bring me so in hate How daintely his eyes endure so bace an Obiects view How desperatly doth he conclude and threatneth me and you Well barke he byte he bragges nor blowes shall dare me to defend A Challenge wheare so braue a Prize stands for the Wagers end Nor thinke vaine-glorious that thou art me lesser than a King Or greater than by sute or sword to prize so rare a thing Vpbrayd me not with banishment nor Belyns quarrell touch Nor yeat my petite Signorie nor more than troth by much These present nobles knowe the cause for which I hether come Not as an exile but for ayde and they assure me some Then knowe the cause is honest when their Honors giue supplies As capable are they of troth as thou art apt for lies My bothers Kingdome seemes forsooth an Ouer-match to mine My Kingdome Cutlake therefore is an vnder-match to thine Nay giue and so I hope ye will the Prize to me and than Let Cutlake with his Crowne of Danske vn-crowne me if he can Then he disabling me to make a Ioynter happelie With Denmarke such a Ioynters want if wanting should supplie But neither haue I such a lacke nor holde I such a loue As that her Dowrie not in quest before her selfe doth moue He harpeth as himselfe would haue that maketh loue his Staile Els would he sue in milder sort and suing feare to faile For Ladie see your Louers Plea your loue saith he is debt And if not words nor worthines then Armor shal you get Braue words and fit to feare not feede a courted Ladies vaine But say he cannot wowe in print but Soldior-like and plaine Nor I in sooth more loues my heart than can my tongue explaine Conclude we therefore Souldior-like and let a combate yeeld Vnto the hardier of vs twaine the honour of the field If not then if my Lords so please or she thereto agree Although thou should'st by force of Armes subdue her hence to thee Yeat from thy strongest Holde in Danske I would thy Cōquest free Loe heer my Gage he terr'd his Gloue thou know'st y e Victors meed So did he pause his Pledge vntoucht and then did thus proceede Then fret thy fill and worke thy worst deliuer Lords your willes Ye haue experience how this same with brags not battell killes He threatneth onely I intreate he claimeth her of dew I wish and hope for to deserue The Counsel then withdrewe Themselues apart and soone for Brenn a verdict did ensewe The Dane inraged sayled thence and rigged out a Fleete And did with Brenn resayling home at great aduantage meete Their Shippes did grapple and their swords did sunder life from lim So fought they as their shippes did seeme in Seas of bloud to swim But multitude oppressed Brenn he hardlye did escape His Ladie will he nill hee left the King of Denmarkes Rape Not meanely insolent the Danes hoyst vp their home-meant Sayleae But after manye crabbed Flawes and long contrarie Gayles The Kings and Norgane Ladies Shippe was tossed to the Coste Of Brutaine wheare imprisoned King Belyn was their Hoste Vntill sufficient Pledges had that Denmarke it should pay Continuall Tribute to the Brutes he them dismist away Meane while King Bren receiued now amōgst the Gawles did threate For Englands Crowne-halfe him with-held his Brothers selfe Seate For Time alaying Loue did adde vnto domesticke hate And with the Cenouesean Gawles whose Prince his heire of late He had espoused did inuade the Empire of his Brother And almost did their Battels ioyne when thus intreates their Mother I dare to name ye Sonnes because I am your Mother yet I doubt to tearme you Brothers that doe Brotherhood forget These Prodigies their wrothfull Shields forbodden Foe to Foe Doe ill beseeme allyed hands euen yours allyed soe O how seeme Oedipus his Sonnes in you againe to striue How seeme these words in me aye me Iocasta to reuiue I would Dunwallo liued or ere death had lost againe His Monarchie sufficing Fower but now too small for Twaine Then either would you as did he imploy your wounds elswheare Or for the smalnes of your Power agree at least for feare But pride of ritch and rome-some Thrones that wingeth now your darts It will I would not as I feare worke sorrow to your harts My Sonnes sweet Sonnes attend my words your Mothers wordes attend And for I am your Mother doe conclude I am your frend I cannot counsell but intreate nor yeat I can intreate But as a Woman and the same whose blood was once your meate Hence had ye Milke She baerd her Pappes these Armes did hug ye ost These fyled hands did wipe did wrap did rocke and lay ye soft These Lips did kisse or Eyes did weep if that ye were vnqueat Thēply I did with Song or Sighes with Dance with Tung or Teate For these kind Causes deere my Sonnes disarme your selues if not Then for these bitter teares that now your Mothers Cheekes do spot Oft vrge I Sonnes and Mothers Names Names not to be forgot Send hence