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A05236	The auncient historie, of the destruction of Troy Conteining the founders and foundation of the said citie, with the causes and maner of the first and second spoiles and sackings thereof, by Hercules and his followers: and the third and last vtter desolation and ruine, effected by Menelaus and all the notable worthies of Greece. Here also are mentioned the rising and flourishing of sundrie kings with their realmes: as also of the decai and ouerthrow of diuers others. Besides many admirable, and most rare exployts of chiualrie and martiall prowesse effected by valorous knightes with incredible euents, compassed for, and through the loue of ladies. Translated out of French into English, by W. Caxton.; Recueil des histoires de Troie. English	Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460.; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.; Phiston, William.	1597 (1597)	STC 15379; ESTC S106754	424,225	623

dwelled with his mother and his sisters Cibell and Ceres and beganne to raigne with so great magnificence that they of the countrie séeing their neighbours by them did make and ordaine Kings to raigne on them of such as were noble and vertuous assembled togither on a day and made Saturne King ouer them and vppon their lines and crowned him with great glorie with a crowne of Lawyer with great ioy Saturne anon tooke and accepted this royall honour and worship and tooke the scepter in his hand and here the crowne on his head and raigned wisely inducing his people to liue honestly and to loue vertue and ordained a naked sword to be borne afore him in signe of iustice He did iustice on malefactours and enhaunsed them that were good hee did build a Citie which he named Crete because the I le bare the saide name and hee was the first inhabitour and dweller When he had founded the Citie he ordained his Pallace and dwelling place in the middle thereof in example as the heart is in the middes of the bodie to minister to the members so hée would instruct and gouerne his people And after this he chose an hundred and foure wise men which hee instituted and ordained counsellours and gouernours of his Realme And then they of Crete séeing the right great wisedome of their king assembled togither diuers times and named him a god and yet more they founded vnto him a Temple an Alter and an Idole bearing in the one hand a sickle in signification that hee destroyed the vices in such wise as the fickle cutteth hearbs and destroyeth the wéedes and in the other hand he held a serpent that did bite his taile forasmuch as Saturn said that euery man shuld bite the taile of the serpent that is to say that euery man should feare and flée the euill end For the end oftentimes is venemous as the taile of a Serpent and that appeareth yet daily by the ende of many euill disposed and inuenomed men By the meane of these thinges the renoume of king Saturne grewe and that worlde was the time of golde That is for to say it was much better and more abundant in the daies of mans life and in plentie of fruits of the earth then in any other time after The Poets by this colour compared the world at this time to gold which is most pretious of al metals wherfore many men say that Saturne was the first man that found the maner to melt mettall and to affine gold and made his vessell vtensilles of his house of diuers mettal And vnder this colour they figured at that time the worlde to be of gold Then began the men by the doctrine of Saturne to vse and were gold to myne the rocks to pearce the mountains perillous to haunt the thorny desarts to fight aduance the orguillous serpents the fierce dragons the deadly griffons the mōstrous beasts to spred abroad their worldly engins By these exercises was then Saturne the fourbisher and beginner of the stile to learne men to take these beasts And first found the manner of shooting and drawing of the bow Of this gold made Saturne his house his chambers and halles to shine by maruailous working He was strong and hardie he had no feare nor doubt of any Serpent of the mountaine nor any monster of desart or of beast dwelling in caues He knew the veines of gold in the earth and could discerne them from the veines of siluer He edifies rich things of gold ioyous vnto the eie sight and h●te and couragious to the heart For at that time the courages by perdurable fire chasing the affections of man in manner of a contagious heat so singularly that after alway that they coueted they desired to accomplish In this time of the golden world the creatures liued and endured greatly and long And al the world laboured in edification of science and cunning of vertue And that time were the men more vertuous in bodily edifying then euer they were since Among whom Saturne was neuer idle after that he had once laboured cornes in earing and sowing Hee molte and fined gold and mettals and induced and taught his men to draw the bow and shoote He himselfe found first the bow and the manner to go and saile by the sea and to rowe with little boates by the riuage and tooke his owne pleasure for to endoctrine and teach his people in all these things and he had great aboundance of worldly goods reserued onely he durst not marrie and that hee had sworne to death all the men children that should come of his séede Whereof hee was oftentimes anoyed and had great displeasure c. CHAP. III. ¶ Howe Saturne