the Messean Land where Theutram raign'd Was fettile they from thence demand supply Of Victuall for the hoast but he disdaind T' assist them therefore him the Greekes defie The Kings hye blood Achilles Faulchion stain'd Theutram alas by him is forest to dye And Telephus crown'd King from whose rich Coast With store Victuall he relieues the hoast 45 Twelue Moones were past since first the Greeks took land When Duke Palamides at th' host ariues Whose absence murmur'd long yet the command Of the whole Army with the Princes liues Are made his charge none seeming to withstand his principality this Duke deriues His byrth from Naulus and is made the head Of the stout Greekes in Agamemnons stead 46 But in desaster houre Vlisses friend To Agamemnon by his crafty fraud Both to his life and his command gaue end He that but late the Argiue Princes aw'd And foyld the common foe cannot defend his owne deere life but whilst the hoast applaud Atrides honor in vnhappy season Is forcst to perrish for suspected Treason 47 Tenedos sackt the Greekes insult vpon 't And from that place made leuell with the plaine The Fleet disanchors whose proud Nauall front Prothesilaus proudly doth maintaine Hoysing the first Sayles in the Hellespont A hundred Ships whose Flags and Pendants staine The Ayre with various Colours he commands And twice repulst vpon the Beach he Lands 48 His ships tough ribs vpon the sands he brake And many Greekes some drown'd some landing fall As well the boldest that the Ship forsake As those that keepe aboord must perish all Onely the bold King makes the Troians quake Who whilst his maymed traine for rescue call Makes good the place till with an hundred more Archelaus and Prothenor mans the shore 49 Now growes the battle hot for the rude rout Of the disordered Troians madly flocke To impeach their Landing who with courage stout Leape on the shore and there abide the shocke Of the proud Foe who murder all about And with rude taunts their proud Inuasion mocke But Askalus and Agabus draw neare Two Kings whose landed souldiers change their chear 50 Yet at the length into the Sea driuen backe Till Nestor seconds them with fresh supply and now th'astonisht Troians suffer wracke Yet still make good the shores with fresh supply againe repulst the Greekes made good the lacke Of more arm'd men Vlisses Ships prest ny Whose dreaded Ensignes on the Margent spred Conquer the Beach the whilst the Troians fled 51 King Philomenes enuious of his Fame A pointed Speare brake on Vlisses face and stounded him but when the bold King came T'himselfe againe he quitted that disgrace So much did wrath his Noble thoughts inflame he wounded him in such a speeding place That had not Ihoue kept backe his Weapons force The late victorious had dropt downe a Corse 52 Whilst these two Kings contend the Greekes retire And backe into the blood-stain'd Sea are driuen When Thoas with his fleet doth Land desire Now Agamemnons Ships are all to riuen Vpon the Strond his men halfe blood halfe mire Tugge for the shore whilst many die vnshriuen Next Menelaus hath vnmand his Ship And from his Barke doth stormy Aiax skip 53 At whose approach neere to the brinish brinke Th' amazed Troians yeild him Landing free Beneath his ponderous Arme the strongest shrinke Before his sword th' affrighted people flee Their soules below the waues of Lethe drinke Whose deeds of valor when King Perses see He with a band of Moores their violence stayde Making th'astonisht Greekes expect more ayde 54 When the great Duke Palumides discends Vpon the Continent and in his traine A thousand Armed Knights his Noble Friends Whose swords the Beach with blood of Troians slaine Palumides gainst Symagon extends His pointed Iauelin Symagon lies slaine A valiant Moore to Perses neere alide Though strong he by the sonne of Naulus dide 55 Now gainst the beaten Troians rose lowd cries Which puissant Hector hearing from the Towne Issues from forth the gates and soone applies His fortitude where Warre seem'd most to frowne His armor Siluer-white his shields deuise A Lyon Gules the field Or after knowne And dreaded mongst the Greeks where ere he marches The Flowers grasse with blood of Greeks he parches 56 Prothesilaus him encounters first and at his Steely Beauer aymes his Speare The King his Staffe vpon his Visor burst But from the Worthy Hector past not cleare All that encounter him must tast the worst The steel-head Lance from off his steed doth beare The dreadlesse King who rose by great indeuour But Hector cleft his head quite through his Beauer 57 So passeth on strowing his way with Corses That in a while his smoaking blade was feared Whom ere he meets he to the ground inforces His valour hath the drooping Troians cheared He without riders leaues fiue hundred horses Whose broken limbes lie on the earth besmeared Death Marshals him the way where ere he traces Pauing the Margent of the Sea with faces 58 His courser Galathee the Noblest Steed That euer Knight bestrid i' th morning white In euery bare place seemes from farre to bleed His valiant ryder shun'd no dangerous fight Hee 's flak't all ore and where no wounds indeed Were hewed great gashes grisly to the sight Appeare vpon him Galathee still stood Sound and yet stain'd all ore with Gracian blood 59 Nor wonder if his white Steed were so painted When his sharpe sword so many Riuers shed This day a thousand Knights beneath him fainted And on the verdure by his hand lye dead With this mortality the ayre is tainted The spatious plaines with wounded Greekes are spred Charon the sweat wipes from his ghastly face And neuer wrought so hard in so short space 60 Hels Iudges and the Gods of Darkenesse wonder What 's now to do on earth that such a throng Of Ghosts whose threds the fatall Sisters sunder Presse in such multitudes for sentence long The Princes of the Vaults and regions vnder Were not so troubled to iudge right and wrong For neuer in one day it hath befell So great a Sessions hath bin seene in Hell 61 Th'inuincible Dardanian Heroe tyr'd With purple Massacre towards night with-drew Horse Armes and Plumes the brightest morne admir'd For whitenesse at his yssue purple grew And he returnes Vermilion all attir'd In Crimson scarce the royall Priam knew Great Hector from the Torras where he stood Seeing his onset white Retrait all blood 62 Soone was the Noble Troian mist in field For with his Myrmidons proudly attended Achilles Lands and that renowned sheild God Vulcan made in which his art extended He vaunteth yet the daunted Troians yeild Th'vnconquered shores Hector so late defended Lie open to inuaders whole Greece Lands For gainst the great Achilles no man stands 63 Euen to the Citty wals the Troians fly Whom the maine hoast with hostile showtes pursude And had not Noble Troylus heard the cry Paris and Deiphebus where they view'd So
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
fame Whose glory liues although his state be dead Then view that Saturne with respectiue eies Whose far-spread beames set at his sonnes vprise 19 Saturne hath spoke enough whose longing eares Haue not bin fild and cloy'd with his renowne The Heauenly musicke of th'Harmonious spheares Climbe to his praise by him the fields are sowne The Archers shoot and Childing-Tellus beares In what remote climbe is not Saturne knowne By him are seas past heady ships contrould He first Tild Ploud Sowd Reapt and fined Gold 20 He need not of his Ominous wars possesse him Troos knowes his issues triumph and his flight Inspir'd with supernaturall gifts they gesle him And hold themselues heauen fauoured in his sight He vowes in Creet againe to râ—…pollesle him Where Ihoue vsurps gainst all paternall right After few daies in feasts and triumphs ended A puisant host is to his charge commended 21 Of twenty thousand souldiers Troians all Commanded by the valiant Ganimed A better war-exployted Generall Neuer appear'd in sight of Ersignes spred They passe the Egeon seas which men so call Of the Grand Thiefe Egeon he that fled From Iupiter when all the Tytans perisht Now on these Seas by murdrous Pyrats cherisht 22 Saturne directs their landing as best knowing The safest harbors and their army guided Through many furlongs of his ancient sowing Neuer till his daies by the Plough diuided But as their host to Creet is nearer growing With hope to take the Cretans vnprouided King Iupiter is by the skouts discride With many Centaures that on horsebacke ride 23 But not expecting any hostile power Or to beat backe inuaders doth he gather This puisant host hee 's for the brazen Tower Where Danae liues coopt by her ruthlesse father But now that host the Cretan soile must scoure Which amorous Ihoue would haue conducted rather To scale the brazen forâ—…sse the darke skreene Twixt courtly freedome and his cloistred Queene 24 To this imployment the stout Centaures came Vnder Ixions conduct twice two hundred Who first deuis'd Thessalian steeds to tame They seem'd at first halfe horse halfe man vnsundred At whose strange manage and admired name Vnknowne till now th' amazed Troians wondred The battailes ioyne and both the hosts discouer About Ihoues Tent a Princely Eagle houer 25 He takes it for an Ominous signe of good The Troians for some heauy sad presage By this a thousand quarters swim in blood And from both sides the heated Champions rage In a deepe red they dy the neighbour flood Neuer did bolder spirits battaile wage The dying grone the feare-confounded shrike The wounded bleeding fall the standing strike 26 The Centaures boldly fight the Prince of Troy Shines both in Armes and valour aboue all Hauing both Art and strength his steele to imploy And many halfe-dead limbes about him sprall To him Ihoue makes and is re-met with ioy On either part whole troopes before him fall So haue I seene two burning Meteors fare Breaking through diuers clouds to tilt in th' aire 27 Two fiery Meteors I may call them right For they were both in gilded Armors laced And had they fought in a darke cloudy night With such rough blowes their shields and helmes they raced And forcst from them such store of fiery light With steele encountring steele and blowes well placed The two maine Armies might haue fought in view By the bright sparkes that from their Armors flew 28 This Monomachy lasted not for yonder Comes Saturne on the part of Ganimed On th' other side the hoofed Centaures thunder And Character deepe halfe Moones where they tread By whom the Champions are inforst assunder And all confus'd that was in order led Thus in this tumult and disordered brall By scotes and hundreds they drop downe and fal 29 Saturne assailes his sonne but is refus'd He shuns th' vnnaturall combat with his Sire Amongst the Troians he his Champions chus'd The Hostile stranger shall his worth admire Against whose Armies he such valour vs'd That force pâ—…force their vaward must retire Meane time Prince Ganimed King Saturne righting Alone is midst a hundred Centaures fighting 30 Encountring Eson arm'd at euery peece Eson well mounted gainst the Troian ran This Eson sonne was after knowne in Greece T was he that did the stately Arges man And in his bold quest of the golden fleece With the rich Sheepe deepe speld Medea wan Who after old decrepit weake and hored Was by his daughter to his youth restored 31 Him Ganimed vnhorst and in despight Of the bold Centaures mounted on his steed Prouing the manage of this vnknown fight And in the proofe madâ—… many Centaures bleed But all in vaine his troopes are put to flight Saturne is shrunke and left him at his need And â—…o ther ships in tâ—…oopes his souldâ—…s fled Whose shamefull steps the Prince of force must tred 32 The Centaures and the Cretan king pursue them Vnto the Oceans Margent and euen there Twixt Sea and shore in countlesse heaps they slew them Such as escape their course to Troy-ward beare For Saturnes men the Cretans cannot view them Another vnknowne tract alas they steare Whether the winds and waues their vessaile driue Twice driuen from Creet gainst heauen in vaine wee striue 33 Iupiter and the Centaures such ships take As should haue bin imploid for Darraynes Tower And after Ganimed to Sea they make Pursuing them to Troy with all their power They Land at once the fearefull Troians quake Doubting if earth or sea shall them deuoure Troos with an host discends as one that guessed The Prince his sonne was by his foes distressed 34 The battaile is renewed the king intends To rescue sonne and Subiects in such state But ouer valiant Ganimed extends His valour beyond wisedome all too late The King of Troy his puissant fury bends In rescue of his sonne now in sad fate The Cretans him surprize and he being tane With this rich prize they make to Sea againe 35 Leaue Troos and Islion mated at this crosse The pride of Troy is not to be re-won He raâ—…s him much aboue his kingdomes losse And all Dardania mourneth for his son How in the guard of those that from Molesse Came with Ixion and on horse-backe run Ioue giues command being at Sea assured The Prisoners to be chear'd the wounded cured 36 And calling now to mind the Bird that soared About his rich Pauillion he ordained Her picture should be drawne and quaintly skored Vpon a Crimson Ensigne richly stained Which since that fight to all that Mars adored As a perpetuall instance hath remained Till then they bore no flags no Scutchions drew Ioues Eagle was the first in field that flew 37 He now remembers Danae and commands His Pylots to direct his waftage thether But what the king inioynes the wind withstands With boysterous gusts it foulds their sailes together And hurries them along by diuers Lands They beare their wandering course they ken not whether At length they in the
