default that might his health impaer And Damsell quoth she for it seemes this houshold is but three And for thy Parents Age that this shall chiefely rest on thee Doe me that good else would to God he hither come no more So tooke she horse and ere she went bestowed gould good store Full little thought the Countie that his Countesse had done so Who now return'd from farre affaires did to his sweet-Heart go No sooner set he foote within the late deformed Cote But that the formall change of things his woondring Eies did Note But when he knew those goods to be his proper goods though late Scarce taking leaue he home returnes the Matter to debate The Countesse was a bed and he with her his lodging tooke Sir welcome home quoth she this Night for you I did not looke Then did he question her of such his Stuffe bestowed so Forsooth quoth she because I did your Loue and Lodging knoe Your Loue to be a proper Wench your Lodging nothing lesse I hild it for your health the house more decently to dresse Well wot I notwithstanding her your Lordship loueth me And greater hope to hold you such by queat then brawles I see Then for my duetie your delight and to retaine your fauour All done I did and patiently expect your better Hauour Her Patience Witte Aunswere wrought his gentle teares to fall When kissing her a score of times Amend sweete wise I shall He said and did it And your Grace may Phillip so recall But he whoso he was that thus had dubled Tales to cease Queene Maries griefe for Phillips guile as well had hild his peace Her no perswading might disswade from peâ—siuenes of hart Vntill that his Vnkindnes in her Deaths-Scene acts it part But howsoere or whatsoere her cause of death might seeme Her death did many a good mans life from Tyrannie redeeme For as in Passion so was she in Papistrie extreame And were not the abodement bad at her to end our Theame Our Cattell vnto stronger draughts we should and would vnteame But to the Head land shall our Plough vnles we breake our Beame Yeat ere we eare to it for it shall be our Holly-day Of somwhat sayd and somwhat scapt rests thus much by the way CHAP. XLIIII BEFORE we toucht little els what Courses hapt at home But now in few at forren Acts of Natiue Kings we rome Of Briâ—tish and of English Kings more famous than the rest This sparing Catalogue ensewes whose deedes we thus digest * Aeâ—eas Off-spring famous Brute did set from Greekish thrall Sixe thousand Phrygâ—an Knights by him did Guyan Guffer fall He conquering this Ile his Name vnto his Conquest gaue And of his Cornish Cambries men couragious yet we haue * Torkes Builder Ebranke that subdu'de the â—imbrians and the Gawles And built the best of Scottish Townes next in our Nomber falls * When Brennus and Belynus had Eight spacious Kingdomes wonne Had slaine two Consulls sacked Rome and matchles Armes had done And built ten Cities best that be in Italie this day Those Kinglie Brothers as must all their debt to Nature pay * Gâ—rgâ—â—nus slew the Dactan King wonne Tribute and the same Gaue Spanish Exiles Ireland whence our Scottish Nation came * Câ—ssiâ—â—lane did twice beate backe from Brittish Seas and Shore The worthie Coesar that but then was victor euermore And thirdly had preuailed but for Luds reuolted Sonne When as braue Nennius hand to hand of Caesar honor wonne * Guydar and Aruiragus wonne of Claudius Caesar spoyle The former in a second Field did sâ—out Vaspasian foyle * When as the wandring Scots and Pichts King Marâ—us had subdude He gaue the Liuers dwellings lesse than where they since intru'de * Constantiâ—s wedding Coyls heyre was Monarke of the West Who with this Ilands Scepter of Romes Empire was possest * Great Constantine that worthely a Worthie might be said The Brittish Romaine Emperour throughout the world obayd He made his Siege Bizantium that retaines his name ere since And made but so vnwitting marde the Priest of Rome a Prince * Maximian as Emperiall and as valerous as any With Brittish armour did subdue both Kings and Kingdomes many * What speake we of great Arthur of his Chiualrie or Court Precelling all sole President of vertue prow's and port A King of many Kings his Knights in all Exploits were seene He was in deede a Worthie and the Worthiest of the Neene * Fiue Crownes King Malgo prized * And in Battells fiftie fiue Against the Misâ—reants valiantly did King Alured thriue â—ollo whose Seede should conquer vs he hence did brauely beate That maâ—ger Fraunce in Normandie his Scythian Troopes did seate * He that re-monarchiz'd our Ile King Athelstone did slay Sixe Kings twelue Dukes and countlesse tale of Heathen in one day The one of Nyne his Knight Sir Guy we touch but by the way Omitting other Kings and Knights too long in few to say Of Brittish race a many and of Saxon Princes some Whose blood by Normaine Mixture now is tripartite become Oâ— For perhaps from such Consort the Brutes casseerd will be Three blended blouds of Nations three hath giuen vs Natures three The Saxon prowesse Danâ—sh pompes and Normaine Pollicee And of the Romanes and the Picâ—ts we are no portion small Foure of which Nations Scythia bred we thriuing in them all * KIng VVilliam Englands Conquerour from Rollo sixt with pray Of twice fiue hundred Townes in Fraunce vn-â—o-met sayld away * Henry the second vpon whom the Scotch-King tendant was Which Scots their often ouerthrowes we henceforth ouerpasse Who to our Kings Lords Parramounts not warres but vprores bring Spoylde Frauncè wonne Ireland and deceast of Iuda chosen King * Next Lyon-harted Richard he wonne Cypris Siria and Ierusalem debelling quite the Sowldan from his Land He skalde the strong Aegyptian Oste and king'd his Sisters sonne And plagued Fraunce and Austrich for the wrongs they had him don * First Edward made the Turks Sauoies the French Flemings treÌ„ble * The third so nam'd to them and moe did Mars himselfe resemble Whose Knights in 2. Richards dayes so tickeld France and Spaine And parts Lugdinian that no King but Richard seem'd to raine Ten thousand were his housholde Scotch digests we here disdayne * The fourth and * fifth of Henries were as actious as the rest Especially the latter was the formost with the best * Not yeat Fourth Edwards honor from his Ancestors digrest On these doo vulgar Eares and Eyes so brimlie waite and gaze As they distaske our priuate Penne notorious Laudes to blaze Our Catalogue omitteth some for Artes and Iustice good Some natur'de well aduised ill some worthie Laethe flood Not one fore-cited but deserues at least an Homers Muse Although with Agamemnons Vaile Apelles shift I vse But colours to that Painter Art vnto that Poet none So good to paint and prayse at ful our following Crowns saue one Since Tuders Seede Henry the Seauenth ariued Englands
Vpstarts and all Were ouercome So Spencers both from heauen to hell did fal Put to a fowle and shamefull death with others that misled The King in Out-rages more great than earst in England bred Prolers Blood-thirstie Parasites Make-shifts Bawdes did thriue Nor was an ancient English Peere vnbanisht or aliue For forraine and domesticke Swords Plague Famine and Exile Did more than tythe yea tythe the Tythe of men within this I le Of Baldricks Hoodes Tabrides and Furres from Knights disgraded tore Attaintures of Nobilitie and Armes reuersed store So many Spurres hewen off the heeles and Swords broke ouer head Were through a King so light and lewd a Councell neuer read The King in prison and depos'd tyrannised he dide By Trecheries of Mortimer that ruld the Roste that tide Whilst Edward in Minoritie his Fathers throne supplide CHAP. XXVIII THIS third of that same Name as yet in Nonage for a time Although a King was vnder-kept by some that ouer-clime Queene mother proude Mortimer familiar more than should Did and vndid more than they might not lesse than as they would Till Edward better counselled hong Mortimer the death Of many a Peere who Earle of March and haughtie for his birth Was Lord of nine skore dubbed Knights his other traynes except For greater pompe than did his Prince this Lord of VVigmore kept But more he had bene happie though lesse hautie in his Halls More honour in humilitie than safetie in walls Proud Climers proue not monuments saue onely in their falls The senselesse pride of Fooles therefore whome reuerently we ride Should lessen at the least because that earth their earth shall hide The Countrie purg'd of Fleecers and of Flatterers the Court The King became a Mars for Armes a Iupiter for Port Th Olympâ—ds the Pythea and the prowesse of the Earth Did seeme euen now and not but now to haue in him their birth East South and North gaue ayme farrc off admiring so the West As if that Mars discarding them had set our Realme his Rest. Philip Valois Dauid Bruz of power and courage more Than any French or Scottish Kings since or of long before Confedrate with three other Kings and Princes farre and neere Warre all at once on Edward but did buy their warring deere Dauid debelled left his land but lastly did returne And whilst our King did war in France much did he spoyle burne And proud of mightie Troopes of men of vnresisted prayes And Edwards absence prosperously he on aduantage playes Vntill not sending hence for helpe the Queene did muster Knights And with the Foe though tripled-wise victoriously she fights The Scots for most did perish and their King was Prisner taine And Scotland wholly for a pray to England did remaine Meane while was Paris scarcely left to rescue Philips Goale Whom Edward ferrits so from hold to hold as Fox from hoale That Melancholie he deceast and valiant Iohn his sonne Was crowned King of France and then the wars afresh begonne But after many fieldes vnto the Foes continuall wracke The French King captiuated to the English Monarke backe His Victor sayles the Prince of VVales Edward surnamed blacke The flower of Chiualrie the feare of France and scourge of Spaine Wheare Peter dispossest of Crowne was crownde by him againe Fower yeeres the French eleuen yeres was the Scotch K. prisners heere Whose the Dolphines ransomes were as great as good their cheere PRince Edw. Iohn of Gaunt all their Fathers sonnes might boaste Of famous