not how nor where His troubled thoughts confusd with paine and wonder Distracted twixt amazednesse and feare His foote remoues not nor his handes doth sunder Seemes blind to see and beeing deafe to heare And in an extasie so farre misled That he shewes dead aliue and liuing dead 98 Euen so this new-made woman late a mayde Lyes senslesse after this her transformation Seeing in vaine she had implor'd heauens ayde With many a fearefull shrike and shrill Oration Like one intranc't vpon the ground shee s layde Amazde at this her sudden alteration She is she knowes not what she cares not where Confounded with strange passion force and feare 99 Ihoue comforts her and with his Princely arme He would haue raisd her from the setled grasse With amorous words he faine her griefe would charme He tels her what he meant and who he was But there is no amends for such shrewd harme Nor can he cheere the discontented Lasse Though he oft sware and by his life protested She in his Nuptiall bed should be inuested 100 But nothing can preuaile she weeping sweares To tell Diana of his shamefull deed So leaues him watering all her way with teares Young Ihoue to leaue the Forrest hath decreed He would not haue it come to Dians cares And therefore to the Citty backe doth speed She to the Cloyster with her checkes all wet Alone as many as when first they met IAsius raigned in Italy at whose marriage the famous Egyptian Io was present This was in the yeare of the world 2408. It was iust six yeares after that Moyses at the age of forty hauing slane the Egyptian sledde from the sight of Pharao Eleuen yeares after Moyses departed out of Egypt the two brothers Dardanus and Iasius waged warres in Italy Iasius was assisted by the Ianigenes so cald of Ianus Dardanus was ayded by the Aborigines so called by Sabatus saga who succeeded Comerus Gallus the Scythian in certaine conquered Prouinces of Italy At this time Lusus raignd in Spaine Allobrox in france Crothopus the 8. king of the Argiues now raigned Craunus the second king of Athens and at this time Aaron was consecrated high Priest among the Israelites Iasius was slaine in the yeare of the world 2457. in whose place Coribanthus his sonne succeeded Dardanus soiourned certaine yeares in Samothracia erected his Citty Dardan cald Troy in the 31. yeare of the Dukedome of Moyses receiuing that Prouince where his city was erected from Atho prince of Moeonia About the same time by equall computation Archas Calisto subduing the Pelagians by the helpe of Iupiter cald the whole prouince Archadia Tantalus ruled the Phrygians who were before his time cald Moeones This Moeonia is now called Lydia vnder which clymate Arachne was borne by Pallas turned into a Spider Diana was thought to be daughter to an ancient king called Iupiter of Atticke which Itake to bee Iupiter Belus before spoken of She was the first that instituted a profest order of Virginity The Poets call this Diana Cinthia and phaebe figuring in her the Moone and that her brother phoebus she were borne of their mother Latona daughter to Caeus the Gyant in the Iste of Delos Atlanta was daughter to Iasius sister to Coribantus she first wounded the Calidonian Boare and was after espoused to Meleagar sonne to Oeneus the king of Calidon by his wife Althea Lycaon was the sonne of Pelasgus the sonne of Iupiter and Nyobe and of Melibea or as some thinke Cillene He had many sonnes by many wiues Moenalus Thesprotus Nectinnes Caucon Lycus Maeuins Macareus In Archadia Menatus that built the Citty Menatus Moe leneus that built Moeleneus not farre from Megapolis Acontius that built Acontium Charisius that gaue name to Charisium and Cynethus to Cynetha he hadde besides Psophis Phthinus Teleboas Aemon Mantinus Stimphelus Clitor Orchomenus and others Some recken them to the number of fifty others to many more Amongst all these he had but two daughters Calisto and Dia. Touching Ariadnes crowne it is thus remembred At 〈◊〉 corona nitet clarum inter sidera signum Defunct a quem banchusibi dedit esse Ariadnae being for saken of Theseus in the Isle Naxos whom before she had deliuered from the Mynotara she was espoused by the God Bacchus and by him had Thoas oenopio Staphilus Exanthes Latramis and Tauropolis The end of the second CANTO Argumentum CAlista knowne to be with Child is driuen From Dians Cloyster Archas doth pursue His mother vnto him Pelage is giuen Now termed Archady when Tytan knew Saturne had sonnes aliue his hart was riuen With anger he his men togither drew To Battayle the two brothers fight their fils Ioue saues his Father and his Vncle kils ARG. 2. TRans-formed Calisto and the Gyant-kings Ioues Combat with great Tiphō Gāma sings CANTO 3. 1 WHen I record the dire effects of Warre I cannot but with happy praise admire The blessed friendes of Peace which smoothes the scat Of wounding steele and al consuming fire Oh in what safety then thy Subiects are Royall king Iames secur'd from Warres fierce yre That by thy peacefull gouernment alone Studrest deuided Christendomet'attone 2 To thee may Poets sing the 'r chearefull laies By whom their Muses flourish in soft peace To thee the Swaines may tune eternall praise By whom they freely reape the earths increase The Merchants through the earth applaud thy daies Wishing their endlesse date may neuer cease By who they throgh the quartered world may traffick Asia Europe America and Affricke 3 Thy Liege-men thou hast plac'st as on a hill Free from the Cannons reach from farre to see Diuided Nations one another kill Whilst thy safe people as Spectators be Onely to take a view what blood they spill They neere to ruine yet in safety we Alone in peace whilst all the realmes about vs Enuy our blisse yet forcst to fight without vs. 4 So did the Newter Londoners once stand On Barnet-Heath aloofe to see the fight Twixt the fourth Edward Soueraigne of this land And the great Duke of Warwicke in the right Of the sixt Henry in which hand to hand Braue Iohn of Oxford a renowned knight Made many a patting soule for liues-breath pant And vanquisht many a worthy Combattant 5 So stood the Kentish men to view the maine In the yeare Eighty eight when th' English fleete Fought with the huge Armadoes brought from Spaine With what impatience did they stand to see 't On the safe shore willing to leaue the traine Of such faint Cowards as thinke safety sweet In such a quarrell where inuaders threat vs And in our natiue kingdome seeke to beat vs. 6 Where Royal Englands Admirall attended With all the Chiualry of our braue Nation The name of Howard through the earth extended By Naual triumph o're their proud Invasion Where victory on the Red-Crosse descended In Lightning and Earths-thunder in such fashion That all the sheafed feathered
