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A14779	Albions England Or historicall map of the same island: prosecuted from the liues, actes, and labors of Saturne, Iupiter, Hercules, and Æneas: originalles of the Brutons, and English-men, and occasion of the Brutons their first aryuall in Albion. Continuing the same historie vnto the tribute to the Romaines, entrie of the Saxones, inuasion by the Danes, and conquest by the Normaines. With historicall intermixtures, inuention, and varietie: proffitably, briefly, and pleasantly, performed in verse and prose by William Warner.; Albions England. Book 1-4	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1586 (1586)	STC 25079; ESTC S111586	85,079	130

inferre consuming warre The Brutons vnder Rome secure as men that did relye On others were disabled now by Martiall meanes to trye The fame of fight but Captaineles confusedly they deale And giue a wretched instant of an headles Common-weale And whom so many Romaine Péeres Grand-Captaines of such might Of whom Nine Emperours themselues in persons here did sight Could hardly foyle were fronted now euen of a barbrous Foe And at the poynt a wondrous chaunge their Countrie to forgoe Such fruite hath ease such pollicie did serue the Romaines turne Who wayning Martiall mynds themselues the quietler here soiurne The Brutons thus dispoy●d of A●mes and courage in effect Of Prince of Captaines and aduise their busines to direct Dispatch their Legate to the Land Deminatiue in name To Brutaine where the Legate thus his Ambassie did frame The back-slide of our helples friends the down-fall of our state Our lacke of Prince of people and our wealth not now as late The sauage dealing of our Foes consuming ours and vs Is cause right mightie King that we approach thy present thus Not for we are in blood allyed or that whil'st Fortune smil'd Your Auncestors 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 imboldned in our suite though all of these might moue But for our former Wants O King and for thyne owne behoue 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 chacing hence the Scottes and Pichtes with glorie wore the Crowne And through his vertue stayed vp a Kingdome sinking downe WIthin a while did Vortiger the Duke of Cornwalle rayne When Constans sonne of Constantine he traytrously had slayne The Scottes did ruffle then a-new nor did the King affye In Brutons for they hated him and reason had they why And Saxon Fléetes from Germanie in Armor here ariue Through whose support y e King in warres against the Scottes did thriue The Foe by Hengest foyled thus he and his Brother git The chiefest credit with the King but fewe gainsaying it Necessitie of Soldiours here so well for them did fit And Hengests Daughter intertayn'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 Quéene did aske the King would not denye Untill his Subiects rann to Armes and made the Saxons flye And putting downe the Father then did set vp Vortimer Who poysoned by his Stepdame they restored Vortiger With this condition that he should no Saxons intertayne But Hengest hearing from the Quéene that Vortimer was slayne And Vortiger his Sonne-in-lawe re-kinged did resayle With Saxon forces though with fraude not force he did preuayle For thus by pollicie he did the Brutons circumuent He craued Parlie as a man that were to quietnes bent The place appoynted Parlants him in simple meaning meet Farre from their Armie all vnarm'd whom Saxon Traytors greet With deadly wounds by hidden kniues and held the King with them Confounding so the Brittish Oste. Nor cease they to contemne Both Christian rightes and ciuell Rule subuerting either twaine And what they would of Vortiger through fearfull threats they gaine And plant themselues in Southfolke Kent and elswhere at their will And ruffling runne throughout the Land oppressing Brutons still The King and Brutons flead to Wales and Feend-got Marlyn theare Bewrayed more then I beléeue or credit seemes to beare As shewing how the Castell worke rear'd dayly fell by night By shaking of two Dragons great that vnderneath it fight With other wonders tedious if not trothles to resight Aurelius Ambrose brother to King Constans murdred late From either Bruton hauing ayde 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 flyer from his Foe Or Gerneth Castell when as flames throughout the buildings goe In midst whereof the wretched King did end his daies in woe THe Brutons thus had peace a-while till Vortigerus Sonne And Guillamour the Irish King in newe Conflicts begonne Whom whil'st that Vter valiantly in Wales to wracke did bring His brother Ambrose did decease and Vter then was King What Vter did by Marlyns Arte in compassing his will Upon the Wife of Garolus transfigured by skill Into the likenes of her Lord on whom he got a sonne Renowmed Arthur or to name the Acts by Vter donne Were much and néedles onely note he was a valiant Prince