassall still Least that the baseuesse of the man should let perhaps his will Assured therefore of his loue but not suspecting who The Louer was the King himselfe in his behalfe did wowe The Lady resolute from Loue vnkindly takes that he Should barre the Noble and vnto so base a Match agree And therefore shifting out of doores departed thence by stealth Preferring pouertie before a dangerous life in wealth When Curan heard of her escape the anguish in his hart Was more then much and after her from Court he did depart Forgetfull of himselfe his bearth his Country friends and all And onely minding whom he mist the Foundresse of his thrall Nor meanes he after to frequent or Court or stately Townes But solitarily to liue amongst the Country grownes A brace of yeeres he liued thus well pleased so to liue And Shepherd-like to feede a flocke himselfe did wholly giue So wasting loue by worke and want grewe almost to the Waene But then began a second Loue the worser of the twaene A
Forrest not farre from their Fortresse by chance did incounter strike and chace a fayre and well spread Stagge which the Children of one Tyrrhus the Kings Raunger and Steward of his Grounds a Man of no meane account amongst the Latines had from a Fawne nourished and so intreated that no Beast might bee more tamer This Stagge thus stroken and followed of the Troians taking the readiest way to the house of Tyrrhus and with bleeding haunches entring the Hall was first espred of Syluta or Ilia a young Gentlewoman in whose lappe hee sleeping had often layd his head and at whose hands he had many a time taken Brouse been kemmed and trimmed She seeing the Stagge in such a plight almost swouned ere shee could weepe wept eâ—e shee might speake spoke ere shee was comforted and was comforted onely in promise of Reuenge At the winding of an Horne came flocking 〈…〉 Heards-men Shepheards Plow-men and 〈…〉 of Groomes finding Almon the eldest Sonne of Tyrrhus and their young Mistris Syluia grieuously passionate and the Stagge bloodie and braying his last question no further what should be done but were furiously inquisitiue after the Doers In this meane time by euil hap Ascanius and his Companie drawing by Parsie after the Stagge which they knew not for tame were entered the view of this Shoole of inraged Clownes who all at once and suddenly with such weapons as they had or found neerest at hand as Staues Sheep-hookes Dung-forks Flayles Plow-staues Axes Hedging-Beetels yea Lâ—bbats newly snatched froÌ„ burning and what not fiercely assayled with down-right blowes the amazed Troians who not hauing leisure to aske questions couragiously entertaine the vnknowne Quarrell and so long and daungerously for either parte continued this confusion of blowes and effusion of blood that by now it was bruted at the Fortresse and at Laurentum and was anon increased by rescue from either Faction neither had this Skuffling an end vntill night was begun at what time the Latines Rutiles Troians left the wild Medley howbeit not discontinuing their malice Of chiefe account amongst the Latines were slaine lustie Almon and aged Galesus this latter a man of an honest and wealthie condition whilest he vnseasonably amongst blowes deliuered vnregarded perswasions of Peace The wounded Corses of these twaine did Turnus cause to bee conuayed to the view of Latinus as Arguments of their common dammage himselfe with an enuious heart and an inuectiue tongue amplifying the same â—o the vttermost not vnassisted therein by the yrefull Queene Amata or vn-furthered by the hurlie burlie of the impatient People all labouring the King to denounce Armour against the Troians Latinus in this tumult of his Subiects and trauell of his Sences assuring himselfe that Aeneas was the man prophesied to the Marriage of Lauinia and succession of Latium disswaded but might not perswade with the headie multitude In fewe with such efficacie did the dead Corses inuite it the Queene intreate it Turnus affect it the People follow it that lastly though against his minde the King did suffer the Laurentines to reare on their Walles absolute Tokens of imminent Warres Thus found Turnus that which he longed for and Aeneas no lesse than hee looked for and either solliciting succours were not long vnfurnished of hardie Souldiers yea in respect of their multuous Armies the Warres lately ceased at Troy might now haue been sayd to bee reuiued in Italie But as in his Wandrings so in his Warres my purpose is breuitie either of which the Lawriat Trumpetor of his glorie hath so effectually sownded that many might amplifie