of whom Corinth tooke first name Electra daughter to King Athlas marryed From Lybia hath he fetcht the louely Dame And thence to Naples this rich purchase carried Corinth and Naples are indeed the same One Citty though by Time their names be varried These dying left behinde them to succeed Two Princes Lords of many a vahant deed 3 Whilst Corinth there Memnon all Egypt swayde In Italy Atleus Harbon Gaul Hesperus Spaine the Argine King was made Crassus in France King Ludgus gouern'd all Arming himselfe gainst such as did Inuade Syrus in Syria Assyrias crowne doth fall To Mancaleus which whilst he maintaind Orthopolis in Pelloponessus raign'd 4 Moyses was borne the selfe-same happy yeare That faire Electra was made haplesse Queene Who spake with GOD and saw the bush burne cleare By whom the Israelites deliuered beene From Pharaohs bondage whom the fiery spheare Guided by night when in the day was seene The Cloud to vsher them In whose blest daies Corinthus yssue their proud fortunes raise 5 One Dardanus that other Iasius hight Who strongly for their Fathers Crowne contend And to their aydes assemble many a knight By force of Armes their challenge to defend But Armes nor bloudy battell force nor fight Can vnto this vnnaturall warre giue end Till at the length a Treaty was appointed Which by accord should be the King annointed 6 Iasius to Parlee comes vnarm'd his brother Vnder his Robes of peace bright Armor wore And being met his vengeance could not smother But slew him dead The Lords his death deplore Thus pitiously the one hath kilde the other Iasius vnto his Sepulcher they bore But Dardanus that him so basely slew Vnto the Pallaee Royall they pursue 7 The people such a Traiterous practise hated And vow his blood shall for his murder pay Such as lou'd Iasius the rest animated And round begirt the place where Dardan lay Who cals such friends as on his person waited And in the dead of night steales thence away For well he knowes they Iasius lou'd so deerely That they his murder will reuenge seucrely 8 Before the dawne of day they shipping take The darkenesse of the night their purpose aideth Through the vast Ocean a swift saile they make But as the morning riseth and night fadeth The sterne Corinthians to their fury wake And euery man th'vngarded house inuadeth But when they entring found the brother fled They curse the liuing and lamâ—… the dead 9 Long they their weary Fortunes haue in chase Still in the mercy of the Seas and winde But where to harbor they can find no place Or in the seas wilde deserts comfort finde At length they touch at Samos Isle in Thrace A soile which yet contents not Dardans minde Ballast fresh water victuals he takes in And hoysing saile seekes further shores to win 10 By this the Asian Seas his ships hath past And now within the Helle spont he rides The Marriners the shore discry at last Where calling all their Sea-gods to their guides To their discouery they apply them fast And now their vessels neere the cost abides Not long about the briny beach they houer But Dardan landes the Iland to discouer 11 He finds it fruitfull pleasant and a soile Fit to inhabit hie woods champion fields He holds this countrey worth her former toile The place he likes and to this clime he yeilds And after all his trauell and turmoile He plants himselfe a Citty here he builds He casts a huge Ditch first then layes a frame And after cals it Dardan by his name 12 The time the groundsils of great Troy were layd Was Lacedemon built by computation In Athens Ertchthonius King was made And Danaus ruler ore the Argiue Nation Hercules Dasinas Phenitia swayde Egiptus Egypt now the first foundation Of great Apollos Temple was begun By young Eristhones King Cecrops sonne 13 In processe is much people there conuented Being a Citty well and fairely seated And all such people as this place frequented Were by him and his followers well intreated No stranger from the King past discontented No Marchant in his traffique was defeated In time his wealth and people both abound And here in Dardan Dardanus liues crownd 14 This Dardan on Candame got a sonne Eruton hight who the same state maintained Time keepes his course away the swift howers run The second King in Arts and Warres is trained Imagine seauen and forty Winters dun So long Eruton in this Citty raigned Troos his sonne the kingdome doth enioy And of this Troos came the name of Troy 15 A puissant King in Armes his valors fame Through all the Asian confines stretched far Kingdomes he doth subdue Invadors tame By him the two first kings ecclipsed are And the Dardanians change their auncient name And of King Troos so renowmd in warre Are Troyans cald for so King Troos chargeth And with his fame his new-built towne enlargeth 16 Now all the Graecian Citties Troy out-shineth Whose glory many neighbour kings enuy Yet none so bold that outwardly repineth Or date in publicke tearmes king Troos defie The strongest people he by loue combineth The weaker he by armes doth terrifie King Tantalus that liues in Phrigia crownd Most enuies Troy should be so farre renown'd 17 But leaue we him in enuy Troy in glory For enuy still lookes vpward seldome downe And turne to that which most concernes our story How Iupiter attain'd his fathers crowne How Sybill â—…oyfull was but Saturne sorry To heare his sonnes suruiuing in renowne How Tytan war'd on Saturne how Ione grew And in his fathers aid his Vnckle slew 18 Twixt the Pelagians and Epiriens riseth Contentious warre in Epire raigned then King Milleseus who in armes surpriseth Certaine Pelagians king Lycaons men Lycaon with his watlike troopes aduiseth By pollicy of warre both how and when He may awaite th' Epiriens the like domage And make their king vnto his state do homage 19 At length Ioues Guardian the great Epyre king Vnto the son of Titan offers peace In signe whereof they Oliue branches bring To signifie their hostile Armes surcease Lycaon sonne to Tytan whom wars sting Had likewise gald and spoild his lands increase Applauds the motion sweares to this accord Condition'd thus to leaue an Epire Lord. 20 An Epyre Lord as Hostage straight they take And in Pelagia with Lycaon leaue him There to abide till they amends shall make For all the spoiles th' Eperiens did bereaue him The King the daies doth watch the nights doth wake Least his Epirien hostage should deceiue him Lycaon of his couenant naught doth slacke The time expires the Lord should be sent backe 21 And to that purpose Melliseus sends Ambassadors from Epire to Pelage Who to Lycaon beares his kind commends Lycaon full of spleene and warlike rage To quit his former inâ—…ury intends And with much paine his fury doth asswage Yet giues them outward welcome they desire Their Hostage Lord to
