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
gaze on These were the same that made Duke Theseus lauish Who in thy prime and Nonage did thee rauish A vvorthie Rape for such a vvorthie Man Thrice happie Rauisher to ceize thee than When thou vvert stript starke naked to the skin A sight of force to make the Gods to sin Such is your Countries guise at seasons vvhen vvith naked Ladies they mixe naked Men That he did steale thee from thy Friends I praise him And for that deed I to the Heauens will raise him That he return'd thee backe by Ihoue I wonder Had I bin Theseus he that should assonder Haue parted vs or snacht thee from my bed First from my shoulders should haue par'd my head So rich a purchase such a glorious pray Should constantly haue bin detai'nd for aye Could these my strong Armes possibly vnclaspe Whilst in their amorous Foulds they Hellen graspe Neither by free constraint nor by free-giuing Could you depart that compasse and I liuing But if by rough inforce I must restore you Some fruits of Loue which I so long haue bore you I first would reape and some sweet fauour gaine That all my suite were not bestowd in vaine Either with me you should abide and stay Or for your passe your maiden-head should pay Or say I spar'd you that yet would I try What other fauour I could else come by All that belongs to loue I would not misse You should not let me both to clip and kisse Giue me your heart faire Queene my hart you owe And what my resolution is you knowe Til the last fire my breathlesse body take The fire within my breast can neuer slake Before large kingdomes I preferd your face And Iunoes loue and potent gifts disgrace To sold you in my amorous Armes I chusd And Pallas vertues scornefully refusd When they with Venus in the Hil of Idc Made mee the Iudge their beauties to decide Nor do I yet repent me hauing tooke Beauty and strength and Scepter'd rule for sooke Methinkes I chusd the best nor thinke it strange I still persist and neuer meane to change Onely that my imployment be not vain Oh you more worth then any Empires gaine Let me intreat least you my byrth should scorne Or parentage know I am royall borne By marrying me you shall not wrong your State Nor be a wife to one degenerate Search the Records where vve did first begin And you shall find the Pleyads of our Kin Nay Ihoâ—…e himselfe all others to forbeare That in our stocke renowned Princes were My Father of all Asia raignes sole-King Whose boundlesse Coast scarce any featheredwing Can giue a girdle too a happier Land A neighbor to the Ocean cannot stand There in a narrovv compasse you may see Citties and Towers more then may numbred be The houses guilt rich Temples that exell And you will say I neere the great Gods dwell You shall behold hie Issiums lofty Towers And Troyes braue Wals built by Immortall powers But made by Phoebus the great God of Fire And by the touch of his melodious Lyer If we haue people to inhabit vvhen The sad earth grones to beare such troopes of men Iudge Hellen Likevvise when you come to Land The Asian Women shall admiring stand Saluting thee with welcome more and lesse Inpreasing throngs and numbers numberlesse More then our Courts can hold of you most faire You to your selfe will say alasse how bare And poore Achaya is when with great pleasure You see each house containe a Citties Treasure Mistake me not I Sparta do not scorne I hold the Land blest where my Loue was borne Though barren else rich Sparta Hellen bore And therefore I that Prouince must adore Yet is your Land methinkes but leane and empty You worthy of a Clyme that flowes with plenty Full Troy I prostrate it is yours by duty This petty-seat becomes not your rich beauty Attendance Preparation Curtsie state Fit such a Heauenly forme on which should waite Cost fresh variety Delicious diet Pleasure Contentment and Luxurious ryet What Ornaments we vse what fashions faigne You may perceiue by me and my proud traine Thus we attyre our men but with more cost Of Gold and Pearle the rich Gownes are Imbost Of our chiefe Ladies guesse by what you see you may be soone induc'st to credit me Be tractable faire Spartan nor contemne A Troian borne deriu'd from Royall stemne He was a Troian and allyde to Hector That waits vpon Ihoues cup and fils him Nector A Troian did the faire Aurora wed And nightly slept within her Roseat bed The Goddesse that ends night and enters day From our faire Troian Coast stole him away Anchises was a Troian whom Loues Queene Making the Trees of Ida a thicke Screene Twixt Heauen and her oft lay with view me vvell I am a Troian too in Troy I dwell Thy Husband Menelaus hether bring Compare our shapes our yeares and euery thing I make you Iudgesse wrong me if you can you needs must say I am the properer man None of my line hath turn'd the Sun to blood And rob'd his Steeds of their Ambrosiall food My Father grew not from the Caucasse Rocke Nor shall I graft you in a bloody Stocke Priam nere wrong'd the guiltlesse soule or further Made the Myrtoan Sea looke