find rest Oh Magicke by thy power what cannot they To whom the Seas submit the winds obey 81 Amongst those Princes that with Iason vvent and vvere at home receiu'd the great Alcide amidst this generall Ioy seemes discontent His spleene to Troy he can no longer hide To be reueng'd he holds his firme intent He that to their distresse reliefe denide Must knovv whatt'is to scorne his firme alliance So through all Greece he breaths gainst Troy defiance 82 And vvith a gallant army taking Land attaines the shore perforce and in his way No Village Fortresse Tovvne or Tower can stand But to his ruthlesse fury must giue way This hearing King Laomedon hath mand a Noble army to make good the day Which ere the Sun into the West-sea fall Must see ten thousand Troians kild and thrall 83 Laomedon remembring what great vvracke Twelue-labord Hercules before time made Recounts to them his vvrongs his Citties sack Their tyranies to al vvhom they inuade Therefore incites them to repulse those backe That haue too long vpon his confines staid Behold quoth he these would your freedomes barre Then with a generall showt prepare for warre 84 The hoast of Greekes that heare their exclamation Wait but to heare Alcides watch-word giuen Who cheares them thus You are that warlike Nation Whose fame fils all the Clymates vnder heauen Sincâ—… you are strangers let your salutations Be with your swords not words for yet ere Euen You standing hoast in their owne bloods wee 'l drown And part the rich spoyle of yon rampierd Towne 85 Lowd chearing Instruments on both sides sound The battailes ioyne both Greekes and Troians sinke They that but late the firme Earth proudly bound Now must below the waues of Lethe drinke The great Alcides borne to sway the ground Against his strength opposd al mortals shrinke Who being more then man must needs haue ods To fight with any that are lesse then Gods 86 Him whome th'all-doming Fates will haue to sway How can Laomedon in armes subdue Though Troy be strong yet must it Greece obey Alcides with his Club whole thousands slew By his sole-strength the Greekes obtaine the day And to the Citty gates the foe pursue Who mingled with their troopes in this aduenture Slaughter the bold and with the Cowards enter 87 So by the English was great Cales suprisd And entred with the Spaniards that retire they that at first the generals name despisd Now at the last are forc'st his fame t' admire English and Dutch in Spanish wealth disguisd Laden their fleet with pillage whilst bright fire Consumes the Towne which twice the English take As Greece did Troy great Essex and bold Drake 88 Stout Aiax Telamon amongst the rest Set his first foot in Troy but him succeed Ten thousand Greeks and many a warlike brest Pierst with the Argiue weapons freshly bleed They sacke the populous Towne from East to West Troyes second sacke is by the Fates decreed They sacke and ransacke spoile and freely kill And all the Towne with shreekes and clamors fill 89 Amongst the rest that perisht in this broile Laomedon fals by Alcides hand Whilst euery where the conquering Graecians spoile No man so bold that dares against them stand Great is the booty in so rich a soile They pillage all the substance of the land Beat downe the wals the Temples ruine quite And kill poore infants in their mothers sight 90 The Matrons in their husbands armes deflowâ—… The reuerent Virgins in their parents eye And such as interdict their awfull power By their remorselesse bloudy weapons die Hie looking Troy is ruin'd in an houre Those Towres quite racst whose sharpe spyres mockt the sky and that proud towne the Asian glory ones Is now a confus'd heape of men and stones 91 Al-conquering Hercules reueng'd at last Of Troyes ingratefull Soueraigne takes full ceasure Of Asiaes Monarchy his fury past amongst his host he parts the Citties treasure But Telamonus Aiax most he gracst and gaue him her that pleas'd him aboue measure The bright Hesione his valours meed The beautious Virgin from the sea-Whale freed 92 Well was it for young Priam the Kings sonne That he was else-where in the East imployd The Lybian else that Asia ouer-ronne and conquered Troy had likewise him destroid Thâ—… laden Greekes after the conquest woon Are fraught with wealth with pleasure ouer-ioyd Poore Troy whilst they in their full miâ—…h abound Liues desolate and leueld with the ground 93 The Monster-maister hauing fild the sky With martiall clangor in the lowdest straine After reuenge on Cacus Tyranny and the great Gyants of Cremona slaine King Pricus death King Affer raised hie And the two Collumnes that he reard in Spaine To include in few his many deeds we thus In narrow roome his labors twelue discusse 94 1. The Eremanthion Bore 2. and the fire-breathing Bul 3. The Lernan Hydra 4 and the winged Hind 5. Stymphalidus 6. The Amazonian trull 7. Th' Aegean stables the seauenth taske assind 8. The Cleonean Lyon 9. with the scull Of Diomed who fed his Steeds gainst kind 10. The golden fruit made ripe by bright Heperion 11. Grim Cerbarus 12. and triple-headed Gerion 95 These taskes by Iunoes imposition ended Whilst he on Ictes attractiue face Doted and her deserts alone commended Faire Deyaneyr imputes it her disgrace With such great wrongs vnto her bed offended Because his vassaile had supplied her place She sends a shirt and meanes her husband good Dipt in the poyson of the Centaures blood 96 The traitor Nessus passing a deepe foord With Deianeyre away with her he flyes Alcides cannot reach him with his sword But after him his wounding arrow hies The dying Centaure speakes this latest word Faire Deiancyre before death close mine eyes Receiue a guift in signe I lou'd thee deerely Which though I die in time may stead thee neerely 97 I know thy Lord a Conqueror yet subdude By womens beauty therefore when you find The lustfull Prince mongst Forraine Queenes intrude and that their amorous Court-ships change his mind Send him a Shirt with this my bloud Imbrude The vertue is to make Alcides kind This said his life he ended in a trice She for it was his last trusts his aduise 98 Hearing faire Iole the hart had ceasd Of her deare Lord and that she kept away She feeles her thoughts within themselues diseas'd and hopes to call him backe that went astray The Centaures dying guist the Lady pleasd Her seruant Lychas posts it without stay Oh! Thou weake woman thou his death maist vant Whom Hell-hounds Gyants Monsters could not daunt 99 Hoping alasse his fauour to regaine The Innocent Lady her deare Lord destroyd He d'ons her present whose inuenomed Bane Cleaues to his bones Oh! Who can Fate auoyde More then a man before he would complaine Alcides beares and no whit seemes annoyd Such tortures as the strongest might strike dead he brookes yet no part of his coulour fled 100 But when he felt
vnweildy frame in ought despise Well guarded Troy by Pallas anger fals The Greekes returne and long-liu'd 〈◊〉 dies But if this Steede for whom the 〈◊〉 cals Pierce through your 〈◊〉 mure or if it rise And mount aboue your wals to Pallas shrine Troy still shall stand and Greece the wracke is thine 35 Priam and his consederate Kings shall then To Sparta and Meceane the Greekes pursue Deuast their losty spyring Cittiâ—…s when The clamorous Land shall their destruction rue Loosing by Troy whole infinites of men Witnesse you Gods poore Synons words are true Such lookes such teares such protestations chiefe Wins in all Troy remorse the King beliefe 36 What many a well-rig'd barke and armed Keele What not the bloudy â—…edge of ten whole yeare To make Troy tast inconstant Fortunes wheele Vlisses wisedome nor Achilles Speare What not King Diomeds through piercing Steele All this did periurd 〈◊〉 with a teare Bâ—…old whilst all the rowt on Synon gaze a dread portent that doth all Troy amaze 37 Along the troubled Billowes towards the shore Two Blacke-scal'd Serpents on their bellyes glide at whose approach the foaming Surges rore These â—…ery Serpents to the Beach applyde and in Laocons bloud who that time wore The Priest-hoods roabes their arming Scales they dide Their winding traines they with loud hissinges roule About his breast till they inlarg'd his Soule 38 The Monster-multitude before dismayd At the recourse of these infernall Snakes Thinke bold Laocon to be iustly payd Because he yet his harmefull Iauelin shakes Some Cables fetch some with their Leauers stayd The Pondrous Engine which deepe â—…urrowes rakes Along the Earth others the Wals hurle downe To giue the Horse free passage to the Towne 39 Wide stand the yron-bard gates whilst all the rout Buckle to worke the fatall Muchine climes Thâ—…thronged Bulwarkes big with Souldiers stout Ready to be deliuered hallowed rimes The Virgins sing and nimbly dance about Myneruas Steed the wonder of these times Thinking themselues boue others highly blest That can be more officious then the rest 40 Foure times the Brazen Horse entring stuck fast Anenst the ruinde guirdle of the Towne Foure times was armour heard yet vnagast The fatall Beast with sacred wreathes they Crowne Sunke in blind ignorance and now at last Before Mineruaes shrine they place it downe In Himnes and Feasts the ominous day they spend Offring to her that must their liues defend 41 Meane time heauen turnes night from the Ocean fals Inuoluing with blacke darkenesse earth and ayre And call the Gracian craft about the wals The scattred Troians slumber far from care and now his Pilots great Atrides cals Who backe to Tenedos with speed repayre The Vniuersall Phalanx lands in hast And through the silence of the Moone are past 42 Now startles Synon and a flaming-brand He wafts from top of one of 〈◊〉 Towers Which like a Beacon in the night must stand To guide the Greekes and their nocturnall powers Then with a Key graspt in his fatall hand Feareless he through the palped darknesse scowres To the big bellied Stallion turnes the spring and through the doore the Harnest Grecians fling 43 First blacke-hayrd Pyrrhus fixes in the ground His Oaken Speare and from the loft he slydes Vlisses next yet halting of his wound and then the younger of the two Atrides Tysandar from the structure next doth bound Thoas and Athanas two warlike guides With Stheuelus downe by a Cable fall and bruisde with leaping on the Pauement sprall 44 Pelidus followes these and then the man That in his braine first cast this fatall mould Epeus th'enginer whom Synon than Did in his blacke and penurd armâ—…s in fould Their sweatty browes they with the darknesse fan Each chearing vp his Mate with courage bould Strip their bright Swords by whose quicke glimering light They find their way in the darke star-lesse night 45 The Citty sunke in Wine and Mirth they'nuade Slaughter the Watch that on the ground lie spred Then through the broken Wals but late decayde The Generals Army is by Synon led And Agamemnons coulours are displayde Now tumults and confusions first are bred Hauocke begins loude showtes and clamors rise Lifting their Tragicke vprore through the skyes 46 Heauens lamps were halfe burntout t' was past midnight When to Aeneas in his bed appear'd Sad Hector 〈◊〉 and wan full of affright His hayre clotterd with bloud his ruffled Beard Disordred all those deepe caru'd wounds in sight Which in defence of Trâ—…y and his indeard Were graude vpon his flesh behind him fall Those thongs that drag'd him round about Troyes wall 47 Oh how much from that great King-killer chang'd Hye spirited Hector when being proudly deckt In great Achilles spoyles he freely rang'd Through guards of Steele whilst from his Helme reflect Trophies of Greece Oh me How much estrang'd From him that did all Asiaes pride protect Euen to their Fleet the Achiue Kings pursue And mongst their ships round Bals of Wild-fire flew 48 When to the sleeping Prince approaching nye He with a sigh from his decpe intrailes fetcht Thus sayes Thou Goddesse sonne Aeneas flye And from these burnings that by this are stretcht Quite o're your glorious buildings climbing hye Deliuer thee the Arme of warre hath retcht Euen to the Crest of Troy and with one blow Giuen it a sad and certaine ouâ—…throw 49 Greece hath your wals the Vniuersall roofe Of Troy is sunke and falne her bearers fayld Destruction that hath houered long aloose Hath ceaz'd her towers and her spires auayld Could might haue kept her by the manly proofe Of this right hand the Prisoner had bin bayld But Troy alas is sentenc'st and must dye Then from her funerall Flames Aeneas flye 50 To thee her Gods and Reliques she commends Thee that must her posterity râ—…uiue For though her glory heere in seeming end Yet dying Troy in thee is kept aliue Now cleaues the earth and the sad Ghost discends Aeneas with dull sleepe begins to striue And waking heares a noise of clattering Warre And many 〈◊〉 Clamors 〈◊〉 and farre 51 When mounting on a Turret he might spy The Citty all on Flame and by the light A thousand seuerall Conflicts sparkles flye As farre as to the Sea the waues shine bright And now at length he sees Synon can lie His Treasons manifest still this blacke night Clamors of men and Trumpets clangors grow Whilst with warme recking blood the chanels flow 52 Aeneas armes in hast graspes in his hand A two-edg'd Semiter to guard his life Knowes not to whom to run or where to stand In euery 〈◊〉 is danger rage and strife Yet longes for skirmish and on some proud band To proue his strength now whilst the tumults rife For since th'Achiue fires such splendor giue To dye in armes seemes sweeter then to liue 53 Behold where from the forraine slaughter flying Panthus Otriades Priest of the Sunne Scoures through the streetes Aeneas him espying Cals to him thus Whether doth Panthus run
swayes A generall peace is through the world debated The Brittaines next King Cimbelinus raise And fiue and thirty yeares he is instated And now the Sauiour of the world was borne Th' eternall King Crownd with a wreath of Thorne 35 Hortensius Lyuy Salust Ouid all Were Fam'de in Rome valiant Guiderius next The Brittaines as their soueraigne Liege install Twenty eight yeares he gouernes much perplext With Roman warre now chanc'st Seianus fall Vnder Tyberius now as saith the text Iohn Baptist preacht and by King Herod dide Pylate was Iudge and Christ was Crucifide 36 Now Aruiragus raignes and takes to wife Th'Emperour Clodius daughter Iâ—…wries King Was eat with wormes Graue Seneck breath'd this life And Simon Magus did his Money bring To buy the Holy-ghost his Fame was rife Amongst the Romans now did Nero sing Vpon a hill Troyes burning to his Lyre Hauing before set stately Rome a fire 37 Saint Marke in Alexandria Martyrd was At ' Ierusalem Iames for the Gospell dide Paule suffred too whose boldnesse did surpasse Peter likewise in Rome was Crucified Queene Voada a gallant Brittish Lasse Marcht with fiue thousand Ladies by her side and in one battaile if report be true Full fourscore thousand valiant Romans slew 38 Next Aruiragus Brittan Marius guided Now was the Temple of the highest defaced His City sackt and those that Christ derided Burnt staru'd or slaine Ierusalem quite raced Iosephus liu'd Domitian Rome deuided and after Tytus in the Throne was placed Ignatius life in Rome mongst Lyons vanisht Saint Iohn whom Christ lou'd was to Pathmos banisht 93 In Rome now liu'd Cornelius Tacitus Suetonius younger Pliny Iuvenal Valerius Flaccus and Patauius and the Lasciuious Poet Martial and vnder Traian Aulus Gellius Plutarch and Apuleius now the wall From Tyne to the Scotch Sea was made for strength Being one hundred and twelue miles in length 48 Coylus built Colchester now Iustine wrote and with his Bookes and Life Christs Fayth defended Egyptian Ptolomee the Starres did note and Mathematickes found Lucius ascended The State next Coyll who first set aflote Baptizme in England by the Church commended For our first Christian King he mounts the Spheares and without King leaues Brittan fifteene yeares 49 Seuerus th' Emperor did fiue yeares supply The Brittish Throne then of the Goute he dyde At Yorke to Bassianus his ally Leauing both Rome and Brittans Islle to guide Six yeares this Caracalla lifted high His Crowned state in Tirany and pride Tertullian now and Origen were knowne Carassus next assumes the Brittish Throne 50 Gouernd eight yeares then by Alectus dide After three yeares bold Asclepiodale Alectus slew in hight of all his pride And Roman Wallus by whose timelesse fall Walbrooke tooke name He thirty yeares supplide The kingdome then exchangd his Mortall state Artabanus great Artaxerxus slew S. Albon martyr'd left this life for new 51 COill kild Asclepiodale and raigned Twenty seuen yeares Constantius succeeds By