these Souldiers yee my Sonnes none but ye would fight When none should rather be at one if Nature had her right What comfort Beline shall I speede sweete Brenn shall I preuaile Say yea sweete Youthes ah yea say yea or if I needes must faile Say noe and then will I begin your Battell with my baile Then then some Stranger not my Sonnes shall close me in the Earth When we by Armor ouer-soone shall meet I feare in death This sayd with gushing teares eftsoones she plyes the one and other Till both did shew themselues at length Sonnes worthy such a Mother And with those hands those altred hands that lately threatned bloes They did imbrace becomming thus continuall frends of foes Glad was the Queene and Beline hild sole Empier more he had From Denmarke Tribute and to this a greater honor add His daughter Cimbra wedded to the Almayne Prince gaue name Vnto the Cimbrians holding Rome so long and warlike game Some if no Error giue to him for forraine Conquests fame His Valour Warre Peace ore past now speake we of the Knight That this side and beyond the Alpes subdewed all by fight The stateliest Townes in Italie had Brenn their Builder and Euen Rome the terror of the World did at his mercie stand The Senate giuing to the Earth ear-while both warre and peace Could not themselues their Citie scarce their Cappitoll release THeir Gander Feast what Manlius and Camillus did therein How This the Cappitol and That from Brenn his Spoyles did win I pretermit The three-topt Mount Parnassus had beloe Apollos Temple whither men for Oracles did goe This with the God and Goods the Gawles did put to sacke and spoyles And whil'st incamped here they kept such sacreligious coyle The God or rather Diuell whom th' Almightie did permit His Deitie prophaned to deceiue the world in it With Tempests Earth-quakes Steneh Sights so cryde the Spoylers quit That most did
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
list No like immortall she-Egge Chucke of Tyndarus his wife The wracke of Dardane walles shal mooue to vs like costly strife Thy husband no Atrides is or were it he were such The Idane ball Iudge did not more but I would doo as much For why thy selfe a richer cause of warre art worthy so Whome to continue euer frend I carelesse am of foe My Kingdome shall containe thee that containest me and it Yea though we be condemned Loue or armour shall vs quit Loues lawe at least adiudgeth barres cleere bookes to pleade in breefe Prescription to obiections how his passions bee our cheefe For none doth liue not passionate of loue ire mirth or greese I waite thee in the neerest woods and thether watching watch Doe waite escape of all things els my selfe doe care dispatch Let onely Loue sweete Loue perswade if more remaine to wowe I hope I wish not more be done than what you meane to doo This read and red her cheekes and to his reede alreadie bent Not casting further doubts vnto her Paramour she went Conueyed into Leynister Not many weekes ensewe When Morice King of Meth returnes and what had hapned knew A whitle-winde in a wâ—irle poole roost that paire of doues quoth he The single state is double sweet at price too decre I see How wowe we woe and won how loth we fowle doubt we faire And onely then lacke women faults when men their faultes forbeare The diuell goe with her so that I with credite might forgoe her But such doth sinne with sauour he is flouted that doth owe her I may not put it vp vnlesse I put vp many a mocke Fowle fall that Hâ—rrolde causing that my Gâ—itrone is the smocke He worth and wronged and his wrong a common quarrel made Assisted by the Irish Kings did Leynister inuade King â—â—rmâ—te whom his subiects then and long ere then did hate Was left defencelesse desprate of his life depriu'd his State And fled to England wheare the Pope imbulled had of late England for Irelands Conquest So the Exile welcome was As aptest Instrument to bring that Stratageme to passe For but to be reseated was the Fugitiues request And then to tribute part and leaue to English men the rest King Henry yeat in warre else-where did freely license any To make aduenture for themselues so Dermot sped of many Earle Strangâ—ome the Geraldines Fitz Stephans Reymonde and Moe worth Knights of Wales for most did take the taske in hand And to the Crowne of Englands vse made Conquest of that Land But should you aske how Dermot sped Father he sped too well And nothing else the Irish bookes doo of his Leiman tell Alone obserue what changes heere through onely lust befell And note our England surfetteth in greater sinnes than it The onely cause that I am Earle an Exile heere doo sit The County thus concluded and the Hermite answered this CHAP. XXVII TO lose an Earldome and to liue an exile what it is I cannot tell but not to haue what may bee lost