With his dead fathers Crowne This Vesta feares And calling Saturne thus to him she sed My dearest sonne t is by the Lords decreed That in Vranus Prince-dome thou succeed 13 Thy brother Tytan though in Age before thee Yet in thy wisedome thou hast him out-stript Thou hast the popular loue they all adore thee His blasted hopes are in the blossome nipt With Coine with Men with Armor I will store thee Let him stand fast or he shall sure be tript Both Lords and people ioyne with me thy mother To invest Saturne and depose thy brother 14 With that before her sonne could make reply Where they were speaking rusht bold Tytan in A storme was in his brow fier in his eye After some tempest he doth thus begin Must then young Saturne raigne Oh tell me why Am I a Bastard and begot in sinne Hath Vesta playd the strumpet with my Father That you despise me and elect him rather 15 Was I not of that Virgin-wombe the first And lay I not as neere your heart as he Was I not of those breasts before him nurst And am I not his Elder in degree What haue I done you should affect me worst Your Mayden-birth and your first progeny Before him I was borne and to be plaine By all the Goddes I will before him raigne 16 Had I not in your wombe the selfe-same being Am I not of the selfe-same bloud created Is not my Royalty with his agreeing Is not my birth before his Anti-dated Is elder Tytan now not worth the seeing Must in my right that young boy be instated Hath he so well or I so ill deseru'd No first I came and I will first be seru'd 17 And turning to young Saturne with an eye Threatning reuenge and ruyne to his life Prin-cox quoth he must you be plac't so hye The only darling of Vranu wife Canst thou so soone out-leape me Thou shalt die And in thy fatall obits end this strife Then with his fatall blade he blest his head Had the blow falne it had strooke Saturne dead 18 But Vesta staide it comming and withall Came Ceres and Sibilla thrusting thither They hugge young Saturne but on Tytan fall Thundring on him with clamors altogither The yonger brother they their Soueraigne call And bid the elder packe they care not whither The people second them thus in disgrace The Stigmaticke is forst to leaue the place 19 But hauing better with himselfe aduised Tytan and Saturne thus the strife decide That Tytan for his shape so much despised Should leaue the Scepter vnto Saturnes guide And so to stint all mallice enterprised But after Saturnes death the Crownet'abide To Tytan and his heyres by his last will So Saturne sweares all his heyres male to kill 20 King Saturne must not let a sonne suruiue To keepe his brothers I ssue from the Crowne Only his Daughters he may saue aliue These Couenants are betwixt them both set downe Hence-forth no more these haughty brothers striue For eyther by Indenture knowes his owne The Crowne is Saturnes due to Tytans seed To make which good all Saturnes sonnes must bleed 21 The elder brother thus o'reswaide with might Cannot indure that Clyme but seekes another To see his yonger throned in his right Or to be cal'd a Subiect to his brother And therefore full of anger and despight He leaues his Countrey Sisters and his mother And to be rid at once of his disgraces He seekes aduentures strange in forren places 22 Where Fortune his attempts so much befrended That many Warlike Nations he subdud'e No quest saue Armes and valour he intended And how by Vsurpation to intrude Into the rightes of others who defended Their Honors both by strength and multitude Thus he of many Islands raignes sole King And all the World of Tytans Actes doth ring 23 Yet into Creet he daily sendes espiall To know if Saturne made his Couenant good Forcing his slye skouts mauger all deniall To bring him word how Saturnes glory stood Whether of Mariage he had yet made tryall Or hauing Children male had spilt their bloud Knowing himselfe to be sufficient strong By force of Armes to right his former wrong 24 So with his fiue and forty Sonnes makes thence With fayre Tytea mother to seuenteene Of that large broode all these with rage dispence And by their late attonement Exiles beene With patience they depart but with pretence Hoping well Armed once more to be seene And with their brood of Tytanois to meet And tug with Saturne for the Crowne of Creet 25 Rhea of all the beauteous daughters fairest Brides with Hiperion her best-lou'd Brother He likewise for his feature was the rarest Of Tytans sonns there liu'd not such another Oh sweet Hiperion thou in shape comparest With all the Gyant yssue of thy mother At feuerall byrths two Babes she childed soone The male she cald the Sunne Female the Moone 26 The tother Tytans fearing to these two Their Fathers Conquests should in time descend A monstrous Act they haue intent to do Whose scandall shall beyond both Poles extend And none but Parricides would yeild vnto For they that should their Brothers life defend Conspire together and gainst right or reason In dead of night they seeke his death by Treason 27 But first they take his little sonne the Sunne And to the floud Eridanus well knowne That streames along their Coast In hast they run Where the young Lad amongst the waues is throwne This when his tender Sister knew was dun From a high Rocke her selfe she tumbled downe In pitty of whose beauties grace and yeares The Gods translate them to the brightest Spheres 28 Meane time the new made King of Creet 's renowne Increast so much that he was term'd a God He was the first that ware a Lawrell Crowne The first that venter'd on the Scas and rod In triumph on the waters this being knowne They held them happiest that could make abod In his blest Prouince which being well conducted Kings sent their Sonnes to him to be instructed 25 Saturne in those daies was helde onely wise Many young Princes in his Court werâ—… traiâ—…d He taught them both the vse of Seas and â—…es And what hâ—…d wealth within the Earth remained Then gan he Citties build and Lawes deuise for an Irregular people he disdained The mynerall mountaine-veines he vnder-minde And was the first that perfect Golde refinde 26 Yet neuer did this King in ought miscarry Hauing what Earth and Sea and Ayre could yeild Happy in all thinges saue he durst not marry He sees the gorgcous house he late did build Shine with reflecting Gold his obiects varry He sees his ripe corne growing in the field He sees the wilde Birds by his Archers caught Pierst with those shafts whose vse before he taught 27 He sees the vast Seas by his Oares deuided And the decepe waters without danger past By Art of Sayle and Rudder they are guided What greater happinesse could Mortall
enemies pike Had by the aime of some strong hand bin cast And side to side through all his entrailes past 45 He comes where all his Lords in counsell sat And tels them of three sons preseru'd to life The Peeres at first seeme much amaz'd thereat Yet all commend the pitty of his wife And praise her vertue intermitting that They next proceed to Tytans hostile strife And thus conclude their enemies to expell Whom they know Barbarous bloody fierce and fell 46 When calling him that the defiance brought This answere backe to Tytan they returne That they his brauing menace set at naught That their owne blouds shall quench the towns they burn That their immediate ruines they haue sought And they no longer can reuenge adiourne But the next sonne shall see strange vengeancetane Of all his Cretan subiects they haue slaine 47 The Messengers dismist while they prepare Armes and munition for the Morrowes field Meane time great Tytans sonnes assembled are Who all their Fortunes on their fury build Their hauty lookes their spleenfull harts declare Each brandishing his sword and ponderous shield Longing to heare from Saturne such reply That on his men they may their valours try 48 Nor do they tempt the Deities in vaine They haue what they desire to them behold The bassled messenger gallops amaine But ere the Knight his message hath halfe told So much the Gyant kings their braues disdaine That with their scornefull feet they spurne the mold Their browes they furrow and their teeth they grate And all the Gods blaspheame to shew their hate 49 Now hath the Sunne slid from his fiery Car And in cold Ister quencht his flaming head Blacke darknes