But such as was his noble Sonne was not before or since Yet blazing Arthur as haue some I might be ouer-seene He was Uictorious making one amongst the Worthiest méene But with his pardon if I vouch his world of Kingdomes wonne I am no Poet and for lacke of pardone were vndone His Scottish Irish Almaine French and Saxone Battelles got Yéeld fame sufficient these seeme true the rest I credite not But Brutone is my taske and to my taske I will retier Twelue tymes the Saxone Princes here against him did conspier And Arthur in twelue Battelles great went Uanquishor away Howbeit Saxone forces still amongst the Brutons stay This King to intertaine discourse and so to vnderstand What Accedents in after-tymes should happen in this Land He with the Brittish Prophet then of Sequelles fell in hand Of Syx long after Kings the man not borne of humaine seede Did Prophesie and many things that came to passe in déede Now Arthur chiefe of Cheualrie had set his Crowne at stay And to his Nephewe Mordred did commit thereof the sway When with his Knights the wonder of the world for Martiall déedes Beyond the Seas in forren fights he luckely procéedes Till faithlesse Mordred calde him backe that forward goes with fame For at his Uncles Dyademe he traytrously did ame Twise Arthur wonne of him the field and thirdly slewe his Foe When deadly wounded he himselfe victorious dyed foe INterred then with publique playnts and issules ensewes A drouping of the Brittish state the Saxon still subdewes Howbeit worthie Kings succéeded but Destinie withs●ood The aunciant Scepter to inure in Bruts succéeding blood Unlou'd Careticus was he that lost the Goale at length Whenceforth in vayne to winne their losse y e Brutons vse their strength Yea God that as it pleaseth him doth place or dispossesse When foes nor foyles nor any force their courage might suppresse Séem'd partiall in the Saxon Cause and with a Plague did crosse The Brutons that had els at least

it a second Empier ground And thirdly when their broodie Race that Isle did ouer-store Amongst the Islands Heb●edes they seeke out dwellings more These Irish sometime Spanish Scotts of whēce our now Scotts bée Within the Isles of Albion thus whil'st Brutaines disagrée Did seate themselues and nestle too amongst the Mountaine groundes What tyme a Scythian people Pichtes did seaze the middle bounds Twixt them and vs and these did proue to Brutaine double wounds The Penthland people and the Scottes alying friendly liue Untill the Pichtes by Brittish wyles contrary cause did giue Then from their Captaines fell the Scottes and chuse to them a King And Fergus out of Ireland did the Chaire of Marble bring In which instal'd the first Scotch King in Albion so he wrought That Pichtes Scottes then vp in Armes were to attonement brought Three valiant people thus at once in Albion Empier hold Brutes Scottes and Pichtes the latter twaine lesse ciuell but as bold The Pichtes were fearce and Scythian like much like the Irish now The Scottes were then couragious both nor them I disallow That wright they fead on humaine flesh for so it may be well Like of these men their bloudie mynds their natiue Stories tell But to our Brittish busines now to shewe what there befell Not how the tri-partited Rule vnto his quartarne Rayne Donwallo after fortie yeres did Monarchize againe Not what precedent Kings in Fraunce and Denmarke did obtaine Speake I. From Porrex fortie Kings in scilence shall remaine Saue only valiant Brennus and his brother Belyne thay Unpraised for their warres and workes shall not escape away CHAP. XVI THese Brothers thristing amplier Raynes did martially contend Till Brenn his force was not of force his brothers to defend To Norway sayles he where he got an Armie and a Prize The Prince of Norwaies Daughter whom he winneth in this wise The King of Denmarke stood with him vntill the States decréede That both should plead before their Prince and better Pleador spéede And when the Norgane Prince and Peeres were seated for their strife The King of Danes beginning first thus pleaded for a wife Not yet a King King Phillips Sonne w t none but Kings would cope His reason was inferiour strife of glorie giues no hope I am a King and graunt the Prize in question worthy me But grudge that my Compettitor a banisht man should be Doe graunt him what he hath for-gon and neuermore shall git Yet were he but a Demi-king to challenge me vnfit Dunwallos yonger Sonne that hath his Brother to his Foe And worthely his trecheries haue well deserued foe And yet audatious that he is he blusheth not to heare The troth of his vntroth nor yet an héere Repulse doth feare Would she for whom I must contend were not to me the same She is or he that stands with me a man of better fame But since in this vnequall Plea I must my selfe imbace Knowe Norwaies that my pleaded cause concernes your publique cace It is the King of Denmarke doth your Prince his daughter craue