marraying Brittish Hellen hauing gained The Roman Diadem His vertuous deedes The fauour of the multitude attained Next Constantine sur-nam'd the great who reads The Bible first in Brittan Arrius preacht And th'Arrian errors through the whole world teacht 52 Now at Ierusalem Queene Hellen found The very Crosse whereon our Sauiour dide And the three nayles his feet and hands did wound Octauius next fifty foure yeares supplide The Diadem and then was laid in ground Three hundred eighteene Byshops now applide The Nycene Counsell now did Ambrose reed And Athanasius that set downe the Creed 53 With learned Basill and about their dayes Iulian-Apostat liu'd the next adâ—…anced Was Maximus whom the bold Brittans rayse To Vrsula a pittious Fortune ehanced With eleuen thousand Maids passing the Seas To Brittaine lesse their liues were all intranced S. Ierom flourisht writing Bookes Deuine So did in Hyppone learned Augustine 54 GRatian succeeds whom the bold Brittans slew After foure yeares in whose vnhappy â—…aigne Ambrose the Millein Byshop famous grew And Chrisostom did the true faith maintaine In Constantinople a Doctrine new Th'Hereticke Pellâ—…ges did in Carthage faine Where all his errors to his pride imputed Were by two hundred and seuen Clarkes confuted 55 Algelmond raign'd first King of â—…ombardy at Millen th' Emperor Theodâ—… dide Alaricus sackt Rome The Monarchy and Throne of France first â—…mond supplide The Scots and Picts vnpeople Brittany But Constantine the Brittaines valiant guide Who came from Brittaine leâ—…e the Throne ascâ—…nds and rules ten yeares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Romes tribute ends 59 COnstans a Foole the sonne of Constantine Was from a Monke by Vortiger made King And hauing one yeare gouernd did resigne To the Duke Vortiger who gouerning Eighteene whole yeares two Lords of Saxon line Hâ—…ngest and Horseus cald an army bring To Land in Brittaine where not long they tarried Till Vortiger Prince Hengists daughter maried 57 For which the Brittaines him deposd electing Young Vortimer his sonne to sway the state He the allyans of those Lords reiecting Whom Vortiger his Father raisd so late Gouern'd six yeares the land in peace protecting Whom his faire Step-dame brought to timelesse Fate By cursed poyson which no sooner chanced But Vortiger was once againe aduanced 58 In these dissentious dayes Gensericus The Vandall King tooke Cartage Attila King of the Hunnes euen to Thermopilus Ore-came all Greece Illyria Thracia Against whom brauely fought Meroneus The most renowned King of Gallia Nam'd Gallia France and till King Pepius time All the French Kings discended of his line 59 Venice was now first founded and begun Of such poore people as to shun the rage Of Tyrant Attila the samous Hun From Aquilea fled whose pride to asswage The Roman Aetius a braue battaile won Slew eighteene thousand Hunnes in his young age Aetius enuide for raising Romes Dominion Was murdred by his Maister Valentinian 60 Which Emperor at Thrasila was slaine By one of Etius souldiers Vortiger Of Brittaines awfull seat possest againe The Saxons with the Brittish Peeres conferre VVhere at a VVatch-word giuen by Hengists traine Foure hundred Brittish Barons murdred were The King surprisde and being in prison pent Gaue to them Norfolke Suffolke Sussex Kent 61 And of this Hengist Brittan chang'd the name Was cleaped-Hengists Land since England cald Next Constantines two younger Sonnes proclaime Their rights in England being naught appald at Hengists might stird by their Fathers Fame Ambros and Vter seeke to be instald They land at Totnes Vortiger they burne Kill Hengist too for whom the Saxons murne 62 Now Merline Aurelius Aurelius Ambres raign'd Thirty three yeares made Stone-henge which till now Hath on the plaine of Salsbury remaind He dead the Brittans to
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
part A valiant German that hight Martin-Swart 83 These Henry slew in battaile and arrear'd A Taxe of the Tenth-penny through the Land For which the Commons in the field appeard And kill Northumbers Earle with a strong band Henry inuaded France Columbus cleard The vnknowne Seas and boldly tooke in hand The Indies first discouery Insurrection By Perkin Warbeck in forraine protection 84 In Italy a Stone exceeding great Fell from the ayre Lord Audly now rebeld Henry and the Scotch King of peace intreat The Turke the bold Venetian forces queld Who at Dyrachium sought him to defeate Katherine of Spaine a Lady that exceld Was fianst to Prince Arthur Sforce subdude Milleine and all the French-men did exclude 85 Margaret King Henries Daughter was affyde Vnto Scotch Iames In Germany bloud raind Elizabeth the Queene in Child-bed dyde The French this yeare from Naples were constrainde By Ferdinand of Spaine Now in his pride Liu'd Prestor-Iohn Great Ismael Sophy gaind Vpon the Turke in many a warlike strife Henry the seauenth at Richmond ends his life 86 At eyghteene yeares Henry the eyght succedes And thirty eyght yeares raign'd his Brothers Wife He marries by the Popes dispence which breedes Among the Cardinals murmure and strife Emson and Dudley hated for theyr deeds To please the Commons were depriu'd of life Now Doctor Collet liu'd a man of fame Erasmus too deriu'd from Rhoterdame 97 The Turkish Tyrant Selimus by warre Two Aegiptian Souldans chast and slew The Muscouites the stoute Pollonians barre Some rights for which great battailes t'ween them grew France still retaines the memorable searre Of Henries valor who that time o'rethrew Turwin and Turney in whose streetes appeare Turrets as many as be daies â—…'th yeare 98 A peace with France King Lewes Mary wiues Sister to Henry and within few dayes Expyres Charles Brandon gainst the French-men striues At Tilt and Barriers where he won great prayse and fetcht the Queene thence Francis next suruiues The King of France Charles Brandon now assayes The Queene and marryes her in small while after Mary was borne King Henries eldest Daughter 99 Charles Duke of Austrich is made King of Spaine The Citties tumult chanc't on Ill-May-day Cardinall Woolsy flourisht now complaine The Popes allyes gainst Luther Turkes display Theyr Ensignes against Belgrade once againe Zuinglius began against the Pope t'inuaye Whose Doctrines learnd Erasmus seemde to abet Henry at Arde in France the French King met 100 Charles is Crown'd Emperor th'eyght Henry writ A Booke gainst Luther This yeare lost his head The Duke of Buckingham and now did sit In the Turkes Throne a Prince with fury led Who Belgraue did besidge and threatned it Great Solyman The Emperor Charles him sped For England where at Windsore he was called Vnto the Garter and there Knight installed 101 Christierne of Denmarke banisht with his Wife Enter this Land where they were well intreated The Earle of Surry in his Northerne strife In many sundry fights the Foe defeated Stormes and tempestuous Gusts this yeare were rife And in Granade a Prodince fayrely seared Were Citties swallowed the great Turke makes hed From whom the Hungars king drown'd as he fled 102 The Annabaptists sect was first begun Charles Burbons Duke sackt Rome and there was slaine Vaivad grew great in Fame this yeare the Sunne Appear'd three Sunnes at once Katherine of Spaine Before prince Arthurs wife the king is wun To be diuorst from this diuorse in vaine Cardinall Woolsie seekes by meanes to crosse Which to his ruine turnes and fauours losse 103 Tindall the holy Scripture now translated Th'arrested Cardinall at Leister dide And Ferdinand is King of Rome created Anne Bulloine next became King Henrtes Bride And Thomas Cromwell whom the Cleargy hated Made of the Counsell the Kings Sister tyde In marriage to Charles Brandon dyes forlorne Elizabeth was now at Greenewich borne 104 For Treason dyde the holy Mayde of Kent Lady Anne Bulloine like wise lost her head Erasmus after seauenty Winters spent Expi'd whose fame through Christendome is spread Lady Iane Seamors beauty did content The King so well he tooke her to his bed And on Saint Edwards Eeue this yeare tooke life noble Prince Edward by the kings late Wife 105 Fryer Forrest dyde for Treason One of Spaine For eating Flesh vpon a day of Fast Was hang'd in Paris and tooke downe againe His Lady burnt A full conclusion past Of Marriage tweene the King and Lady Anne Of Cleeue which solemne contract did distast The Kinges soone after who for her rare feature Wiu'd Lady Katherine Howard a fayer Creature 106 Cromwell next lost his head the disputation Begun at Rat'isbone Henry th'eyght is stiled The King of Ireland by his proclamation and Lady Katherine Howard who defiled Her vnchast body with much lamentation Led to her death now Luther was reâ—…led In the Popes Trident Counsell the King wed The Lady Katherine Lat'mer to his Bed 107 The Turkish Barbaressa famous grew In Germany at Mounster bloud did raigne Troubles with Scotland next these did insue The Counsell held at Spyre now once againe Henry inuaded France and did pursue The Bullenois since many did complaine Against the Stewes they were abandond quite The pope the Wormace Counsell did accite 108 Luther expyres soone after dyes the king Henry the eyght whom the sixt Edward then Succeedes at nine yeares old now first gan spring That reform'd Church which at first many men Impugn'd Masses no more the Church-men sing Next Musele-borrow field did happen when Much bloud was spilt a both-sides Bonner now Great in his Fathers dayes the king makes bow 109 Stephen Gardiner is cast into the tower The Brother Seamers falling at dissention By meanes of their proud Wiues begin to lower Each vpon other which without preuention Causd timelesse Fate both their sweet liues deuower First Arundell then Kit had firme intention To change the State but both were hang'd in chaines Bulloine was giuen vp by the French-mens traynes 111 At Feuersham was murdred by his Wife Arden by helpe of Mosby and Blacke-Will The Trade with Musco did now first grow rife Mong th' English Marchants by the Nauiall skill Of one Gabato he that first gaue life To these aduentures Many rumors fill The Land with newes that Edward lately dide Meane time the Lady Iane's made Guilfords Bride 112 Edward at sixteene yeares ofage deceast The Duke Northumberland proclaimes Queene Iane But soone her young and Infant title ceast The Commons by their power Mary maintaine Sister to Edward her high State increast And next her Brother she begins her raigne Guilford and Iane with whom the Queene 's offended Sent to the Tower where their sweete liues they enâ—…ded 113 Bourne preaching at Panles-Crosse the Masse maintaining A suddaine
tumult at his Sermon raisde A man vnknowne his Doctrine much disdaining Threw at his face a Dagger Ridley praysd Mongst protestants and Cramner fauour gaining In Edwards dayes were for Arch-traitors blaz'd And dide by fire Northumberland that sped To Cambridge on the Tower-hill lost his hed 114 The Turkish Solyman with his owne hands Slew his sonne Mustapha the Cardinall In Henries dayes but late exild his Lands Was by the Queene reâ—…cald now gan to fall The protestants against them strictly stands The Catholicke Cleargy the proud Genowayes brall With the French King who after in small while Wan by the Turkes ayde the rich Corsicke I le 115 Englands great Queene espousd Phillip of Spaine Sir Thomas Wyat for rebellion dide Duke Suffolke Father to the Lady Iane Was at the Tower beheaded Coortney allyde To the blood Royall once more they restraine Of Liberty the fourth Paule full of pride Supplies the pope-dome the same year did chance Much warrâ—… and trouble betweene Spaine and France 116 Lady Elizabeth was keptin hold and by the Queene committed to the Tower There harshly vsd her life to danger sold By souldiers theâ—…ce remooud to Wood-stocke Bower Sir Henry Benning-field somewhat too bold Vpon her iust proceedings looking sower a blazing Comet twelue full nights appeared Great Lones of Money by the Queene were reared 117 Great dearth in England For base murder dide at Salisbury Lord Sturton Callis lost Which was by England many yeares supplide Since the third Edward the proud Clergy mgrost all the spirituall fruits to glut their pride Phillip tooke fea and left the English Coast For griefe of which Mary soone after craisd and dide with Cardinall Poole in England raisd 118 Next whom the faire Elizabeth is Crownd a Princesse with all gracious Thewes indude She did the Gospell quicken and confound Romes Antichrist all such as he pursude With fire and Inquisition she guirt round With safety and her Lands pure face imbrude With blood of Innocents her prospetous raigne Cleard and wipt off each foule and bloody staine 119 Henry the French King in the â—…ilt was layde Breathlesse at Paris Paules is burnt a peace Betweene the Realmes of France and England made Newhauen siege and a great plagâ—…les increase Lord Henry Stewart to the hests obayd Of the Scotch peeres whose vâ—…gings neuer â—…ease Till to their generall comforts he was seene Espousd to Lady Mary Scotlands Queene 120 Now came the Baden margraâ—… with his wife To London she heere brought him a new sonne Whom the Queene Christend breathing a new life In his decaid estate Now was begun The Burse on Cornhill whose renowne grew rife In euery place where Traffickes gaine is won In Scotland to restore a kingdome torne Iames of that name the fixt this yeare was borne 121 Henry of Scotland was by Traytors slaine And Shan Oneile in Ireland put to flight By bold Sir Henry Sidney with the gaine Of a great battaile where theyr Treasons light Vpon the Traytors with a gallant trayne The Muscouite lands in his Emperors right T' establish Trafficke now as rebels stand Th'Earles of Nor thumber land and Westmerland 122 Debate with Scotland and in Norfolke grew Conspiracy the Queene in person came To Gressams Burse to take a princely view To which she gaue at his request a name Royall Exchange this yeare the Christians slew Many proud Turkes and beate them backe with shame Into theyr Foretresses and Citties walled This was the battaile of Lepantho called 123 A massacre in Paris now their heads The Norfolke Duke lost and Northumber land A blazing starre six months together spreds Her fiery rayes now by the violent hand Of one George Browne who murdrous futy leads Was Maister Saunders slaine the matter scand Anne Dreury for that fact and Saunders wife George Browne with trusty Roger lost his life 124 By Furbusher Cathaia was made knowne The Essex Earle this yeare at Dinelon dide In Ireland where his Fame was dreadfull growne Ioh 〈◊〉 Cassimerus did through London ride Desmond rebeld Drake that had compast rowne The world and many dangerous Fortunes tride Was Knighted by the Queene Mounsier arriued Thinking the English Monarchesse t' haue wiued 125 William the Prince of Orenge was betrayde And with a Pystoll by a souldier slaine Poland Musco into England made avoyage and did six months heere remaine Purser and Clinton Pyrars that denaide allegiance to the Queene at length were tane By William Barrowes Antwerpe sackt and spoyld By Parmaes Duke who long against it toyld 126 Northumberland himselfe in the Tower slew Iago Domingo and Carthagen By Drake and Furbusher whom most men knew Carletle and many gallant Englishmen Surprisd and â—…ckt the Earle of Liester grew Great in the Land and sayld to Flushing then Where his Commission he at large relates Being made chiefe Generall to the Belgian states 127 Embassadors from Denmarke gratulate Her highnesse raigne the Earle of Arundell Conuict aleague twixt England and the state Of Scotland Noble Candish furnisht well In two good ships well mand and builded late Compast the world the foureteene Traitors fell and suffer'd for the guilt at Zutphen dide Noble Sir Phillip Sidney souldiers pride 128 His death a generall griefe mongst souldiers bred a Parlyment The great At made of Spaine Rode on the English Coast and gainst vs sped But by our Fleet they were repulst againe at Tilbery the Campe was brauely led By Elizabeth in person in whose traine all Englands Chiualry mustred and met Leister meane time to Nature paid his debt 129 Portugall voyage Lodwicke Grewill prest For murder the bold Duke of Guise betraid And slaine by the third Henry when he least Suspected Death a Fryer no whit dismaid Incouragd by the Guisians as t is ghest Murdred the King then Henrie Burbon laid Claime to the Crowne whom England so supplies That by her ayde his warlike Fortunes rise 130 Whom Essex Willoughby Norris assist Sir Roger Williams with a many moe Strong Paris they besiege and as they list March thorough France maugre the common foe Hacket is hangd in Cheape who did persist In blasphemy In London gan to grow a grieuous Plague Lopes arraind and tride Drawne from the London Tower at Tyburne dide 131 Cales sieg'd and won the Duke of Bulloine lands In England th' Islands voyage this yeare came Embassadors from Denmarke from whose hands The Queene receiu'd rich presents Now with Fame Th' Earle Cumberland renownd in forraigne Lands Wan Iohn de Porterico sackt the same Lord Burleigh Treasurer submits to fate Since the sixt Edward Counsellor of state 132 Essex is sent for Ireland gainst Tyrone a Muster at Mile-end Essex comes backe With a small traine of followers after whom Lord Montioy speeds against the dangerous packe Of Irish Rebels whose braue valours showne In