red with murder Nor thirsteth my great Grand-sire in the Lake Of Lethe Chin-deepe yet no thirst can slake Nor after ripened Apples vainely skips Who flie him still and yet still touch his lips But what of this If you be so deriu'd You notwithstanding are no right depriu'd You grace your Stocke and being so deuine Ihoue is of force compeld into your Liue. Oh mischiefe Whilst I vainely speake of this Your Husband all vnworthy of such blisse Inioyes you this long night enfolds your wast And where he list may boldly touch and tast So when you sat at Table many a toy Passeth betweene you my vext soule t'annoy At such hie feasts I wish my enemy sit Where discontent attendes on euery bit I neuer yet was plac'st at any Feast But oft it irkt me that I was your Guest That which offends me most thy rude Lord knowes For still his arme about thy necke he throwes Which I no sooner spy but I grow mad And hate the man whose courting makes me sad Shall I be plaine I am ready to sinke downe When I behold him wrap you in his Gowne While you sit smiling on his amorous knee His fingers presse where my hands itch to bee But when he hugs you I am forc'st to frowne The meat I 'am eating will by no meanes downe But stickes halfe way amidst these discontents I haue obseru'd you laugh at my laments And with a scornefull yet a wanton smile Deride my sighes and grones oft to beguile My passions and to quench my fiery rage By quaffing healths I'haue thought my flame t' asswage But Bacchus full cups make my flame burne hyer Add wine to loue and you adde fire to
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
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
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
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
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
such Tortures anguish smart That Gods aboue nor Deuils damd could beare That stung his breast and pierst his Noble hart he growes Impatient that could neuer feare Infernall panges Infusde in euery part he striues the poysonous Shirt away to teare But with the cleauing Linnens forst to draw The Brawnes from off his armes and leaue them raw 101 The poysond boyles and he that could confound Gyants so late to his immortall fame Now from the head to heele is all one wound The raging venom-drops his flesh inflame Sometimes he grouels on the senceleâ—…e ground Sometimes those powerfull hands that Monsters tame plucks down huge rocks cleaues theÌ„ with his stroaks And sometimes by the roots rends vp huge Oakes 102 Mad with these Torments Oeta Mount he traces Where creeping in a hole he Lychas spies When stalking to his Caue with leasurd paces About his head he wheeles him in the skies And that being done the whole Mount he defaces A groue of Trees dispoyld about him lies A thousand Oakes he heapes vp on a pile And kindling thâ—…m sayes with a fâ—…ornfull smile 103 Whom neither Iunoes wrath nor Plutoes hell Whom neither Lyons Buls Dogs Dragons Whales Whom neither Tyrants grim nor Gyants â—…ell against that spirit a womans gift preuailes Her iealousie hath power that hart to quell Whom Serpents feare with their â—…uenomed skales Since none on earth deserues our blood to spill The great Alcides shall Alcides kill 104 The fire burnes bright he Philocletes cals And vnto him bequeaths his shasts and bow Who at his warlike fâ—…et confounded fals The Club and Lyons case his bold hands throw Into the flame then he whom noughts appals Cries Ihoue I come and boldly leaps in so That life that mortall did the heauens aspire Now with Immortall wings climes heauen by fire 105 Alcides dead and Priam backe returnd From his successefull Battailes in the East He sees his Country spoyld his Citty burnd His Father slaine which most his griefe increast These losses with his Sisters rape he mournd Nor are such weighty sorrowes soone surceast we for a while will leaue him to his care His Syre t'intoombe his Citty to repaire MEdea some thinke to be the daughter of Eta some the daughter of the Sun some the Daughter of Hecare Apollod lib. 3. Cals her Aeea Heraclides writes her to be the daughter of Neaera of the Nereides Dionisius Milesius cals her the daughter of Eurelytes others of Ipsaea that Chalciope was her sister She had a sonne cald Medus by Aegeas Demodocus a Harpers name in Homer of whom the Country Medea tooke name Iopas a King of Affrica one of Didoes wooers a skilfull Musition Iason committed to the charge of his Vnkle Pelius in his minority because Pelus was loath to resigne to him his kingdome deuised for his Nephew the dangerous enterprize of the golden Fleece which lason contrary to his Vnckles supposition with his Argonants valiantly atchieued In memory of Absyrtus there are still certaine Islandes in the Venetian Sea cald Absyrtides of Absyrtus there slaine by his sister Medea Phrixus was sonne to Athamas and Brother to Helles of whom the Ram that bore the golden fleece was named Phrixeus Helle with her Brother Phrixus was drowned Of whom that