And note it is no little thing with vs Allie to haue By League or Leigure Danske can fence or front you friend or foe Our Neighborhood doth fit to both your wel-fare or your woe Combyne therefore in néedfull League our néere conioyned States I may your good nought lesse can he that thus with me debates He is a Bruton if Exile allowe we call him so And farre from ayding you that knowes himselfe not to bestoe Admit he were receiued home what Empier doth he sway A sorrie Islands Moyetie and farre from hence away Her Dowrie is your Diedeme what Ioynter can he make Not any giue not then to him from whom ye cannot take And Lady She for whom they stroue was present well I wot My loue doth claime a greater debt then so to be forgot I wish myne Opposite his want that Armes might giue the right It is not dread but doom'd sweete wench that thus with tongue I fight Proude Bruton frouning so on Brenn disclaime in her my dewe Els thou repyning shalt repent doe make thy choyse a newe At least amend thyne Error and myne Enuie shall haue end I néede not force so weake a Foe seeke thou so strong a frend Norwaies concent and Lady be no Conter-mande to this Discent not Brenn conclude her myne els my Conclusion is If not for worth by force perforce to winne her from you all Yea though our banisht Cops-mate could his Brittish Succours call The King of Danes concluded thus and after scylence shorte The Brutaine Heros vailed and did answer in this sorte Most gracious Norgane Péeres you heare the ouer-tearming taunts Of this Appelant that himselfe and Scepter ouer-vaunts It lesser gréeueth he should grudge that I with him co-riue Then this so parramptorie speach in youx dispight to wiue It gréeues in troth not for my selfe but for he beardeth you And seemes disdainfull of your ayde that doth so proudly owe. How captiously he derogates from me and myne estate And arrogates vnto himselfe to bring me so in hate How daintely his eyes endure so base and Obiects vewe How despretly doth he conclude and threatneth me and you Well barke he byte he bragges nor blowes shall dare me to defend A Challenge where so braue a Prize stands for the Wagers end Nor thinke vainglorious that thou art me lesser then a King Or greater then by suite or sworde to prize so rare a thing Upbrayd me not with banishment nor Belyns quarrell touch Nor yet my Petite Signorie nor more then 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 supplyes As capable are they of troth as thou art apt for lyes My Brothers Kingdome seemes forsooth an Ouer-match to myne My Kingdome Cutlake therefore is an Under-match to thyne 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 hold I such a loue As that her Dowrie not in quest before her selfe doth moue He harpeth as himself would haue that maketh loue his Staile Els would he sewe in milder sorte and sewing feare to faile For Lady see your Louers Plea your loue sayth he is debt And if not words nor worthines then Armor shall you get Braue words and fit to feare not feede a courted Ladies vayne But say he cannot owe in print but Soldiour-like and playne Nor I in sooth more loues my heart then can my tongue explayne Conclude we therefore Soldiour-like and let a Combate yeeld Unto the hardier of vs twayne the honor of the feeld If not then if my Lords so please or she thereto agree Although thou should'st

harmelesse soules that crost those Seas himselfe in fetters lay Yée might haue said and truly said that then did end the fraie So manie were his high exploits whereof such wonder bread That for the same the Heathen folke doe deifie him dead Which since they are so manifold I many ouerpasse And though Amphitruo blush to heare how he deceiued was And that Alcmena pinch my tongue possest with bashfull shame Yea though that Iupiter himself my lauish tongue shall blame Yet since that iealous Iuno knowes alreadie of the same I dare not tell how Iupiter so cunninglie beguild his loue Alcmena that by him she traueld great with child Of Hercules whose famous acts I orderlie shall tell Whereof the first but not the least in Cradle-time be fell CHAP. IIII. QUéene Iuno not a little wroth against her husbands crime By whom shee was a Cockqueane made did therefore at the time In which Alcmena cride for helpe to bryng her fruite to light Thrée nights and dayes inchaunt her throwes and of a Diuelish spight Intended both the Ladies death and that wherewith shée went Till Galinthis vnwitching her did Iunos spells preuent Howbeit cankered Iuno still pursuing her intent Two poisned Serpents got by charmes into the chamber brought Where Hercules in cradle laie and thinking to haue wrought A Tragedie did let them lose who smelling out their praie skaerd Hercules his brother that in selfe same cradle lay But Hercules as Children vse with little whelpes to play Did dallie childishlie with them and no whit did dismay Untill at last his tender flesh did feele their smarting stings