were blis I will not speake of Coiture nor of Conception naither It fits I should for neuer made I Grandsier of my Father But mine experience at our birth begins it birth I speake How than doe we no creature worlds lesse helpefull or more weake From birth our Infancy throughout we liue as not aliue To others diuersly a care we sencelesse how we thriue No sooner we vncradell be we females be we boyes But we affect so many and God wot such foolish toyes And are so apt for daungers and vnapt to shift the same As aptly vanities by terme of childishnes we blame Thence growe we to more strength and sence still senceles howbeit Of vice or vertue bettring by correction not by wit Gamesome not caring who takes care nor can we saue or git Next but demies nor boyes nor men our daungerous times succeede For vanities erst aymed at we shortly act in deede Wilde roysting wanton loue or else vnthriftie shots and game Doe cuppell ere we finde our fault distresse vnto defame Perhaps experience beating vs doth bid vs lay to thriue The first degree to which say some is warely to wiue But wiued if our Sainct become as not vnlike a Shroe Then is that first degree to thrift the third degree in woe Or be it she be constant wie well intertayning faire Doe graunt her silence patience and what vertues els be rare Yeat by how much more shee deserues so much more we desire To please and profite such an one for whom on hers we tire Our selues and sences yea perchance labour the most we may Much labour is too little that should houshould charge defray We aged carke to liue and leaue an ouerplus in store Perhaps for Spendals so amidst abundance liue we poore Our heires waxe sickishe of our health too long our here abod Meane while the neerer to our graues the further wee from God Grippell in workes testy in words lothsome for most at length And such at fourescore as at foure for manners witte and strength Thus Infancie is feeble and our lustie youth vnstayde Our manhood carking and our age more lothed than obayde And thus from first to last our liues be fruiteles and vnqueate But you perhaps expect I should of nouelties intreate I haue no tales of Robin Hood though mal-content was he In better daies first Richards daies and liu'd in woods as wee A Tymon of the world but not deuoutly was he soe And therefore praise I not the man But for from him did groe Words worth the note a word or twaine of him ere hence we go Those daies begot some mal-contents the Principall of whome A County was that with a troope of Yomandry did rome Braue Archers and deliuer men since nor before so good Those took from rich to giue the poore and manned Robin Hood He fed them well and lodg'd them safe in pleasant Caues and bowers Oft saying to his merry men what iuster life than ours Here vse we Tallents that abroad the Churles abuse or hide Their Coffers excrements and yeat for common wants deuide We might haue sterued for their store they haue dyest our bones Whose tongues driftes harts intice meane melt as Syrens Foxes stones Yea eueÌ„ the best that betterd theÌ„ heard but aloofe our mones And redily the Churles could prie and prate of our amis Forgetfull of their owne when their reproofes had proofe as this * It was at midnight when a Nonne in trauell of a childe Was checked of her fellow Nonnes for being so defilde The Lady Prioresse heard a stirre and starting out of bed Did taunt the Nouasse bitterly Who lifting vp her hed Sayd Madame mend your hood for why so hastely she rose That on her head mistooke for hood she donde a Channons hose * I did amis not missing friends that wisht mee to amend I did amend but missed friends when mine amis had end My friends therefore shall finde me true but I will
to hide Least should as would and cleerely doth their Cosning be espideâ— Wherby euen ipso facto is their Cause against them tride The sinne of Pride made Lucifer gainst God him selfe rebell And through that sinne he so seduâ—'t that Adam also fell Then plaid he Rex ore all the Earth except a faithfull Fewe Till Christ incarnate on the Crosse Synns Kingdome did subdewe Then Christ was powrefull in the world for Faith had practice right And what could more our Ghostly Foe then Faith Practice spight His auncient Stratageme therefore to plant he casts anew And by the pride of only Workes from Faith a many drew Then were such Honors heapt on Popes Worlds-Aâ—iects ere that time That Lucifer him selfe than they presum'd not more to clyme Their golden Legend though not it autenticke be in aught To vs doth teach a Storie that to them might now be taught Theare was a Man of stature bigge and bigge withall in minde For serue he would yet One thaÌ„ whoÌ„ he greater none might finde He hearing that the Emperor was in the world most great Came to his Court was 〈…〉 