I could iterate but not any amend it neuerthelesse in remembring of this Historie I haue also vsed other Authorities IT followeth After long Warres valiantly on either part performed many great Kings Princes and Personages perished when lastly the Rutiles begunne to bee repentant of their wrong and the Troians wearie of the Warres Aeneas and Turnus meeting had these words And first Aeneas Often Truces haue wee had Turnus for the buriall of our dead neuer treaties of peace for the welfare of those aliue onely once as I haue been euer diddest thou seeme thou diddest but seeme prouident that no moe should miscarrie offering me Câ—mbate which I accepting haue in vaine expected for since thy minde changed I wot not by what meanes hath changed the liues of I wot not how many But now when for the palpable leasing thou shouldst not speak like Turnus shouldst thou deny the better of the wars to abide with Aeneas and yet I still be Aeneas though playing vpon that Aduantage with Turnus euen now I say my selfe doe request thee of that Combate whereby further Blood-sheds may happily be concluded Beleeue mee wert thou a Begger and I a Monark yet so much doe I emulate not enuie thy glorie I would hazard all in a Combat requested by thee so valerous a Competitor But least perhaps I ouer-breathe thy tickled Conceit with more selfe-lâ—king than is expedâ—ent know man Turnus know Nature Birth Arte Education not whatsoeuer els are in any thing more beneficiall to Turnus than that iustly he may enuie as much or more in Aeneas To this answered the Rutile thus Whether thou speakest this Aeneas as insulting ouer mine infortune or as insolent of thine owne felicitie or emulous as thou sayest and I beleeue it of my glorie trust me onely if thus in thy better successe to abandon thy selfe to such offered disaduauntage bee not indiscretion neuer heard I wherein to derogate from thy policie but say it indiscretion yet by Iupiter Aeneas it is honourable indiscretion Not to encounter so heroicall for in thee I enuie not that Epitheton a Combattant is as contrary to my thought as contenting to my very Soule and as contenting to my Soule as if Aâ—neas were alreadie conquered and Turnus Conquerour either which I deuine at the leastwise I am determined to aduenture Be prouided therefore Ae 〈…〉 eas of courage for thou prouokest no Cowarde but euen Tuâ—â—us that would haue asked no lesse had he not doubted Aeneas not to haue dared to answer so much Thus and with these Conditions that further warres should finish that the Espousall of Lauinia and Succession of Latium should bee the Prize to the Victor a Combat to bee tried by these twaine body against body was vpon Othes taken and other Circumstances agreed vpon Now were they Armed Mounted did Encounter and their Coursers breathlesse the Riders dismounting vigoriously buckle on Foote both offende either defende neither â—ainted Lastly not with vnrequited blowes was Turnus disarmed the Vanquished pleading for life the Victor not purposing his death had hee not espied on his Shoulders the sometimes Baldrike of his once especiall Friend Pallas King Euanders Sonne whom Turnus in Battell ouercomming had put to Sword then Aeneas saying onelie in this Spoyle thou shalt not triumph and onely for his sake am I vnintreatable shoffed his Sworde through his breast Turnus so ending the World and Aeneas the Warres Then was he peaceably wedded to Lauinia and shortly after possessed of Latium After which about three yeares he dying left his Kingdom to Aseanius and Lauinia with childe She at her time and at the house of the before remembred Tyrrhus was deliuered of Sylâ—iâ—s Post-humus so called of his being borne amongst the Woods after the death of his Father To him because in right it was the inheritance of Syluius from his Mother did Asâ—anius voluntarily resigne the Kingdome of Latium and of him for his honorable Regiment were all the after Latine kings called Sylâ—ij Finally he hunting and mistaken amongst the Thickets for a Stagge was slaine with an Arrow by his Sonne Brutus This Brutus for sorrow and his saâ—â—tie accompanied with many lustie Gentlemen and others of Aeneas his Troians Ofsprings imbarking themselues after long Sayling ariued in this Iland then called Albion whose Giant-like Inhabitants in respect of their monstrous making inciuill Manners sayd to haue bin engendred of Diuels he ouercomming manured their Countrey and after his owne name called it Brutaine And thus hauing begotten Brutus an Originall to our Brutons I conclude this abridged Historie of his Grandfather Aeneas FINIS