And then displeasd betwixt his handes the Snakes to death hée wrings Amphrituo an the Thebans all of this same wonder tell And yeeres permitting Hercules did with Euristeus dwell This King by spightfull Iunos meanes did set him taske on task But Hercules perfourmed more then both of them could aske Yea yet a good Lad for Actiuenes the world did lack his like To Wrestle Ride Run Caste or Shoote to Swim Shift or Strike As witnes his inuention first those solemne actiue Plaios That were on Mount Olimpus tride where he had pricke and praise For which his Nouell and himselfe in those not hauing Péeres The Graecians by th' Olimpides kept reckoning of their yéeres KIng Atlas daughters in the Isles of Hesperae did holde A manie Sheepe and Poets faine their fléeces were of Golde For rarenes then of Shéepe and Wooll in figures so they saw Euristeus pricks his Pople on this nouile Prize to gaine The Greekes applie their sweating Oares and sailing doe persist Until they reach the wished shoare where readie to resist their entrance to the closed Isles an armed Giant stayd Whose grim aspectes at first approch made Hercules afraide Now buckle they and boysterous bloes they giue and take among A cruell sight But Hercules had victorie ere long The Giant slaine Philoctes tooke the vanquisher in hand An harder taske had Hercules then pausing now to stand Most dreadfull was their doubtfull fight both lay about them round Philoctes held the harder fight by kéeping higher ground The Sonne of Ioue perceauing well that prowesse not auail'd Did faine to faint the other thought that he in deed had quaild And left th'aduantage of his ground and fearcely smites his Foe But Hercules whose pollecie was to contriue it so Renuing fight most eagerlye so strikes and strikes againe That to enduer the doubled force his valiant Foe had paine Who yealding to his Uictors will did finde in him such grace As Hercules did thenceforth vse his friendship in each place Hesperides the goodly Nimphes their Kéepers chaunce lament But Hercules did comfort them and cure their discontent And shipping thē of Rammes Ewes a parcel thence he went IN coasting back by new-built Troy he sawe a moneful sort of people clustering round about their yet vnconquered Port. He musing much and striking Saile did boldlie aske wherefore They made such dole Laomidon then standing on the Shoare Did tell the cause the cause was thus Laomedon ere than To reare the statelie walles of Troy a costly worke beganne And wanting pay to finish vp the worke he had begonne Of Neptunes and of Phoebus Priests the Goddes of Sea and Sonne He borowed money promising repaiment of the same by certaine time which therevnto he did expresly name The walles are built the time is come the Priests their money craue Laomedon forswares the debt and naughtie language gaue Forthwith the Sea the Deuill then did many wonders showe Began to swell and much of Troy with violence ouerfloe And therevpon the swealtie Sun the wastfull Sea retierd So vehementlie did shine vpon the Oesie plasshes myerd That thereof noisome vapours rose and of those vapours spread Such plagues as scarce the liuing might giue burial to the dad Repentant then their wrethed king to holy Delphos goes Where at the Oracle he knew his wrongs to cause suc wees And how the Godds of Sun and Seas offended doe require Each month a Uirgin to appease a seaish Monsters ire Wherefore to saue their common weale the Troyans did agrée One Uirgin as her Lot did light should pay that monthlie fée Now after manie murdred Maids for monthlie at one day The fearefull Monster at the Port expects his wonted pray The lot fell to Hesione the daughter of the king whom to the Port to be deuourd with teares the Troyans bring When Hercules thus vnderstood the hard occasion why The guiltles Ladie should haue died he purposing to trie his valiantnes for what was it that Hercules would flie Did aske the king what gift should gro to him that should both free His daughter and his kingdome of that monthly blooddie fee. The king whom now at doubted hope of profered helpe made glad made promise of two milk-white Steedes as chiefest gemmes he had Braue Hercules whose ventrous heart did only hunt for fame Accepts th'assumpsit and prepares the fiend like fish to tame Anone the dreadfull Diuell driues the Sea before his brest and spitting mightie waues abrode disgorgde from monstrous chest Liftst vp his vglie head aboue the toubled waues to catch The trembling Ladie for which pray his yaning iawes did watch But he whose strength exceeded sense with yron Club in fist Did bootelesse long with brusing wait the boistrous Whale resist The greater strokes the fiercer was the Monsters awlesse fight So that the Greekes and Troyans all misdoubt their dreadlesse knight Still Hercules did lay on load and hild the fight so long That in the end the Sea retired and left the fish among The bared sandes and so for want of water not of strength Good fortune honours Hercules with victorie at length Now when the king his Troyans and the Grecians had behild The substance of the vglie Shape euen dreadfull being kild they bring the Champion to the towne with triumphes giftes praise And who but hee belou'd in Troy whiles that in Troy he staies Alone the king a