tertaynd and seruing him at meate It chanc't the Diuell was nam'd wherat the Emperor him blest When as vntill he knew the cause the Pagane would not rest But when he heard his Lord to feare the Diuell his ghostly Foe He left his Seruice and to seeke and serue the Diuell did goe Of heauen or hell God or the Diuell he earst nor heard nor carde Alone he sought to serue the same that would by none be darde He met Who soone is mett the Diuell was intertayn'd they walke Till comming to a Crosse the Diuell did fearefully it balke The Seruant musing questioned his Master of his feare One Christ quoth he with dread I mind when doth a crosse appeare Then serue thy selfe the Gyant said that Christ to serue I 'le seeke For him he askt an Hermit who aduisde him to be meeke found By which by Faith and works of Almes would sought-for Christ be And how where to practice these he gaue Directions sound Then he that skoâ—nd his Seruice late to greatest Potentates Euen at a common Ferry now to carrie all awaites Thus doing long as with a Child he ouer once did waide Vnder his Loode midway he â—aints from sinking hardly stayde Admiring how and asking who was answered of the Childe As on his Shoulders Christ he bore by being humblie milde So through Humilitie his Soule to Christ was reconcilde And of his Carrage Christo-fer should thenceforth be his name Then lett this popish Scripture Popes at least you Conuerts frame Of which Conuerting Christo-fers yee thenceforth shal be said If not apply and perish in your Luciferring Traid Ye know I know that but in Christ may no Redemption be So your greate friend our Gardner on his death-bed could agree But to the Vulgars open not gainst Rome that gap quoth he So miserable is your state who seeing will not see That Christofer eare Christo-fer was Atheist lesse than yee Well answered once a King of ours the Pope that bod him free Two Pâ—elates terming them his Sonnes The King seem'd to agree But sent their compleat Armor looke are these thy Sonneâ— quoth he False Hesket too not falsely spake reporting lately this That such as Papists would seduce and of seducing mis Are marked dead For he to whom he so did say feare I Earle Ferdinando Stanley so dissenting so did trie As other Peeres heere and els-where haue found the like no lye Nor preached he the Pope amis that did to him applie This Tex to witt This is the Heire come on and let him die Th' Inheritance let vs inioye Nought seeke they els for why Those bad be good that giue those good be bad that Giftes deny From Annanias literall fault they Consciences would tye These death-eide Basilisques therefore in euerie Sense doe flie Be of Religion iumpe with them in all their Toyes affâ—e A Peter-Penny if withhild knocks all the rest awrye Hell Heauen Bulls Pardons Pope and to be Pope doth mony buy Yea too blasphemous they inâ—roch vpon the Deitie Though of these 〈…〉 ifers haue been that perish through a Flie. Each sinne gainst God how vile so-eare will Popes with Pardons fit Crosse but the Pope pardon thou him he will not pardon it For Faith his common Plea is sword and fire against his foes But who but fooles beleeue that Faith exacted is by bloes Than those three Mightie Emperors Fift Charles with Ferdinand And Maximilian with the Pope did none more partiall stand Yeat suffred they the Consciences of Protestants in peace But Philip nor the Pope will now their Inquisition cease Though Either suffer Iewes and Stewes because of Gaines increase CHAP. LI. THis Spanish Inquisition is a Trappe so slylie sett As into it Wise Godly Rich by Blanchers bace as fett Direct or indirectly then to answeare all is one From those Inquisitors escape but verie fewe or none Euen so by racking out the ioynts or chopping off the heade Procustes fitted all his Guests vnto his iron beade Aue Maria Credo and the Pater noster say In Latin els they pennance thee and take thy goods away Nay these though said both say and doe as they yeat all for nought They will exact by Torture what thou thinkest and hast thought Of Masse the Pope Popish points til in the Lapse thou fall Then Mercie God amongst those men no mercie is at all A bloodier Law vsde bloodierly was neuer heard or shall Tormenting men vntill they gesse by whom they are acus'de Which gessed it against themselues for Euidence is vs'de As who would say so be it must because it so is mus'de Phillip abusiuely seduc't and World-deceiuing Pope Peruse all Lawes euen Paganizme past vnder heauens coope And rightly pondring those with this theÌ„ speak your thoughts indeed Was not your Draco Sathan that himselfe could thus exceede Here adde for badde we might your League if That of This had need O happy and thrise happy Realme of ours and other Lands Wheare touching death by Clergie-doomes the Pollicie withstaÌ„ds