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
Further she was proceeding when the son An irefull frowne vpon his mother threw Away quoth he and to Sibilla run And let the same hand that my first borne slew Destroy this to for as we haue begun We will persist the Lady sad withdrew Affraide and greeu'd at once to see him moued Whom as her King she fear'd her son she loued 46 No sooner was she out of fight but he One of his trusty seruants cals on hye Who waits his pleasure on his bended knee Quickly quoth Saturne after Vesta flie Say if the brat suruiue Sibill and she As Traytors to our person both shall die Hee s gone and little in the King doth lacke At his departure to haue cal'd him backe 47 Twice was the word halfe out and twice kept in Faine he would haue it done and faine neglected He thinkes dam'd Parricide on vgly sinne But worse he thinkes from State to be deiected Neuer hath Prince in such distraction bin His bloud he lou'd his kingdome he affected But since he cannot both at once enjoy His state hee 'l saue his yssue hee 'l destroy 48 Ambition to his fiery rage gaue fewell He now remembers not his Sibils teares Whose tender hart laments to lose her Iewell No sparke of pitty in his looke appeares It sports him only to be tearmed cruell At name of Father now he stops his eares Had not his Crown more then his couenant tēmpted Sybill thy sonne had bin from death exempted 49 But the commaund is gone and in his breast He now reuolues the vilenesse of the deed Scepter and Crowne and life he doth detest Within him his remor cefull entrailes bleed And now at length the King would thinke him blest Might he togither perish with his seed And that which most his Melancholy furthers He knowes the world condems him for his murthers 50 No joy can cheere no object make him glad The dayes in sighes the nights in teares he spends Nothing can please him be it good or bad His troubled and craz'd sences it offends That he is now surnam'd Saturne the Sad He sets not by alliance strangers friends Here leaue him in the depth of his dispaires A melancholy King composde of cares 51 And to the Queene returne who sadly waites Her Infants execution or rep◅ue Did Saturne see this boy she thus debates That he would kill him I can scarce belecue Alas poore infants borne to wofull fates What corsicke hart such harmelesse soules can greeue Thus lies the Queene til from her Lord she heare Halfe chear'd with hope and halfe destroy'd through feare 52 In Vesta comes her sad cheare Sybill spies And in her bed though weake her selfe sh'aduanced She might haue read the Message in her eies For as vpon the smiling Babe she glanced She fil'd the chamber with lowd shreekes and cries At which the wofull mother was intranced The Grandam in her eyes the kings wil showing The mother by her lookes her meaning knowing 53 Not long in this strange sorrow they remained But the kings seruant mongst the women presleth A generall flush the Matrons cheekes hath stained And his owne blush ◅ng with theirs confesseth That place vnfit for him yet none complained For euery one his cause of comming gesseth Knowing the gentle knight would not present him In such a place vnlesse the king had sent him 54 On whom as more attentiuely they gaze Thus wils the king quoth he my sonne shall die In vaine with sorrowfull teares your eies you glaze Or fill this chamber with a generall cry He for the heart of his young infant staies Which if his mother or his Queene deny They shall abide like doome hee 'l haue their harts The message ended thus the knight departs 55 So long in sorrowes simpathy they mourn'd That with excesse of griefe their soules were tired Now for a space they haue their feares adiourn'd And of the kings displeasure more inquired At length their mourning into madnesse turn'd Quoth Sibell no base murtherer shall be hired To worke this out-rage so the king hath wild And by my hand the ◅weete babe shall be kild 56 With that a knife the wrathfull Sibell snatcht And bent the point against the infants brest Thinking to haue his innocent life dispatcht And sent his soule vnto eternall rest The Lad his mother by the bosome catcht And smiling in her face that was addrest To strike him dead away she hurles the knife And faith sweet babe that smile hath sau'd thy life 57 Then giue it me quoth Vesta for take heed My son hath charg'd vs on our liues to slay him The infant by his Grandams hand shall bleed So wils the king what 's she that dares gainsay him My aged hand shall act this ruthlesse deed And I that should protect him will betry him She aimes to strike at which the infant smilde And she insteed of killing kist the childe 58 Are you so timerous quoth the Midwife by Or do you count this babe so deare a treasure Know you not if we saue him we shall die And shall wehazard death in such high measure Though you would slight it by my life not I I am more fearefull of the kings displeasure With that a keener blade the Beldam drew The babe still smild away the knife she threw 59 When they behold the beauty of the Lad They vow within themselues his life to saue But then the kings Iniunction makes them sad And straight alas they doome it to the graue Now with their blades in hand like Beldams mad They menace death then smiles the pretty knaue Then fall their kniues then name they the kings will And then agai◅ they threat the babe to kill 60 Three times by turnes the Infant past their hands And three times thrice the kniues point toucht his skin And each of them as oft confounded stands Such pitty did his smiling beauty win That more then they estecme their liues or lands They all abhor the vilenesse of the sinne At length they all consult with heedfull care To saue the◅ owne liues and the childe to spare 61 Saith Vesta in the bordering Prouince dwels Old Mellisseus a renowned King His daughters I brought vp in sacred Spels And taught them Chares to sow to weaue to sing No Lady liuing these bright Dames excels In vertuous Thewes good graces euery◅ thing To these my little Graund-child I will send And to their trust this prectious charge commend 62 Faire Almache and Mellissee I know For so these vertuous Ladies haue to name Will when they vnderstand what Queene doth owe This royall yssue and from whence it came Their best and choysest entertainment shew And to no eare our secret Act proclaime Thus they conclude all needfull things are fatcht And on her way a trusty mayde dispatcht 63 Who in the Citty Of on safe ariuing To the two Sisters she her charge presents They glad to heare of Vesta still suruiuing Yet grieued
Souldiors hart 41 You dimme those eyes that sparkle fire Deuine By whom this melancholy roome is lighted The place were darke and but for their bright shine We in this Dungeon should be all benighted Oh saue your beauty then and spare your eyen Why should you at our presence be affrighted we come not with our weapons drawne to feare you But with our comfortable words to cheare you 42 But say our hostile weapons were all bent Against your breast yet why should you be mated Bewty's sword-profe no forceable intent But by a face so faire is soone rebated Your beauty was vnto your body lent To be her Secretary where instated It is as safe as if a wall of Iron Impreguable your person should inuiron 43 With that the wofull maide vplifts her eie And fixt it first vpon the Princes face But there it dwelt not long for by and by It wandered wildly round about the place Yet comming to her selfe when she gan spy Her selfe mongst strangers with a modest grace Hauing her raging griefe awhile restrain'd Thus blushing she her sad estate complain'd 44 My father oh my Father where is he To whom these Subiects should of right belong You are the Limbes the head I cannot see Oh you haue done the king some violent wrong What Stranger 's this that doth sollicite me How dare you thus into my chamber throng And fright me being a Princesse with your steele Or where 's the King that to this youth you kneele 45 If King Lycaon liue why do you bow Vnto a stranger he suruiuing still If he be slaine why am I hindred now Vpon his Coarse my Funerall teares to spill I may lament by Law no lawes allow Subiects by Treason their liege Lords to kill My teares are naturall and come in season ' Your treacherous act is meer vnnaturall Treason 46 By these her words the Amorous Prince doth gather This Lady to be king Lycaons daughter It grieues him now he hath exil'd her father And once againe of fauour he besought her But she all sorrow now intreats him rather To leaue the Chamber since his comming brought her Nothing but newes of death and words of care Her Fathers ruine and her owne dispaire 47 By many faire perswasions the Prince moues her To stint her passion and to stop her teares He whispers in her â—…are how much he loues her But all in vaine his tongue he idly weares By all Rhetoricke and Art he proues her Which makes her at the length lend her chast eares And thus reply I cannot loue vntill You one thing grant me the Prince sweares he will 48 Remember quoth the Lady you haue sworn Being a Prince to breake an oath were base Wer 't in a Peasant it were hardly borne But in a Prince it seemes a worse disgrace The greater y' are the greater is your scorne If you should taint your honour in this case T is nothing if a poore Stars beames be clouded But we soone misse the Moone in darknes shrowded 49 Princes are earthly Gods and placst on high Where euery common man may freely gaze On them the peoples vniuersal eye Is howerly fixt to scan their workes aud wâ—…ies They looke through spectacles your deeds to spy Which makes the Letters of your shame or praise Grosser to be discernd and easier scand A king should be a light to all his Land 50 These words sight out haue fan'd the amorous fire Which did the brest of Saturnes sonne inflame He that at first her beauty did admire Now wonders at the wisedome of the dame And museth how from such a deuilish Syre As king Lycaon such an Angell came Now he entreats her aske with spirit vndanted For as he is a Prince her sute is granted 51 Be it quoth he the fortunes of this day Be it my selfe my selfe sweet Saint am thine Be it this kingdome and this Scepters sway Behold my interest I will backe resigne We haue no power to say such beauty nay Being but mortall and that face deuine What 's your demand sweet Saint It is quoth she That I a consecrated maide may be 52 Oh had she askt more gold then would haue fild Her fathers Pallace packt vp to the roofe Or in her sad boone had the Lady wild Of his resolued spirit to see large profe Monsters he would haue tamde and Gyants kild And from no sterne aduenture kept aloofe In hope to haue woon her loue but being thus coy This one request doth all his hopes destroy 53 The Prince is bound by Oath to graunt her pleasure Yet from her will he seekes her to disswade Hoord not quoth he vnto your selfe such Treasure Nor let so sweet a flower vngathered vade Nature her selfe hath tooke from you fit measure To haue more beautious Creatures by you made Then crop this flower before the prime be past Loose not the Mould that may such fayre ones caft 54 Let not a Cloyster such rare beauty smother Y' are Natures may ster-peece made to be seene Sweet you were borne that you should beare another A Princesse and discended from a Queene That you of Queenes and Princes might be mother Had she that bare you still a virgin beene You had not beene at all Mankind should fade If euery Female liu'd a spotlesse mayde 55 You aske what you by no meanes can defend In seeking a strict Cloyster to enjoy Yee wish to see the long-liu'de world at end And in your hart you mankinde would destroy For when these liues no further can extend How shall we people th' Earth Who shall employ The Crowns we win the wealth for which we striue When dead our selues we leaue none to suruiue 56 You might as well kill Children as to hold This dangerous error Nay I le proue it true For Infant-soules that should haue beene cnrold In Heauens predestin'de booke begot of you Are by your strangenesse to obliuion sold You might as well your hands in blood imbrew Nay better too for when young Infants die Their Angell soules liue in Eternitie 57 And so the Heauens make vp their numbers full You Lady heauen and carths right disallow What Gods conclude shall mortals disannull So many as you might haue had ere now So many Angels from heauens throne you pull From carth so many princes by your vow Now could I get a sonne but you being coy Faire murdresse that you are haue kil'd the boy 58 Much more but all in vaine the amorous youth Thinkes in his smooth sweet language to disswade her But nothing that he pleads she holds for truth Though by all gentle meanes he sought to haue staid her She vrgeth still his oath he thinkes it ruth To haue such beauty cloister'd and had made her Virginity for Venus sweets to haue chang'd Had not his Oath that purpose soone estrang'd 59 Now faire Celisto by Ioues gtaunt is free To be admitted one of Dians traine Dian a Huntresse the broad shadowy tree The house beneath who roofe she doth