Sier and he of sonnes matchlesse in any Coaste Howbeit King and Prince at last misled by counsell ill Through Taxes lost a many hearts that bore them earst good will Thence finding Fortune contrary to that she was before Yeat either dying seaz'd of French and Scottish Conquests store Yea Callice late and Barwick yet of their Exployts is lest Though Sonne before the Sier and both of liues long since bereft When Barwick was besieged and stood brauely at defence Sir Alexander Seiton theare chiefe Captaine had pretence To linger forth the Siege till Scots should draw the English thence In rescue of Northumberland and therefore sent his sonne A Pledge of treated Truce and when the guile-got Truce was done And Barwick not releeued nor resigned as it ought Two sonnes of Seiton were before the walls besieged brought They ready for the Iybbet and their Father for his Graue For eyther he must yeeld the Towne or them he might not saue In griefe he then his Countries cause and Childrens case reuolues But partiall vnto either he on neither Choyce resolues To be a loyall Subiect and a louing Father too Behooued him but both to bee was not in him to doo Nature and honour wrought at once but Nature ouer-wrought And but his Ladie it preuents to yeeld the Towne he thought O what pretend you Sir quoth she is Barwick woorth no more Than error of such loue I ioy that I such Children bore Whom cruell Edward honoureth with such a cause of death For that especiall cause for which we all receaue our breath Euen for their Countries cause they dye whose liues for it be dewe Why see their faces constantly she did their faces viewe The same my Seiton seeme so farre from dreading any woe As if they skornde that Barwicke should redeeme them from the Foe Full deere they were to me vnborne at birth and borne and now And Mother like I moane their death and yet their death allow Moe Sonnes and such you may beget your honour if you staine Defected honour neuer more is to be got againe Preuent not then your selfe your Sonnes and me so great a blis Adiew dye sweet Sonnes your soules in heauen shall liue for this With such perswasions did she win her husband from the walls And Edward executes their Sonnes and to assault he falls So long that Barwicke yeelds at length and still vs master calls THese were the dayes when English armes had eu'rie where request And Edw. knights throughout the world had prick praise for best Not Knights alone but Prelates too Queenes whereof were twain The quondam in esse Queenes by Armour honour gain By Warre the Queene that was did cease her husbands tragicke Rayn And by the Queene then being was the Scotch King Prisnet tayne It followes then that as the Pawnce doth circkle with the Sonne So to the vice or vertue of the Prince are people wonne O that our Muse might euermore on such a Subiect ronne But Vulcan forgeth other Tooles and sharpneth deadlier swords For little els then ciuill warres our following Penne affords French Expeditions badly thriue whereof we cease to speake Not forraine but Domestick warres grew strong to make vs weake Melpomen here might racke her wits Sylla Marius hate Pharsalian Fields were gentle Frayes regarding this debate The second Richard sonne vnto the blacke Prince Edward dead Was crownde an Infant and from him the Stratagem was bread The bace attempts of Ball
tickles too no blab she thinks the Bush. Thus whilst she thinkes her Sister Nunne to be a merrie Lasse The Wanton did disclose himselfe and told her who he was Away the Virgin would haue fled whom he withhild by force Thy loue sweet Nymph hath vrg'd this shift wel worthy thy remorse He said nor scorne with me a King to ioyne thy selfe a Queene Or doe but loue and I will liue in Phoebes Celles vnseene And theare in beds in bushes heere My fainings fit so well We may enioy what loue enioynes and none our scapes shall tell She would not loue he could not leaue she wrangleth and he wooeth She did resist he did persist and sport denied dooeth That done which could not be vndone what booteth discontent As good bee pleas'd as not be eas'd away Calisto went To Cloyster Iupiter to Court nor much she did repent Vntill her growing wombe disclosed an ante-cedent fault Then in the Chapter house she told of Iupiters assault Diana and her virgins all admyring that escape Did gird at her maligning Ioue for such his subtill Rape And who more ready to controule then Athalanta was Whome shortly Meleager brought vnto the selfe same pas The Lady Abbesse did discharge Calisto from her Cell And silly Nymph she great with child some other wheare must dwell Pelasgis it was Iupiters and he her cause of blame The King her father in exile her selfe in this defame What then remain'd euen secrecie to hyde her selfe from shame Keepe close quoth she frō world ye woods mine error Ioue his crime And setling theare in simple Caue did waite her childing tyme. At length was hairy Arcas borne no sooner could he go But that his wildnes eiked to his wretched Mothers wo. No beast so strong that he would shunne and man he neuer sawe Nor yeat his vexed mother could from fearcenes him withdrawe Long time the daughter of a King she liued thus in Caue Not wanting griefe but wanting all that poorest wretches haue And worst of all her sauage sonne whose manners did agree Vnto his birth-place howerly threats his mothers death to bee And angrie once pursued her so long from place to place That euen into the Citie gates he followed her in chase The people when they did behold so fayre a nimph in flight A Beare-like Arcas in pursute for being naked quite His skinne was swart and hairie they did wonder at the sight And some that would his passage stop he rudely casteth downe And spares no spoyle vntill the sight was noysed through the towne Then out came Iupiter in armes whom when Calisto knewe Helpe Ioue she cryde for loe thy sonne his mother doth pursue He knewe his Leiman at the first and ioyed of her sight Then kisse they when the Sauage boy by force did leaue to fight Calisto liued Ladie like yea Iunos Riuall now And Arcas nobly mannaged such vertues him indow That Ioue consenting him for King Pelasgis did allow A Sonne well worthy such a Syer and for his prowes and fame Pelasgis then of Arcas tooke Arcadia to name BVt neither might these Ladies faire by any pleasant tale Or dazeling toye of masking loue sweet Consorts to preuaile Disswade outragious Cacus from vnpatientnes of mind Who in his greatest tyrannies did chiefest pleasures finde He sleas the harmles Passengers from eldest soule to childe He burnes and spoyles the neighbour parts and women he defild And to his Caue Troponius Caue did bring the spoiles he gaines In which except to doe more harme he secretly remaynes Whilst none did passe that did repasse vnspoyled or vnkild None knowing how all Italie with feare thereof was fild But lo an helpe when Hercules had slaughtered out-right Tenne Giants of Cremona Kings and put the leauenth ' to flight From thence the worthie did ariue with his victorious band At King Euanders Cittie that by Auentin did stand Amongst a many richer Spoyles though none to him so rare He brought a sort of Spanish kine Euander taking care Because the like misfortunes oft had hapned theare before Least Hercules should loose his kyne of which he made such store Gaue counsell that within the walles they might be kept all night And better to approue his words with teares he did recite The murthers thefts and cruelties without compassion made Vpon his subiects and their goods by whom could not be said But that the Gods for so they gesse for sinne them so inuade I am resolu'd quoth Hercules wheare Gods do vengeance craue It is not strong or fensiue walles that any thing can saue My Kyne shall therefore grase abroad if mortall man it be Then know a tyrant is my taske his blood the Taskers fee. The Cattell grasing then abroad as was his vse alwaies The Gyant left his cruell Denne to seeke his cursed praies The Moone not wanting of her light the Kine he did espye And knowing them he also knewe his feared Foe was nye And far much better feare had bin then malice at that tyde But hardly shunneth policie what destinies prouide He might haue lurkte a while in Denne but of a peeuish spight Eight of the Kine with fastned cords by pollicie and might He dragged backward by their tailes into his diuelish nest Then stopping vp the subtill hole did laye him downe to rest Now Hercules the rather prickt by King Euanders talke Into the fieldes to see his Kine by prime of day did walke Where missing eight he could not gesse which waie they shuld be gō A many therefore had in charge to search them out anon The Searchers following euery signe great store of footings found Descending from Mount Auentine into the lower ground But for the footings did descend and not ascend they thought Of no such cunning as in deed in Auentine was wrought Alcaeus Grand-sonne searching long the Thefts he could not finde Was much disquieted in himselfe and angrie in his minde And chafing when he should depart he twise or thrise did shake A Tree that grew on Auentine which rooted vp did make So large a vent that one might view they hollow caue belowe And Cacus with his Leash of wiues they were disclosed so Whome when the Greeke espied theare O gracelesse King he said Whose Tyrannies haue made the Realmes of Hespera afraid Whose cruelties haue been the cause of al the losse thou hast What moueth thee in Italie to prosecute such waste Thinkste thou whom neither mightie Realmes nor royal Gards of mē Could late defend now to escape inclosed thus in den The iust reuengment of the Godds no no the Heauens we see Haue brought to light a wretch so lewd euen by a senceles Tree And since that neither wealth nor want to goodnes may thee win A greeuous death condignly shall cut off thy grounded sinne To it did Cacus answere thus doest thou pursue me stil Who onely art the chiefest cause of these my doings ill Not suffering me to liue the rest of mine vnhappie daies Among the fruitlesse Rocks a