went to Delphos and had aunswere how hee should haue a son that should chase him out of his realme And how he maried him to his sister Cibell c. WHen Saturne sawe his Palace flourish and shine of gold and sawe his people obey him saw his goldsmiths workers breake mountaines with their Pikares and instruments saw his mariners cut the waues of the sea with their Oares saw his disciples learn and labor the earth saw his Archers shoot with their arrowes smote and tooke the birds dwelling in the high trées and flying by the ayre he might embrace great glorie and inhaunce on high his throne and his felicitie But on the other side when he remembred the couenant made betwéen him and his brother Titan he was like vnto the Peacocke that is proud of the fayre feathers diuersly faire coloured which he spreades round as a whéele withall only looking on his féet he leeseth all his ioy Saturn likewise by this treatie lost al his ioy his glory and his pleasure He was long time leading this life now ioyous now sorowfull growing alway and increasing his realme and dayly thought and poised in himselfe if he might marry or not for nothing in the world he would false his oath He was iust and true in déed in word Neuertheles nature moued him and cited him to haue generation and to come to company of women and this mouing was al all times refreshed and renued by a continuall sight that hée had daily in a passing faire maid that is to wit his sister Cibell which he saw continually in whom was no default of al the goods of nature appertaining to woman She was out of measure right hūble in speaking wise in her works honest in conuersation and flowing in all vertues And for this cause Saturne behelde her oft times And so hapned on a time as he beheld her affayres and workes he cast his eyen on her vertues that pleased him so greatly that in the ende he was desirous of her loue wherof his mother Vesca had great ioy and pleasure And she perceiuing of the desire of Saturne gaue him courage and will to marry her And so laboured and solicited the mariage so effectually that with great worship and triumph Saturne

folden as my Ladie hath hers me seemeth for truth that it is some euill creature which willeth euill will to my Ladie and that by her sorceryes constraineth her to sit as she doth If it be so I will deceiue her For one of you and I will go into the Temple fayning right ioyous and glad chéere and will thanke the goddesse Diana saying all on high that my Lady is deliuered of a faire son And then when that creature that alway is there and changeth her into diuerse formes haue heard our praysing if it be so that she will any ill to my lady I doubt not but she shall loose countenance and that all troubled shee shall depart thinking to haue fayled of her enchauntment And then if it be truth that I suppose my ladie may haue some maner of deliuerance from her paine c. The women during these words remembred them that they had séene in the Temple the woman and beasts that Galantis spake of and were of opinion that Galantis should do like as she had supposed Then Galantis and one of the women departed from the chamber and went to the temple and entring therein they sawe on the one side where the false old quéen sate as she was wont to do and had transformed herselfe into the guise and forme of a Cow They passed foorth by confidently without making any shewe of sorrow or other thing saue onely of ioy and when they were come before the alter they knéeled downe and ioyned their hands together and sayde Diana soueraigne goddesse thy name bee praised in heauen and in earth for thou hast giuen this houre to my Ladye Alcumena and helped her to bring foorth into this world the most the most fairest childe of the worlde With these words they rose vp and returned againe and as they went they sawe the cowe suddenly depart out of the Temple and ran vpon the fields and in the same time and instance Alcumena arose and was deliuered of two fayre sonnes before Galantis and her fellow were come into the Chamber When Galantis were come vnto Alcumena and found there two fayre sonnes which she had brought forth she was full of ioy for that she had be guyled and deceyued the false olde Iuno She told then vnto the Ladies and to Alcumena howe shée had séene the Cowe and howe shée was departed from the Temple and assured them that it was some euill person and that shee had holde Alcumena in this daunger by sorcerie The Ladies sent after to séeke the Cowe but they heard neuer after tydings of her and greatly alway they ioyed in the natiuitie of these two sonnes Of these twaine the one of them was great and right fayre and of excéeding excellencie and the other was little and feeble The great childe was the first that was borne and was named Hercules and the other had to name Ypecleus Hercules as some say was the sonne of Iupiter and well resembled and was like vnto him and Ypecleus was the sonne of Amphitrion The tidings of this natiuitie anon ran all about and all they that heard speake thereof made ioy and were glad thereof saue only Iuno For she had neuer ioy in her heart after that she had heard in the temple that Alcumena was deliuered and had brought forth a sonne She departed from the temple as is said in the forme of a Cow despising in her heart the goddesse Diana and was so troubled that she had neither wit nor vnderstanding and thus sorrowing when she was a little withdrawne