THen freated Paule Pope Paule the Third when Peter came in Plea No Maruell Luther preached gold and glorie from his Sea But see an helpe Ignatius then conceited had his Sect And crau'd Confirmance of the Pope which Paule did then reiect But when he heard that Orders vowe might cheefly him auayle Them Iesuists he incorporates nor they his Pope ship fayle But for his onely Doctrine are Apostles and as trew As to the Diuell the deadly-Sinnes to Popes this Order new Yeat these be those are vnder-hand deceiu'd whilst they deceaue Witnes the Gallowes wheare for most they end those webbes they weaue For vnaduised are me thinks our Iesuistes in this In Cell-life since so strict and here they hanging seldome mis That for Applause at least although euen so weare bacely badde They change not Treachers vnto them to whom from vs they
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
the other Succeeded but in life and death moretragicke than his brother IN Scotland Fraunce Ireland and VVales he warred wearied lesse Than by the Pope and English Priests wronged without redresse Nor was saue from their Soueraignes death their malice out of date Yeat Iohn faine they hut they felt Iohn did trouble Church and state When for as Gaylers with Conuicts so Popes deale with a faulter Their sin-salue like the setting loose from Shackles to the haulter When Masse and all the Sacraments were Strangers many a day And that so farreforth as it in the triple Myter lay Euen God himselfe was barred hence and that prostrate before His Vassall Bishop Langtons feete the King did grace implore When Peter pence were graunted and the English Crowne to hold By rent and Homage of the Pope and that for sums of gold The French Kings son was cursed hēce who els had wore y e Crowne And that the reconciled King did seeme on surest ground Then he whil'st he in progresse did at Swinshed Abbey lye Was poysned by a Monke that baend himselfe that Iohn might dye The Monke more solemnely inter'd and song for than the King Was cause that diuers diuersly did consture of the thing Some charg'd the Popes of Auarice for that when Rings offend They sell them peace of pride for that to them euen Monarks bend Of meere incharitie for that to wreake their priuate spight Gainst Kingdomes Kingdomes they incense and worser do acquite Euen subiects to allegiance sworne against their Lords to fight Of Treason for that to intrap such as from them discent With othes and al things they dispence Some bid vs thus preuent Their sinnes and sleights doe not as they not deale with them for why Who doth must liue their Vassal or their Victorie must die A merrie mate amongst the rest of cloysterers thus told THis cloystring and fat feeding of Religious is not old Quoth he Not long since was a man that did his deuoire giue To kill the passions of his flesh and did in penance liue And though beloued of the King he liued by his sweat Affirming men that would not worke vnworthy for to eate He told the erring their amisse and taught them to amend He counselled the comfortlesse and all his daies did spend In prayer and in pouertie Amongst his doings well High-waies he mended doing which this Accident befell A dosen Theeues to haue beene hang'd were lead this Hermite by To whom he went exhotting them as Christian-men to dye So penitent they were and he so pitifull good man As to the King for pardon of the Prisoners he ran Which got he gaue it them But this Prouiso did he add That they should euer worke as he They graunt poore soules glad He got them gownes of countrey gray and hoods for raine and cold And hempen girdles which besides themselues might burthens hold Pick axe and Spade and hard to worke the Couent sell together With Roabes Ropes eu'rie toole for eu'rie worke wheather So did they toyle as thereabout no Causie was vnwrought Wherefore new labours for his men the holie Hermite sought But at departure prayed them to fast to watch and pray And liue remote from worldly men and goeth so his way The holy Theeues for now in them had custome wrought contēt Could much of Scripture and indeede did hartely repent But when the countrey folke did heare of these same men deuout Religiously they haunt their Celles and lastly brought about That frō the woods to Buildings braue they wound the Hermits crew Who was from found-out worke returnde and their Aposta knew He going to their stately place did finde in euery dish Fat beefe and brewis and great store of daintie fowle and fish Who seeing their saturitie and practising to winne His Puples thence Excesse he sayd doth worke accesse to sinne Who fareth finest doth but feeed and ouer-feedeth oft Who sleepeth softest doth but sleepe and sometimes ouer soft Who clads him trimmest is but clad the fairest is but faire And all but