wretch in miserie alwaies Cease further prate said Hercules in troth it greeueth much To see a King in this Distresse but since thy life is such As neither in aduersitie nor prosperous estate Thou canst afford one iot of good I purpose to rebate Thy wicked dayes by worthy death prepare therefore to dye When Cacus sawe he must perforce so harde a combate trye He by inchanted flames againe endeuored to flye But Hercules deluded once by that deuise before Had learned now for being so deceiued any more And casting feare aside did leape into the flaming Caue And theare by Arte did conquer Arte. The Gyant then to saue Himselfe did take his Axe in hand wheare Hercules and he Couragiously bestirre themselues vntill they did agree To trye it out in open ayre So doubtfull was their fight That Lookers on could not discerne to whether best should light The frighted Ladies did their best to helpe their fighting friend But Hercules had victorie and Cacus had his end CHAP. XII FOr Gyants of Cremona slayne and Cacus ridded so The Latine Princes prayse on him and presents did bestoe Wheare Rome is now Pallantia then Euander hee did frame A temple and to Hercules did dedicate the same And he intreated thereunto in Italie did stay To honor whome did Princes come from farre and euerie waye King Faunus had affaires abroad when from Laurentum came His wife Marica Facua some this louely Queene doe name From liking did shee fall in loue with Hercules and he More readie to haue made demaunde then like to disagree Conceauing her by circumstance so coupled by contract That had King Faunus neuer liu'd Latinus had not lackt Yeat home came Faunus fathering his late Corriuals act But whether gotten lawfully or thus in loue forbod Latinus Brute his Gran-dames Syer was sonne vnto a God WHilst that in loue of this same Queene and lande of all besides The vanquisher of Vulcans sonne in Italie abides Of Calabries a mightie host King Picus he prouides And in reueng of Cacus swore his Slayer should be slaine But he ere long that so did sweare vnsweared it againe When chased home into his holdes theare sparred vp in gates The valiant Thebane all in vaine a following fight awaites Who for dispatch did fayne himselfe a Legate to the King And him the Porters as the same before their Tyrant bring Then shaking off his ciuil robes his shining Armes appeare And renting downe 〈◊〉 â—roâ— sparre both Prince and people feare Some ran to Armor other some did fight with him their last Both court and Cittie in the end did lay vpon him fast Theare Picus worthely did winne of valiantnesse a name Yeat Hercules more valiantly by death did Picus tame And to attend their King his ghoste he sendeth flocke by flocke His furie was as fier to Ferne his foes as waues to Rocke Nor did his Lyons Spoyle giue place to darting or to knocke Meane tyme his men assault without whil'st he assayles within Wheare fighting to beate downe the Gates he so the Goale did win Within the King his ransackt Court he Iole espyes Whose teares then mounting froÌ„ her hart dismount theÌ„ froÌ„ her eyes King Picus now a lifeles corse was Father of this Mayde In vaine therefore did Hercules her pensiuenesse disswayde Nor could he but lament her fate and loue so sweete a face Whose person also did containe the type of female grace At first she was so farre from loue she rather seem'd to hate Yeat could she not so giue the Checke but that she tooke the Mate Then eithers loue was eithers life poore Deianira she Was out of commons yea of thought an other had her fee. WIth this so faire and portly wench he sayled into Thrace And heares how Diomedes did tyrannize in that place No Straunger scapes vnraunsomed but Raunsome wanting then He casteth them as prouender to Horses eating men A Garde of Tyrants like himselfe attending on him still Who richly did maintaine themselues by such their doings ill The Scourge of such was moued not to be remoued now By Iole whose louing teares such labours disalow With Diomedes and his Garde in Forrest did he meete Who with their common Stratagem the Stranger thinke to greete Hands of commaunded Hercules for Horse I am no hay All Straungers Raunsom once for all my comming is to pay Which sayd himselfe against them all began a noble fray The sturdie Thracians mightie men did hardly loose their ground But than the King a mightier man not any wheare was found These all at once assayle and strike and thunder on his Sheeld But number fitted to his force vnwonted so to yeeld For with his club he skuffles then amongst their Curets so That speedie death was sweeter dole then to suruiue his blo Well mounted comes the King himselfe whom he dismounts anon But reseued to his Horse againe away he would be gon Lesse hasâ—e he sayd I Harts out-runne noâ— shalt thou me out-ride Out stripping so the man-feade horse he topled ore his side The Monstrous King that resculesse to flying people cride Who lying all to frusâ—hed thus the sonne of Ioue did bring His cruell Iades that soone deuoure their more than cruell King The Thracians all submit themselues and ioye their Tyrants death And thinke some God had left the Heauens to succour men on earth From such as what they would they will and what they will they can And what they can they dare and doe and doing none withstan Nor thought they better of the man then did his deedes approue That neuer was a Conqueror vnto his owne behoue But to establish vertuous men and Tyrants to remoue This common Soldiour of the world with Iole did land In Lycia and the earth in peace discharged theare his band Sweete busses not sharpe battels then did alter man and minde Till he as others sorrowe in securitie did finde From Assur went the Empire then when Tonos he had time To court his Trulles Arbaces so espying place to clyme Secure in Tomyris her flight was valiant Cyrus slaine From Capua not from Cannas grewe braue Hanibal his baine The same to whose victorious Sword a second world was sought That Macedon in court not Campe to traytrous end was brought A louer not a Soldiour went Achilles to his graue And Caesar not in steele but silke to Rome his farewel gaue Euen so this second vnto none superior vnto all To whome did sooner Causes cease then Conquests not befall This monster-Master Hercules this Tyrant-Tamer hee Whose high Exploytes did leaue the earth from spoyl spoylers free In pleasures did he perish now that did in perils thriue A greeuous Taske I vndertake his dying to reuiue CHAP. XIII WHen Deianira vnderstood her busbands back returne She thought it strange that he froÌ„ her so strangely did soiorne Explorers sent to search the cause returne was made that he Did loyter in a Strangers Loue and Iole was she That euer hanged at his lips and hugged
Vnto Ixeon stood their Sprights that had their lusts for law Rebellants to a common good and sinning without awe To Titius lastly ioyned Ghosts whose hearts did emptie hate As Todes their poyson growing when it seemeth to abate About flie Apples Stones and Tubs the wheele was tumbled downe The Vultur girds no Ghoste but had at least a broken crowne This skufling and confedracie in hell made such a reare That wontles of such braules and blowes Proserpine did feare But Pluto laughing told his Bride to Ela it was Fa To morrowes dinne should prooue that same to be a ciuill day In peace these were their practises on earth and here in hell Saue that their Soules haue neuer peace we finde them as they fell They worke to me each of these fiue though dailie count I aske Doe newlie number Million Soules whose torments is their taske The Queene of such not free of fear replied thus againe And yeat me thinks that Pluto should haue pittie on their paine He lowers and Feast with Fray had end and drinke did euery soule Of Lethe who their ioyes forgot euen yet in torments houle Nay Pluto must be Pluto still and so I will quoth he For this same onely day the Ghosts indebted are to thee For as the like shall neuer come so neuer like befell But henceforth all yea Prince and Pope shall euer find it hell So dreamed one but ouer-long on fantazies I dwell CHAP. XIX THe Cosen of great Constantine in Rome and here succeeds Betwixt the Brutes the Scots and Pichtes continuall trouble breeds And long the reg'ment of this Land the Romanes did inioy Transmitting Captaines euermore as Foes did here anoy But Rome it selfe declined now and Brutaine was opprest No longer were the Scottish Spoyles by Romaine Swords redrest Then ends the Tribute then began new troubles worser farre Then Tribute for the Scots and Pichtes inferre consuming warre The Brutons vnder Rome secure as men that did relie On others were disabled now by Martiall meanes to trie The fame of fight but Captainelesse confusedly they deale And giue a wretched instant of an headles Common-weale And whom so many Romaine Peers grand-Captaines of such might Of whome nine Emperors themselues in persons here did fight Could hardly foyle were fronted now euen of a barbarous Foe And at the point a wondrous change their Country to forgoe Such fruit hath ease such pollicie did serue the Romaines turne Who waining Martiall minds themselues the quietlier here soiorn The Brutons thus dispoy'ld of Armes and courage in effect Of Prince of Captaines and aduise their busines to direct Dispatch their Legate to the Land Diminutiue in name To Brutaine where the Legate thus his Ambassie did frame The back-slide of our helplesse friends the down-fall of our flate Our lacke of Prince of people and our wealth not now as late The sauage dealing of our Foes consuming outs and vs Is cause right mightie King that we approach thy presence thus Not for we are in blood allied or that whil'st Fortune smil'd Your Ancestors had rule from vs not for the Dames defil'd At Cullin who withstanding lust for it did loose their liues That els to Conon and his Knights had liued noble wiues We are emboldned in our suit though all of these might mooue But for our former wants O King and for thine owne behooue Great Brutaine doth submit it selfe thy Subiect if thou please Or els dispose it at thy will Prouided we haue ease Against such Foes as would not saue our liues to haue our Land Whom to conclude except thou helpe we neuer may withstand The King Aldroen pittying much the cause of his Allies Arm'd thence his brother Constantine