risting from the earth afar You might perceiue the welkin to orespread Orions blazing lockes discouered are Pale Cinthia gouernes in Apolloes stead Bootes his waine about the pole hath driuen And all the stars borne bright that spangle heauen 50 The morning comes Tytan in field appeares In compleat harnesse arm'd from head to toe Next him Aegeon who no Corslet weares Or coat of Armes to incounter any foe Vnarmed as he is he no man feares A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow Made of the Peacockes traine his armes is strong In which he shakes a skeine bright broad and long 51 Creous huge sinnowy Armes and brawny thighes Are naked being tawnied with the sun Buskins he weares that boue his ankles rise Puft with such curl'd silke as Arachne spâ—…n A coat of Armes well mail'd that fits his size Laceth his body in these Armes he woon Of a huge Monster in the Isle of Thrace Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace 52 His knotted beard was as the Porphir blacke So were the fleecy lockes vpon his crowne Which to the middle of his armed backe From his rough shaggy head discended downe His fiery Eie-bals threaten Saturnes wracke Sterne vengeance rous'd her selfe in Caons frowne His sheild a broad iron dore his Lance a beame Oft with his large stride he hath Archt a streame 53 Typhon in skins of Lyons grimly clad Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds The hides of these imperious beasts he had From th'Erithmanthian forrest where his deeds Liue still in memory like one halfe mad The Gyant shewes in these disguised weeds The Lyons iawes gnawing his Helmet stood And grinning with his long fangs stain'd in blood 54 And yet his owne fierce visage lowring vnder Appeares as full of terror as that other Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder Next him appeares Euceladus his Brother Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder This was the onely darling of his mother His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oake With which he menac'st death at euery stroake 59 Hiperion in an armor all of Sunnes Shines like the face of Phoebus o're the rest This Gyant to his valiant Brothers runs Crying to Armes base lingering I detest Damn'd be that Coward soule that damage shuns Or from apparant perill shrinkes his brest Behold where Saturne mongst his people crownd His hornes and Clarions doth to battell sound 56 Saturne appeares as great Hyperion spake Borne in an Iuory chaire with bright stones stoodded Mongst which in trailes ran many an Anticke flake With rich Inamell azur'd greene and rudded At the first push their enemies rankes they brake He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded About him round their bowes his Archers drew A fight which yet their Foe-men neuer knew 57 The big-bon'd Gyants wounded from a farre And seeing none but their owne souldiers by them Amazed stand at this new kind of warre To receiue wounds by such as came not nie them From euery wing they heare their looses iarre They knew not where to turne or how to flie them The showers of Arrowes rain'd so fast and thicke That in their legges thighs brest and armes they stick 58 So long as their strong Bowes of trusty Ewe And silken strings held fast so long fresh riuers Of Crimson blood the Champion did imbrew For euery shaft the Archers Bow deliuers Or kils or woundes one of their countlesse crew But when they once had emptied all their quiuers And that the enemy saw their arrowes wasted To blowes and handy-strokes both armies hasted 59 Thou famous English Henry of that name The fift I cannot but remember thee That wan vnto thy kingdome endlesse fame By thy bold English Archers Chiualry In Agin-Court when to the Frenchmens shame King Dolphin and the chiefe Nobility Were with the ods of thousands forcst to yeeld And Henry Lord of that triumphant field 60 But such successe king Saturne had not then He is in number and in strength too weake His people are but one to Tytans ten Nor are his guards so strong their spleene to wreake The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men Into their foes Battallions rudely breake Their Polaxes and Clubs they heaue on hie The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly 61 The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaues and enter the great Citty Hauocke crying In Cretan bloud they drowne their Chariot Naues And slaughter all the poore Saturniens flying One hand sharpe steele the other fire-brands waues In euery place the grones of people dying Mixt with the Conquerors showts to heauen aspire and in their harsh sound make a dismall Quire 62 The Citty 's ceizd Saturne and Sybill bound Whilst Tytan Lords it in the Cretan Throne His reuelling sonnes for Pillage ransacke round And where they heare Babes shrike or olde men grone They showt for ioy meane time King Saturnes wound Sybill bindes vp and being all alone In prison with her Lord to him relates The fortunes of her sonnes and their estates 63 She tels him that young Ihoue in Epire famed For Martiall triumphs is theyr naturall sonne He that Lycaon queld Pelagia tamed And many spoyles for Milliseus woon No sooner did the King heare young Ihoue named But he repents the wrongs against him doon and proud of such an Issue so
Ledes Evrotes A'ntiopes Danaes Apollo exilde by Iupiter kept Admetus sheepe which Pindarus in pithicis affirme or his Oxen as Horace 1. carminum And therefore he had the title to be called euer after the god of pastures As Virg. 3. Georgic Te quoque Magne pales te memorande Canemus pastor ab Amphriso The end of the fourth CANTO Argumentum KIng Tantalus before the Troians flyes Saturne arriues in Creet and by Troas ayded Once more intendes his Kingdome to surprise Creet is by Troian Ganimede inuaded In ayde of Iupiter the Centaures rise Aegeons ful-fraught Gallies are disladed Danae and her young sonne are turnd afloate By Arges King into a Mast-lesse boate ARG. 2. PElops the two Atrides and Aegeon Vulcan the Gorgones in Epsilon CANTO 5. 1 WHose inspiration shall my heauy brayne Implore to make my dull Inuention light Or to a loftyer key my pen constraine Or raise my Muse that takes so low a flight Thou Ihoue-borne Pallas o're my numbers raine And musicall Apollâ—… giue me spright With the bright rayes that from thy temples shine To shew me way vnto the Muses nine 2 Of whom the eldest Clio first deuisd To Chronicle the Royall gests of Kings Strutting Melpomene in Gules disguisd In Theaters mongst Tragicke Actors sings But soft Thalya hath such straines despisd And to her Commicke sceanes shrill laughter brings Wind Instruments Entirpe best affects Terpsichore the stringed Lyre directs 3 The Geometricke figures Erato Hath in her charge as first by her disclosed But from Calliope hie Stanzoes flow For the Heroik numbers first composed The course of starres are by Vrania know And how the Planets we aboue disposed But Polihimnia smooth Rhetoricke chuses The youngest of Ioues daughters and the Muses 4 All these at once their sacred gifts aspire That may giue beauty to my taske in hand Affoording helpe when I their aide desire To guide my tost-Bark to desired Land A slender barke slow sayl'd and apt to tire And founder in the Sea weake and