Sea is still called Hellespontus Because we onely remember 〈◊〉 and the Mynotaur and haue no further Trafficke in our History with his life I holde it not much amisse in these Annoaations to remember that History and how the Mynotaure was begot Ouid arte Amandi Ida of Caedars and tall Trees stand full Where fed the glory of the Heard a Bull Snow-white saue twixt his hornes one spot there grew Saue that one staine he was of milky hew This faire Steare did the Heyfers of the Groues Desire to beare as Prince of al the Droues But most Pasiphae with adulterous breath Enuies the wanton Heyfers to the death T is saide that for this Bull the doting lasse Did vse to crop young boughes and mow fresh grasse Nor was the Amorous Cretan Queene affeard To grow a kind Companion to the Heard Thus through the Champion she is madly borne And a wilde Bull to Minos giues the horne T is not for by auery he can loue or loath thee Then why Pasiphae doest thou richly cloath thee Why shouldst thou thus thy face aâ—…d lookes prepare What makest thou with thy glasse ordering thy haire Vnlesse thy glasse could make thee seeme a Cow But how can hornes grow on that tender brow If Mynos please thee no Adulterer seeke thee Or if thy husband Mynos do not leeke thee but thy la â—…ciutous thoughts are still increast Deceiue him with a man not with a beast Thus by the Queene the wilde Woods are frequented And leauing the Kings bed she is contented To vse the groues borne by the rage of mind Euen as a ship with a full Easterne wind Some of these strumpet-Heyfers the Queene slew Their smoaking Alters their warme bloods imbrew Whilst by the sacrificing Priest she stands And gripes their trembling entrailes in her hands At length the Captaine of the Heard beguild With a Cowes skin by curious Art compild The longing Queene obtaines her full desire And in her infants byrth bewrayes the Sire This Mynotaure when he came to groath was inclosed in the Laborinth which was made by the curious Arts-maister Dedalus whose Tale likewise we thus pursue When Dedalus the laborinth had built In which t' include the Queene Pasiphaes guilt And that the time was now expired full To inclose the Mynotaure halfe man halfe Bull Kneeling he sayes Iust Mynos end my mones And let my Natiue soile intoombe my bones Or if dread soueraigne I deserue no grace Looke with a pittious eye on my sonnes face And graunt me leaue from whence we are exild Or pittie me if you dâ—…ny my Child This and much more he speakes but all in vaine The King both Sonne and Father wil detaine Which he perceiuing saies Now now tisfit To giue the world cause to admire thy wit Both Land and Sea are watcht by day and night Nor Land nor Sea lie open to our flight Onely the Ayre remaines then let vs try To cut a passage through the ayre and fly Ihoue be auspicious to my enterprise I couet not to mount aboue the skies But make this refuge since I can prepare No meanes to fly my Lord but through the ayre Make me immortall bring me to the brim Of the blacke Stigian Water Styx I le swim Oh human wit thou canst inuent much ill Thou searchest strange Artes who would thinke by skill A heauy man like a light Bird should stray And through the empty Heauens find a fit way He placeth in iust order all his Quils Whose bottoms with resolued waxe he fils Then binds them with a line and being fast tyde He placeth them like Oares on eyther side The tender Lad the downy Feathers blew And what his Father meant he
Land see Which to behold I leant me to a Tree Beleeue me for I speake but what is true Downe from the skies with feathered pynions flew The Nephew to great Atlas and doth stand With Golden Caducens in his hand This as the Gods to me thought good to show I hold it good that you the same should know Three Goddesses behind young Hermes moue Great Iuno Pallas and the Queene of Loue Who as in pompe and Pride of gate they passe Scarse with their weight they bend the tops of grasse Amaz'd I start and endlong stands my haire When Mayus Sonne thus sayes abandon feare Thou Curteous Swaine that to these groues repairest And freely Iudge which of these three is fairest And least I should this curious sentence shun He tels me by Iboues sentence all is done And to be Iudge I no way can eschew This hauing saide vp through the Ayre he flew I straight take Hart a grace and grow more bold And there their beauties one by one behold Why am I made the Iudge to giue this dome Methinkes all three are Worthy to o're-come To iniure two such Beauties what tongue dare Or preserre one where they be all faire Now this seemes fairest now againe that other Now would I speake and now my thoughts I smother And yet at length the praise of one most sounded And from that one my present Loue is grounded The Goddesses out of their earnest care And pride of Beauty to be held most faire Seeke with large Ariues and gifts of wondrous price To their owne thoughts my censure to intice Inno the Wife of Ihoue doth first inchant me To Iudge her fairest she a Crowne will grant me