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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03250	Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy A poem deuided into XVII. seuerall cantons, intermixed with many pleasant poeticall tales. Concluding with an vniuersall chronicle from the Creation, vntill these present times. Written by Tho: Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1609 (1609)	STC 13366; ESTC S119729	272,735	468

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 ch●…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 no●… 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 ●…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 ●…arth that breedeth Though reasonlesse her tender young ones feedeth 45

got from him discended Bright Danae of whom we now intreat Whose beauties fame is through the earth extended Acrisius iealous of his Fathers seat To Egipt hies and there his prayers commended Offering large quantities of Gold and Wheat At the God Belus his great Grandsires shrine Of his faire daughters fortunes to deuine 72 This answere he returnes Away be gone Thou sonne of Abas Danae forth shall bring A gallant boy shall turne thee into stone And after thee in Arges raine sole-King Acrisius now hath turn'd his mirth to mone From whence his ioyes should grow his sorrows spring His hoped Issue and successiue heire Late al his pleasure now is all his care 73 He intimates that from her wombe shall rise A gallant boy that shall his Grandfire kill And Arges Crowne by force of armes supprize He sweares the maid shall liue a Virgin still And to preuent his fate doth straight deuise A Tower impregnable built on a hill Strong of it selfe but yet to make it sure He girts it with a treble brazen Mure. 74 The guiltlesse Lady wonders at the state Of this new worke not knowing why t is built To see sharpe Pynacles themselues elate So high towards heauen the Arches richly guilt Huge Marble collumnes to support the gate In euery place rich tinctures largely spilt The Tarras with white Iuory pillers rail'd And the Crosse-ebon bars with guilt stoods nail'd 60 It seemes too strong for pleasure and for warre It shewes too neat but now the worke is ended Who that beholds it shining from a farre But with admiring thoughts the worke commended The nearer you approach the more you are Inflam'd with wonder not a staire ascended But of white Marble not a doore but Brasse The windowes glaz'd with Cristals not with glasse 61 All things prepard the King will Danae carry To view the Tower she giues it due with praise He thus proceeds Child thou shalt neuer marry But in this place of pleasure end thy daies And in this brazen circuit euer tarry The Lady starts and thinkes too long she staies In that loath'd place which now to her appeares No Pallace but a dungeon full offeares 62 And asking why she must be kept a slaue Or how she hath deseru'd so strict a doome To be so young put in her Marble graue For what 's a Prison but a liuing Toombe Or for what cause she may no husband haue But liue an Ancresse in so strict a roome Knowing her selfe a Princesse ripe and sit Wrongd as she thinkes not to be married yet 63 Acrisius tels her what great Belus spake When hee with Orisons kneeld at his throne That from her wombe the world a sonne should take That shall his Grandsire change into a stone She interrupts him and thus scilence brake Oh would you be eternall liu'd alone And neuer die What would Acrisius haue More then an heire to lodge him in his graue 79 Did you not into stone great Abas turne And Abas to his Father Linceus so Their funerall trunkes to sacred ashes burne O're which their monumentall marbles grow Oh Father no man can his Fate adiorne Shall these your eyes be closed vp by a Foe Or can you deeme your owne bloud shall betray you Who are more fit within your stone to lay you 80 What you did to your Father let my sonne Performe'to you successiuely succeed Your Fathers glasse is out yours must be run Leaue then your Crowne to one of Abas breed In vaine quoth he we cannot thus be wun To alter what 's vnchangeably decreed Here shalt thou liue but royally attended Like a bright Queene and from a King descended 81 So leaues her guarded with a troope of Mayds And envious Beldams that were past their lust These with rewardes and threats the King invades In his high charge to be seuere and iust But most the Matrons fittest for such trades Rather than wanton wenches he dare trust Louers may Louers fauour Crones are past it and enuy but not pitty those would tast it 82 So doth the full-fed stomach meate deny Vnto the famisht So the Drunkard spils Wine in aboundance which would cheare the dry Cold age the appetite of hot lust kils Danae thy beauties fame is sounded hie Mongst many other Kings Ihoues eares it fils He loues her by her fame and longs to see her Nor are her thoughts at peace before he see her 83 A thousand bracelets Iewels Pearls and Rings With gold of sundry stamps the King prepares And hauing readied all these costly things In a poore Pedlers trusse he packs his wares So hies to Danaes Tower loue gaue him wings Hope sometime cheeres him sometimes he dispaires At length arriues there in an euening late And fals his rich packe at the Castle gate 84 Where two leane wrinkled Crones stand Centinell To giue the watchword to Acrisius guard Appointed straight to ring the larum Bell If any man once neere the Castle dar'd The Pedler askes who in that pallace dwell Or how they call the place Hast thou not heard Of Danae quoth the Beldam looking sower Whom Arges King closd in this-brazen Tower 85 He viewes the place and finds it strongly seared Not to be won by armes but skal'd by slight I came from Creet quoth he and was intreated Heere to deliuer tokens of some weight From great king Iupiter their cold blouds heated With hope of gaine they cheare their age-duld sight And with a couetous longing earne to view What precious knackes he from his Hamper drew 86 A thousand seuerall Trinckets he displaies If this be Danaes Tower quoth he then these Belong to you the Crones his bounty praise And in their hands two costly lewels cease The younger Ladies now are come to gaze Not one amongst them but he seekes to please Some Gold some stones some Rings some Pearles he gaue And all haue something though they nothing craue 87 Blear'd with these gifts their charge they quite forget And euery Ladies e●…e dwels on her prize Comming fore Danae she beholds them set With sundry brouches sparkling in her eyes And asking whence they had them they bid fet The Pedler vp who hath of fairer size Brighter Aspect and for a Queene to weare In worth not to be valewed yet not deare 88 Danae commands him vp he glad ascends And through their brib'd hands freely is admitted Euen to her chamber Gold thy might extends Beyond all opposition the best witted Thou canst corrupt diue through the hearts of friends By thee are wal'd Townes entred skonces splitted By thee are armies swayed Camps ouer-runne Children the Fathers spoile and Sire the sonne 89 No wonder then if Gold the Pedler brought To enter where besides him no man came Behold the Goddesse this great King hath sought Oh how her bright eie doth his soule inflame Pearles Iewels Rings and Gold he sets at naught yea all the world if valewed vvith this Dame Variety of costly gems he shewes her And makes her of them