liue yea if so long yeat not with lesser care Than formes backs boanes bellies that more hōely cherisht are Learne freedome and felicitie Hawkes flying where they list Be kindlier and more sound than Hawkes best tended on the fist Thus preacht he promist abstinence and bids them come away No hast but good well weare they and so wel as they would stay The godly Hermit when all meanes in vaine he did perceiue Departing sayd I found you knaues and knaues I doe you leaue Hence sayd this merrie fellowe if the merriment be trew That Cloystring Friers cloathing and a Couents number grew This heard a simple Northerne-man no friend to Monke or Frier Or preaching Lymmer for his speach disclosed thus his yre AFowle ill on their weazens for the Carles garre syke a dinne That more we member of their iapes than mend vs of our sinne At Ewle we wonten gambole daunce to carrole and to sing To haue gud spiced Sewe and Roste and plum-pies for a King At Fasts-eue pan puffes Gang tide gaites did alie Masses bring At Paske begun our Morrise and ere Penticost our May Tho Roben hood liell Iohn Frier Tucke and Marian deftly play And Lard and Ladie gang till Kirke with Lads and Lasses gay Fra Masse and Eensong sa gud cheere and glee on ery Greene As saue our wakes twixt Eames and Sibbes like gam was neuer seene At Baptis-day with Ale and cakes bout bon-fires neighbors stood At Martelmasse wa turnd a crabbe thilke told of Roben hood Till after long time myrke whē blest were windowes dares lights And pails were fild hathes were swept gainst Fairie-elues sprits Rock plow Mōdaies gams sal gāg with saint-feasts kirk-sights Iis tell yee Clearkes earst racked not of purpoe ne of pall Ylke yeoman fed moe poore tume wambes than Gentiles now in Hall Yea ledge they nere sa hally Writ thilke tide was greater wrang Than heretoforne tho words had sooth na writing now so strāg Iis na Wizard yet I drad it will be warse ere lang Belyue doone lyther Kirk-men reaue the crop and we the tythe And mykell bukish ben they gif they tache our lakines blithe Some egge vs sla the Prince and shewe a Bullocke fra the Pape Whilke gif it guds the sawle Iis sure the cragge gangs till the rape Syke votion gyles the people sa but sylde gud Princes scape Sa teend our King his life and song is Requiem for the Monke Gud King God rest thy sawle but Feēds reaue him bath sawle trōke Such talke was long on foote and still was quittance tale for tale Dunstone quod one made Edgar earst an English Monarke quale For matter of lesse moment euen for wedding of a Nunne Whom in her Cell the King espi'de lou'de wooed and thus wonne THe same quod he that rules this Land the same intreateth thee Thou maist sweet Wench vnto thy selfe deriue a Queene
Princely her Allowance and more stately as is sayde Than had she been in Scotland nor was Libertie denayde Of Hauking Hunting and Disports that had she been content Her merriest and securest daies a Prisoner she spent Scotland though labourd of our Queene would not receiue her and Such Treacher though imprison'd here prou'd she to either Land That death awaited her at Home and had we let her goe She was the Leagues shot-Anchor might our Queene and State o'rethroe Percie and Neuell auncient Earles This yet in Spanish paye Though bacely ill too well for him his Countrie would betray That other headed both her Wreckes wee touch but by the way With that succeeding County who concurring with his brother Once pardon'd still conspyred and Lawes Progresse so to smother Dispatcht himselfe Paget and moe like guiltie as those other Whose faultes falls had Rome Spayne their Father her their Mother Omit we Noâ—folks House from first of Howards made a Prince Though fauor'd of the Commons haue defected euer since As Absolom vs'd Curtesie but as Ambitious smoake Last Thomas Duke of Norfolkâ— so did his aspyring cloke WhoÌ„ promis'd faith once fre'ed but that promise soone he broke Him for Confedrate with those Earles rebelling Proofes did touch And with this Scottish Queene that he Intelligence had much Her Marriage that he closely sought and her Escape pretended And in her Right had fadg'd their wrong her Highnes Raine had ended Of Rising neer to London and to take it Plots they layde From Netherland the Spanish King had promised them ayde From Scotland into Spaeyne should be the Infant-King betrayde Ireland meane-while with aduerse Armes should also be ore-layde And hereof to and fro the Pope weare Letters still conuayde All which and more directly prou'd he piâ—ied lost his head Nor ought his death from being such did stand his Sonne in steade So hardly finde we Great-men in their Greatnes satisfide Or for their Greatnes not to be of other Men enuide But what is All to those haue All when but in Trifles crost Disgrace or Greese or Grudge