a Captaine stout and wise He chasing hence the Scottes Pichtes with glory wore the Crowne And through his vertue stayed vp a Kingdome sinking downe WIthin a while did Vortiger the Duke of Cornewalle raigne When Constans Sonne of Constantine he traitrously had slaine The Scotts did ruffle then anew nor did the King affye In Brutones for they hated him and reason had they why And Saxon Fleetes from Germanie in Armor here arriue Through whose support the King in wars against the Scots did thriue The Foe by Hengest foyled thus he and his brother git The chiefest credit with the King but few gaine-saying it Necessitie of Souldiers here so well for them did fit And Hengests Daughter intertain'd King Vortiger so well That to misliking of his wife and liking her he fell And sotted thus in forren Loue did wed the Saxon Wench Which wrought vnto the Saxons weale but to the Brutes offence For whatsoere the Queene did aske the King would not deny Vntill his Subiects ran to Armes and made the Saxons flie They putting downe the Father then did set vp Vortimer He poisoned by his Stepdame they restored Vortiger With this condition that he should no Saxons intertaine But Hengest hearing from the Queene that Vortimer was slaine And Vortiger his Sonne-in-lawe re-kinged did resaile With Saxon forces though with fraud not force he did preuaile For thus by pollicy he did the Brutons circumuent He craued Parlie as a man that were to quietnes bent The place appoynted Parlantes him in simple meaning meet Farre from their Armie all vnarm'd whom Saxon Traitors greet With deadly wounds by hidden kniues held the King with them Confounding so the Brittish Oste. Nor cease they to contemne Both Christian rights and ciuill Rule subuerting either twaine And what they would of Vortiger through feareâ—ull threats they gaine And plant themselues in Southfolke Kent and elsewhere at their will And ruffling runne throughout the Land oppressing Brutons still The King and Brutons fled to Wales and Feend-got Marlin theare Bewraied more then I beleeue or credit seemes to beare As shewing how the Castell worke rear'd daily fell by night By shaking of two Dragons great that vnderneath it fight With other wonders tedious if not trothlesse to resight Aurelius Ambrose brother to King Constans murdred late From either Bruton hauing aid wonne so the kingly state And ere that Hengest or his Sonne stout Octa he subdew'd First to reuenge his Brothers death he Vortiger pursew'd In vaine the Welsh wild Mountaines fence the Flier from his Foe Or Gerneth Castell when as flames throughout the buildings goe In midst whereof the wretched King did end his dayes in woe THe Brutons thus had peace a while till Vortigerus Sonne And Gutllamour the Irish King in new Conflicts begonne Whom whil'st that Vter valiantly in VVales to wracke did bring His Brother Ambrose did decease and Vter then was King What Vter did by Marlins Art in compassing his will Vpon the Wife of Garolus transfigured by skill Into the likenesse of her Lord on whom he got a Sonne Renowmed Arthur or to name the Acts by Vter donne Were much and needlesse onely note he was a valiant Prince But such as was his noble Sonne was not before or since Yeat blazing Arthur as haue some
Kings oppresse the mightier ones the weake Each trifling cause sufficing here their loue and leagues to breake One seazeth of his Neighbours Realme and is disseaz'd ere-long For Empire some for Enuie some and some to right their wrong Contend vnto their common losse and some like Monsters rain As Sigâ—ert who for tyrannie did banishment sustaine He wandred vnbewailed long a man whom men exempt From house and helpe pursuing him with capitall contempt Forlorne therefore with drouping lims and dropping eies in vaine He frendles walks the fruitles Woods and foodles did complaine A Swineheard meeting him by chaunce and pitying his estate Imploy'd the Westerne King vnknowne on his affaires to wait Nor did the needie King disdaine such roome for such reliefe An vnder-Swineheardship did serue he sought not to be chiefe But when by speech and circumstance his Maister vnderstood His seruant was the somtimes King blood cries quoth he for blood My giltles Master in thy pompe thou Tyrant diddest slay Nor vnreuenged of his death thou shalt escape away With that he tooke a Libbat vp and beateth out his braines And dead so odious Tyrants be not one for him complaines NOt all so ill yeat cause of worse vnto the English state Was Osbert of Northumberland his loue did winne him hate Enamored on Lord Buerns wife as tired in the Chace He left the Hounds and with a fewe dismounts at Buerns Place Her husband absent heartely his Lady entertaines The King and feasts him Royally not sparing cost or paines But he that fed on Fansies food and hungred whil'st he eates Thought Venus sparer in her loues then Ceres in her meates The Trayne and table voyded then he taking her apart Directs her by his tongue and teares vnto his louing heart Delay he sayth breedeth doubts but sharpe deniall death Or do not long surcharge my blisse or soone discharge my breath For if my praiers adde no edge vnto thy begged doome The vintage of my thriftlesse loâ—e is blasted in the bloome Be fauorable to my fire for thy sweete sake be bolde I durst attempt euen Hell if hell so sweete a thing might holde Doe thinke her coie or think her chaste my Censure I suspend Some Women yeeld not at the first yeat yeeld they in the ende She gaue repulses to his lust and he replies of Loue Not all the Writs Diana had might Cupids Plaint remoue She countermaunding his demaund he ceased Courting now And did with her by violence what vertues disalow And then departed leauing her in selfe-conceit disgraste More trespassed then some would thinke and yeat perhaps as chaste Home came her Lord whose browes had buds and found his wife in tears And foolish thing she told a troth for which reueÌ„ge he swears But so the man did proue a beast he better might haue hid it Some such are mistically domme yeat domly doe forbid it His Wiues escapes done secretly if by the man detected Shewes hilled buÌ„ps supposed buÌ„ps meerehornes not hornes suspected At Denmarke in his Cosins Court he telleth of his wrong And gaines against his soueraigne Lord of Danes an Armie strong Hungar and Hubba and himselfe Conductors of this Hoast Did with their forren forces land and spoyle the Northerne Coaste The vicious valiant Osbret that had vanquished ere then The King and Kingdome of the Scots though wanting armes men Thought skorne his foes should beard him so bar him vp in walles And therefore issuing out of Yorke vpon the Danes he falles A Bloodie Bargaine then begonne no fight might fearcer be And of the Danish part were slaine for euery English three But manhood lost and number wonne the Danes they got the fielde And Osbret dyed valiantly that not to liue would yeeld MEane while the Danes with fresh supplies ariue at euerie Shore And warre almost in euery shire infesting England sore With whome couragious Etheldred contended long in vaine By them was he King Ella and the holy Edmund slaine Nothing was done but all vndone till King Alured hee In daunger of his Royall selfe did set his subiects free For euery day in euery place the Danes did so increase That he nor any English King enioy one day of peace Nor mightier men at Armes than they might any wheare be found Who in their diuers Wars els-where did diuers Realmes confound For as the Gothes the Vandales Hunnes and Saxons earst did range So now the Danes did plague the world as sent by interchange This Westerne and victorious king and greatest Monarke heere Perceiuing of this spoyled Isle a toward Ruine neere Disguised like a Minstrill poore did haunt the Danish Tents And with his feats and melodie the Enemie presents And of their sloth their gluttonie and Counsels priuie so He tooke aduantage giuing them a sodaine ouerthrow And sâ—ayeth Hubba Hungar and the Cause of their repayr And putteth all to sword and Seas that vnbaptized wair Yeat to Northumberland return'd fearce Gurmond with the Danes Meane time did king Alured die the Hatchet of their Tranes But Adelstane one king betwixt not onely clear'd the Land Of Danes but of all England had sole Empire in his hand Thus of this long dismembred Realme was he the onely King In which till Egelred his raigne did prosper euerie thing He raigning much of England then the Lordly Danes did hold Exacting Tributes euery yeare and selling Peace for Gold And which no doubt did hatch those Plagues the King a wicked one Did enter by his Brothers blood extorting thus his Throne King Edgar that subdu'd the Scots and slaughtered the Danes And of the VVelch had tribute Wolffs of whom it more remaines That as it were in Triumph-wise Eight Vnder kings did roe Him Sterns-man on the Riuer Dee with diuers honors moe This Edgar by a former wife had Edward by an other This Egelred a Sonne vnto a kind and cruell Mother For as she labors to preferre her owne by well and ill So to destroy her Son-in-law she wanted meanes not wil. And meanes did hit King Edward hunts and hunting lost his Traine Whom man-les at her Castle Corfe the Queene did entertaine He hauing seene to whom he came in curtesie to see Made haste away in Quest of them that still a hunting be And when he mounted should depart to him his Stepdame drinkes Whom pledging him an Hierling stab'd life-les downe he sinkes Thus Egelred obtain'd the Crowne but for his crâ—wing so His Subiects grudge and he became a Preface to their woe For when this proud and vitious king was neither lou'd of his Nor liued safely for the Danes his secret Edict is That sodainely in one selfe hower throughout the Land should passe charge A common Massaker of Danes which so performed was Hartfordia VVelwyn VVealth-wyn then for promptnesse in that Beginning other Townes as it themselues from Danes inlarge CHAP. XXI THis common muâ— her of the Danes was common mirth to all The English whom they did oppresse with slaueries not small Compelling meÌ„