Pallas her Daughter next doth vnder take me Giue her the price and valiant she will make me I straight deuise which can most pleasure bring To be a valiant Souldier or a King Last Venus smiling came with such a grace As if she swayed an Empire in her face Let not said she these guifts the Conquest be are Combats and Kingdomes are both fraught with feare I le giue thee what thou louest best louely Swaine The furest Saint that doth on earth remaine Shal be thine owne make thou the Conquest mine Faire Laedaes fairest daughter shal be thine This said when with my se'se I had deuised And her rich guift and beauty ioyntly prised Venus victor ore the rest is plac'st Iuno and Pallas leaue the Mount disgrac'st Meane time my Fates a prosperous course had ron And by knowne signes King Priam cald me Son The day of my restoring is kept holy Among the Saints-dates consecrated soly To my remembrance being a day of ioy For euer in the Calenders of Troy As I wish you I haue bin wisht by others The fairest maids by me would haue bin Mothers Of all my fauours I bestow'd not any you onely may inioy the Loues of many Nor by the Daughters of great Dukes and Kings Haue I alone bin sought whose marriage Rings I haue turn'd backe but by a straine more hie By Nimphs and Phairies such as neuer die No sooner were you promist as my due But I al hated to remember you Waking I saw your Image if I dreampt Your beautious figure stil appeard to tempt And vrge this voyage Til your face excelling These eies beheld my dreames were all of Hellen. Imagine how your face should now incite me Being seene that vnseene did so much delite me If I was scorcht so farre off from the Fyer How am I burnt to Cinders thus much nyer Nor could I longer owe my selfe this treasure But through the Ocean I must search my pleasure The Phrygian Hatchets to the rootes are put Of the Idean Pines asunder cut The Wood-land Mountaine yeilded me large fees Being despoyl'd of all her tallest Trees From whence we haue squar'd out vn-numbred beames That must be washt within the Marine streames The grounded Oakes are bowed though stiffe as steele And to the tough Ribs is the bending Keele Wouen by Ship-wrights craft then the Maine-mast Acrosse whos 's middle is the Saile yard plast Tackles and sailes and next you may discerne Our painted Gods vpon the hooked stearne The God that beares me on my happy way And is my guide is Cupid Now the day In which the last stroke of the Hammer's heard Within our Nauy in the East appeard And I must now lanch forth so the Fates please To seeke aduentures in the Egean Seas My Father and my Mother moue delay And by intreaties would inforce my stay They hang about my necke and with their teares Woo me deferre my iourney but their feares Can haue no power to keepe me from thy sight And now Cassandra full of sad affright With loose disheuel'd Tramels madly skips Iust in the way betwixt me and my Ships Oh whether wilt thou head-long run she cries Theu bearest fire with thee whose smoake vp flies Vnto the heauens Oh Ihoue thou little fearest What quenchlesse flames thou through the water bearest Caffandra was too true a Prophetesse Her quenchlesse flames she spake of I confesse My hot desires burne in my breast so fast That no Red Furnace hotter flames can cast I passe the Citty gates my Barke I boord The fauourable winds calme gales affoord And fill my sailâ—…s vnto your Land I steare For whether else his course should Paris beare Your Husband entertaines me as his guest And all this hapneth by the Gods behest He shewes me all his Pastures parts and Fields And euery rare thing Lacedemon yeilds He holds himselfe much pleased with my being And nothing hides that he esteems worth seeing I am on fire till I behold your face Of all Achayas Kingdome the sole grace All other Curious obiects I defie Nothing but Hellen can content mine eie Whom when I saw I stood transformd with wonder Sencelesse as one strooke dead by Ihoues sharpe Thunder As I reuiue my eyes Irowle and turne Whilst my flam'd thoughts with hotter fancies burne Euen so as I remember lookt Loues Queene When she was last in Phrygian Ida seene Vnto which place by Fortune I was trained Where by my censure she the Conquest gained But had you made a fourth in that contention Of Venus beauty there had bin no mention Hellen assuredly had borne from all The prize of beauty the bright Golden Ball. Onely of you may this your Kingdome boast by you it is renown'd in euery Coast Rumor hath euery where your beautie blazed In what remote Clyme is not Hellen praised From the bright Eastern Suns vprise Inquire Euen to his downfall where he slakes his fire There liues not any of your Sex that dare Contend with you that are proclaimd so faire Trust me for truth I speake Nay vvhat 's most true Too sparingly the vvorld hath spoke of you Fame that hath vndertooke your name to blaze Plaid but the envious Husvvife in your praise More then report could promise or fame blazon Are these Deuine perfections that I