vnmand Apollo with the rest my voyage speed Whilst to Troyes fatall ruine we proceed 5 King Tantalus the sonne of Iupiter That rain'd in Attique brought an host 'fore Troy Which his sonne Pelops led how can he erre Being directed by so braue a Boy That vndertakes his army to transferre And Troos with his new Citty to destroy This Pelops with the King of Elis ran And in the course bright Hyppodamia wan 6 Her Father Oenemaus was betraid My Myrtolus his treacherous Chariot-driuer And in the race slaine Pelops by his aide Of many suters dead the sole suruiuer After the goale obtaind inioyes the maide Intending with all pompous state to wiue her Th'espousals ended Time with swift pace runnes And she in processe hath producst two sonnes 7 Thyestes and Atreus nam'd the first Ore-come with burning lusts insatiate heat Rauisht Atreus wife oh deed accurst For which Atreus doth him home intreat And takes his Children where the Babes were nurst To dresse their bodies for their fathers meat Some bak't some rost some sod oh bloody deed To make a father on his owne childe feed 8 Atreus two sonnes had the eldest hight Agamemnon who was after Mycenes king And Greekish Generall of the ten yeares fight Twixt Greece and Troy which we must after sing The second Menelaus in whose right The Argiue Dukes their puisant Armies bring Husband to Hellen when prince Paris sought her And Hellen Iupiter and Laedaes daughter 9 But we digresse gainst Pelops and his Sire Ilion and Ganimed from Troy appeare These are the sonnes of Troos many a bold squire They led with them to Ilion the first yeare He rain'd in Troy in bright celestiall fire Came the Palladium downe from heauens high spheare Which Ilions Towers long after did inioy Continuing till the vtter sacke of Troy 10 Their hostile Instruments to battell sound Ten thousand hands at once to heauen are raised Which in their fals as many strike to ground Cowards are scorn'd none but the bold are praised The Troyans haue begirt the Phrygians round Pelops aboue the rest his fame imblazed And Ganimed that doth bold Pelops see Fights as if none need kill a man but he 11 Such was the valour of this Troian youth Though Troos and Ilion both did wondrous well He onely stands defends breakes and pursueth Their standing battailes by his valour fell The Phrigian host now murdred without ruth Charon is tyr'd with ferring soules to hell The Troians follow with victorious â—…ries Whilst Tantalus and valiant Pelops flies 12 This was that Tantalus bright Plota bare Whom for a speciall grace the Gods admit To their high Counsell where they oft repaire He blabs their secrets therefore they held fit To punnish him in hell with torments rare In Laethe chin-deepe he must euer sit Hungry whilst Apples touch his lips and dry Whilst from his thirsty chin the waters flie 13 And this that Pelops whom his father slew And hewd his body into gobbets smal Whose Massacre the Gods in mercy rew And gathering vp his limbes to match them all They misse that peece to ioyne his body new Which from the throat doth to the shoulder fall Which they with Iuory peece and who more bolder Then new-made Pelops with his Iuory shoulder 14 And yet inforst to flie but had his men Bâ—…n euery one a Pelops none had fled He was the last in field preferring then Fore Coward runners the resolued dead But what can one alone gainst thousands ten Led by so braue a Prince as Ganimed Leaue we triumphant Troos now let our hand Direct sea-toyled Saturne safe a Land 15 Who from his sonne in the last battaile flying his Grand-child Archas to the sea-side chast We left him in a ship the Ocean trying Where he hath plowed strange Seas great dangers past Now entring th' Hellespont from farre espying After his tedious course a Towne at last His Martiners to shore their sailes imploy And Sea-beat Saturne touches land fore Troy 16 Which Troos amidst his plausiue triumphs seeing With Ilion Ganimed and thousand more Makes towards the harbor whilst old Saturne freeing His men from ship-bord hath imprest the shore He makes his habit with his stile agreeing The Troyans wonder at the state he bore Himselfe so well prepar'd his ships so faire Both to the barbarous Troians seeming rare 17 So small a number can no warre pretend Therefore their strange arriue they neede not feare As farre as doth their Hemisphere extend They view the sea but see no shipping neare Which makes the King salute him as a frend And aske the reason of his landing there Saturne replies Behold poore strangers throwne To vnknowne people on a Land vnknowne 18 Yet would you haue his Countrey Nation name That knowes not on whose earth his bold feet tread Nor with what breath he may his stile proclaime From his owne Natiue ayre so farre being fled If you perhaps haue relisht Saturnes
Persea by his name Where Bachmon in the kingdome him succeeds Erictreus did all the Nations tame By the red Sea and there his honoured deeds Are Chronicled great Scelemus thy fame Liues in Mecenes the Pontificke weeds Are for thy Royalty reseru'd alone In Thebes remaines twice-married Gorgophon 84 Alceus and Electrion from his line Discend Alceus was Amphitrioes Sire Electrion as Bochas doth deuine Alcmena got whose face all eyes admire Alcmena and Amphitrio combine Themselues by Hymens ceremoniall fire Of this bright Theban dame through Greece commended This Monster-tamer Hercules discended 85 But how great Ihoue with bright Alcmena lay Himselfe transforming to Amphitrioes shape Adding three nights together without day How Iuno enuious of her husbands rape Alcmenaes Child-birth hindred and did slay The vnborne infants who with wonder scape Her Hell-borne charmes how by Galantis smile Iuno was mockt Alcmena scapt her guile 86 How young Alcides in the Cradle lying Check't two inuenomed Snakes by Iuno sent To strangle him how Ypectens dying By those charm'd Serpents to Elisium went And how the Ihoue-star'd Lad his valor trying Vpon th'Olimpicke mount disgraced sent All such as came to haue their valours tride To leape to run to wrastle or to ride 87 How by the K. Eristeus he vvas taught Lou'd beautious Megera and fam'd all Greece And through the world renown'd aduentures sought Conquer'd great Cacus and the golden fleece How Achelous he to ruine brought Doted on Deianeira that faire peece And Iole who the more fame to win Made great Alcides on a distaffe spin 88 All these we leaue as tales too often told And rubs that would our running voyage let Not that our thoughts despise them being old For to antiquity we owe much debt But because Time that hath his acts inrold To many a Common sale his deeds hath set Therefore though no part of his worth to reaue him We now for matters more allide must leaue him 89 And now looke backe to Troy Laomedon Intends new wals about his Towne to reare But wanting coined Gold to deale vpon Solicits all the Gods such as dwelt neare Chiefely those two that rule the Sea and Sun Neptune and Phoebus Mony-maisters vvere Of whose rich Priests for so much coine he cals As may repaire his Citties ruin'd wals 90 They dispuruey their vestry of such Treasure As they may spare the vvork now being ended Demand their sums againe but out of measure At their request the Monarch seemes offended And saies he meanes