quoth Mars and Phoebus sayd by water A Riuer-shadowing trée I climb'd out slipt my Sword I slidd By feete I hung stand with my Sword my head in water hidd Maile Femaile neither hanging Sword drowning I abid● Thus Cacus howsoeuer things from likelihoodes discent in birth life death the Gods are first the middell and Euent And not what they can doe they will but what they will they can And that they doe or doe it not behoues not vs to skan And saying so and kissing to her tale she thus began CHAP. XI I Speake not of the Argiue Nimph that had the ielious Syer To whom shut vp in brasen Tower Ioue passage had for hyer Not of Europa Semele or Maia will I dwell Not of your Foe his bastardie or Laedas rape I tell Not of King Ceus Daughters fault or other freake of Ioue speake I saue of th Arcadian Nunne with whom he thus did roue Calysto was as faire a Mayde as faire as one might bée Her father King Lycaon flead Ioue chaunced her to see And seeing liked liking lou'd and louing made it knowne To her swéete Lasse for fathers losse that maketh then her mone Take patience wench sayd Iupiter with thée shall all be well Thy fathers déeds haue their deserts but thou in peace shalt dwell I am his Uictor but thy selfe art Uictoresse of me Doe graunt me loue my zeale is more than fatherlie to thee The restlesse cloudes that mantling ride vpon the racking Skie The scouring windes that sightlesse in the sounding aire doe flie The thriftie Earth that bringeth out and broodeth vp her breed The shifting Seas whose swelling waues on shrinking shores do féede Shall fall and faile ere I be false Lycaons Impe to thee Of heartie Loue this kisse he kist an happie hansell be But haplesse termes are these quoth she vnfitting to a Thrall Yet in respect of that I feele I heare them not at all A friend ah friendlesse name I Friend it being as it is A friend I say much more a foe and more and worse then this The sonne of Saturne should and shall that speed and hearing misse Doe rid ah rid mine eyes of teares and set my heart at rest By taking life not making Loue the former likes me best Or if that poore Calistos life shall lengthen to her woe Graunt that among Dianas Nunnes a votarie I goe For neither fits it now to loue or euer shall it so What viewed Iupiter this while not pleasing to his sight Or what vnuiewed did he gesse not adding to delight Not excellent but exquisite was all to minde and eye Saue she the hansell of this loue did him of Loue denie It greenes that Natures Paragon in Cloister not in Court Should loose the beautie of her youth and he thereby his sport But constant in her chast pretence he graunts that would gain-say And seated in Religion now with Phaebe did she stay Blame Iupiter of other Loues of this doe set him cléere It was his first and first is firme and toucheth verie neere He did forgoe but not forget Calysto in hir Cell When setting higher thoughts apart the Frithes did please him well He takes his Quiuer and his Bow and where she hunts hunts he And sacrificed to his eyes that day he did her see About the Quarrie Chase and Toyles Dogs Bowes the Stand and al he vseth double diligence so often did befall Not onely sight of her his Saint he got but also talk Whilst thus for his Calistos loue he haunted Phaebees walke But sight and talke accrew to loue the substance must be had And for to bring his drifte about he virgin-like is clad His nonage kept his Beard frō bloome no Wench more fair then he Whom at her Nunnarie a Nun Diana takes to bee And with his Sisters brotherly doe gesse him to agrée Thus faines Lycaons Conquerer a Maid to winne a Maid His hands too wooll and Arras worke and womans Chares he laid That not so much as by the tongue the Boy-wench was bewraid Yet thought is frée he sees and smiles and longs perhaps for more No maruell for that Sister-hood had goodlie Ladies store Scarce one for birth and beautie to was there vnworthie him Yet chieflie to Calistos vaine he formed life and limme And Sister-like they single oft and chat of manie things But that Cal●sto mindeth loue no likelihood he wrings So Ioue not once durst mention Ioue and force was sinne and shame But loue is hardie Thus it hapt by long pursute of game She wearie resteth in the Thicks where sitting all alone He seeing her is resolute or now to end his mone Or for so sweete a bodies vse to leaue his soule in loue And Nymph-like sits him by the Nymph that tooke him for no man And after 〈◊〉 with néerer signes of Loues assaut began He feeleth oft her Iuorie breasts nor maketh coy to kisse Yet all was well a Maiden to a Maiden might doe this Than