and Steele-proofe still And though the thickenesse did appeare but small The Plates they with such strength of Mettall fill It hath the force and puissance to withstand The sharpest Speares hurl'd from the strongest hand 50 Aboue them all his shield the rest surpast Massie and onely for his Arme to weare For whom t was made vpon the same was ra'st The great world Tripartyte heauen and each Spheare Thence all the hye Circumference was pla'st Starres Moone and Sun the signes that rule the yeare The Ram the Bull and the Twin-brothers signe The Crab the Lyon and the Maid Deuine 51 The Skale the Scorpion and the Centaure fell Sterne Capricorne and he that water powers The Fishes all these were ingraued well There Phoebus stood about him dayes and howers With the foure Seasons First the Spring gan swell With sweetest Buddes Sommer that seldome lowers Stood next in ranke well clad in freshest greene Autumne next her in ragged Roabes was seene 52 There stood old Winter in hye Furs attyred On whom the flakes of Snow like Feathers hong He shyuering lookes as if he warmth desired With chattering teeth hands Palsied quaking tong Below the Earth with Dales and Hils admired Fields full of Grayne Meads with Grasse new sprong Here Citties rarely built there Hamlets stand Here fallow-fields besides them New-tild Land 53 Betweene the middle Earth Seas ebbe and flow Whose Billowes in their caruing seeme to moue Here the Leuiathan huge waues doth throw From out his Nostrils to the skyes aboue The Dolphins of a thousand coullours show Here Whales their heads aboue the waters proue And sayling ships contriu'd by cunning rare On which strange Fish with wonder seeme to stare 54 A thousand sundry Obiects made by Art This huge Orbicular Shield in compasse holds What Heauen or Earth or Seas to vs Impart His Globe-like compasse to the eye vnfolds When Vulcan taking the fayre Queene apart who with much wonder his strange worke beholds Presents it her made perfect for her Son In whose rich armes Troy seemes already won 55 At Vulcans Caue she yoakes her Chariot-steeds which o're the Oceans rugged backe make way And as she freely on the Seas proceeds About her Coach the Quicke-ear'd Dolphins play At her Sonnes Tent fam'd for his warlike deeds She lights and to the Couch on which he lay Tost those rich armes which when Achilles view'd The halfe-dead spirit within his breast renew'd 56 He leaps from of his Pallet to imbrace The beautious Queene and soone intreats her ayde To arme his shoulders and his head to grace With that inchaced Helme God Vulcan made Who now compleatly furnisht longs for place Where thus be-seene he Hector may inuade He cannot sleepe for gazing on his Shield In hope t' aduance it in the Morrowes field 57 Thetis departs when th' early Cocke gaue signe With his lowd notes Aurora to dispose Who leaues the Bed-rid Tython sunke in Wine From whom the Gold hair'd Goddesse blushing rose To harnesse Phoebus Coach-steeds who in fine About his face his Beames bright ghstring throwes To dry the Mornings teares who weepeth still To see th' vnkind Sunne climb th'Easterne hill 58 He had not left the forelorne Goddesse long But from Olimpus top he may espy Plaine-Crested Hector his arm'd Troopes among Chearing them vp the proud Greekes to defy Next him marcht Noble Troylus Memnon strong Antenor and Aeneas mounted hye Young Deiphebus and Polydamas Paris whose ayme in Arch'ry doth surpasse 59 Sarpedon King Epistropus beside Many more Kings that sundry battailes led Against these soone the Curld Inuaders ride The grim Atrides first aduan'st his hed Achilles next past with vaine-glorious pride For his rich armour Nestor next him sped Menon whose armes were set with many a stone And he that Hector stood bold Telamon 60 The Ithacan with Lacedemons King The widdowed Spartan ground of all this broyle These to the fielde their seuerall battailes bring With thousand followers bent on death and spoyle Their barbed Steeds the earth behind them fling Harnesse and quartered limbes blocke the smooth soyle Amongst the rest Achilles loftiest stood and his new armour double-Guilds in blood 61 With Memnon â—…onne to Tython and the Morne Who came from Egipt in King Priams aide Aeacides encounters change of scorne Betweene them past bold Memnon nought dismaide With that strong hand that had the Scepter borne Of Persiaes kingdome and did once inuade Susa as farre as where Choaspes flowes Vpon his Helme thunders two persant blowes 62 They stound him in his saddle make him kisse His Steeds curl'd Crest ere he can Mount his head Achilles who esteemes no other blisse But to behold his foes before him spread Wak't from his sudden trance espyes by this A Graecian Squadron bout King Memnon dead And his bright sword still to wring ore his Crest Threatning in his third fall Eternall rest 63 The proud Greeke sends a blush out of his face as red as that in which his proofe was lau'de he now records his strength his god-like race and his rich armour with such artingrau'de He knowes it ill becomes his