to pay them at his pleasure The Gods by whom Troy vvas vvith wals defended Inrag'd at his ingratitude conspire With ioynt reuenge to vvreake their spleenfull ire 91 The vvrathfull Neptune first his Billowes raisd Aboue the high-built-Wals thinking to drowne Those lofty spires whom all the world hath praisd Hurrying his brinish waters through the Towne Now Dolphins play where barbed Steeds haue graz'd In euery pau'd-street Neptunes Billowes frowne Till being weary with the Citties sacke He drawes himselfe into his Channels backe 92 For by the fates appointment the proud God Must keepe his falling ebbes as well as flow Else pale-fac'st Cinthia at whose dreadfull nod Obedient Neptune shrinkes her rage will show For she commands his waues and his abod Is pointed by the Moone whether below In his Abisme or rockes appearing hire He guids his lookes by her immortall fire 93 But as he shrinkes his waters at her becke He leaues much slimy filth vpon the shore Now gan the God of Fire his beames reflect Vpon the drownded Continent that wore The sea-Gods wrath and now must bide his checke A hot contagious stemme not knowne before Poysons the Clime and as the heat increast The infectious pest consum'd both man and beast 94 Halfe-perisht Troy vnable to withstand Their double wrath her people from her flye Knowing they both offended Sea and Land And to abide their vengeance must needs dye The King himselfe that wants power to command The all-consuming Plague fears to come nye The wals he reard but must to Delphos trauell To excuse his Pride that with the Gods durst cauell 95 His due Oblations ended t is returnd That he must seeke th' offended Gods t' appease Else the hot plague his peoples entrailes burnd Shall all the remnant of his subiects cease Nor must his fearefull pennance be adiournd Nothing can Neptune and Apollo please But monthly to a Monster of the flood To yeild a beautious maide of the Kings blood 96 This couenanted the Troyan King prepares Alotted Virgins now th' infection slakes At length alas for bold Fate all things dares The lot the beautious maide Hesione takes The Kings sole Daughter Fortune nothing cares For him whose hand th' Imperiall Scepter shakes The hood-winckt Goddesse dare on all sides strike Beggers and Kings in lots are both alike 97 Imagin her with thousand Virgins guided Vnto her fearefull Toombe her Monster-graue Imagin how the hulky Diuell slyded Along the Seas smooth breast parting the waue Alasse poore naked Damsell ill prouided Whom Millions without heauens help cannot saue Yet see help coms behold the pride of Greece Deck't in the conquest of the Golden fleece 98 Along the glassie Hellespont by chance Alcides sayling sees vpon the Land The all-dispoyled Virgin in a Trance Wayling her ruine on the bryny Strand Aboue the Waues he sees a Whale aduance His dreadfull shape at whose sight all that stand Vpon the Beach some sounding as halfe dead Others dismayde backe to the Citty fled 99 Such onely whom the cause concerned most And vnto whom the Virgine was allyde Attend her swallowing on the Marine coast For whom no Mortall safety can prouide Now great Alcides with his Greekish hoast Lands on the Continent vnterrifide And while the Troian King with terrour shakes The Virgins Rescue boldly vndertakes 100 Two barbed Steeds the best that Asia bred Are by the King ordaind the Victors meâ—…d By whose strong hand the Sea-Whale shall fall dead The Virgine liue and Troy from pest be freed Now fals his huge Club on the Monsters head With such impetuous weight and violent speede As if Heauens greatest Collumne should downe fall That beares the high roofe of th'Olimpicke Hall 101 The hydious Augur slaine and she releast The periur'd King the promist meede denies And seeing Troy both wal'd and free from pest Excludes the Greeke for his bold enterprise Who sayles from Greece after few months of rest Doth burne Larisse and Tenedos surprise Ruinates Troy expels Laomedon Beates downe the wals made by the Sea and Sunne 102 In which atchieuement Philicteles fought Made of Alcides vanquisht foe his friend The King Eristheus there for honor sought And Creon to this dreadfull fight gaue end The Noble Theseus his assistance brought Theban Amphitrio did his arme extend Gainst Asiaes pride and with the rest returning Ayded great Hercules in Troyes first burning 103 These as they were a Ship-board hauing fild The vast Wombes of their Barkes
Mother She Lychus Wise yet rauisht with the sight Of Iupiter her loue she could not smother These her fayre sonnes built Thebes with large extent Two yeares before they on this voyage went 43 With all the Graecian chiualry attended They disimbogue the gentle B llowes smile Th' Aegean Seas they passe but late defended By the Grand Thiefe that gaue those Seas their stile No wind or waue their well-tig'd ship offended But the calme looking Thetis harbors guile Her fawning front she wrinkles with a frowne Aâ—…d thinkes th' ambitious Argonants to drowne 44 At the blacke Euening close the Sea lookt white The storme-presaging Waue begins to swell And blustring Eurus rising now at night With his flag Winges vpon the waters fell The Mayster bids slacke sayle but gainst the might Of his commaunded Mates the winds rebell The Boat-Swayne brals the Marriners are chid For what they would the stubborne gusts forbid 45 All fall to labour one man helps to steere Others to slacken the big bellied Sayle Some to the Cap-string call some pray some sweare Some let the Tackles slip whilst others hale Some cling vnto the maine-Mast and cleaue there Some chafe with anger some with feare looke pale Some ply the Pompe and that which would deuour Their ship in time Sea into Sea repoure 46 Sharpe-bâ—…ting winter growes and on each side The foure seditâ—…ous Brothers threaten war and tosse the Billowes who in scornefull pride Spit foaming Brine the winds with waters iarre The breaking seas whose entrance were denyde Beaâ—…e gainst each Pitchy-rib and calked sparre and by their Oaken strength denyde Intention Fall where they were begot to meere confusion 47 Now as the shriking Billowes are diuided Low Vallyes tweene two mighty Mountaines fall From whose steepe breasts the shaken vessaile slyded Burying in Sea Sayles Tackles Masts and all But â—…here remaynes not long the Barke well guided Climbes vp those clyffes a dreadfull watty wall That to themselues amazd with feare they show Like men in th' ayre surueighing hell below 48 It seem'd as if the Heauens and Seas had Wars And that the one the other did defy Twixt whom the mutinous winds make greater Iars Th' ambitious Billowes seeme to threat the sky And fling their brine-waues in the face of Stars Who therewith mooud melt all the Clouds on hye And such tempestuous shewers of raine thaw downe As if their drops meant the vast Seas to drowne 49 The waters both of Heaueu and Earth are mixt Flagging their sayles to make them brooke no blast No Lampe of heauen appeares wandring or fixt Darkenesse hath o're the face of both heauens past And left his vgly blindnesse them betwixt Whose horride presence makes the Greekes agast The Heauens bright fire the troubled Water braues sindging with lightninges force the Gulfy waues 50 Vnto these Argonants I may compare Our