ticks he vp her tucked Frocke nor did Calysto blush Or thinke abuse he tickles to no blab she thinks the Bush. Thus whilest she thinks her sister Nunne to be a merrie Lasse The Wanton did disclose himself and told her who he was Away the Uirgin would haue sled whom he withhild by force Thy loue sweet Nymph hath vrg'd this shift wel worthie thy remorse he said nor scorne with u●e a King to ioyne thy selfe a Queene Or doe but Loue and I will liue in Phaebees Celles vnseen And there 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 would resist he did persist and sport denied dooeth That done which could not be vndone what booteth discōtent As God be pleasd as not be easd away Calysto went To Cloyster Iupiter to Court nor much she did repent Untill her growing wombe disclos'd an ante-cedent fault Then in the Chapter house she told of Iupiters assault Diana and her virgens all admyring that escape Did gird at her maligning Ioue for such his subtell Rape And who more ready to controule then Athalanta was Whome shortly Meleager brought vnto the selfe same pas The Lady Abisse did discharge Calysto from her Cell And silly Nymph she great with child some otherwhere 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 secracie to hyde her selfe from shame Kéepe close quoth she from world yee woods mine error Ioue his crime And setling there in simple Caue did waite her childing tyme. At length was hairie Arcas borne no sooner cold he goe But that his wildnes esked to his wretched Mothers woe No beast so strong that he would shunne and man he neuer sawe Nor yet his vexed mother cold from fearcenes him withdrawe Seauen yeres the Daughter of a King she liued thus in Caue Not wanting griefe

by force of Armes subdew her hence to thee Yet from thy strongest Hold in Danske I would thy Conquest free Loe here my Gage he terr'd his Gloue thou know'st the Uictors meede So did he pause his Pledge vntoucht and then did thus proceede Then freat thy fill and worse thy worst deliuer Lords your willes Ye haue experience how this same with bragges not battell killes He threatneth onely I intreate he claimeth her of dewe I wish and hope for to deserue The Counsell then withdrewe themselues aparte and soone for Brenn a verdict did ensewe The Dane inraged fayled thence and rigged out a Fléete And did with Brenn resayling home at great aduantage méete Their Shippes did grapple and their swords did sunder life from lim So fought they as their Shippes did seeme in Seas of blood to swim But multitude oppressed Brenn he hardly did escape His Lady will be nill he left the King Denmarkes Rape Not meanely insolent the Danes hoyst vp their home-meant Sayles But after many crabbed Flawes and long contrarie Gayles The Kings and Norgane Ladies Shippe was tossed to the Coste Of Brutaine where imprisoned King Belyn was their Hoste Untill sufficient Pledges had that Denmarke it should pay Continuall Tribute to the Brutes he them dismist away Howbeit Brenn receiued now amongst the Gawles did threate For Norgane Lady him with-held his Brothers selfe and Seate For Tyme alaying Loue did add vnto domesticke hate He with the Cenouesean Gawles whose Prince his heire of late He had espoused did inuade the Empier of his Brother And almost did their Battelles 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 Prodigeies their wrothfull Sheilds forbodden Foe to Foe Do ill beséeme allyed hands euen yours allyed foe O how seeme Oedipus his Sonnes in you againe to striue How séeme these Swords in me aye me Iocasta to reuyue I would Dunwallo liued or ear death had lofte agayne His Monarchie sufficing Fower but now to smale for Twayne Then either would you as did he imploy your wounds elswheare Or for the smalenes of your Power agrée at least for feare But pryde of ritch rome-some Throones that wingeth now your darts It will I would not as I feare worke sorrowe to your harts My Sonnes swéet Sonnes attende my words your Mothers words attend And for I am your Mother doe conclude I am your frend I cannot councell but intreate nor yet I can intreate But as a Woman and the same whose blood was once your meate Hence had yée Milk She baerd her Pappes these Armes did hug ye oft These fyled hands did wype did wrap did rock and lay yée soft These Lippes did kisse or Eyes did wéepe if that ye were vnqueat Then plye I did w t Song or Sighes w t Dance with Tonge or Teate For these kinde Causes deer my Sonnes disarme your selues if not Then for these bitter teares that now your Mothers Chéekes doe spot Oft vrge I Sonnes and Mothers Names Names not to be forgot Send hence these Soldiors yée 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 swéet Brenn shall I preuaile Say yea swéet Youthes ah yea say yea or if I néedes must faile Say noe and then will I beginn your Battell with my baiel Then then some Stranger not my Sonnes shall close me in the Earth When we by Armor ouer-soone shall méet I feare in