Name or Place By any Mortall puissance to be brau'de He doubles strength on strength and stroak on stroak Euen till he mists himselfe in his owne smoake 64 Auroraes Darling prooues to weake a Foe For him on whose tough Shield no Steele can bite His conquer'd Sword and Armes the field must strow Achilles is too strong an opposite His Red-cheek't Mother ouercharg'd with woe Laments her Son vntimely slaine in fight In griefe of whom a Dusky Roabe she weares And fils the whole world with her dew-drop teares 65 The death of Memnon euen to Hector flyes That Tragicke newes cost many a Princes life Incenst he seemes all safety to dispise And where he spurs he makes red slaughter rife For euery drop of bloud a bold Greeke dies Him Troylus seconds in his purpled strife And if as for a wager they contend Whose Sword most pale Soules can to Orcus send 66 They breake a Ring of Harnesse making way Into the Battayles Center where they see a Noble Knight maintaine a gallant fray Gainst many Troian Knights in valor free Yet of them all this Champion gets the day The strongest cannot make him cringe his knee Polydamus against him brauely sped Yet still his gaz'd at Shield safeguards his hed 67 Against which Paris many arrowes spends But all in vaine they shiuer gainst his Targe and whom he best can reach his force extends as far as life the prisoned Soule t' enlarge Young Deiphebus to that place descends and with his Speate in reast doth gainst him charge But the Dardanian fayles in his intent And from the Noble Knight is bleeding sent 68 Victorious Hector at such deeds amaz'd But more at the rich Armor that he ware Mannadge and shape in heart he highly praysd and in his honors longes to haue a share Hupon Larissaes King that long had
from whence he was supplyde and wheare With Cates so rich in show so sweete in tast The like in Scithia she had neuer seene The least of them a seruice for a Queene 63 For now she hath in scorne her owne prouision And cals her choysest banquet homely fare Her dainty Cates she hath in proud derision Since she beheld the Strangers foode so rare The Youth who hopes by this t' escape incision Tels her if so she please he can prepare A richer feast yet not her Treasure wrong With any dish for which her grace may long 64 She growes the more Inquisitiue and streight Sweares if he will her royall Cater be Shee 'l in her Kingdome rayse him to the height Of all high state and chiefe Nobility For well she knowes it is a worke of weight To furnish her with such variety Since her cold Climat with ten Kingdomes more Cannot supply her board with halfe that store 65 When vp the Stranger ryseth and thus sayes Madam for your sake was I hither guided Whom I will freely serue at all assayes For you this dyet haue I here prouided Sit then and as you like my bounty praise These no illusions are to be derided But meats essentiall made for your repast Sit downe and welcome and wher't please you tast 66 The more she eats the more she longs to know Whence this strange bounty of the heauens proceeds They proue as sweet in tast as faire in show The more she wonders still the more she feeds The more she eats the more her wonders grow She vowes her Land shall Chronicle his deeds And make him Lord of all his present wishes Excepting Loue and what belongs to kisses 67 The stranger then his Napkins vertue tels What wonders it affoords when it is spred Without all charmes or Negrâ—…ticke spels Or inuocations made vnto the dead Onely in natiue Vertue it excels A secret power by inspiration bred This hee 'l bestow with all their Vertues store To saue his forfet but for three dayes more 68 Th' ambitious Queene loath her Decrees should slacke More loath to loose a Iewell of such prize That can affoord her all things she doth lacke To make a feast as with the Dieties Vowes for three dayes he shall sustaine no wracke But then her law of force must tyranize Meane time her Court is for the stranger free Vpon these firme conditions they agree 69 Glad was the Queene more glad the amorous stranger For neither at their bargaine was agrieued She for her guift he to escape such danger Hauing his Man-hood for three dayes reprieu'd In her faire Parke he longs to be a ranger Where fed such store of Deere scarcely belieu'd Till he by tride experience had beheld How many beauties in the Court exceld 70 Now trusting to the vertue of his Ring He longes to proue who hate who meane him good Who onely to his eare smooth flatteries bring Who with the Queene vpon his party stood For flattery is like an oyly Spring Whose smooth soft waters waxing to a flood Entyce fond men his Siluer streames to crowne But he that proues to swim perforce must drowne 71 Among the rest one Beldam neere in place Vnto rhe lustlesse Amazon he knowes Perswades the Queene to his especiall grace and stands in plea bâ—…weene him and his Foes With her he growes acquainted in small space And in her lap a liberall Treasure throwes He giues hâ—… Gold in euery place he finds her And by large bounty