Island-voyages alike distrest With whelming seas thicke Mists and troubled ayre Loud claps of Thunder Lightning from the West so dreadfull that their Pilots loose their care Through feare forgetting what should stead them best The sea to quench Heauens glorious Lamps aspyres Heauen burns the Ocean with her lightning fires 51 As braue a Generall Martiald our great Fleete as that bold Greeke that sought the fleece of Gold hoping by sea an enemy to meete Fiercer then Iasons and more warlike bold Renowned Essex at whose warlike feete Spaines countlesse spoyles and Trophyes haue been told Who from Hesperia brought to Englands Greece More Gold then would haue weigh'd downe Iasons fleece 52 Grim Terror with the Greekes a ship-board lyes All night some weepe some rage the boldest feare Soliciting the Gods with Prayers and cryes Seeing their Fates and hopelesse ruins neere They thinke on Fathers Children Wiues Allyes But whom they faine would see they wish not there Grim terror in the Morning forward sped The Sunne begins to wake the tempest fled 53 Who as from forth the Spanish Seas he raisde His burnisht lockes and bout his shoulders shooke them and as his custome is about him gazd To view fayre Thetis bounds and ouer-looke them He spyes th'Imbarqued Greekes with feare amazd So sore the rough tumultuous Sea had tooke them He sees their Pendants torne their Sheetes all rent Their Hatches broken and theyr mayne-mast spent 54 Therefore he angry Neptune doth intreat as he would haue him guild his siluer streames Or thaw his frozen Waters with his heate Or cheare his coole Waues with his gorgeous beames Th'aduentrous Greekes his charge not to defeat But they may safe re-view their Natiue Realmes Neptune is pleas'd his Trident calmes the Seas And grants them waftage to what coast they please 55 Who entring th' Hellespont acquire some shore VVhere they may land their Fortunes to repaire at Tenedos they tutch knowne long before By great Alcides since he battayld there Where great Laomedon the Scepter bore and to preuent like dangers threatning care Re-builds his battred holds and with supplyes Mans euery Sea-skout that adiacent lyes 56 These Garrisons the Graecian Peeres deny Reliefe or Anchorage till the Kings mind Be fully knowne Who heares his foes so nye That had so late his forces ouerthrowne Therefore inraged he sends them to defie And from his Coasts to get them quickely gone Or mongst them all hee 'l leaue no liuing Greeke For golden Pillage on the seas to seeke 57 Vndanted Hercules at this offended Sweares by his Father Ihoue Troyes second wracke And with his Argonants had then discended Mauger the King but Iason kept him backe Who being chiefe Commander hath intended A golden coarse the ColchoÌ„s first must sacke Therefore though much against Alcides will Put from that shore the Conqueror threatens still 58 Vowing if Fate affoord him safe returne In whose aduenture al the Peeres vnite Troyes wals to batter and their Citty burne And be the Kings eternall opposite To whose disgrace Troy shall in ashes mourne Th' vngratefull King be forc'st to death or flight And all these lofty Towers at his next Landing Not haue one stone vpon another standing 59 Resolued thus they make to hoyse vp saile Weigh Anchor and their tackles hale and pull Their lofty spleenes gainst Troy they now auaile And onely ayme at the Phrixean wooll The God of winds affoords them a calme gale Making their waue-washt sheetes shew swelling full Whose gentle Gusts the Graecian Heroës bring To Colchos welcom'd by the Phasian King 60 At whose arriue Medea Iason viewing Oh heauen quoth she what passion 's this I feele Shall yon faire Graecian youth his fame pursuing Die by inchanted fire or tempered steele Oh saue thy fame by this attempt eschevving Thy arme vvants povver to make the Dragon reele Thy amorous hand alasse too soft and white with Brasse-hoou'd Buls that breath out fire to fight 61 More fitter t' were a Lady to embrace T' imprison beauty in a cristall fold Oh why should one that hath so sweet a face Made to be lou'd and loue seeke acts so
find rest Oh Magicke by thy power what cannot they To whom the Seas submit the winds obey 81 Amongst those Princes that with Iason vvent and vvere at home receiu'd the great Alcide amidst this generall Ioy seemes discontent His spleene to Troy he can no longer hide To be reueng'd he holds his firme intent He that to their distresse reliefe denide Must knovv whatt'is to scorne his firme alliance So through all Greece he breaths gainst Troy defiance 82 And vvith a gallant army taking Land attaines the shore perforce and in his way No Village Fortresse Tovvne or Tower can stand But to his ruthlesse fury must giue way This hearing King Laomedon hath mand a Noble army to make good the day Which ere the Sun into the West-sea fall Must see ten thousand Troians kild and thrall 83 Laomedon remembring what great vvracke Twelue-labord Hercules before time made Recounts to them his vvrongs his Citties sack Their tyranies to al vvhom they inuade Therefore incites them to repulse those backe That haue too long vpon his confines staid Behold quoth he these would your freedomes barre Then with a generall showt prepare for warre 84 The hoast of Greekes that heare their exclamation Wait but to heare Alcides watch-word giuen Who cheares them thus You are that warlike Nation Whose fame fils all the Clymates vnder heauen Sincâ—… you are strangers let your salutations Be with your swords not words for yet ere Euen You standing hoast in their owne bloods wee 'l drown And part the rich spoyle of yon rampierd Towne 85 Lowd chearing Instruments on both sides sound The battailes ioyne both Greekes and Troians sinke They that but late the firme Earth proudly bound Now must below the waues of Lethe drinke The great Alcides borne to sway the ground Against his strength opposd al mortals shrinke Who being more then man must needs haue ods To fight with any that are lesse then Gods 86 Him whome th'all-doming Fates will haue to sway How can Laomedon in armes subdue Though Troy be strong yet must it Greece obey Alcides with his Club whole thousands slew By his sole-strength the Greekes obtaine the day And to the Citty gates the foe pursue Who mingled with their troopes in this aduenture Slaughter the bold and with the Cowards enter 87 So by the English was great Cales suprisd And entred with the Spaniards that retire they that at first the generals name despisd Now at the last are forc'st his fame t' admire English and Dutch in Spanish wealth disguisd Laden their fleet with pillage whilst bright fire Consumes the Towne which twice the English take As Greece did Troy great Essex and bold Drake 88 Stout Aiax Telamon amongst the rest Set his first foot in Troy but him succeed Ten thousand Greeks and many a warlike brest Pierst with the Argiue weapons freshly bleed They sacke the populous Towne from East to West Troyes second sacke is by the Fates decreed They sacke and ransacke spoile and freely kill And all the Towne with shreekes and clamors fill 89 Amongst the rest that perisht in this broile Laomedon fals by Alcides hand Whilst euery where the conquering Graecians spoile No man so bold that dares against them stand Great is the booty in so