death This sayd with gushing teares eftsoones she plies the one and other Till both did shewe themselues at length Sonnes worthy such a Mother And with those hands those altred hands that lately threatned blooes They did imbrace becoming thus continuall frends of fooes Glad was the Quéene and Beline hild sole Empier more he had From Denmarke Tribute and to this a greater honor add His daughter Cambra wedded to the Almayne Prince gaue vaine Unto the Cimbrians holding Rome so long and warlike game Some if no Error giue to him for forren Conquests fame His Ualour Warre and Peace ●re-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 Buylder and Euen Rome the terror of the World did at his mercie stand The Senate giuing to the Earth eax-while both warre and peace Could not themselues their Cittie scarce their Cappitoll release THeir Gander Feast what Manlius and Camillus did therein How This the Cappitole That from Brenn his Spoyles did win I pretermit The thrée-topt Mount Parnassus had beloe Appollos Temple whether men for Oracles did goe This with the God and Goods the Gawles did put to sacke and spoyle And whil'st incamped here they kept such sacraligious coyle The God or rather Deuill whom th'Almightie did permit His Deitie prophaned to deceiue the world in it With Tempests Earth-quakes Stench Sights so cryde the Spolers quit That most did perrish fewe disparse and all were out of harte Yea Brenn himselfe discouraged did chaunge in euery parte He looking after and vpon the scattered and the slayne Did seeme a second Cadmus saue lesse patient of his payne And shaming to be seene to wéepe deuoured sightles teares And in these words his hartie gréefes did number to their Eares Swéete Soldiours leaue me to my selfe it likes me that ye leaue me More takes your tarriance from my health then can these plagues bereaue me Ech of these Masse of Courses dead hath bin a death to mee Deliuer then myne Eyes of you too many deathes I see Suruiue and tell the Westerne World what we exployted haue How that to Rome amidst her Roofe the Mayden Sacke we gaue Tell of our Battelles Booties and our Buyldings lastly tell An honor to our Ouerthrowe that we at Delphos fell By wounds deuine no humaine Armes But God who so thou be Lesse is thy courage then thy meanes els would'st thou cope with me As Pluto with Alcides did and Mars sometymes with men Doe me like honor and these Graues shall lightly gréeue me then But thou full little darest so Nay I doe dare to much That with my so vnhallowed tongue thy Deitie dare touch Ah see these Slaughters and reserue aliue this small Remayne Let last me and only me eeke to the number slayne But bootlesse to a ruthles God I see my prayers spent As haughtelie doest thou reuenge as humbly I repent Well God of Delphos since our teares this Incence nor these Graues Appease thyne yre parsist to plague this flesh that henceforth craues No pittie to the Hebrewe God of power excéeding thyne Men say appeale I and bequeath the Soules of me and myne Accept my simple Legacie O Godhood most deuyne Sayd Brenn. And with a selfe-wrought wound did perrish and his men Departing wonne and left the name to Gallo-Grecia then The rightuous Gorboman might add fresh Subiect

rebated from their losse For Cadwane and Cadwallyne and Cadwallader the last But not the least for valarous of Brittish Princes past Brought out of Wales such knightly Warres as made their foes agast The Plague worse spoyler then y e Warres left Cambre almost waste Which to auoyde the remnant Brutes into their Shippes did haste Cadwallader in leauing thus his natiue Shore he fixt His eyes from whence his bodie should and with his sighes he mixt His royall teares which giuing place he speaketh thus betwixt Swéete Brutaine for I yet must vse that sweete and ceasing name Adewe thy King bids thee adewe whose flight no weapons frame But God cōmaunds his Wroth cōmaunds all counter-maund is vaine Els for thy loue to dye in thée were life to thy Remaine Thus tymes haue turnes thus Fortune still is flying to and fro What was not is what is shall cease some come and others goe So Brutaine thou of Nation and of name endewrest chaunge Now balking vs whom thou hast bread and brooking people straunge Yet if I shoote not past myne aime a world of tyme from me Parte of our blood in highest pompe shall Englands glorie be And chiefly when vnto a First succeedes a second She. But leauing spéeches ominous Cadwallader is woe That seeing death determines griefe he dyes not on his foe Ah Fortune faileth mightie Ones and meaner doth aduaunce The mightest Empier Rome hath chaunge then Brutaine brooke thy chaunce Let it suffice thou wert before and after Rome in fame And to indure what God intends were sinne to coumpt a shame Nor vaunt ye Saxons of our flight but if ye néedes will vaunt Then vaunt of this that God displac'd whom you could neuer daunt This said y e teares contrould his tongue sayles wrought