to his Loue he binds her 72 The time weares on his three-dayes Lease expires In which he â—…s the things to which hee 's borne His owne Fee simple yet the Queene requires To haue the forfeit since the day 's outworne But still his precious guifts the Youth inspires With chearefull hope he shall not liue forlorne But trusts by promise of the fayry Dame A Man to part thence as a Man he came 73 The day fore th' Execution he was viewing His precious Ring the like was neuer seene Finding the time so neare he sits still â—…ewing His rashnesse for he feares the Knife is keene Each man he thinkes a Barbar him pursuing To haue him Enunch't when in comes the Queene And spyes this glorious Ring vpon his Finger The Beldam to this troubled youth did bring'er 74 Of this she fals in Question much admiring The Splendor and besides she longs to know What vertue't hath with â—…gency desiring If it be rare in worth as rich in show The Youth into his former hopes retyring Recounts to her what Soueraigne Vertues grow From this bright Loue a meanes ordaind by Fate Onely by which she may secure her State 74 In this her Friendes she may discerne and try On whom she may relye her certaine trust Who in her charge their vtmost wils apply Who in her Seate of Iudgement proue most iust Next she by this all Traytors may descry Such as against her vertues arme their lust Such as intend their Soueraigne to depose Briefly it points her Friends out from her Foes 76 No maruell if the Queene were much in loue With such a Iewell and for it would pay What he would aske as that which much behooues To keepe her doubtfull Kingdome from decay To buy it at the deerest rate she proues He onely craues but respight for one day That she but one day more his Youth would spare Eare he came bound vnto the Barbers Chayre 77 The match is made his guifts are knowne abroad and from all partes they come this man to see The multitude esteeme him as a God That to their Soueraigne Queene hath beene so free A starely Sâ—…eede he moâ—…s and thereon road About the Court wherethrongs of people be and from his Purse of Gold whole handfuls flings A bounty that is seldome seene in Kings 78 A thousand times his arme abroad he stretcht as oft the figured plates of coyn'd-Gold fly about theyr eares still to his Purse he reacht And still to his applause the peoply cry The more they showte the greater store he fetcht From his deuine vnending Treasury The newes of this vnto the Queenes soone came Wondring whose praise her people thus proclaime 79 In comes th' admired Stranger and alighting The Queene him meets and takes him by the hand To lead him vp he by the way reciting The Proiect she much longs to vnderstand The Scithian Queene in his discourse delighting Vpon the vertue of this Purse long scand Thinking if this third Prize she might inioy She by her wealth might all the Earth destroy 80 But Treasure cannot gaine it for t is Treasure Euen of it selfe in vaine she offers Gold aboue all wealth the Youth esteemes his pleasure One thing will doo 't that in her eare he told The couetous Queene 's perplexed aboue measure To buy the price that will be cheaply sold Onely to bed with her he doth desire But till two Peares be roasted in the fite 81 Oh! Gold what canst not thou Long she doth
Achiaces next the field asâ—…nded 100 These with the other Princes proudly fare Disordred ruine ruffles on each side Thousands of eyther party slaughterd are In this incounter Deiphebus dide And bâ—…aue Amphimachus forward to dare And able to performe a Souldier tride And now on Priams party onely stand The Scithian Damsels to protect his Land 101 Troy droopes and 〈◊〉 aspyres full foureteene dayes Penthisilea hath vphâ—…ld her fame Both Campe and Câ—…ty surfâ—…it with her prayse and her renowne deseruedly proclayme The best of Greece her hardiment assayes Yet shrinke beneath the fury of the Dame None can escape her vigour vnrewarded Troy by this sterne Virago's soly guarded 102 But destiny swayes all things Troy was founded To endure a third wracke and must fate obay Therefore euen those that with most might abounded Cannot reprieue her to a longer day The Sâ—…ythian Dames by many Princes wounded Were with the Queene at length to Greece a pray Her too much hardinesse her selfe inmur'd Admidst her foes in Armour well assur'd 103 And when her Launce was â—…plinter'd to her hand Her warlike Pollax hew'd to pieces small Her selfe round guirt with many an armed band Euen in her height of Fame she needs must fall The warlike Wench amongst the Greekes doth stand Vnbackt by Troy left of her Damsels all The battery of a thousand swords she bides Till her yron plates are hew'd off from her sides 104 Thus brâ—…athlesse and vnhaâ—…est fresh in breath And strong in armor Pyrrhus her inuades At these aduantages he knowes t is eath To cope with her quite scuered from her Maids His baleâ—…ull thoughts are spur'd with rage and death Close to her â—…ide in blood of Greekes he wades Blood sluc'st by her and naked thus assayles her