liue To fault is then their murdrous fact that first defect doth giue He had not faulted or I falne hadst thou hild faith to mee Ah little feele we in regard of Plagues prepar'd for thee Thus sayd he and for thus he sayd I for the ruth of this Did vow that who so once were mine I would be onely his Well Madame quoth the Gentleman be this so or a shift I see to frustrate my demaund is honestly your drift Then so or not so or what so you shall inferre of this It matters not Perkin is yours and be you onely his For sooth to say weare all saide false it were indeed a hell To haue a Loues-Coryuall and as none could brooke it well So none should aske and none should yeeld to alter loue begun Therefore sweet Ladie I conclude such il is well vndun Mine amorous sute hath here an end and would you might preuaile With Perken too that proudly striues to beare too high a sayle So may you if perhaps you haue for him so apta tayle As this you tould to me for mee although more hardly trew As this which I shall tell that doth include a morall view Of matter worth the note for him the rather tould by you Then heare it for our leisure and the order of my Q CHAP. XXXVII SVppose for so must be suppos'd that Birdes and Beasts did speake The Cuckooe sometimes lou'd the Owle and so with her did breake Then flew the Owle by day so did the Cuckooe all the yeare So did the Swallow and the Batte but howe it hapned heare The Cuâ—kooe by the Swallow then the Swallow was his Page Did send the Owle a sucking Mouse a tydie for the age The Bat the Bat then seru'd the Owle preferd the Bringer and The Present to her Mistres sight that in her Tod did stand My maister to your Owleship quoth the Swallow sends by me This Modicum desiring you to take the same in gree The Owle that neuer till that day had tasted flesh of Mouse Had quickly lopte a Limbe or two and feasteth in her house The Swallow with a cut see of her then disgorged wheat When talking of the daintie flesh and elswhat as they eate The Bat then waiting at the boorde fetcht sighes a two or three The Owle did aske the cause And doe you aske the cause quoth she Why thus I sigh when thus in sight my kindred murthred be My selfe was sometimes such and such am still saue now I fly With that she freshly wept and thus proceeded by and by A fresh quoth she now comes to minde mine Auncestors ill hap WhoÌ„ pride made praies to Kestrels Kites Cats Weasels BaeÌ„ trap My Grandsier for wheare Nature failes in strength she adds in wit Was full of Science But insooth he misapplied it The Weasell Prince of Vermen though besides a vertuous Beast By shrewdnes of my Grandsiers wit his Holes with hoords increaste And seem'd to conn him thankes whoÌ„ none besides had cause to thank For Princes Fauors often make the fauored too cranke Not only Mice but Lobsters Cats and noble Vermen paide In comming Coram Nobis for some crime against them laide But God it is a world to see when purposes be sped How Princes hauing fatted Such are with their fatnes fed The Weasel seru'd my Grandsier so and euery Vermen laught To see himselfe in Snare that had in Snares so many caught Now also liue some wylie Beasts and fatly do they feede Mongst Beasts of chace birds of game with lesse then needfull heed My Graundsier dead my Father was in fauour nerthelesse Nor did his Father more than he for high Promotion presse And though I say it long time he deserued fauors well For quayling Foe men and at home such Vermen as rebell And for the same the Weasell did him mightily preferre But Honors made him haughtie and his haughtines to erre I will be plaine he waxt too prowd and plotted higher drifts Than fitted him or fadged well for who haue thriu'd by shifts Nor will I say because his sonne he wrong'd the Weasell but The Weasell died and that that did succeede to shifts he put For which his Fathers Fortune did oretake him at the last Such fickelnesse in earthly pompe which flowing ebs as fast This double warning might haue iâ—kt vnto my wit but I Did follow Kinde Nay more I did importune Dis to fly And he did giue me these blacke wings resembling him that gaue the A proper Gift and hardly got to shame me now I haue them But know yee Dis some Pluto him or Limbos God doe call Or aptlier said in Hell of diuels the Chiefe and Principall And somwhat now of him and how I changed say I shall I hapned on a Cranny whilst my Mouse-daies lasted which I entring wandred crooked Nookes and pathes as darke as pitch Theare hauing lost my selfe I sought the open aire in vaine Both wanting foode light and life well neare through travels paine The Moole by chaunce did crosse my way and as ye know her smell Supplies her want of sight and serues her purpose full as well I heard a tracting sownd and skar'd my haire did stand vpright Nor could I see or fly but feare and blesse me from a Spright She had me hild me questions of my being theare the cause And in meane while peruseth me with fauorable clawes I was about to pleade for life when she preuents me thus Ha Cosen Mouse what Fortune giues this meeting heere to vs. Feare not my Sonne I call thee Sonne because I loue thee much Doe hold thy selfe as merry heere as in a Pantlers hutch What know'st not me or see'st thou not with that she leadeth me Into an higher roome wheare her to be mine Eame I see I did my dutie and my heart was lightned when mine eie Encountered a friend whereas I made account to die Before me sets Shee Viands and my stomacke seru'd me well And hauing fed my Grandsiers and my Fathers ends I tell For She enquires for them ere I acquaint her what befell The reuerent Moole then sighing said ah let no Vermine thinke That Fortune euer fauors or that friends will neuer shrinke I did fore-smell their lostie flight would cost them once a fall And therefore Cosen see thou be forewarned therewithall Heere seest thou me I tell thee though I prise not Gentry now Thine Eame and of the elder house that long agoe did vow My selfe a Recluse from the world and celled vnder ground Least that the gould the precious stones and pleasures here be found Might happen to corrupt my minde for blindnes did I pray And so contemplatiuely heere I with contentment stay Admitte the Weasell graceth thee the more he doth the more The other Vermen will maligne and enuy thee therefore Himselfe perhaps will listen to thy ruine for thy store Or thou thy selfe to mount thy selfe maiest runne thy selfe a shore That Vermen that hath reason and his owne Defects
Throne NOr superstitiously I speake but H. the letter still Might be obserued ominous to Englands good or ill First Hercules Hesione and Hellen were the cause Of warre to Troy Aeneas Seede becomming so Out lawes Humbar the Huâ—n with forren Armes did first the Brutes inuaide Hellen to Romes Emperiall Throne the Brittish Crowne conuaide Hengest and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this I le Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed heere long while At Harold had the Saxon ende at Hardiknought the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Raine Fourth Henrie first to Lancaster did Englands Crowne obtaine Henry litigious Lancaster and Yorke vnites in peace Henrie the Eight did happelie Romes Irreligion cease The Father of our Mother Nurse our common Ioyes increase Which double H. and H. H. heere our homely Poemes Lee He saue that salueth all our sinnes And God voutsafe thou me A prosperous Course in sayling through the Ocean deepe and large Of her now-Highnes Scepter for I heere assume that Charge TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD SIR GEORGE CAREY Knight Baron of Hunsdon c. THough late I wright too soone I wot I heere Occasion take May this to none wish I but me Retreate to Sorowe make Both to remember Hiâ— We meant our Penn-Lee tore-use As to trans-patronize from him to you mine orphant Muse. Not one aliue that shall not die thrise happie then the same That as your Noble Father shael suruiue them selues in Fame Both Epitaphes and Elegies his Ghoste hath many an one Alas what can I say not sayde or more than moend him mone Not matter more than much nor more for â—ruth than matter skante Or lesse of Glorie than of both would to his Poet want But were a Non-plus of his Praise all were but this in grosse His Good to his owne Soule is Good his Death to vs is Losse What should I adde his auncient Creasts and noble Petegrae Such as that Henrie Primer of you Hunsdon Barons bee Your Lordshippe to your Countrie Prince and such in high Degree And such as you when you are not succeed the Careys blood In stiil-Descents and than this wish how may I wish more good My Syrinx sounded first to you and may eare long anewe Bâ— you Mecaenas also to this Poesie doth ensewe His had it been had he yet been that had the rest which now Yeelds humblie yours if it for yours your Lordshippe shall alowe Most humblie your Honors William Warner THE NINTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XLIIII AVert your eyes and eares all yee that enuie her the fame Of more renowmed Regment than our fluent Thoughts can name Yee that conceite such Poemes as more learned not conceaue Reade not the rest but silently euen at this line doe leaue Ridled Poesies and those significantly flowe Differ in eares as doe in mouths the Apricock and Slowe Phisitians bylles not Patients but Apothecaries know Some moderne Poets with themselues be hardly inward so Not intellectiuely to write is learnedly they troe Whereby they hit Capacities as blind-man hits the Croe. Nor Those not These feare thou my Muse but mildly sing the prayes Of these our present times lesse grosse than those of elder daies Our world hath made it course that as the Moone doth wax waine From gold to siluer then to iron and now to golde againe Of whose faire-cured Leaprosie from former twaine to golde For in a Quintessence was all eare Gods worlds-curse of olde The vndeluding Alcumist is that Elizabeth Whom English yea and Alients hold a Goddesse on the Earth Elizabeth by Peace by warre for Maiestie for Milde Inriched feared honor'd Lou'd at wel meant Toyes hath smilde Let then Mnemosines controule as well they may our Muse We shall such grace wheare we transgresse for Supersedias vse Phoebus thine humbled Phaeton this second boone doth aske ' That thou wouldst giue and ioyntly guide to with me thy Taske