can she not depart From what she flies for what she most doth feare She carries all the way the shape of Beare 26 And though a perfect Beare yet Beares affright her So do the Wolues though mongst their sauage crew Her Father liues how should a Wolfe delight her Vnlesse Lycaon in such shape she knew Meane time young Archas proues a valiant fighter And in all Martiall practise famous grew Adding seaueu Summers more vnto his age Hee seats him in the kingdome of Pelage 27 Where leaue him raigning in his Grandsiressted Changing his kingdome and his peoples name Whether by loue or fate I know not led Themselues Arcadians they abroad proclaime After the name of Archas now their head Pelage a Citty too of ancient fame They Archad call a stile that shall perseuer Vnto the people and the Towne for euet 28 Archas in Archad liues in Epyre Ioue Saturne in Creet the God of Earth proclaimed Tytan through forren Seas and Lands doth roue Hauing by Conquest many Nations tamed For time still gaue him Conquest where he stroue which made him through the world both fear'd famed Yet with a world the Tyrant seemes not pleasd Till he haue Creet his Natiue birth-right ceaâ—… 29 By strict inquiry heat length hath found His periur'd Brother hath kept sonnes aliue against the couenant he by oath was bound Which was that no male issue should suruiue This of his future war must be the ground He vowes in Irons his Brothers legs to gyue His hands to Manacle his necke to yoake In iust reuenge that he the league hath broke 30 His sonnes all Gyants and by nature strong He sends to assemble to this dreadfull warre Who like their father apt for rape or wrong Without the cause demaunding gathered are Vnnumbred people in their armies throng Brought by the Big-bon'd Titanoys from farre Where he and all his Gyant-sonnes assemble They make the groning earth beneath them tremble 31 Lycaon was not there him Ioue before Had from th' Arcadian kingdome quite put downe There was the Gyant Typhon he that wore The Ciprian wreath and the Cicillian crowne Huge Briareus that the scepter bore Of Nericos a monster at whose frowne Nations haue quak't whole armies stood agast And Gods themselues shooke till his rage were past 32 Coeon likewise king of great Coeas Isle A fellow of a high and matchlesse size Who the rough Ocean calmed with a smile And with a frowne hath made the billowes â—…ise Aegeon too that hath inlarg'd his stile Through many a kingdome from whose raging eies Bright lightning flames haue in his furious ire Afore a storme of thunder flasht out fire 33 Of him the great Mediterranean Ocean Is cald th' Aegean Sea it doth deuide Europe from Asia and hath further motion a long the greatest part of Greece beside This Gyant to the Gods scorn'd all deuotion Therefore was cal'd Brianchus for his pride The next Hyperion of the selfe-same breed All these haue sworne the death of Saturnes seed 34 There likewise came vnto these wars Japetus Calum and Terraes son in Tytans aide He brought with him his sonne Prometheus Whom Tytan the first houre a Captaine made His brother Athlas too and Hesperus Their royall Ensignes in the field displai'd And ouer diuers seas their armies ferried From Mauritania Lybia and Hesperied 35 Their Randezvouz in Sicily they made And thence by sea they rigge a royall sleet The flourishing realme of Saturne to inuade In time their countlesse hoast takes land in Creet Vallâ—…es by them are fil'd hils euen are laid Townes burnt high Castles leuel'd with their feet Where ere they turne fite from their eye-bals flashes Which townes and villages consumes to ashes 36 Saturne their bold inuasion much admires Not knowing whence their quarrell may be grounded He cals his Counsell and of them inquires How their immense ambition may be bounded How with his enemies blood to quench the fires And by what power the soe may be confounded Aduise is giuen to make a generall muster To beat them backe that in such numbers cluster 37 And as the king thron'd in his chaire of state Sits in his pallace all his chiefe Peeres by him On these affaires to Counsell and debate In thrusts a Knight from Tytan to desie him And mongst the Lords that bout him circled fat He rudely throngs and presseth to come me him But being kept backe aloud he lifts his voice And thus greets Saturne from the Tytanoys 38 Thus sayes imperious Tytan Saturnes Lord Like a low vassaile from my Throne discend Or I shall chase thee thence by fire and sword And with thy glory to thy daies giue end For thou hast broke thy oath and Princely word And therein made an enemy of thy friend My Crowne I but resign'd vpon condition And thou those bands hast broke by thy Ambition 39 Whilst Saturne his male-children kils so long He is the King of Creet but that neglected He weares the Cretan Diadem by wrong Thy periury is to the world detected And therefore with an army great and strong Shall Saturne from his high throne be deiected Thus Tytan doth the king of Creet defie And by these Summons to submit or die 40 Bold spirited Saturne doubly mou'd appeareth At his proud Message with disdaine and wonder Disdaine as being a Prince that nothing feareth To heare his scorned enemy-threatnings Thunder With admiration when he strangely heareth Of sonnes aliue which makes him deepely wonder And taking Sibell by the hand thus say Hauing commanded first his traine away 41 Sister and wife I charge thee by the zeale Thou owest to me thy husband and thy brother The truth of all this practise to reueale And what I next demaund thee nothing smother Since it concerns th' estate of all our weale Art thou of any liuing sonne the mother The trembling Queene low kneeling thus repli'de You charge me deepe and I will nothing hide 42 I am a woman and full well you know A woman hath a soft and tender brest But more I am a mother can you show A mother that in this kind hath transgrest Stranger may stranger kill Foe murder foe Which mothers to their children most detest Was it for murder you espous'd me first To be a wife of all good-wiues accurst 43 I 'de rather be a pittious mother helde Then through the world a Murdresse be esteem'd Be my selfe murdered rather then compeld To murder those for whom this womb hath teem'd This wombe with three faire Princely sons hath sweld Which dead to Saturne and the world are deem'd Yet all three liue but cruell husband where Saturne shall neuer know nor Tytan heare 44 Th' amazed king immagines by her looke Her feruent tongue doth on her hart-string strike Necessity at this time makes him brooke What his disturbed soule doth most dislike Without reply the sad Queene he for sooke It pierst his hart as if an
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
Persea by his name Where Bachmon in the kingdome him succeeds Erictreus did all the Nations tame By the red Sea and there his honoured deeds Are Chronicled great Scelemus thy fame Liues in Mecenes the Pontificke weeds Are for thy Royalty reseru'd alone In Thebes remaines twice-married Gorgophon 84 Alceus and Electrion from his line Discend Alceus was Amphitrioes Sire Electrion as Bochas doth deuine Alcmena got whose face all eyes admire Alcmena and Amphitrio combine Themselues by Hymens ceremoniall fire Of this bright Theban dame through Greece commended This Monster-tamer Hercules discended 85 But how great Ihoue with bright Alcmena lay Himselfe transforming to Amphitrioes shape Adding three nights together without day How Iuno enuious of her husbands rape Alcmenaes Child-birth hindred and did slay The vnborne infants who with wonder scape Her Hell-borne charmes how by Galantis smile Iuno was mockt Alcmena scapt her guile 86 How young Alcides in the Cradle lying Check't two inuenomed Snakes by Iuno sent To strangle him how Ypectens dying By those charm'd Serpents to Elisium went And how the Ihoue-star'd Lad his valor trying Vpon th'Olimpicke mount disgraced sent All such as came to haue their valours tride To leape to run to wrastle or to ride 87 How by the K. Eristeus he vvas taught Lou'd beautious Megera and fam'd all Greece And through the world renown'd aduentures sought Conquer'd great Cacus and the golden fleece How Achelous he to ruine brought Doted on Deianeira that faire peece And Iole who the more fame to win Made great Alcides on a distaffe spin 88 All these we leaue as tales too often told And rubs that would our running voyage let Not that our thoughts despise them being old For to antiquity we owe much debt But because Time that hath his acts inrold To many a Common sale his deeds hath set Therefore though no part of his worth to reaue him We now for matters more allide must leaue him 89 And now looke backe to Troy Laomedon Intends new wals about his Towne to reare But wanting coined Gold to deale vpon Solicits all the Gods such as dwelt neare Chiefely those two that rule the Sea and Sun Neptune and Phoebus Mony-maisters vvere Of whose rich Priests for so much coine he cals As may repaire his Citties ruin'd wals 90 They dispuruey their vestry of such Treasure As they may spare the vvork now being ended Demand their sums againe but out of measure At their request the Monarch seemes offended And saies he meanes to pay them at his pleasure The Gods by whom Troy vvas vvith wals defended Inrag'd at his ingratitude conspire With ioynt reuenge to vvreake their spleenfull ire 91 The vvrathfull Neptune first his Billowes raisd Aboue the high-built-Wals thinking to drowne Those lofty spires whom all the world hath praisd Hurrying his brinish waters through the Towne Now Dolphins play where barbed Steeds haue graz'd In euery pau'd-street Neptunes Billowes frowne Till being weary with the Citties sacke He drawes himselfe into his Channels backe 92 For by the fates appointment the proud God Must keepe his falling ebbes as well as flow Else pale-fac'st Cinthia at whose dreadfull nod Obedient Neptune shrinkes her rage will show For she commands his waues and his abod Is pointed by the Moone whether below In his Abisme or rockes appearing hire He guids his lookes by her immortall fire 93 But as he shrinkes his waters at her becke He leaues much slimy filth vpon the shore Now gan the God of Fire his beames reflect Vpon the drownded Continent that wore The sea-Gods wrath and now must bide his checke A hot contagious stemme not knowne before Poysons the Clime and as the heat increast The infectious pest consum'd both man and beast 94 Halfe-perisht Troy vnable to withstand Their double wrath her people from her flye Knowing they both offended Sea and Land And to abide their vengeance must needs dye The King himselfe that wants power to command The all-consuming Plague fears to come nye The wals he reard but must to Delphos trauell To excuse his Pride that with the Gods durst cauell 95 His due Oblations ended t is returnd That he must seeke th' offended Gods t' appease Else the hot plague his peoples entrailes burnd Shall all the remnant of his subiects cease Nor must his fearefull pennance be adiournd Nothing can Neptune and Apollo please But monthly to a Monster of the flood To yeild a beautious maide of the Kings blood 96 This couenanted the Troyan King prepares Alotted Virgins now th' infection slakes At length alas for bold Fate all things dares The lot the beautious maide Hesione takes The Kings sole Daughter Fortune nothing cares For him whose hand th' Imperiall Scepter shakes The hood-winckt Goddesse dare on all sides strike Beggers and Kings in lots are both alike 97 Imagin her with thousand Virgins guided Vnto her fearefull Toombe her Monster-graue Imagin how the hulky Diuell slyded Along the Seas smooth breast parting the waue Alasse poore naked Damsell ill prouided Whom Millions without heauens help cannot saue Yet see help coms behold the pride of Greece Deck't in the conquest of the Golden fleece 98 Along the glassie Hellespont by chance Alcides sayling sees vpon the Land The all-dispoyled Virgin in a Trance Wayling her ruine on the bryny Strand Aboue the Waues he sees a Whale aduance His dreadfull shape at whose sight all that stand Vpon the Beach some sounding as halfe dead Others dismayde backe to the Citty fled 99 Such onely whom the cause concerned most And vnto whom the Virgine was allyde Attend her swallowing on the Marine coast For whom no Mortall safety can prouide Now great Alcides with his Greekish hoast Lands on the Continent vnterrifide And while the Troian King with terrour shakes The Virgins Rescue boldly vndertakes 100 Two barbed Steeds the best that Asia bred Are by the King ordaind the Victors meâ—…d By whose strong hand the Sea-Whale shall fall dead The Virgine liue and Troy from pest be freed Now fals his huge Club on the Monsters head With such impetuous weight and violent speede As if Heauens greatest Collumne should downe fall That beares the high roofe of th'Olimpicke Hall 101 The hydious Augur slaine and she releast The periur'd King the promist meede denies And seeing Troy both wal'd and free from pest Excludes the Greeke for his bold enterprise Who sayles from Greece after few months of rest Doth burne Larisse and Tenedos surprise Ruinates Troy expels Laomedon Beates downe the wals made by the Sea and Sunne 102 In which atchieuement Philicteles fought Made of Alcides vanquisht foe his friend The King Eristheus there for honor sought And Creon to this dreadfull fight gaue end The Noble Theseus his assistance brought Theban Amphitrio did his arme extend Gainst Asiaes pride and with the rest returning Ayded great Hercules in Troyes first burning 103 These as they were a Ship-board hauing fild The vast Wombes of their Barkes