Whilst a whole Campe of foes from safety railes her 105 After much warre th'Amazonian fals Whom Pyrrhus lops to pieces with his Glaue And â—…ing pâ—…-meale hew'd her lowd he cals To haue her limbes kept from an honoured graue But to be strow'd about the sieged wals She dead the Troians seeke themselues to saue By open flight her Virgins fighting dye Scorning the life to gaine which they must flye 106 Now Troy's at her last cast her succors fayle Her souldiers are cut off by ruthlesse warre Her Sea-ports hemd in with a thousand sayle In her land fiedge two hundred thousand are They close their Iron gates their liues to baile And strengthen them with many an yron barre After that day they dare no weapons weild Or front the proud Greekes in the open field 107 Aeneas and Antenâ—…r now conspire As some suppose the Citty to betray And with the Greekes they doome it to the fire But whilst the rich Palladium's seene to stay In Pallas Temple they in vaine desire King Priams ruin or the Lands decay Therefore the slye Vlisses buyes for Gold The Iewell that doth Troy in safety hold 108 Oh cursed Priest that canst thy selfe professe Seuere in habit but in heart prophane Would of thy name and Order there were lesse That will not sticke to sell their friends for gaine Who but that knowes thy Treason once would gesse Such treacherous thoughts should taint a Church-mans braine But many to the Gods deuoted soly In harts are godlesse though in garments holy 109 Whether by purchase or by stealth Heauen knowes But the Palladium now the Greekes inioy And by a generall voyce the Campe arose From their long â—…ege their ships againe t' inioy The Greekes vnto the sea themselues dispose And make a show to bid farewell to Troy But of this Stratagem what next befell This Canto will not giue vs roome to tell ARtimesia Queene of Caria and wife to King Mansolus she is famous for her Chastity the loue to her husband after whose death she made so royalla Sepulcher for him that it was helde of the Wonders of the world and of that all stately buildinges haue since then beene called Mansolea Camna a beautious maide borne in Galatia the wife of one Sinatus she was religiously deuoted to the chaâ—… Goddesse Diana whom her Countrey held in great reuerence whome when Synorix had often sollicited with loue but coulde not preuaile he treacherously slew her husband Sinatus and after inforced her to his Marriage-bed to whom by the vrgent instigation of her friends and the promotion expected by the greatnesse of Synotix she seemed willingly to yeild he perswading her that for his loue to her he wrought the death of her beloued Sinatus When before the Altar of the Goddesse they were to be espoused she drank to Synorix as the custom was a Bowle of Wine in which when he had pledged her shee told him with a ioyfull countenance that in that draught they had both caroused their deaths being extreamely ouer-ioyed that before the chast goddesse Diana in the face of so great a people she had iustified her owne Innocence and reuenged the murder of her husband which incontinently appeared for the potion being commixt with poyson they both expired before the Alter When Achilles was slaine in the Temple by Paris it is remembred of him that the Graecians could not purchase his bodie of the Troians till to ransome him they waighed them downe ass much Gold as poysed the body of Hector T is sayde that for his death all the Muses Nimphes wept exceedingly Rursus redempto pro altero cadauere Pâ—…r pondus Auris splendidi partoâ—…j ferent The Isle Boristhenes was called Achilleides of Achilles that was there buried besides it is Poetised of him that in the Elisian field after his death he espoused Medea Paris that slewe Achilles and was after slaine by Aiax was sent into Greece with two and twenty saile whence hee brought the faire Hellen. His Shipmaister or he that built his ships was called Phereclus Some thinke he pierst Greece first by the Commandement of Venus and hauing 〈◊〉 Hellen carried her into Aegypt where he first lay with her Others are opinioned that he bedded with her in Athens and had by her these foure Sonnes Dunichus Carithus Aganus and Ideus Others thinke he first lay with her in Cranae one of the Spâ—…rad Islands which when Paris had done almost by violense and after many teares sbed for the leauing of her Husband it is said that of her teares grew the Hearbe Helenium which if women drinke in wine it prouokes mirth and Venery Of Helena it is thus recorded Menelaus being dead after their returne to Greece for her former luxuriousnes she was expulsed from Lacedemon by her Sonnes Nicostratus and Megapenthe She fled to her Cozen Polixo the Wife of Tlepolemus who gouerned Rhodes where shee soiourned for a space but Polixo after remembring that her Husband was by reason of the Adultery of Hellen stain in the wars of Troy she came vpon Hellen suddainely as she was bathing her selfe amongst her Maids and hurriyng her vnto a
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