Infuse Apollo too into thy selfe thy selfe in me Yeat then our mightie Subiect threats will much omission be But what implore I Fictions that I well imploye my penne Eternall God say thou which thou all-only canste Amen When Iupiter and Arcas yong the Sier and Sonne had clos'de Saturnus in Italian Hell not to be baylde suppos'de Then Proserpin blacke Dis his wife inlargd the Wrangler thence To vex her Sister crosse her Siers and Brothers sownd pretence Then she euen she whom Cynthia some and some doe Pallas call Yt skils not whether Eithers lawdes doe aptly her befal By Saturne Dis and Proserpin giltles molested longe Vnto the God y'clip't I-Am thus motioneth her wronge O mightiest Mightie that of nought createdst all that is And gauste to Man thy noblest Worke him selfe and all for his And saue Obedience didst impose on him no other Fine And disobaying didst redeeme his Losse with decrest Thyne Which selfe same Thyne and still same-Oures I also intercesse For thee professing being wrong'd to haue at length redresse Scarce this was sayd when thus ensewd the Three weare rapted hence Saturne and Dis confinde their Hells Proserpin her offence Growen through Mis-Guides Veniall perhaps we censure in suspence And faire lou'd feard Elizabeth heere Goddiz'd euer sence For me to wreste from Hercules his Club as easie weare As in the Ocean of her fame with choysest sayles to beare That fraight y t with the IndiaÌ„ wealth may more then much coÌ„pare Yeat how th' Italian Feends did freat and hetherto inuaye Against thy glory gracious Saincte weare ouerlong to saye But he that of a Prisnor thee so great a Prince did frame Thy louing and beloued God to thee is still the same King Phillips-selfe so doting on his Pope-created Crewe That he it suffring his owne Son and heire those Locusts slewe Because they feared he would proue vnto the Gospell trewe Euen Phillip now that raketh hell for rascall brybed Skomes To ridde thee hence indignities that badly him becomes Once had thee then not hauing power to doe thee any harme It is the worke of God let Rome vncursse let Spaine vn-arme That thou art Queene to plant his word when we could hope it least When Ours all the Kings had cast their Crownes before the beast When greedely the Preists of Baal did for thy ruine gape Thou didst vnharmde the Lyons denne and firie Ouen escape Euen theÌ„ when Tryumphs were in hand bells ronge bonfires made Because Queene Mary of a sonne deliuered was said Euen then I say God mortifide that womb to bring to passe That vnto thee his Queene-elect no Issue letting was That soone Religion and our Realme might welcome wished peace Maiest thou the Cause thereof suruiue long after my decease But if it be his will to whom are all Euents fore-knowne That Papistrie shall in our Land againe erect her Throne Let Spaniards or what Tyrants els be Masters heere so thay Take also with our Land our Liues and rid vs out the way For not they only die but die in
Vnwilling though by what Presage I wot not Dauid seem'd Of Ammens going but what Fate ordain'd hath none redeem'd Go did he wheare full merily he frollicked that tyde When by his Ostes Attendants there of sudden Wounds he dyde Which after Bar quet did their Lord for onely him prouide More skar'd than hurt the other Sonnes of Dauid flead with speede Yeat eare their home-returne the King had notice of the deede And feared much their safetie till them he saw and then Was such confused sorrow more was neuer seene among'st Men. To Geshur Absolom escapes three yeares an Exile thear Till Dauids kinde relenting heart to Ioah did appeare By meanes of whome recalled home he lastly purchast Grace Yea well-appay'd was Dauid if weare Absolom in place Lou'd neuer Father more a Sonne than him his Father lon'd Prou'd neuer Sonne vngratefull more than he vngratfull prou'd For hauing stolne the Peoples hearts by affable Pretexts He faines his vowes at Hebren but the Diadem affects And by collected Forces theare distressed Dauid more Than S 〈…〉 le the Cananites or all hap't after or before Enforcing him to flie the Land But dwell we not of this God neuer fauor'd such Attempts or euer sayled His. When Dauid seem'd in common Sence already on the hip Was Absolom himselfe ore-throne whom God made ouer-slip What wisely false Achitophel had counseld him to doe Whose Counsell not receau'd he hong himselfe and worthie too Ambitious Absolom now foyl'd as on his Mule he flead Was carried vnderneath an Oke wheare caught-vp by the head EueÌ„ by those bewtious Locks of which him such praise is read He sighte and cause he had and said or say he might that All Which so vniustly seeke to clime most iustly so doe fall But whatsoeare he thought or spake this holds autenticall We thinke no greater blisse than such to be as be we would When blessed none but such as be the same that be they should Had one Man all that all Men haue he nothing had vulesse He also had a Soule that All as nothing did possesse Natures Mynion Eyes Admier and now in-ayred Earth For hanging Ioabs ruthles speare had vented vitall breath Although the King his counter-maunde should haue contraried so Effected had his Fathers heart no Substance else but woe So kinde and ouer-kinde was he in mouing such a Foe But thus of this and thus to him this following Crosse did groe CHAP. LX. TO epilogue our Tragedie now Adoniah acts With whome olde Dauid to depose euen â—oabs-selfe compacts Yeadiuers Captaines did reuolt and with the Sonne rebell Which not a little greeu'd the King that lou'd the young-man well Who next his brother did for forme and soly now excell Remayn'd but Salomon and he and he the elder Sonne Too forward yeat to practise Rule eare Dauids Raigne was donne But what God meaneth is Amen The Scepter was behight To Salomon and Nathan mou'd the King to doâ— him right Who aged caus'd his Diadem to roâ—alize the head Of Salomon annoynted now which heard the Rebel flead So haue we seene not yeares farre-past long-Plottings ouerthrone Euen in a trise to day a Queene to morrow lesse than none Such was her Fate but not her Fault that stoode for Maries Throne Nor cite I this A Noueltie like Pul-backs many an one Repentant Adâ—niâ—â— now vnto the Altar flies 〈…〉 thereof which one that it espies 〈◊〉 vnto Salomon that sent to fetch him Thence Which wâ—uld not be till swore the King to pardon his offence Whom◠〈◊〉 we now so pardoned or rather in suspence â—or though a Kings Competitor in one same Land may liue â—eat take he heed the sleightest cause a cause of death doth giue Which hapned him eare hapned this inserted by the way Dauid decea'ste in Salomon was sole and sou'raigne Sway When 〈◊〉 to prolong his life did at the Altar stay Euen he that in so many Brunts for Dauid did preuaile That saue for Adoniah now Allegiance neare did faile That saue for sheaded blood of twaine could none impeach of wrong Euen this grand Captaine of the Hosts a luckie Knight so long Hand-fasting now the Altar clames that Priuiledge in vaine For thence he would not and the King commaunds he thâ—are be slaine Which Warrant did Banaiah serue And so this Worthie died For Abner and Amasas blood like-Worthies and as-tried With Adoniah now remaines we act and ende our Sceanes To whoÌ„ might seeme small good was meant what il soere he meanes Wheare crowned Might crossed Right so neere together dwel Behooues that Forrest-flying Feare whereof the Fox did tell Our factious Lancaster and Yorke thereof could witnes well Abisag Dauids Hebe that in comfort of his Age Attended him at Bed and Boarde when naturall heate did swage Howbeit still a Virgin and the goodliest Wench aliue Enamours Adoniah at the least with her to Wiue He drifteth not detayned but for Salomons consent Of which he moued Bethsabe for which she Sutor went To Salomon that thearewithall was onely not content But also tooke occasion hence of more perhaps than meant â—â—naâ—ah by the Kings Commaund did Adontah slea For Cryme perhaps perhaps because a Crowne might come in Plea For Salâ—mon diuinely wise could Subtellizings sound That much the Maâ—d knew Dauids mind that Many she had bound Whilst gratious earst with Benefits her Kinred strong he found That â—oaâ— and Abiatâ—ar weare on his Brothers side That his aspiring sleepes nor must be slept the King espide Or else-what Adoniah was dispatched out of hand So sped his Suâ—e so was confirm'd to Salomon the Land If Others otherwise not I as others vnderstand Nor better Meede for Merits could these Dauidists alleadge Yeat did their Father eate the Grapes that set their Teeth on edge Then charitable godly-wise and continent weare fit Should Parents be So prosper they Theirs and whom Theirs begiâ— Of Scotland quieted by our Queene and France by her kept French Is toucht Of Belgike long selfe-vaind rests how the blood doth steÌ„ch CHAP. LXI THe Inquisition threatned wrought in â—etherlanders feare And Signes of altring Regment in their ancient State appeare As ful-fead Children with their Foode by Peace this People play Till in world-matchles Wealth did them Securitie betray They hearing what King Philip meant against their State did minde What in the Fables Morall of the Stock and Storke we finde For in the Ladie Regent and her Brother Philips Corse Their hearts presaÌ„g'd like diffâ—ence 〈◊〉 twixt Rigor and Remorse Arm'd was the Duke of Alâ—â— who by warres by wiles by 〈◊〉 Shuld coÌ„quer circuÌ„uent coÌ„sume those Lands their Lords the Good These to haue his sufficed not the Spanish King vnlesse He Monarchize their Land their Lawes and Liberties depresse The other Part their Consciences and Priuiledges pleades Nor other cause than only thus to Armor Either leades For There else-Where and euer Spayne when Spayne wold Scepters lurch Concludes for Spayne though euer Spayne begins for holy-Church No Armie was as yet