bold Too ventrous Greeke for loues sake leaue this place Thou knowst not what thou seekst the fleece of Gold A royall prize it is yet amorous stranger It hath not worth to countervaile the danger 62 For the least blood shall drop downe by thy skin Or in the' combat staine the Colchian grasse Is of more worth then all that thou canst win Yet doth the riches of this Fleece surpasse But stay What blind maze am I entred in What louing laborinth Forgetfull Lasse Oh canst thou to a strangers grace appeale Who comes from farre thy Fathers fleece to steale 63 This Iason is our foe dwels in a Land Remote and of another Clyme indeed If thou wilt loue about thee Princes stand Of thine owne Nation let this stranger bleed Despise him then and all his forraine band That in thy Fathers pillage haue agreed Instead of loue the amorous Greeke defie And by th'inchanted Monsters let him die 64 But shall Medea view that Tragicke sight And see his faire limbes by her Monsters rent Shall his white fingers with grim Hell-hounds sight That might Medea in her loue content Apollo may I neuer tast thy light Pertake thy earthly rise or low discent But by my Art I shall so well prouide To be the Gold-Fleece-conquering Iasons Bride 65 But how Medea Wilt thou then forsake Thy Country Father Friends All which are great and to thy Lord a rouing Pyrate take One that perchance hath no abiding seat Fond Girle thou wrongst him these faint doubts to make A Royall Prince and in all acts compleat Thy Country Father Friends trifles but small And this one warlike Iason worth them all 66 That he is louely witnesseth mine eye And valiant what can better record beare Then this attempt whose fame to heauen will flye T' amaze the Gods that shall this Nouell heare I leaue a barraine kingdome to discry A populous Nation what then should I feare In seeking with this amorous Greeke to dwell I aske Elisum in exchange for Hell 67 A Land where if his people him resemble Humanity and all good Thewes are rife Who if they loue their Lord cannot dissemble Their harts to her that shall safegard his life Th'inchanted Buls whose bellowing made heauen trēble Shall by their ruines make me Iasons wife Whom all the faire and potent Queenes of Greece Shall better welcome then the conquerd Fleece 68 Opinion'd thus at their next enter-view After their diuers oaths betweene them past That he the fam'd aduenture shall pursue Whose conquests with inchantments she binds fast And when his hands these monsters shall imbrew He to receiue her as his Bride at last Night passeth on at the next birth of day Aurora frights the Feare◅ll Stars away 66 Much confluence of people throng together In the large field of Mars they take their places The Princes of the Land in Scarffe and Feather And Triumph robes expect the Greekes disgraces The burdend earth grones with spectators whether The King himselfe martiald with golden Maces In person comes his Ba◅ns him inuest In a high Throne degr◅d aboue the rest 70 To such prepared ioyes the Frenchmen came To see the valiaunt Mount-morensi roon against Charles Brandon who for Englands fame Vanquisht their Knight at which their ioy was doon The French who to disgrace the English came Saw how bold Charles at one incounter woon Their Champions armes the French Qu. to his pheer Which chang'd their promist mirth to sadder cheere 71 Behold where Polymelaes sonne vndanted against the brazen-hoofed Beasts appeares How richly armd his sword aloft he vanted T' incounter with the two infernall steares Who as he strikes still breaths out words inchanted The Graecians stand amaz'd Medea feares To see young Iason Lord of her desire Betwixt two Buls their Nosthrils breathing fire 72 And least her Incantatious force might faile She mumbles to her selfe more powerfull charmes Still doth the dreadlesse Greeke those Buls assaile Reddy to scorch him in his twice-guilt armes His sharpe edg'd sword their horned crests makes vaile That fire that scaldeth others him scarce warmes Such power hath Magicke the fell Buls grovv tame And Iason tugs with them amidst the flame 73 And first he by the dangling dew-laps takes them Who force perforce his valour must obey He twixt his sinnowy armes together shakes them They bellowing yeeld themselves his glorious prey To bow their stubborne necke bold Iason makes them On which th'obedient yoake he gently lay The Greekes applaud his conquest with shrill cries The Colchians shew their sorrowes in their eyes 74 But all 's not furnisht yet he makes them draw The teemed plow to furrow vp his field The rusty yron doth the greene verdure flaw Quite vanquisht now the conqu◅d Oxen yeild Yet more then this the Colchian Princes saw The Vipers teeth he cast vpon his shield And sow'd them in the furrowes they straight grew To armed men and all on Iason flew 75 The Greekes dismay th'incourag'd Colchians showt Onely Medea doth their ioy detest With magicke she assists her Champion stout Her Exorcismes haue power to arme his brest Those that but late incompast him about And with their steele strooke Stars out of his Crest Seeke mutuall armes amongst themselues they brall So by seditious weapons perish all 76 It now remaines the three-tongu'd venomous Snake The Riuer-waking-Serpent to make sleepe Whose horride crest blew skales and vnces blacke Threat euery one a death vnto his keepe The Fleece is put Medea bids him take Grasse in blacke Lethe laid three nights to steepe Vttering such powerfull charmes as calme the winds And the mou'd Billowes in their Channell binds 77 Those drops being spinkled on the Dragons head The words thrice spoke the wakefull Serpent lies Drownd in forgetfull slumbers seeming dead and sleepe till now not knowne seales vp his eyes Iason in safety may the Mansion tread Where Colchos long preseru'd the golden prize and now at length faire Polimelaes sonne Inioyes the Fleece that he with danger wonne 78 Proud of this purchase but of her more glad That by the Vertue of a powerfull word More hy command vpon these Monsters had Then he in vse of his remorslesse sword Vnto his Argoe he Medea Lad Commanding all his merry mates aboord But secretly least when King Aeta knew his daughters rape he might her flight pursue 79 Which to preuent the Negerous Lady takes The young Absyrtes a faire hopefull youth And when her father after Iason makes And with rough fury her escape pursuth She chops the Lads limbes into bits and flakes and in the Kings way strowes him without ruth And whilst he gathers vp with watry eyes His peece-meale body she in safety flies 80 With triumphs they in Greece are welcomd all And Iason famous for his royal Quest The Bed red Father will his sonne install In his owne kingdome and with him his guest Deepe-speld-Medea at whose Magicke call The Seas and winds or trauell or
thoght it a fit opportunity for him to steale away his Queene And that he rauisht her out of the Temple dedicate to Cy◅herea where Paris and she as strangers one to another sacrificed together but in this I◅mitate Ouid as my approued Author That Menelaus was at home when Paris Landed in the Isle Cythere and gaue him friendly entertainment though some seeme to disproue yet Ouid in diuers of his workes affirms it WHen Menelaus from his house is gone Poore Hellen is afraid to lie alone And to alay these feares lod'g in her breast In her warme bosome she receiues her guest What madnesse was this Menelaus say Thou art abroad whilst in thy house doth stay Vnder the selfe same roofe thy Guest and Loue Mad-man vnto the Hawke thou trusts the Doue And who but such a Gull would giue to keepe Vnto the Mountaine-Wolfe full folds of Sheepe Hellen is blamelesse so is Paris too And did what thou or I my selfe would doo The fault is thine I tell thee to thy face By limiting these Louers Time and Place From thee the seeds of all thy wrongs are growne Whose Counsels haue they followed but thine owne Alacke what should they do Abroad thou art At home thou leauest thy Ghest to play thy part To lie alone the poore Queene is affraid In the next roome an Amorous stranger staid Her Armes are ope to imbrace him he fals in And Paris I acquit thee of the sin And in another place somewhat resembling this Orestes liked but not loued deerely Hermione til he had lost her clearely Sad Menelaus why dost thou lament Thy late mishap I prethee be content Thou knewest the amorous Hellen faire and sweet And yet without her didst thou saile to Creet And thou wast blithe and merry al the way But when thou saw'st she was the Troians p◅ay Then wast thou mad for her and for thy life Thou canst not now one minute want thy wife So slout Achilles when his louely Bride Briseis was dispos'd to great Atride Nor was he vainely mou'd Atrides too Offerd no more then he of force must doo I should haue done as much to set her free Yet I heauen knovves am not so Wise as he Hipsipile the Daughter to Thoas King of Lemnos whō when al the women of that Island had slain their Husbands Kinsmen she onely referu'd her Father aliue for which they after exiled her By the Mynoxan Maid is vnderstood Ariadne forsaken by Theseus The Meones are those who are now cald Troians First Dardanians of King Dardanus Coos an Isle in the Sea Icarium not farre from Rhodes now called Langor The chiefest Citty is likewise cald Coos where as some thinke Apelles left his admirable vnfinisht Picture of Venus so rarely begun that not the most exquisite Art-maister hee dying before it was finished durst enterprise to perfect it The assembly of the Greekes was in the Hauen of Athens or Aulis Gulfe a port-Towne in the Country of Boetia The names of the Graecian Princes though they seeme somwhat straunge yet are all remembred by Homer and others that writ the History of Troy which though no question diuers Translations and seuer all Languages haue somewhat corrupted yet they all meet in one Trueth that such men as are heere remembred were at this renowned siedge Legos where the Temple of Apollo stands in the Nauel of the world It is likewise cald Ortigia of the Birds Ottiges in English Quailes because those Birds to vs common were first seene in that Island Many differ about the Sacrifice which Agamemnon slew to appease the wrath of offended Diana some thinke it to haue beene a Hart but Ouid avers is to be the daughter of Iphegenia Of Castor and Pollux there are many thinges extant of their byrth we haue spoke before They vvere the Sonnes of Iupiter not of Tyndaris They vvent vvith Iason to the Conquest of the golden Fleece where Pollux slew hand to hand Amicus the Gyant-sonne of Neptune who had beefore dar'd all the Argonantes to a single Combat and after the Colchian voyage when Theseus had rauisht Helena they warred vppon Athens and hauing recouered her spared all the vanquisht Athenians and in their returne these Brothers rauisht the two Daughters of Leucippus and Arsinoe They were cald Phebe and Falaira Of Phebe Pollux begot Asineus Of Falaira Castor begot Amagon whose former Husbandes pursuing the rauishers fought against them a bloudy battaile neare to the foot of the mountaine Taigetes when they had hidde themselues within the body of an ore-growne Oake they were espide by Linceus of all mortal men the best sighted which an ancient poet thus describes Quo tempore Linceus Taygeti velox ascendit Culmina montis Lustrauitque oculis quicquid tenet insula magni Tantalidae Pelopis praeacuto lumine vidit Hos ambos intra ventrosae robora quercus Pollucem fortem domitorem Castora equorum Of their deaths we haue already discoursed they were after drowning translated into Starres to whom the Nauigators of old did ordinary Sacrifice The end of the tenth CANTO Argumentum THe Graecians Land Prothesilaus fals By Hectors sword King Diomed is sent With wise Vlisses to debate their brals And fetch the Spartan to her Husbands Tent Hellen denide the Greekes begirt Troy wals But are by Hector raisd incontinent Troylus and Diomed in Armes contend For Cressida so the first battels end ARG. 2. Our English Worthies Fame her rich Crowne With Troyes confedred Kings Lambda sets down CANTO 11. OH can we forraine Worthies Memorize And our owne Natiue Champions quite forget Whose fame swift Clangor hath through pierst the skies To whom due Honor still remaines in debt How many true victorious Peeres arise From this faire Garden midst the Ocean set How many an English Knight hath borne his head As hie as those whom Troy or Greece hath bread 2 Achilles Aiax Diomed or those Whom Homer hath extold with Golden praise Haue not done greater spoile vpon their foes Then some that haue suruiu'd euen in our dayes And had I spirit but like the least of those That writ the Graecian Acts my pen should raise Our Brittish Champious and their acts proclame Aboue the Greekes in the high Tower of Fame 3 What could Achilles more then Brittish Bren That after many dangerous battailes wun Fotrag'd France Denmarke Germany and then Sackt Rome and high Pernassus ouer-run And by the ayde of his bold Englishmen Laid siege vnto the Temple of the Sun Or what bold Graecian dare gainst Nennius stand That fought with twice-foyl'd Caesar hand to hand 4 Renowned Arthur famous in his age In his round Table and his thirteene Crownes Hie Romes Impetious Senate felt his rage and paid him homage in their purple Gownes His Came'lot Knights their hardiments ingage Through all the world to purchase their renownes Of Noble Edgar my dull Muse next sings Row'd on the Thames by eight commanded Kings
Knights to bring All expert Archers with whom Stupex traded A valiant Duke and in his youthfull spring Next him sat three Boetian Dukes Fortunus Duke Samnus and the bold Duke Ausernumus 25 These led twelue hundred Knights next whom tooke Two Brother-Kings the bold Boetes first place The other Epistemus of one race Both Princes in the Realme of Burtia nurst They brought a thousand Knights the Greekes to chace Men of great spirit and such as all things durst Next them was set a Gyant dreaded sore Philemus of the Realme of Paphlagore 26 The Aethiopian Perseus Rauen-blacke And the King Thiclion of the selfe-same hue With Symagon in whom there was no lacke Of heart or skill his foe-men to pursue These Kingly Moores that Priam come to backe Next to the lofty Gyant sit in view Three thousand sunburnt knights that brauely fought From Aethiopia they to Phrygia brought 27 This State was full and lower one degree Another longer Bench runs crosse the Hall Where mixt with Priams valiant sonnes you see More of these leagued Kings in order fall First of the ranke was Hector next him be Two potent Kings Thelemus hye and tall And young Archilochus a valiant Boy These with a thousand good Knights strengthen Troy 28 Paris next them and by his amorous side Two Princes raigning in Argrestes Land They brought twelue hundred Knights to see them tride Next these was Troylus plac'st on the left hand And Deiphebus full of warlike pride Mixt amongst these a King of great command Epistropus that beyond Scythia came Twixt Greece and Troy his valour to proclame 29 He brought a thousand Knights and a strange Beast Halfe horse halfe Man two perfect shapes deuided A Sagittary cal'd not dreaded least An expert Archer his strong shafts were guided With wondrous ayme and cunning which increast His dread among the Greekes at first derided Next great Epistropus rankt by their yeeres Sat Priams Bastard-sonnes next them his Peeres 30 Next them a Prince in Iewels rich and Gold That many Knights brought from Meander flood The barbarous Meones Duke Nastes told By whom vpon a costly foot-pace stood Tentumidas by some sirnam'd the Bold Now aged in his prime a Souldier good By him Prince Pindarus aduanct his head Next him Hyrtacides in Sestos bread 31 Adrastus Amphius Merops Princes three Are ranked then by whom Ennonius sits And Chronius vnder whom the Mysians bee Pylemen the next empty place well fits Prince o're the Paphlagonian Chiualry Pyrechmes next whose fiery Horses bits The Paeons manage Good Euphemes then Whom the Cicintans led all expert men 32 Ascanius and Dius who doth guide The Halizonians next in order fall Then Pyrous who his Thracian Souldiers tride And warlike Mnemon boldest of them all Pyleus and Hypothous them beside These the Pelasgians vnto battle cal Warlike Aeneas of the Noblest race Next whom the Lords and Barons take chiefe place 33 Anthenor with Polydamus his sonne The glistering Ladies keepe another State Aboue them all Priams hye throne begun To lift it selfe where he in glory sate Benches of Dukes and Earles from all sides run Apparel'd in rich Robes of greatest rate Thus was the King prepar'd when the two Greekes Presse