from the Temple she tooke againe her own forme of a woman and went vpon the mountaine of Olympus there she waxed pensiue and beganne to think what she might do after she smote her self on the brest with her fist and said what auayleth me to be borne of the royall blood of Saturne What auaileth me my patrimonie of the world of golde what auaileth mee the diademe of Crete what auaileth me the sciences of the world that I haue learned by great studie and labour when the gods be against and contrarie to mee in all things The king my husband careth not for me nor setteth nought by mee no more in mine olde daies then he did in my youth O what destiny Fortune wilt thou neuer turne thy wheele Shall I alway suffer still tribulations and this paine Certes séeing thou fauourest me not and that I be holde that of all my desires there is not one that may attaine to effect all shame and vexation redoubleth in me and I am so put in dispayre that my misfortune must néedes be cause of shortning and lessning the naturall course of my dayes With these words she beheld the earth and not the heauen pawsed a while and after that said And am I not wel infortunate and borne in an euill houre My craft and sorcerie auaileth not against myne enemy Alcumena I haue fayled against her but certes I will prooue my selfe against her sonne to the ende that his mother may be my felow and hold me company to make sorrow For I will slea her sonne and by this meane for that she is a woman and a mother I shall giue her cause of anger gréefe and displeasance O cursed olde Vyrago conspyring then against the poore innocent then shée imagined that she would take two serpents charmed and coniured to worke the death of the son of her enemy and that shée would some night put them into his chamber to the ende that they should strangle him With this conclusion shee departed from the mountayne and returned into Crete There being she so laboured by her science that shee did assemble on a day secretly all the serpents of the countrey Shée was alone and well vnderstoode and knewe this marchandise When she had assembled them all shee chose two of the most felonous and most enuenimed and put them in her lap and bare them home and after waited a day when king Iupiter had gone into a farre voyage and then fayning that shee would go on some pilgrimage she departed alone from Crete and did so much that in disguised shape she came into the Castle of Arciancie The king Egeus of th ens and the king Euristens of Attique were at that time come into the castle to make good cheere and it was in the euening when Iuno entred When she was within shée made her selfe inuisible by her craft and sought all about to find the chamber wherein was the son of Alcumena She sought so long till she came to the doore of the chamber where there was a window open Shée went to the window and looked in and in the beholding shée saw two nourses and two sonnes whereof she was all abashed and beganne to muse much Thus as shée was pensife Alcumena came for to sée her sons and feasted them in such fashion that the olde Iuno perceiued and knew that both the two were her sonnes whereof she had great ioy For she concluded in her false and

do to him what he may And thus began the dolorous battaile of Saturne and Iupiter There was the father agaynst the sonne and the sonne agaynst the father There lost nature her fayre and commendable properties The father sought to spill the blood that hee had engendred and promised great giftes vnto them that might take him The battaile was rigorous and hard and then wrought and fought well Iupiter and Archas and aboue all the noble Iupiter imployed so hardilie his Swoorde tempered with stéele that hée smote downe Shéeldes and Helmes and cut off heades and armes and there was no man might resist his prowesse inuincible Hée made to tremble the most hardiest that were there hée made retyre and to go abacke them that had aduaunced themselues more then they had power and vertue to maintaine Hee brake the wings of the battaile and in their most strength he met and encountred manie times Saturne his father and it was well in his power and puyssaunce to gréeue him but though that Saturne layde on him and gaue him great strokes and grieuous horions yet he would neuer smile againe but sayde to him oft tymes Alas my father wherefore séekest thou the effusion of my blood I am thy sonne and thy seruaunt Thou hast no cause to persecute mée I will not lay my hand vppon thée but beware and put no affiance in the Archadiens for if they may haue and get thée in their power thou shalt find in them little pitie nor mercie c. Saturne notwithstanding these fayre wordes woulde neuer refrayne his yre but smote euer vpon Iupiter as fiercely as he mought Iupiter of all his strokes tooke no héede and set little thereby and albeit that he had occasion to fight and smite his father alway he turned his strokes and had no consciens to occupy his sharp sword vpon them of Crete yet somtimes he so laied on that euery stroke without fault was died with newe bloode And this he did meaning to shewe Saturne that he fought against him in vaine and that to him was nothing impossible All these things nothing dismaied Saturne The cry was great aboute Iupiter the armes were greatly exercysed the ground was all couered with the effusion of bloud and the deade bodies lay one vpon an other beheaded and smitten in péeces O right