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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

put her out of the order and of her company AT this time began to rise in the mind of Iupiter many thoughts for the better he concluded in himself to returne to Pelage from whence he came And then for because that hee was displeased with himselfe for the enforsing of his Ladie dame Calisto by loue hee departed from the wood and so hasted on his way that hee was on the morne among the Epiriens in his first habite When the Epiriens sawe Iupiter come againe they made him right great chéere and great honor And the same day Iupiter fained him that he would go on hunting and so went and found means to speake with Calisto and required her that she would be his loue but she in no wise would assent to him He returned from the chase so gréeued that for to passe his melancholy he departed out of the country The fourth day following after that he ordained there folke that gouerned the people and returned into the house of king Melliseus who receiued him as his son and there he dwelled a long time without aduentures whereof any mention is made and also Calisto dwelled in peace a while and when she heard tell and vnderstood that Iupiter was gone she was passing ioyous for she had leuer haue him far then nigh alway the time passed the fruit of her wombe grew and the day came that Diana and Athalanta with other virgins perceiued that she was with child wherfore they assembled al in their Chapyter and called Calisto and then spake Diana to her and said Calisto my daughter thou hast done fornication with some man this fornication is not excusable The virgins of this place be sorie for thy sinne and haue abhomination of thy shame For this cause it is of force that thou departe out of this house thou shalt be no longer their fellow Thou hast made thy selfe worthie to depart by the breaking and loosing of thy virginitie Take thine array and go thy way into some place where then maist be deliuered of the fruit that resteth in thée for thou shalt no longer be héere within When Calisto heard the goddesse Diana and knew that she said truth great teares fel from her eies and wéeping by great aboundance excused her vpon Iupiter rehearsing the abuse and violence that she had Diana and the maidens had great maruaile of Iupiter that had them so deceiued Calisto cried her mercie right humbly and many times offered her selfe to the correction of the maidens This notwithstanding albeit that she was held excused they receiued her not to mercie She was condemned to go out of the cloyster and so much went the matter for t of that the poore religious woman departed from thence all bewept and so ashamed that she would not go to no towne citie nor house but in a déepe caue that she had seene afore time in the wood And first she made her prouision of hearbs and rootes for as much as the winter was comming After she entred into the caue and there she held her so lōg time as the beare holdeth him in his den wherefore the Arcadiens fayned that she was turned into a beare And it is not to be forgottē that during this time she was deliuered of a sonne which she named Archas. This child was great and huge of members Calisto nourished him among the wilde beastes with rootes fruites and hearbes and of the proper meates and prayes that the cruel and terrible beasts liued with and there was no beaste that did him any harme nor none was so hardie to do him any gréeuance And he was so cruel and fierces that at the age of seuen yeare as his mother angred or troubled him on a day he lifted vp himselfe against her and would haue slaine her In so much that Calisto was constrained to flée before him by the bushes and to issue out of the wood and go to Iupiter which at that time was in the citie of Pelage Are has pursued Calisto his mother vntill he came within the citie and so forth entred after her into the Pallace and held in his hands two great round stones When Calisto entred into the pallace by aduenture she encountred and mette with Iupiter whom she knew and she knéeled downe on the earth before him and required him with afrayed spirite that he would do her iustice of her sonne that would flea her Iupiter that nothing knewe Calisto for asmuch as she was euil clothed and halfe wilde and sauage behelde the chylde and made him be taken and after he demaunded Calisto what she was Sir said she I am ' Calisto that for thy sinne was long since banished out of my religion I haue had this childe of thy séede such as thou seest this is thy sonne I haue nourished him seuen yeares in the forrest among wilde beasts He now would slea me for asmuch as I haue angred him I pray shée saue my life When Iupiter heard these wordes of Calisto he was right glad and ioyous for it was sayd that she was dead and he comforted her the best wise he could After that he called Archas and made the peace betwéene him and his mother and did cause him to be clothed and reteyned him in his palace And thēceforth the same Archas gouerned him so wel and so wisely that at the prayer and request of the Pelagiens Archas was made king of the countrey CHAP. IX ¶ How Titan assayled by warre his brother Saturne for as much as he had not put to death all his Children males c. IN this time that the young Archas was crowned king of Pelage and that he named the Cytie Archadia after his name the king Saturne was so great and so puissaunt that for to ample and increase the splendor of his natiuity he named himselfe Saturne sonne of heauen and of earth But then as he began to study how and by what maner hée might exalt the splendour of his felicitie by diuine misteries fortune turned her backe to him warde And as there is nothing in earth that may abide and endure so it happend that Tytan was all acertained that the quene Cibell had diuerse men children that she did cause to be kepte secretly and so had saued their liues Boccace that recounteth this history in the fourth booke of the genealogie of the goddes sayth not by what meane Titan knewe this thing alwaye eyther by suspection or by enuy that he had of the glorye of Saturne his Brother or by secret aduertisement Vnder this colour he determined in his courage that he woulde assayle Saturne by armes and for this cause he did assemble on a daye al his sonnes and them required that they would ayde and helpe him to get the land of Crete saying that hée woulde make warre against Saturne his Brother and that by right and iuste tytle he had good cause for he had not put to death dyuerse men children that his wife Cibell had conceyued of his séede like as