forward to his throne with blushlesse Cheekes 34 At their approach the Lords amazed rise And at their bold intrusion musing stand Vpon these two the Kings fix all their eyes Prepar'd for some strange Nouell when his hand Vlisses wafts for silence and applyes His speech to Priam thus Hee whose command Rauisht from Sparta great Atrides wife Forfeits to Greece his Country Crowne and Life 35 If thou beest he whom all these Lords adore I summon thee in Agamemnons name Backe to her Lord Queene Hellen to restore With full amends done to the rauisht Dame And to present thy lustfull sonne before The bench of Argiue Kings t' abide such shame That he in after times to our successors Be made a terror to the like Transgressors 36 Else shall th' inraged Princes spoile thy Townes Thy Matrons in their husbands armes defloure Slaughter thy Sonnes and bury their renownes And with thy peoples blood the channels scoure Of these confederate Kings ceaze all the Crownes When death that swallowes them must thee deuoure Say wilt thou to preuent this and much more Punnish thy sonne and Hellen backe restore 37 To this th' incensed King replies againe Th'vnable Greekes alas are much too weake Wanting the power thy proud vants to maintaine Or to make good what thou doost rashly speake They rauisht our faire Sister whom in vaine We re-demanded her despights to wreake Our Sonne the amorous Paris crost the deepe To fetch thence Hellen whom the Boy shall keepe 38 Haue they not slaine our Father spoyld our Citty Pillag'd our people wiues nor Matrons spared Eucn Babes and Infants mangled without pitty And in their barbarous rigor all things dared Then in faire Hellens rape what wrong commit I Since not the least of these Greece hath repair'd Since whilst our Sister leads a Strumpets life Hellen is grac'st to be young Paris wife 39 You shall repent King Diomed replies This insolence which we will punish deerely By vs the Generall of the Greekes defies Priam and Troy whom wee 'l chastice seuerely Vnto whose ruines seauenty Princes rise Whose forces shall begirt you late and earely These words promist the Troians so disdaine them That many drew their Faulchions to haue slain them 40 But euer Honoured Hector qualified The sudden vprore and appeas'd the brall Their passage by the multitude denide Hector makes free and Vshers them through all Yet many proud braues past on either side Twixt the strange Kings and them i' th Pallace Hall At their departure casting vp his eye King Diomed by chance doth Cresseid spy 41 As she with Hecuba and Hectors wife Creusa and Pollixena was plac'st Him thought he neuer saw in all his life A Lady better form'd or Sweet-lyer grac'st His mutinous thoughts are in themselues at strife To see a face so faire an eye so cha'st Beauty so full of charme with which inchanted He craues her name by whom he seemes so danted 42 When vp starts netled Troylus and thus sayes Her name is beautious Cressid whom you seeke And Troylus Mistresse to whose heauenly praise My soule hath bin deuoted many a Weeke And if thou aym'st my graces thence to raise I challenge thee the combat valiant Greeke He would accept it but he needs must part His body goes he leaues behind his hart 43 The dantlesse Troians now prepare for warre Whilst to th'incamped hoast the Legat Kings Relate King Priams answere and how farre He stands from peace the Grand-Duke now begins Like a good Captaine to foresee what barre May lie twixt him and safety with swift wings Achilles is dispatcht to crosse the Scas With Telephus the sonne of Hercules 44 Because
Easy as Silkes his griefe conuerts to rage He dons those armes forgetfull of his age 73 To whom the sad Queene with wet eyes thus sayes What meanes my wofull Lord in his weake hand To tosse this burdenous Steele There is no prayse For men to fight when the high Gods withstand Liu'd puissant Hector in these Fatall dayes Yet could not his stronge Limbs protect thy Land Much lesse these Saplesse branches poore and bare Then let the reuerent Priam keepe his Chayre 74 Heere at these holy Altars let vs cling The Gods if they be pleasd our liues may guard If not we all will perish with the King and die at once there shall not one be spard Behold where broken through th'all-slaughtring ring Of Pyrrhus Myrmidons Slaues rough and hard The young Polytes well-ny breathlesse rons Polytes one of Priams best-lou'd Sons 75 Through many an Entry and blind-turning path The burning Pyrrhus hath the Lad pursude Longing vpon the Youth to vent his wrath now both at once before the King intrude The slaughterd-thoughted Greeke all bale and scath In the Childs bloud his satall Blade imbrude Which plucking from his wounds in the same place Sparkled the Sons bloud in the Fathers face 76 To whom the arm'd King thus You Gods aboue Whose diuine eyes all deedes of horror see as you are â—…ust and actes of pitry loue Behold how this rude man hâ—…th dealt by me What God worthy Heauens Pallace can approue So blacke a deede as this that 's done by thee Before the Fathers eye the Child to kill and in his face his Innocent bloud to spill 77 Thou art a Bastard not Achilles Son Of some she Wolfe or Hyrcan Tygresse bred not to be shrin'd in Heauen would he haue don So horrible a deede so full of dred The shame and scandall thou this night hast won More then Achilles honors shall be spred Thy Father honor'd liude and dide in fame Dishonored thou shalt perish in thy shame 78 With that the Iaâ—…elin in his hand he threw Th' vnprofitable strength of his weake arme Though it had art to guid the Weapon true It wanted power to doe blacke Pyrrhus harme Against the long skirt of his Targe it flew But the round Bosse as if composd by charme Shooke off the ydle steele which on the barre That tooke the blow scarce left the smallest scarre 79 Inflamed Pyrrhus thus to him replies Priam thy soule shall straight discend to hell Euen to the place where great Achilles lyes And my sad deeds vnto my Father Father With that all wrath in Prisms face he flies The prostrate King at Ihoues hye Altar fell With such hot rage he did the King pursue That though he mist the whiske him ouerthrew 80 When being groueled in Polites gore Grim Pyrrhus with his left hand takes the king By his white lockes neuer prophand before His reuerent head against the ground to ding His proud right hand a smoaking Curtlax wore Which to perpetuall rest must Priam bring With which against the good old King he tilts Till his hart bloud flowed much aboue the hilts 81 This was old Prisms Fate his fatall end And ending glory he that Asâ—… swayed Whose spreading Fame did through the earth extend Liu'd till he saw both him and his betraid Euen till he had no subiect Sonne or friend And saw Troyes spyres euen with the groundsils laid Who now before loues golden face lyes dead A namelesse coarse a Trunke without a head 82 All this when good Aeneas saw from farre The ends of Troy and Priam burnt and slaine And no abatement yet of heat or warre To his owne Pallace he returnes againe Where gathered on a heape together are His wife Creausa showring teares amaine His seruants old Anchises and his sonne Askanius these about Aeneas ronne 83 After some short discourse of their affaires Aeneas on his backe Anchises takes For young Askanius he his left hand spares In his right hand his guardant sword he shakes Creusa followes close with teares and Prayers So through the fire and foe Aeneas makes He with his sonne and Syre the right way choose But in the darkenesse they Creusa loose 84 Whom missing they Creusa call alowd Creusa for whose safety they 'l returne But sorne blacke Fate doth her in darkenesse shrowd Either Troyes Funerall fires the Lady burne Else is she stifled in the Hostile crowd For her the Father sonne and husband mourne And seeking her amidst the wrathfull flames They encounter Helenus who thus exclaimes 85 Keepe on Aeneas to the Seâ—…n shore The heauens on Troy and vs haue vengeance powred Onely thy ruind fortunes they restore They smile on thee that haue on Priam lowred The faire Creausa thou shalt see no more Her the none-sparing slaughter hath deuowred But in her stead the Gods to thee shal giue A wife in whom deceased Troy shall liue 86 Follow yon starre whether his Bearded beames Directs thy Nauigation on the fand Thousands attend thy conduct through the streames Whom ruin spares for thee and thy command Obserue yon blazing Meteor whose bright gleames Points thee vnto a rich and fertile Land Where after many strange aduentures past Storme-driu'n Aeneas shall arriue at last 87 They to a spacious Climate thee restore A Prouince which the Gods and fates hold best The Meditteren Sea beats on the shore With the Scicilian waters South and East The Adriaticke Billowes North-ward rore With the hye Alpes incompast on the West These Countries it containes Latium Liguria The Climates of Campania and Hetruria 88 With Fertill I stria and Calabria Full peopled Craunia and Apentium Aemilia else cald Rhomandtola With Gallia Cisalpina and Pycenum Iapidia Vmbria and Venetia Flauinia Apulia Sumnium All these are Italy with great Lucania Which shall in times to come be cald Rhomania 89 Farewell and thriue but leaue vs to our Fates This saide the Deuine Helenus retires And shuts himselfe within those fatall gates Where none commands but foes and raging fires Aeneas hasts to meet his promist Mates And on the Coast their fellow-ship desires Who through the street hewes out a bloody tracke With old Anchises hanging at his backe 90 Still â—…stium burnes nor are the ruthlesse Flames Yet quencht Ihoues sparpled Alters licke the blood Of slaughtred Priam the bright vestall Dames Are puld from Pallas Statuë where they stood About their golden lockes with lowd exclaimes Rough souldiers wind their armes and through a flood Of gore and teares in which the pauement flowes Drag them along that faint beneath their blowes 91 The young Astianax from that hye Tower On which his Fathers valour oft he saw Is tumbled headlong on the rough-pau'd flower His all to bruised limbes lye broke and raw To wofull Hecuba in thrust a power Of blood-staind Greekes without regard or awe and from her aged armes snatcht by rude force Polixena whose beauty begs remorse 92 Shee s hurried to Achilles tombe where stands Sterne
Neptolemus from top to toc Satued in blood and slaughter in both hands Wauing a keene glaue Crimsond in the foe To bind with Cords her soft armes he commands That more red liues may on his Faulchion flow There the bright Mayde that bands did ill become He piece-meale howe 's vpon Achilles tombe 93 Thus is King Priam and Queene Hecubs race Extinct in dust young Palidore alone The youngest Lad is with the king of Thrace Left in great charge with Gold and many a Stone Beyond all rate but Polymnestor base Hearing the pride of Troy was spent and gone False to the world and to his friend vntrew To gaino that wealth the louely Infant slew 94 Whos 's death when Hecuba reuenged had By tearing out the periur'd Tyrants eyes First she records the beauty of the Lad Then all the glories she beneath the skies Possest before which makes her Franticke-mad On her sloine husband daughters sonnes she crics Troy she bewaild and fatall Greece she curst Till her great heart with griese surcharged burst 95 Ten yeares ten months twelue dayes this siege indured In which of Greece before the Towne were slame Fourescoute hundred and sixe thousand all inured To steely warre Of Troians that maintaine The honour of their Citty well assured Besides the number that were prisoners tane Six hundred fifty and six thousand tride Omitting those that in the last night dide 96 Chiualrous Hector voyd of fraud or slight Eighteene great Kings slew by his proper hands No aduantagious oddes he vsd in fight Therefore his fame spreds farre through forraigne lands Three Kings to do the amorous Paris right Fell by his Bow next rankt Achilles stands Who besides Troylus and great Hector slew Seauen puissant Kings at Troy if Fame speake true 97 Foure Kings beside the Sagitary fell By Diomed two by Aeneas lost Their precious liues though many moe fought well Their warlike deeds are not so farte ingrost Blacke Pyrrhus acts aboue the rest excell Who thinking mongst them to be praised most Three Royall liues his Tragicke wrath obayd An aged King a Woman and a Mayd 98 Not how two worthy Greekes in words contended Who should the rich Vulcanian armor haue Now how from Aiax who had Greece defended Th' impartiall Iudges to Vlisses gaue To proue that Counsell aboue strength extended And had more power the Argine Campe to saue In griese of which great losse Aiax grew mad Slaine by the sword that he from Hector had 99 Nor of Vlisses trauels twice ten yeares Nor of his loue with Circe the faire Queene Who by her spels transform'd him and his Pecres And kept him thence where he desird t' haue beene With faire Penelope Fam'd mongst the spheares In liuing chast though Princes full of spleene Possest her kingdome and her pallace ceaz'd VVhom wanting power she by delaies appeasd 100 Nor how he after twenty winters came And in disguise his constant Lady proued How he by armes releast the beautious Dame And all her suiters from his Land remoued Nor how Telegonus won with the Fame Of him whom most the witch Calipso loued From his faire Mother Circe himselfe vvith-drevv And vnavvares his Royall Father slevv 101 Nor how King Naulus laide Traines on the Seas To aâ—…enge him on the Gracians for his sonne Palamides whose death did much displease The aged Prince since t was by treason donne Nor how such wandering Greekes as he could ceaze Who on his shores their ship-wrackt vessels ronne Naulâ—…s destroyd and vnto ruine brought Since they his sonnes deere life esteemed nought 102 Nor how King Agamemnon home returning Was by his faire wife Clitemnestra slaine How false Egistus in the Queenes loue burning Plotted with her to shorten the Kings raigne Nor bow Horestes for his Father mourning Grew mad and slew Egistus that had laine With his faire Mother whoÌ„ when he had caught her Vnchild-like he did with his owne hands slaughter 103 Nor how blacke Pyrrhus Hellens daughter stalâ—… The faire Her mione she that before Was to Horestes troth'd and should Sance fayle Haue bin espousd to him who at the doore Of Delphos Templeflew him without blae Staining Apoltos shrine with Pyrrhus gore Not how that face for which the whol world wrangled To see it chang'd with age her selfe she strangled 104 Nor how the Greekes after their bloody toyles Antenor left to inhabit raced Troy And after th' end of their sad Tragicke broyles All Asiaes wealth within their flect inioy Robbing the Towne of all her richest spoyles Whose hye Clowd-peircing spyres the flames destroy nor how Aeneas doth his forces gather And ships with his young son and aged Father 105 Rigging to soa these two and twenty sayle That fetcht the fire brand that all Troy inflamd The selfe-same shippes in which the Troian stale The Spartan Queene gainst whome all Greece exclaimd Nor of Queene Didoes loue and Tragicke bate Nor of Aeneas trauels nobly fam'd Nor how Andromache was Captaine led Left to the hot lust of the Conquerors bed 106 With whom Cassandra was inforst to goe With Helenus that kend deuinest things And al these sad proceedings did fore-show and propheside to Troyes confedered Kings Nor of King Diâ—…meds sad ouerthrow Of Albions Isle first knowne my Muse next sings Her Chariot now I can no further driue Brittaine from conquerd Troy we next deriue Dolopes are a people of Thessaly in the borders of Phthiolis out of which prouince Vlisses made choyce of his Guard Pallas whose name we have often vsed some take to be the Daughter of Neptune and Tritonis and liued in the time of Giges Others hold her to be sprung of Ihoues braine as wee haue before remembred Palluda quandam Cum patris è capite exilijt Clarissiâ—…a patuam lauerunt Tritonis aquae The like many others affirme as also that when she leapt out of Ihoues brain at the saide time it rained a shewer of Gold on the Earth Of her birth many writers differ some affirme her to be the Daughter of â—…riton others to berather the Daughter of â—…upiter Thetis Others of Craunus differing from their opinions therfore I hold with Cicero who auers that there were more of the names One of the Mother of Apollo a second borne by Nyle and adored of the Egyptians a third of the braine of â—…upiter a fourth of Jupiâ—…er and Ceriphe the Daughter of Oceanus whom the Arcadians call Cerin and the Inuentor of the Chariot A fift that was supposed to kill hir Father to perserue her virginity Pallas and Minetâ—…a were one she was also by some called Tâ—…iloma Ihouis filia gloriosa Tritonia Both Greece and Troy highly honered her she is saide to inuent Armes and to haue aided her Father Jâ—…piter in the destruction of the Tytanoyes which the poets call Gigomantichia Of whom it is thus remembred Palluda bellorum studijs Cautanus amicam è Ihoue