ariu'd when as the Belgies send To Philip their Submission and their Loyaltie defend If ought were done contrarie to his Edicts as indeede Weare some too busie Protestants did order-les proceede They did transpose that Fault vpon those Innouators rude Protesting all that Subiects should and humbly too they sude Vouching his Father Vncle Kings and Emperors of old Who let their Liege-men diffring from their own Religion hold To suffer Consciences in them to God-wards vncontrold For which and for their Charters did they offer Masses large And euermore to vndergo all Truage Taxe and Charge But Theirs to alter quite in all was it that Philip ment To plague therfore those seauenteene Shires was war-flesht Alua sent This like a pleasing poysning Aspe to act as he did arme At first Ariuall Pardons did for passed Crimes proclaime That tractable kind People so he to his bent did frame Who wear not then by hostile Meanes men easily to tame He thus of them possest did then by she Degrees surprise Their Townes puts Garisons in them built Cittadels likewise Inducts the Inquisition and strange Imposts did deuise Cals pardon'd Crimes in question faines the Guiltles to offend And thus an Aspe and poysnous more prou'd Alua in the end For why ambitious men seeke get possesse and practise State With restles minds by fawning Meanes enuide in haughtie rate This priuiledged Prouince and this Paradized Earth Thus stripped of her golden Fleece and faintly drawing breath Was phisickt of Elizabeth who with her English Balme Then much the poysnous biting of that Spanish Aspe did calme Euen Pittie preaching thus to her that Nature is reuerst When as her selfe is not amongst her owne Consorts disperst She to that Countries Father to that honorable Knight The Prince of Orange armed then in Christ his cause to fight And for his Countries Weale permits first Voluntarie Aides And lastly when that neighbour Fier too neerly her inuaides And their extreame Oppression did her Charitie inuite By Ambassies Spayne often mou'd to doe the Belgies right Howbeit touching Peace in vaine she franklier friends their Cause Who were inforced to defend their Faith their Liues and Lawes Against their Soules and Bodies foes and which might all perceaue Our cause was handled then in theirs then theirs were ours to leaue And which had often ayded vs in many a Field and Fleete In ancient Loue with Burgundie to breake was thought vnmeeâ—e How thence tyrannous Aluâ— was reuoked all too late When pitiously declined was their flourishing Estate Ere which Oppression where the King had countles Profits thence Now Ownes he nothing there not held with infinit Expence The Slaughters Sackings Mutinâ—es the Kings Vice-Gerents sence How Horne EgmoÌ„d CouÌ„ties braue through Aluas Athisme spead How Orange through our Soueraigns Aids preuaild how lastly dead How Anioy also through her Meanes became that Peoples head How now her Highnes only-selfe next God doth them secure Her valiant Warriors there whose Laudes might special Pens allure And here mean-while should ours saue that I cannot but deuine Their Chiualrie to be reseru'd for higher Muse than mine To which though some we leaue yeat by their leaues of some is sayd Themselues they haue misgouern'd and their Companies beâ—rayd Some More regard of Tents and Trash in their Retreats haue made Then of our craised men may such Conductors low be laide And some too ruthles rioteus and of their Charge râ—misse Haue starued vp in number moe than Foe-slaine number is Thus some of some report perhaps not true in all as told But somewhat somewhere faulteth for no fier no smoake be bold To be officious getteth Friends plaine Dealing hated is Yeat better plainly to reproue than fainedly to kisse We cannot also loue our Friends and flatter their A-misse How these and thus-like passed Thear we ouer-passe it heere Note in our Queene Religion wrong'd it selfe did euer cheere And whear the Spanish Nimrod hunts in Monarchie to hold All Christendom through God that Drist she chiefly hath controld Nor did nor doth nor shall it need that thus to her be told Who would to God but works no good who seeketh fame by ease Comes short of both no lesse than Mappes to very Lands and Seas Not only thus but in this while her Fleetes haue oftentimes Set prosprously her Men on Shore euen in the farthest Climes WheÌ„ce haue they brought by fayr CoÌ„merce great riches to our Land Or glorious Spoyles from such as did their peace or Prowse withstaÌ„d Of which shall be digested here the Progresse in some parte Though stately be the Subiect and too slender be our Arte. THE ELEVENTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. LXII INexplicable Nature by the God of Nature wrought Makes things seeme Miracles to some by some not Wonders thought And euery Climates People both as they are Men and liue Do differ nothing if obseru'd She not admir'd doth giue The VVorkman rather than the VVork extoll we though in her Not curiously and all things to his Prouidence refer VVho reades Sir Iohn de Mandeuil his Trauels and his Sights That wonders not and wonder may if all be true he wrights Yeat rather it beleeue for most now modernly approu'd Than this our Storie whence suppose he was to Trauell mou'd Not contradicting though such Pens that write perhaps more trew That Pennance him to Pilgrimage hence of Deuotion drew Of noble Parentage and rich was Mandeuil exact To whom nor Feature Actiuenes not Peoples fauour lackt A Ladie of the royall blood Third Edwards Cozen say her On whom for rarest Raritie might Arte-spent Nature stay her Inamours him who held it sinne if ought he should omit Might please and prize his Ladie coucht in Courage Coste or Wiâ— But quite it quail'd his hopes to thinke he strain'd to reach a Starre Oft Reason therefore did with Loue Loue did with Reason warre She is too high and what of that it hath thinks he bin seene As High haue stoopt as Low For Loue right-labourd wins a Queene And can I hope that Beautie which is Adamant to all Yea Beautie Natures Iuy-bush each Passenger doth call But should she loue Foole that I am to hope that should despaire Such Births as she not else must loue but as they licen'st are Yeat were it Mandeuil she lou'd mislike it then that list Our vertuous Loue else-where as here should render vs as blist O would she loue it should suffise such not of vulgar Moulds WhoÌ„ once she blesseth with her Loue for him she Sooth-fast holds The only vertue of which Loue all other Lacks controules Such were his Ebbes Floods and down although in Loue he sits Yeat fearing Death and her disdaine his Heart deuour'd his Fits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not meanly passionate he fared not as those Whose melancholy Fooleries be Pylots to their Woes Alreadie was he gratious both with her and all the Court And more to be did exercise Armes and each actiue Sport Nor was he Stoicall in ought but affable in all
was indeed a wonder for this Virgin so was bent To Chastitie that by selfe-death she Marrage did preuent Here Mandeuil perhaps had bin and tooke occasion heere To feare least Flenor in like might imitate too neere Euen Toyes in Loue discourage Loue froÌ„ Toyes resumeth cheere Of him therefore whilst Ienkinson rests at his Iornies end With Obdolowcans Sonne that on the Sophie did attend CHAP. LXVIII SO Knightly Mandeuil demeanes himselfe against the Foes Of Melek Mandibron that he in Aegypt famous groes And of himselfe that Soldan did to Mandeuil commend A greater Match than els his Thoughts with hope could apprehend For vertuous beautious Birth Wealth a Match for none to meÌ„d This Ladie also of the blood and heire vnto her Father A mightie Prince in those same Parts he courteth now the rather To intermit that home-bred Loue which seaz'd on him indeed As for to proue how such as he with such as she might speede And there experimented here to cease or els proceede Fye Mandeuil how good so ere thy Merits otherwise In making Loue vnmeant thou didst thy selfe but mis-aduise Though thou could'st buzze about the flame keepe vnskorcht thy wings Few safely play with edge-Tooles sin to iest at holy things With women made for Men therefore soone won yeat edging Sute With Marrage praisde enough in him did first it institute With Women who when all was made and Man of all possest Yeat lacketh Man an Helpe sayd God and Man with Woman blest With marrage that legitimates our Propagation and Two Hearts in one transplants in all befalne or taine in hand With women that no lesse attract our Senses them to leeke Than Hunger for to labour Foode or Anguish Ease to seeke VVith Marrage that preferreth vs and stayes vs in content Vnanimieth weale or woe as either vs is sent In Nature Women Marrage by Tradition either twaine So sacret and autentick as we naither should profaine To trifle then or Them or This were not so slight a sin As that thy Vertues Mandeuil would fault think I therein But for she was a Pagan and thy selfe a Christian theare And she the Soldans Tender thou didst forme a Loue for feare For that thou should'st reny thy Faith and her thereby possesse The Soldan did capitulat in vaine the more thy blesse For than a VVoman euermore the Diuell tempteth lesse Yeat that they tempt not theirs but ours the sinne for if I see And steale a pretious Gemme the Gemme faults not the Theft in me Howbeâ—t when to actiue and to passiue loue it groes And VVomen then shall alter them as Diuels then suppose And like of Men if Men alike shall Reputation lose This faire Aegyptian Ladie of the English Toy in this To wit in forward Loue to whom the farthest Commer is Might easly haue bin wonne of him not at an easie rate If to his Faith a Recreant had Miscrent bin his state But he immoueable aswell in Faith as former Loue Did there so well as he from thence with honor did remoue On Elenor he still deuisde yeat sometimes to allay Those Moodes by mustring in his mind these thoughts did thus assay Full soone the fairest Face thought he would cease from being such If not preserued curiously with tendring more than much Or age at least and that not old so alters it that was That Helen did disclaime her selfe for Helen in her Glas. That great Phisition that had liu'd in health an age admirde Did answer askt the cause not he had done as Flesh desirde Then Mandeuil bethinks him of the Labyrinth of Cares Incumbring married Men and neer that life and loue forswares How tedious were a Shroe a Sloy a Wanton or a Foole All foure a-like threatning Mislike when time should Dotage coole How seldome Women come