vn-queare no lesse than all weare lost Conclude we then all Riches Forme Pompe Worlds-Applause but Winde Conclude we then to Monarchize is to coÌ„mand the minde Throckmorton yeat more priuie and more practising than those With her Mendoza Papists here forren and Land-leapt Foes Did Mischiefes that imported more our practiz'd State disclose But when of Parry Babington and their Attempts I thinke With whome this Scottish Lady in their bloody hopes did linke All foresaid Practises seeme then Epitomies to it Whereto these folliall Traytors did themselues and Senses fit Our Centinels almost too late the Larum bell did ring Yeat hardly then to arme her selfe our Generall they bring The Queene of Scots froÌ„ Ours almost her Crowne life had priz'de Eare to preuent the same she would by audience be aduis'de When gentle Durance might not salue that Daunger did remaine Which God and Nature tolerate slea rather than be slaine To which our Parliament aduis'd our Queene but long in vaine So far was she from foing her that sought her life and Rayne CHAP. LVI NOw thirtie sixe our greatest Peeres and States had power to heare And to determine and as found her to condemne or cleare By Statute passed in our Queene her seuen and twentith yeare These noble Tryers iustly then examining the Cause With reuerent Note of her who heard and spoke to euery Clause Did after diuers Daies so spent adiudge by Verdict trew Her guiltie of most trayterous Conspiracies not fewe And then from Fotheringhaye themselues to Parliament with-drew Of this Infection that our Peers and People had and would Remediles impoyson if not medeine it we should By some Decision of the Lymme whence all the bayne did floe Our publike Weales Phisitions much did argue to and froe Did neuer English Parliament fully conuented then Consist of Noblier Learneder Wiser and Worthier men By these it was debated how this common Foe might liue Without her death whom God to vs a common Blisse doth giue Much was it labord wished much some Course herein might holde But to resolue of any none had reason to be bolde Her still obdurate Malice to her Maiestie was cleere If she preuaild Religion was assurd an Altring heere Our Nobles Crocodile at home and hence our Foe-hop't Head Then must our Queene Religion Realme or She for them be dead Wherefore from Either House were sent the chiefest Men to craue Her Highnes that the passed Doome might Execution haue Whereof She askt to be aduisde and earnest her to saue Dismissed them with louing words and biddeth them expect Her Answer shortly nor did She the sending it neglect Though contrarie to it that all did hopingly affect For she perplexed in that case did lastly them direct To studie Meanes how Both might liue the Perill ouer-past Which much amaz'd yeat solemnly they handell it at last Mercie to her Malice in her might happily preuent Was sayd but not resolu'd for oft she Mercie vnder-went When rose the Earles and other times yeat neuer did repent But of our Queene to be destroyd had made her Testament A straiter Garde Bonds Hostages were also nam'd in vaine For should she prize our Queene who then durst her or theÌ„ detaine Or what were these to recompence the Losse we should sustaine For Loyaltie to take her Oth was thought to purpose small Such Othes she oft had falsifide nor thought it Sinne at all To breake them to an Heretike our Queene so Papists call To banish her were to possesse our Foes of their desier For vs to rid away the Smoake and runne into the Fier To set her free to make a Head for them against our Queene In few no safetie for vs but in her Death was seene So wholly by the Parlament concluded was and so Reported to her Maiestie still pitying her Foe In more sententious learned and delibrate sort than I Can set it downe past all toucht heer So did her Maiestie In answering earst and now to them her Aunswer Aunswer-lesse Sweet Adumbrations of her Zeale Mercie and Wit expresse But with her Oracle that bod them do and doe it not Play'd they as Alexander did with King Gordians Knot OF Spayâ—s huge Nauy toucht before great Rumor now was spread And that th'Inuaders meant to make this Scottish Queene a head For which continued doubt of her in English hearts was shead Not in the Vulgats only but some Nobles of this Land Who had not knowing it our Queene then got into their hand The Writ of Execution that her Heading did purport The which was executed soone and in a solemne sort This nature-frended Ladie had she bin as wise as witrie Who by the Massacres in France had learnt to leaue off Pittie Made there too apt for bloody Acts the Pope for it too blame To take her death too much deseru'd her selfe did meekly frame She bids commend her to her Sonne and will him to
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