hard and sore battaile Saturne was so intangled in his obstinacie that the bloud of his men wetting his armes by the course of the large woūds that Iupiter made vnto them might not moderate his yre nor heate And his eyes were so blynde in his yre that he sawe not his right euydente dammage nor how he sought the proper meane by which he was put out of his Realme that he doubted and against which he intended to make resistance and eschewe it with his might CHAP. XVII ¶ How Iupiter vanquished in the battaile against Saturne his father and Saturne fled by the sea IN this battayle Iupiter saued oftentimes Saturne among the Swoordes of the Arcadiens and did good against euill many of them of Crete fought against heart knowing that Saturne had begoon and was cause of the warre and notwithstanding they put theyr hands to worke yet the faynte hartednes that they had among them was cause of the losse of a right great number of people They doubted Iupiter and had no power to withstande and fight so well as they woulde haue done if they had felt the quarrell good and by this maner was the batteldemeaned to the great preiudice of the Saturniens Iupiter submitted himselfe to his father and often times cried in his eare that hee should withdraw him or the battaile would be worse or be lost Hee withstoode his stroakes a great while waiting that hee would conforme and conuert himselfe from his euill opinion But then at last when Iupiter tooke héede and sawe that he would in no wise heare him he opened and displayed his valour and the great might of his armes and of his sword and made such affray vpon his aduersaries breaking their helmes and hewing their harnesse not in manner of a man hauing all day sustained the feare of great stroakes and conflicts of the Saturniens but in the manner of a Champion fresh and newe of whome the strokes redoubled Thus then it séemed vnto the Saturniens that in multiplying of the horions and stroakes the strength and puissance of Iupiter beganne to reuiue and grow His well dooing and valliance gaue vnto the Archadiens strength vppon strength and vnto his enemies great losse of bloud and also of life There was the ground bedewed with newe bloud There were dead bodies couered with new dead men There was the chaire of Saturne smitten into péeces Saturne helde a long while the battaile as long as his might would endure and in no wyse would flée But in conclusion whan his men sawe that the warre went with them alway from euill into worse they beganne to retire and turned the backe and fled and then Saturne turned and fled in likewise Then they were followed in the chase so sharpely and deadly that some were slaine in the way and some saued themselues nowe heere and nowe there And among all other Saturne was so nigh pursued by Archas and some of the Archadiens that he had no leisure to returne into Crete but was driuen by force till he came vnto a port of the sea that was thereby where he saued himselfe by meane of a shippe that hee there found and there hee went vnto the sea with some of them that fled so sore gréeued and pensife that hee might not speake c. Thus this battaile ended of the father and the sonne When Archas saw that Saturne was saued in the sea hée returned to Iupiter his father and assembled againe his people and tolde them these tydings and also he assembled his councell for to wete what Iupiter should do And they of the councell were all of the opinion that Iupiter should go into Crete and that they would make him king saying that the gods had shewed clearely that they would that he should succéede as king in the Realme which his father was fled from for as much as they had then no head To this counsaile accorded Iupiter and went to Crete by space of time where hee was receiued for king for the citizens durst not gainesay it for as much as they wist not where Saturne was become And although Cibell and Vesca made great sorrow for the misfortune of Saturne yet they turned their sorrow into gladnes at the coronation of Iupiter and sent for Iuno And then began Iupiter to reigne in distributing and departing vnto the Archadiens the treasures of his father whereof they had great ioy and gladnesse and for this cause say the Poets that Iupiter gelded and cast his genitoyre into the sea of whom was engendred Venus That is to say that he cast the treators of his father into the bellies of his men whereof engendred all voluptuousnesse which

as well then as the night before she began to féel the sparkles of Love and séeing his riches that he had given in the house she determined to give him her heart and love On this resolution to which her heart concluded she was firmly setled yet her mind was enterlaced with abundant thoughts ●any Noble-men had required her love before time that shée was shut in the Tower and could never turn her heart nor cause ●er once to sigh or think on th●ir requests The onely words of ●upiter were so effectual and happy that they constrained her to ●ear them and to become pens●ve breaking all doubts and contrary opinions CHAP. XXI How Jupiter came from his Chamber by night and lay in the Tower of Dardan with the Damosel Danae on whom he begate the noble Perseus SO long dured the feasting of Jupiter that it was time to with-draw from thence Then Danae took leave of Jupiter and did convey him into a secret Chamber by her Damosels When Jupiter was departed she entred into her Chamber a●● was