vndow'd with one or some or all Or answerable Faults to these to men not Crosses small The Flattries and the Fooleries whereby are women wonne With fishing long to catch perhaps a Frog when all is done And all that Sexs Infirmities his Thoughts did ouer-runne But like as Mothers beate their Babes sing them when they crie Loues Incantations so did he with Malice such defie The Amorous with the sea-Crabs gaet doe angring Amours flie This humour and the honor by this Knight in Aegypt wonne Ore-passe we and in Persia see what Ienkinson hath done CHAP. LXIX AT Casben hild the Shawgh his Court who thirtie yeares and odd Had not been seene abroade thereof by Prophe sie foâ—bodd Like Maiestie he kept as those great Monarchs did before The Macedons subdewed them of Wiues he had like store Besides most bewtious Concubines not lesse than fifteene score And yearely of the fairest Maides Wiues doth make new choyce When much the Friends and Husbands of those chosen doe reioyce Him blesseth he to whome doth he one of his Relicts giue Yeat Persian Shaughs esteeme themselues the holiest Kings that liue For when a Christian whom they call an Infidel because He not beleeues in Mahomet nor Mortezalies Lawes Is cal'd to audience least the same prophaine wheare he doth stand Must doffe his Shooes and to and fro treade on new-sifted sand Our Soueraignes Letters to the Shaugh so Ienkinson presents Who being ask't his arrant said those Letters like Contents But new-made Peace with Turkie him of new-sought Trade preueÌ„ts The Turkish Marchants fearing least their Traffique might decrease Had by that Basha mard his Mart that then had made that Peace The Shâ—ugh did also question his Beleefe and quarrell it So well appaid is â—enkinson if well away he git Whome with our letters to the Turke the Shaugh to send was bent Had not the Hyrcane Murzey Posts vnto his Father sent And Obdolowcans Letters then disswaded that intent When with a Present for himselfe he Thence to Hyrcan went And theare did him the heart-trew King most kindly intertayne And thence dismisse with Gifts when he no longer would remayne Nor onely his Ambassadors vnto his care Commends But moment of that Ambassie which he to Mosco sends There now suppose them well ariu'd and bringing gratefull newes Of waightie Messages whearin the Mosick him did vse Conuenient time he nerethelesse for Persian Trade attends Which Arthur Edwards thither sent succesfully theare ends This Edwards and a many here vnnam'd deserued well In these Imployments but of All weare tedious al to tell For sauing of Discouerers we purpose not to dwell Els would we here reuiue but that through Hakluits Pen they liue To him your Fames sweet Trumpetor Yee English Garlands giue A Catalogue of Names that in this North and Northeast Clymes Haue more obseru'd and more deseru'd than perish shall with times Nor be my Father here forgot for he amongst the rest Deserueth in this Generall remembrance with the best And here from out those churlish Seas with Ienkinson we sayle To London theare an aged Man to tell this youthfull Taile How he had past All Europe seene all Leuant Ilands and
we commend Well wotring Acts heroick and great Accidents not few Occurre this happie Raigne here-hence of purpose blanched vew Nor Perpetuitie my Muse can hope vnlesse in this That thy sweet Name Elizabeth herein remembred is And this hope I doth bode me good that very day wherein Was finish't This did of thy Raigne yeare Thirtith nine begin May Muse arte-graced more than mine in Numbers like supply What in thine Highnes Praise my Pen too poore hath passed-by A larger Field a Subiect more illustrious None can aske That with thy Scepter and thy selfe his Poesie to taske Thy Peoples Prolocutor be my Prayer and I pray That vs thy blessed Life and Raigne long blesse as at this day An Addition in Proese to the second Booke of ALBIONS ENGLAND contayning a Breuiate of the true Historie of Aeneas ACcept him friendly Reader where he is not where he ought and as he speaketh not as he should Misapplied he is not for Matter precedent howsoeuer the penning or misplacing may like or mislike for the English or Order Rather hath my Remisnes borrowed of Decorum and your Patience than that a Patriarke of our Brutons should be abruptly estranged Of Aeneas therefore it thus followeth Aeneidos WHen the reuengefull Flames of Trâ—y properly called Ilion then the principall Citie of all Asia had perfected the more than Teâ—ne yeares Siege of the Grecians expugning of the same then Aeneas howsoeuer by some authorities noted of disloyaltie towards Priam in this not vnworthily surnamed vertuous burthening his armed shoulders with his feeble and most aged Father Anchises that laboured also vnder his loade of the Troian Gods and sacred Reliques Aeneas as I say with such his Burthen leading by the hand his Sonne Ascanius of the age of twelue yeres followed not only of the beautifull Creusa his wife the Daughter of King Priam but also of a many Troians participating that common calamitie brake through the wastfull Flames mauger the wrathful Foes into the fields of Phrigia Theare the Aire emptied of down-burnt Turrets and filled with smoake of fired Buildings assured froÌ„ their hearts more teares to their eyes than the benefit of their present Escape could promise them comfort Trâ—y therefore not to be rescued or Creusa in this businesse lost and perishing to be recouered Aeneas and his Followers imbarking themselues in Simois after long weary Sea-faring arriued in a part of Thrace called Cressa bounding on Mygdonia Here Aeneas purposing an end of his tedious Saylings and not meanly furnished of Treasure conuayed from Troy laied Foundation of a Citie after the Founder called Aenea This Citie going forward lesse effectually than was expected Aeneas supposing the Gods to bee yet opposite to the Troians knocking downe a milke-white Bull pitched an Altar to doe Sacrifice Neere at hand were growing diuers shrubbed Trees the Boughes whereof for the greater reuerence and exornation of the present Solemnitie he cutting and sliuing downe perceiued blood in great abundance issuing from the broken Branches whereat long admiring and with great terror and deuotion intercessing the Gods to reueale the meaning of that miraculous Accident at the length he heard a pitiful feeble voice for diuessly in those daies did the Diuels answere and giue Oracles thus answering Reason were it Aeneas that the Graues of the dead shuld priuiledge their bodies from the tyrannie of the liuing but by so much the lesse doe I esteeme my preiudice by how much the more I know thee vnwittingly iniurious Thou Aeneas in these Braunches thou tearest the bodie of thy vnfortunate Brother-in-law Polydor Sonne to the likestarred Priamus Troy as yet was only threatned not besieged when my Father as thou knowest deliuered me with a world of Treasure to Polymnâ—stor the barbarous King of this Countrie here daungerles as he pretended to abide as the Conseruor and Restauration of his House and Empyre whatsoeuer should betide of him his other Issue or the Warres then beginning but the Greekes preuailing Auarice and the declining State of Phrigia imboldned my Gardein fearles of Reuengers to the murthering of me which he traytrously accomplishing on this Shore secretly raked me vp in these Sands without honor of better Sepulcher and of my body so hath it pleased the Gods and Nature are sprong these Branches in tearing of which thou tormeÌ„test me Howbeit in respect of my desire to profit thee by foretelling of thy Destinie I account mee happily harmed For know Aeneas that in vaine thou doest build where the Gods deny thine abode leaue therefore these defamed Coasts and prosperously plant the Remaine of Troy and thy Posteritie in the fertill Italian Clime The voyce thus ceased to speake and Aeneas without further touch of the forbidden Shrubs continuing his feare finished the Sacrifice after the Phrigian fashion solemnlie held an Obit to the Ghost of his murthered Kinsman THen by this admonishment he and his Troians leauing the new reared Citie disanker from Thrace in quest of behighted Italie But no sooner had they put to Sea theÌ„ that the windes and the waues sollicited a Poeticall fiction by the wife of Iupiter so tossed and turmoyled the disparkled Nauie that the horror of the circuÌ„stances coÌ„tinually threatning their liues left onely hoped-for death as the remaine of all comfort At length these instruments of their long wandrings and the causes of Anchises of many noble personages there perishing couÌ„terpleaded as is fabled by Venus tossed their distackled Fleet to the Shore of Libya Neere to the place of their arriual stood the beautifull Citie of Carthage which Elisa whom the Phaenicians for her magnanimious dying did afterwards name Dido had newly builded Aeneas by safe-coÌ„duct receiued froÌ„ her repayring thether found such royal entertainemeÌ„t that in respect of the present solace he had forgotteÌ„ al passed sorrowes his hart-spent Troians found bountifull supplies to all their late endured scarsities In the meane while Aeneas for personage the Iouilist for wel-spokeÌ„ the Mercuxilist no lesse fortunate vnder Venus her constellatioÌ„ with his comelines so intised the eyes with his speeches so inchaunted the eares and with his vertues so enflamed the heart of the amorous Cathagenian Queene that hardly modesty discented that her tongue affirmed not the loue which her eyes outwardly blabbed and her heart inwardly nourished In the end not able longer to containe such extraordinary Passions in this order she vented the same to the Lady Anna her Sister My trusty Sister quoth she then sighing out a pause how many great Princes since the decease of my late husband Sichaeus and our departure from Tyrus haue in vaine laboured a marriage with me hath been vnto thee no lesse apparant than of me hitherto vnapproued but now haled on I know not by what destinie our new-come Guest Aeneas the Troian whose matchlesse personage and knightly prowesse I partially commend not all confirming of him no lesse than I can affirme the same euen the same hath supplanted my chast determinations of continual