progenitam magno quae destruit vrbes And of another thus Sed prius illa fugis fum◅tia soluit equorum Colla lauans alti fluctibus Oceani And so much of Pallas or Minctua to whom the Troians dedicated their chiefe Temple Migdonia is a part of Phrigia next Troas by the Riuer Rhindacus of this Countrey Prince Chorebus that loued Cassandra was called Mygdonides The Scaean sbore Scaea is a gate of Troy opening to the West where Laomedon was buried of that Gate the Sea shore adiacent beare the name of Scaea The Names of the 18. Kinges slaine by Hector are thus though somewhat corruptly by an◅ient Writers remembred K. Archilochus K. Protesilaus K. Patroclus K. Menon K. Protenor K. Archimenes K. Polemon K. Epistropus K. Ecedius K. Doxius K. Polixenus K. Phibus K. Anthiphus K. Cenutus K. Polibetus K. Humerus K. Fumus K. Exampitus Achilles slew 7. Kings K. Cupemus King Yponeus K. Plebeius K. Austerus K. Cymonius K. Memnon K. Neoptolemus besides Hector Troylus and Margareton with other of Priams Bastard Sonnes Some likewise contrary to the assertion of Ouid and others affirme that Paris slew the Emp. Palumides Aiax and Achilles Aeneas slew K. Amphimachus and K. Mereus the faire Greeke whom Homer so much loued ◅yrrhus the son of Achilles slew K. Priam an aged man Queene Penthisilea awarlike woman Polytes a young Lad and Polyxena a beauteous Maide K. Diomed slew the Sagittary K. Antipus K. Escorius K. Obstin◅us and K. Protenor Many others were slaine in the disordred battailes but how or by whom it is not particularly registred Of Vlisses loue to Circe Ouid in diuers places toucheth it part whereof I h◅e thus Englishe Calipso as they on the sea banke stood Casting her eyes vpon the Neighbour flood Desires the acts and bloudy deeds to beare Done by th'Odrisean Captaines sword and speare When holding twixt his fingers a white wand What she requests he drawes vpon the sand Here 's Troy quoth he for here the Towne is ment Thinke Simois that Imagin this my Tent Here Scithian Rhesus Tents are pitched hie This way his Horsemen slaine returned I. Here Dolon dyde when on the suddaine ◅oe A climbing Waue the shewers doth ouerthrow And as the drops vpon his worke doth fall It washt away his Tents his Troy and all To whom the Goddesses dares Vlisses trust These sencelesse violent waues that are so curst And darestthou with these waters be annoyd By whom such great Names are so soone destroyd How could her magicke potions Circe please When ◅ise Vlisses Ships float on the Seas All exorcisms the louing Witch doth try To stay the Greekes whilst he away doth fly All Spels and Charmes the louing Witch assaide That such hot flames might not her thoughs inuade But spight the cunning Hag and charme her best Vlisses flies Loue scornes to be suppr◅st She that Mens shapes could from themselues estrange Had not the power her owne desires to change T is sayd that when Vlisses would away With such like words she did intreat his stay What I hop't earst I doe not now intreat That you with me would make a lasting seate And be my Husband yet if I my race Call but to minde I might de serue that place Despising me a worthy Wife you shunne A Goddesse and the Daughter of the Sunne All that I beg my humorous Loue to feede Is onely this you would not make such speede Stay but a while it is an easte taske What lesse thing can you grant What lesse I aske Behold the deepe Sea rageth Neptune feare Stay till a Calme and then begin to steare Why shouldst thy fly Thy fore sheate and thy Mizen Why swell they with the Wind No Troy is risen For thee againe to sacke heare are no brals No man thy Mates and thee to battaile cals Heere true Loue raines heere peace is firmely grounded In which my selfe and onely I am wounded My heart is thine and shall be thine for ay And all my Land is in thy Kingly sway She speakes he lancheth and the selfe same wind That fils his sayles blowes thence the words and mind Of Circe otherwise cald Calisso hee begot Telegons who afterward unawares slew his Father Vlisses Shee was the Daughter of the Sun and Perses Others haue imagined hir the Daughter of Hecate or of Aeeta others to bee the Daughter of Asteripes and Hiperion as Orpheus in Argonantis Aeetae affinis coniunctaque sanguine solis filia quam proprio dixerunt nomine Circen Astropey patuus Hiperiony est auus illa c. She had by Vlisses these sons Agrius Latinus Telegons and Auson of whom Ausonia alias Italia bears the Name with Casiphon with Marsius of whom the Marsiaus tooke Name and Rhomanus Her Toomb was in one of the Pharmacusan Islands not far from Salamine Diomedes the manner of whose death wee haue not touched in our History was kild by Danaus whose Countrey hee had before freed and in the same slaine a huge Dragon vvho threw his body with all the statues that were reared to his honor Ingratefully into the sea where they perished Of Clitemnestraes Adultery Ouid saith Whilst Agamemnon liud with one contented His Wife liude chast and neither it repented His secret blowes her heart did so prouoke VVanting the Sword she with the Scabberd stroke She heares of Criseis and the many Iarres About Lyrnesis to increase the warres And therefore meere reuenge the Lady Charmes To take Thiestes in her amorous Armes And in another place VVhy could not his blind lusts Aegistus bridle will you needs know th' Adulterer was still Idle When others laboured Islion to annoy And lay strong siedge about the wals of Troy Abroad he war'd not nor at home he law'd His thoughts no nauall office could applaud what he could doe he did for so it prou'd Least he should nothing doe he therefore lou'd So is this loue begot so is he bred So cherisht so at length be gathers head The end of the 15. Canto Argumentum HAuing the sight of our wisht harbor gaind The yeares from Brute to Christ what famous Kinges Gouernd in Britan how long they raignd From Christ to Norman William and what things Of specill note were in their da◅es containd In a briefe Chronicle our Muse next sings Much matter in few words swift runs our Glasse We many Ages in one instant passe ARG. 2. A Genealogie exactly found From the first man to Norman Williā crownd CANTO 16. 1 ADam got Seth Seth Enos Enos Cayne Cayne got Melaliel Iareth next begon From Iareth Enoch that to Heauen was tane He got Methusalem whose line doth ron To Lamech of him Noah and from Noah came Ihapheth then Cichem who was Iapheths Son Cichem got Cipre Cipre Creete and so Creete Saturne from whose braunch great Ihoue doth grow 2 Dardanus is immediate Heyre from Ihoue And by Candame got Erichthonius Erichthon
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
Anchor casts And thence vnto Duke Aiax Pallace hasts 70 Mildly of him the Embassador demands Hesione or if he keepe her still With her to enter Hymens Nuptiall bands Not as a Slaue to serue his lustfull will When Tellamon this Message vnderstands He was in thought the Troian Lord to kil So scornefully the Duke his Message tooke His face lookt pale his head with anger shooke 71 He tels him he is not allyde at all With twice-won Troy nor any league desires The beautious Princesse to his lot did fall Whom he wil keepe and mauger all their yres For scaling first Troyes well defended Wall She was his Trophies prize He that aspires To take her thence or once demand her backe Is but the meanes their Troy againe to Sacke 72 And so commands him thence who still proceeds Vnto Achaia where the famous Twins Castor and Pollux haue aduanc'st their deeds And by their Valours were both crowned Kings Vnto their Court in hast Anthenor speeds And to their eares his Embassie begins But they with Telamons rude scornes reply And charge him straight out of their Confines hie 73 With like contempt Duke Nestor sends him backe So did the two Atrides So the rest Of all the Argiue Kings command him packe Out of their bounds as an vnwelcome guest Since Troy deseruedly indur'd such wracke Anthenor answered thus esteemes it best Backe to resaile and to King Priam tell What in his bootlesse voyage him befell 74 The King at this reproach inflam'd with rage Assembles all his people Sonnes and Peeres Intending by their aydes new warre to wage To which the youthfull Gallants wanting yeares Freely assent but those of riper age Out of their grauer wisedome not pale feares Seeke by their Counsels Priam to perswade To raigne in peace and not proud Greece inuade 75 Among the rest great Hector from whose tong Did neuer yssue proud discourteous word Whom Greeke nor Troian can accuse of wrong Nor they within whose blouds he glaz'd his sword Rayseth himselfe aboue the populous throng And thus he sayes Who rather should afford Vengeance on Greece then I your eldest sonne To whom these rough iniurious wrongs are done 76 But if we well consider what a foe And what great wrath vpon our heads we pull Not Greece alone but all that homage owe Asia and Affricke make their numbers full The oddes is too vnequall therefore knowe I am of thought all warres to disanull Troy's but a Citty and though rich and strong Yet gainst the world oppos'd must needs take wrong 77 Why will Rich Priam hazard his estate Being in peace what need we couet warre What can we more desire then fortunate So Priam Troy and all our people are Why should we seeke t' incurre the Argiue hate Of which remains so incurable a scarre Wisemen in their reuenges should forsee What ends may fall not what beginnings be 78 My Grand-sire's dead perhaps he did offend But howsoeuer he cannot now suruiue To seeke his life we vainely should contend Methinkes in this against the Gods we striue What the Greekes mar'd the Gods themselues amend Whence should we then our detriments deriue Our Troy is since her second fall much fairer Her people richer and her buildings rarer 79 Troy lost a King that losse your Grace supply And though your sonne of this I proudly vant He is in you receiu'd with vsury They pillag'd vs and yet we nothing want Of all their wounds we not one scarre can spy Vnlesse Hesione our Princely Ant Whose bondage long since hapning we may gesse The custome and continuance makes seeme lesse 80 But how soeuer neare to mee allyde I do not hold her freedome of that meed That for her sake Troy should in blood be dyde Priam or any of his yssue bleed And for this cause do I my selfe deuide From their rash Counsel that Reuenge decreed Knowing all warre is doubtfull and fore-seeing Of Troy what it may be not of Troyes being 81 If any hot blood prouder then the rest Accuse my words and thinke I speake through feare I wish that man the boldest Graecian guest That euer with Alcides Anchor'd heare That I might print my valour on his Crest And on his armed Vaunt-brace proue my Speare This said great Hector Congied to the King Then takes his place when vp doth Paris spring 82 And to the King his Idaes dreame relates And how he iudg'd three beauties for the ball How farre he Venus ' boue the rest instates The fairest Greeke vnto his lot must fall A fit reuenge for those whom Priam hates For if the King will make him Generall He makes no doubt from Greece a Queene to bring Shall equalize the Sister of the King 83 Now all the peoples voyce on his side flowes In euery eare his famous dreame is rife When ranckt next Paris Deiphebus growes Perswading still to giue these discords life As one that by presumptions thus much knowes His voyage can procure no further strife Then if the promising Fates assist his Brother To proue th'exchance of one Queene for another 84 But Helenus with sacred spels indude Seekes this prepared voyage to restrayne He saith the Greekes shall with their hands imbrude In Troyes bloud royall conquer once againe Intreating Paris he will not delude Theyr reuerent eares with dreames and visions vaine Assuring him that of this Quest shall grow The Citties vniuersall ouerthrow 85 When youthfull Troylus thus Who euer heard A bookish Priest perswade to hostyle Armes Let such as are to Fates and Sawes indeard Crouch by the fires that smoking Alters warmes And cherish their faint sinnewes much affeard Dreading their owne not Souldiers threatned harmes He that 's a Priest amongst priests let him pray We Souldiers cry Arme and a glorious day 86 What lets the King my Father but to grant My Brother Paris a right royall fleete That in reuenge of our surprised Aunt He Warlike prayes among the Graecians meete Shall tymerous Clarkes our Martiall Spirits dant No royall Father know reuenge is sweet Which since the Fates by visions promise beare Not to obey their Hests we Cowards were 87 Troylus preuailes and Hector is perswaded To shun the imputation of base feare With which his courage should be wrong vpbrayded A tymerous thought came neuer Hector neare Siâ—…ce t is agreed that Greece must be inuaded Hee 'l guard his honor with his sword and Speare Or if the Gerekes will on the Troians pray Through his bold body they shall first make way 88 Without his faire applause it had not past So reuerent was th' opinion of his braine His words were Oracles so sweetly gracst They generall murmur in all Counsels gaine His free consent they hauing wâ—…on at last The King appoints them a well furnisht traine With two and twenty Ships well rig'd and man'd In any part of Greece freely to Land 89 Which when the Prophetesse Cassandra heares Indu'de with deuine wisedome she exclaimes Her yellow Tramels she in fury teares
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