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

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

the ground twice and after slew the king Prothenor and smote him with one stroke in two partes WHen it was come to the morrow betimes the Troyans armed them for to go and assaile the Greekes but the Greeks sent betimes to king Priamus and demanded truce for two monethes and he agreed to them the saide truce And then were the dead bodies gathered as well of the one part as of the other and some were buried and some burnt Achilles was then so sorrowfull for the death of Patroclus that hée could in no wise be comforted hee made his bodie to bée buried in a faire rich Sepulture and so did they of the other as of the king Prothesilaus and other kinges and princes that were slaine and they that were hurt and wounded they did cause to bée healed during the truce Priamus the king did bury his bastard sonne Cassibelanus right honourably in the temple of Venus and shewed great sorrowe for his death and so did all the other c. When Cassandra heard the greefe and sorrow that the Troyans made for the death of their friendes shee cried and said O vngracious Troyans make sorrow for your selues for in likewise shall it happē and come to you as it is to your friendes that is the death alas why seeke yée not peace of the Gréekes before these euils come to you and ere this noble citie bee destroied alas why yeelde you not againe Helene that the king my father did cause to rauish by force wherefore yee shall all be destroied Among all these thinges Palamedes murmured greatly at the seignory of Agamemnon saying that hee was not worthy to haue so great domination aboue all the other and that he himselfe was more worthy to haue the seignory of the hoste then Agamemnon and that hee had not the good will and consent of the princes but only of three or foure and then at that time there was nothing further proceeded When the truce failed the king Agamemnon that had the charge of all the hoste ordered right early his battailes and gaue the first to Achilles and the second to Diomedes the third to Menelaus the fourth to Menesteus the duke of Athens and ouer all the other he ordained good captaines and conductors Hector ordered his battailes in like wise and set in the first Troylus and in all the other he set good captaines and hardy and made all the battailes to issue out and hee set himselfe in the front before And when Achilles sawe him hee ranne against him so that they smote each other to the earth right sore Hector remounted first and left Achilles lying on the earth and smote in among the other in the greatest prease and he raught no knight but he slew him or beate him downe and went throughout the battaile all made red with the bloud of them that he had slaine When Achilles was remounted he thrusted in among the Troyans in the great prease and slew many and hee went so farre that he encountered Hector againe and he ranne to him and Hector to him but Achilles was borne downe to the ground and Hector woulde haue taken his horse but he might not for the great succors that Achilles had When hee was remounted hée assailed Hector with his sword and gaue so great strokes to Hector that nigh hée had beaten him but Hector gaue to him so great a stroke vppon the helme that he ouerthrew him and made the bloud spring out of his head Thus was the battell mortall of the two knightes and if they had not béen parted the one from other they had béene slaine but their people put asunder them Then came Diomedes to the battaile and Troylus on the other side which smote each other to the earth But Dyomedes remounted first and assailed Troylus that was on foote and defended himself valiantly and slew the horse of Dyomedes but their men remounted them both two by force and then they began againe to skirmish And Dyomedes had taken and lead away Troylus if the Troyans had not put them in perill of death for to reskew him and many of them were slain Then came to the battaile Menelaus of the Gréeks side and Paris on the other side and thus going and comming Hector ceassed not to slea and to beate downe knightes Then there was a new knight named Brietes that assailed him fiersly but Hector by right great ire smote him vpon the Helme so great a stroke that he cleft his head vnto the nauell and hee fell downe dead but Archilogus his coosin séeing that Hector woulde haue taken his horse Archilogus defended him asmuch as hée might and then Hector ranne vpon him and smote him so hard that hee smote his body in two peeces notwithstanding his harneis The king Prothenor addressed him to Hector that then tooke no regard nor heede and smote him downe to the earth And Hector remounted anon vpon his horse and gaue to king Prothenor so great a stroke with all his might that hée cleft body in two halues Achilles that was his parent or coosin seeing that had so great sorrow that hee and the king Archelaus contended to reuenge his death But the Troyans did come vppon him with such courage and warlike strength that the Greekes fainted and must néedes flee and the Troyans followed them vnto their tentes and then the night came on that made them to depart and the Troyans returned backe into their Citie CHAP. XIII ¶ How the Greekes held parliament how they might slea the worthy Hector and how they returned to the fourth battaile in the which Paris and Menelaus encountered and the king Thoas was brought prisoner to Troy AFter this battaile when the night was come all the kings princes and barons of the Greekes assembled at the Tent of king Agamemnon and there held they their parliament howe they might slea Hector And they said that as long as hée were aliue and came to battaile against them they might neuer vanquish the Troyans but he should to them doe great damage And for to bring this thing to the end they requested Achilles that hee woulde take it vppon him as well for his strength as for his wisedome And Achilles enterprised it gladly as hee that wist that Hector desired more his death then the death of any other and also Hector was hee by whom he might soonest loose his life After this counsell they went to rest till on the morrowe betime they armed them And Hector was then issued out of the Citie with his battailes well and diligently ordered and was himselfe before all other in the first battaile And after him came Eneas and then Paris and then Deyphebus and after him Troylus and after him the other following each in his order Then ioyned all the Troyans togither and were more then an hundred thousand fighting men Then began the battaile horrible and mortall Paris with them of Perse that were good knightes slew with shot many Gréeks and hurted them