land frō sight When saue a Remnant small the Isle was rid of Brutons quight THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XX. THE Brutons thus departed hence Seauen Kingdomes here begonne Where diuersly in diuers broyles the Saxons lost and wonne King Edell and King Adelbright in Diria ioyntly rayne In loyall concorde during life these Kingly friends remayne When Adelbright should leaue his life to Edell thus he saies By those same bonds of happie loue that held vs friends alwaies By our by-parted Crowne of which the Moyetie is myne By God to whom my Soule must passe and so in tyme may thyne I pray thée nay I Coniure thée to nourish as thyne owne Thy Néece my Daughter Argentile till she to age be growne And then as thou receiuest it resigne to her my Throne A promise had for this Bequest the Testator he dyes But all that Edell vndertooke he afterward denyes Yet well he fosters for a tyme the Damsell that was growne The fayrest Lady vnder heauen whose beautie being knowne A many Princes seeke her loue but none might her obtaine For grippell Edell to himselfe her Kingdome sought to gaine And for that cause from sight of such he did his Ward restraine By chaunce one Curan sonne vnto a Prince in Danske did sée The Mayde with whom he fell in loue as much as one might bée Unhappie Youth what should he doe his Sainct was kept in Mewe Nor he nor any Noble-man admitted to her vewe One while in Malancholy fits he pynes himselfe away Anon he thought by force of Armes to winne her if he may And still against the Kings restraint did secretly inuay At length the high Controller Loue whom none may disobay Imbased him from Lordlynes vnto a Kitchin Drudge That so at least of life or death she might become his Iudge Accesse so had to see and speake he did his loue bewray And telles his bearth her aunswer was she husbandles would stay Meane while the King did beate his braines his bootie to achiue Not caring what became of her so he by her might thriue At last his resolution was some Pessant should her wiue And which was working to his wish he did obserue with ioye How Curan whom he thought a Drudge scapt many an amorous toy● The King perceiuing such his vayne promotes his Uassall still Least that the bacenesse of the man should let perhaps his will Assured therefore of his loue but not suspecting who The Louer was the King himselfe in his behalfe did owe. The Lady resolute from loue vnkindly takes that hée Should barre the Noble and vnto so base a Match agrée And therefore shifting out of doores departed thence by stealth Preferring pouertie before a daungerous life in wealth When Curan heard of her escape the anguish in his harte Was more then much and after her from Court he did departe Forgetfull of himselfe his bearth his Countrie friends and all And onely mynding whom he mist the Foundresse of his thrall Nor meanes he after to frequent or Court or stately Townes But sollitarilie to liue amongst the Countrie grownes A brace of yeres he liued thus well pleased so to liue And Shepheard-like to féede a Flocke himselfe did wholly giue So wasting loue by worke and want grewe almost to the Waene But then began a second Loue the worser of the twaene A Coūtrie wēch a Neatheards Mayd where Curan kept his Shéepe Did féede her Droue and now on her was all the Shepheards kéepe He borrowed on the working daies his holly Russets oft And of the Bacons fat to make his Startups blacke and soft And least his Tarbox should offend he left it at the Folde Swéete Growte or Whigge his Bottle had as much as it might holde A Shéeue of bread as browne as Nut and Chéese as white as Snowe And Wyldings or the Seasons fruite he did in Skrippe bestowe And whil'st his py-bald Curre did sléepe and Shéep-hooke lay him by On hollowe Quilles of oten Strawe he pyped melodie But when he spyed her his Sainct he wipte his greasie Shooes And clear'd the driuell from his beard and thus the Shepheard owes I haue swéete Wench a péece of Chéese as good as tooth may chawe And bread and Wyldings souling well and therewithall did drawe His Lardrie and in eating see you Crumpled Ewe quoth hée Did twinne this fall and twinne should'st thou if I might tupp with thée Thou art to eluish faith thou art to eluish and to coye Am I I pray thée beggerlie that such a Flocke enioye I wis I am not yet that thou doest hold me in disdaine Is brimme abroade and made a gibe to all that kéepe this Plaine There be as quaint at least that thinke themselues as quaint that craue The Match which thou I wot not why mayst but mislik'st to haue How wouldst thou match for well I wot thou art a female I I knowe not her that willingly with Mayden-head would dye The Plowmans labour hath no end and he a Churle will proue The Craftsman hath more worke in hand then fitteth vnto loue The Marchant traffaquing abroade suspects his wife at home A Youth will play the Wanton and an old-man proue a Mome Then choose a Shepheard