enterlarded with aboundant thoughtes Many noble men had required her loue before time that she was shutte in the Tower and could neuer turne her heart nor cause her once to sighe or thinke on their requestes The only words of Iupiter were so effectual and happie that they constrayned her to heare them and to become pensife breaking all doubts and contrary opinions CHAP. XXI How Iupiter came from his chamber by night and lay in the tower of Dardane with the damosell Danae on whome he engendred the noble Perseus SO long dured the feasting of Iupiter that it was houre and time to withdrawe thence Then Danae tooke leaue of Iupiter and did conuey him into a secrete chamber by her damosels When Iupiter was departed she entred into her chamber accompanyed onely with the olde woman that was her mistresse which had charge on her aboue all other and as soone as the olde woman had her priuily in her chamber as she that was suspitious sayde to her my daughter tell mée of your tidings I must néedes knowe what thing this messenger hath sayde to you Dame aunswered Danae will ye witte yea sayd the old woman Then answered Danae he must come himselfe and make the re●ort for he hath sayde to me so many things that the tenth parte is not in my minde My daughter sayd the olde woman I thinke well he is not come hither without cause What hath he sayd if ye haue not all in minde tell me at least that abideth and resteth in your mind Dame answered Danae ye knowe well that neuer I mistrusted you and that the secretnes of myne heart to you hath alway bin open I wil now make no new customes For to short this matter he that nameth himselfe seruant of Iupiter is Iupiter himselfe by report and hath made great oaths that hee hath made these presents and gifts for to speake to me Indéed he hath shewed to me how I loose héere my time and hath required me to be his wife To which I haue not yet consented but haue taken day for to giue an answere to morrow hoping to take your counsell and therfore I pray you that ye counsell me in that I haue to doo and what answere he shall haue of me Ye know how I haue suffered his gifts to be receiued he must be therefore satisfied by some maner either by faire spéech or otherwise The old woman had béen before time in the house of king Meliseus and there had séene Iupiter in the time of his return from his conquest of Archadie and had partly knowne him since the first day that he came thither This notwithstanding she doubted of his person for as much as men otherwhile be like one to another and she had alway her eie on him When then she had vnderstood by Danae that had told her that he was Iupiter she was sure that it was he in his person and had great ioy saying My daughter certainely I know him that we speake of and haue talked with him of long time past And for his person I assure you it is hee that he hath done you to vnderstand of But for to perswade or counsell you if yee take him vnto your husband I can say none otherwise to you but that hee is one of the most valiantest men of the world and that his enterprises bee right high And if I had a daughter the most best manered of the world there is no man liuing that I would giue her sooner vnto then to him if it pleased him to take hir Ye sée that notwithstanding his simple aray hee is a goodly man hee is noble hee is rich hee is wise hée is a king Ye feele in your selfe your courage if ye will vse and obserue the commandement of your father ye may not with him holde consistorie ne parlement If ye will absent you from this place by good meanes there is no man but Iupiter that may helpe you I counsell you neither the one nor the other choose ye and take ye the best way c. Ah my mother sayd Danae howe should I choose my selfe there is in me neither wit nor reason to take that I should choose ne for to discerne the good from the euill And as for me I shall put it all into your deliberation and will that yee knowe that out of this Tower would I faine be mine honour saued and the honour saued of my companie With this came in to them all the damoses of the house and said to her that they had made right good chéere to their guest and thus failed the secret conference of Danae of the aged woman The damosels went set their iewels newly presented to them and parted to each of thē her portion saying that to king Iupiter was none like but that he was among al other the most bountifull most honorable king of kings The maid Danae took great pleasure with al these things When the damosels had parted among them their iewels of gold with great ioy they brought Danae to bed departed from her chamber which they left open by forgetting as they that had set all their mind and thought on their riches and so went to their beds into their chambers Iupiter lying in his bedde at this houre found himselfe so surprised with couetousnes of loue that he was constrained to arise and to looke out at a window to behold if the day approched lifting his eyes againe to the stars of heauen and was rauished in his heart by the remembrance of faire Danae and saide 〈◊〉 noble Danae that hath more beautye than the starre ●ning and that shineth by soueraigne clearnesse alas whe● be ye this houre the paine that I indure for your cause yée know not nor the great ieopardie the perillous case that I haue put me in to attaine your loue Vnkindnesse may she haue place in you with disdaine rigor and fiercenesse which be mine