rich a soile They pillage all the substance of the land Beat downe the wals the Temples ruine quite And kill poore infants in their mothers sight 90 The Matrons in their husbands armes deflowâ—… The reuerent Virgins in their parents eye And such as interdict their awfull power By their remorselesse bloudy weapons die Hie looking Troy is ruin'd in an houre Those Towres quite racst whose sharpe spyres mockt the sky and that proud towne the Asian glory ones Is now a confus'd heape of men and stones 91 Al-conquering Hercules reueng'd at last Of Troyes ingratefull Soueraigne takes full ceasure Of Asiaes Monarchy his fury past amongst his host he parts the Citties treasure But Telamonus Aiax most he gracst and gaue him her that pleas'd him aboue measure The bright Hesione his valours meed The beautious Virgin from the sea-Whale freed 92 Well was it for young Priam the Kings sonne That he was else-where in the East imployd The Lybian else that Asia ouer-ronne and conquered Troy had likewise him destroid Thâ—… laden Greekes after the conquest woon Are fraught with wealth with pleasure ouer-ioyd Poore Troy whilst they in their full miâ—…h abound Liues desolate and leueld with the ground 93 The Monster-maister hauing fild the sky With martiall clangor in the lowdest straine After reuenge on Cacus Tyranny and the great Gyants of Cremona slaine King Pricus death King Affer raised hie And the two Collumnes that he reard in Spaine To include in few his many deeds we thus In narrow roome his labors twelue discusse 94 1. The Eremanthion Bore 2. and the fire-breathing Bul 3. The Lernan Hydra 4 and the winged Hind 5. Stymphalidus 6. The Amazonian trull 7. Th' Aegean stables the seauenth taske assind 8. The Cleonean Lyon 9. with the scull Of Diomed who fed his Steeds gainst kind 10. The golden fruit made ripe by bright Heperion 11. Grim Cerbarus 12. and triple-headed Gerion 95 These taskes by Iunoes imposition ended Whilst he on Ictes attractiue face Doted and her deserts alone commended Faire Deyaneyr imputes it her disgrace With such great wrongs vnto her bed offended Because his vassaile had supplied her place She sends a shirt and meanes her husband good Dipt in the poyson of the Centaures blood 96 The traitor Nessus passing a deepe foord With Deianeyre away with her he flyes Alcides cannot reach him with his sword But after him his wounding arrow hies The dying Centaure speakes this latest word Faire Deiancyre before death close mine eyes Receiue a guift in signe I lou'd thee deerely Which though I die in time may stead thee neerely 97 I know thy Lord a Conqueror yet subdude By womens beauty therefore when you find The lustfull Prince mongst Forraine Queenes intrude and that their amorous Court-ships change his mind Send him a Shirt with this my bloud Imbrude The vertue is to make Alcides kind This said his life he ended in a trice She for it was his last trusts his aduise 98 Hearing faire Iole the hart had ceasd Of her deare Lord and that she kept away She feeles her thoughts within themselues diseas'd and hopes to call him backe that went astray The Centaures dying guist the Lady pleasd Her seruant Lychas posts it without stay Oh! Thou weake woman thou his death maist vant Whom Hell-hounds Gyants Monsters could not daunt 99 Hoping alasse his fauour to regaine The Innocent Lady her deare Lord destroyd He d'ons her present whose inuenomed Bane Cleaues to his bones Oh! Who can Fate auoyde More then a man before he would complaine Alcides beares and no whit seemes annoyd Such tortures as the strongest might strike dead he brookes yet no part of his coulour fled 100 But when he felt
gaz'd Vpon his valor sees him fight so fayre A pointed Staffe against his breast he prooued But from his Steed the bold Greeke was not mooued 69 Vnhappy Hupon could not stay the force Of his keene Sword but soone before him fals King Philos next against him spurd his Horse And turne thee valiant Greeke aloud he cals But he was likewise slaine without remorse It seem'd he was invr'd to such hot brals Hector no longer can his rage forbeare But gainst the vnknowne Knight aymes a stiffe Speare 70 Who when he Hector from a far espyde As if he had but sported with the rest and that was he gainst whom he should be tryde He thrild a Iauelin at the Dardans brest T' was terror to behold these Champions ride and skorch the Plumes that grew in eithers Crest With fire that from their Steele in sparkles flew No sooner dead but still they forced new 71 Ther 's for Patroclus death the proud Greeke sayes Ther 's for my armes which thou didst basely win and as he speakes vpon his shoulders layes at euery dint his bruisde armes pincht his skin Hector now knowes his Champion by his phrase and by his stroake he thinkes his armes too thin Such puissant blowes whose weight he scarce can like None but Achilles hand hath power to strike 72 A well knowne Knight in vnknowne armes he sees against whose force he gathers all his might His hye-stretcht arme contendes to make him leese All fore-past Fame and hazard dreadfull fight But now the multitude like Swarmes of Bees Betweene them flocke who farre from all affright Vex in their heated bloods to be so parted So with their Steedes mongst other rankes they started 73 Three puissant Kings beneath Prince Hector fell Archilochus a Souldier of hye Fame Prothenor who in battailes did excell And with th' Atrides to the field then came King Archelaus too a Champion fell Who mongst the Greekes had won a glorious Name And whilst halfe tyerd he from the throng withdrew King Diomed the Sagittary slew 74 Thoas tooke Prisoner to the Towne was sent Whom Paris with his arrowes had surprisde Antenor likewise to Vlisses Tent Was Captiue led whom he before depisde Epistropus his hostile fury bent Gainst Polyxenes in rich armes disguisde They part when Polixenes full of pride Crost-Hectors course and by his valor dyde 75 Once more the dauntlesse Troians haue the best The night comes on both Hoasts themselues withdraw The Citties Captaines take them to their rest But th' Argiue Kings that naught but ruine saw Impendent still whilst Hectors able brest Bucklerd large Troy from each tempestuous flaw At Agamemnons Tenta Counsell call To find some traine by which the Prince may fall 76 Achilles oft-times Mated vowes in heart With his blacke Mirmidâ—…ns to guirt him round And neuer from a second field depart Till Hectors length be measured on the ground Th' assembled Kings whose bleeding wounds yet smart Vow by all meanes his puissance to confound For well they know whilst Noble Hector stands In vaine gainst Troy they reare their armed hands 77 Night passeth on and the gray Morne appeares The Greekes a six-months Truce of Troy demaund In which the Campe bloud-staynd Scamander cleares Of Bodies slaine by warres infernall hand A Herald to the Camp King Thoas beares Receiuing backe Antenor Nobly man'd The Truce expires both parties now prouide To haue their Armes tight and their Weapons tride 78 Andromache this night dreampt a strange dreame That if her Husband tryde the field that day His slaughter should be made the generall Theame Of Troyes laments she faine would haue him stay She wooes him as he loues the populous Realme Her Life his Honors safety or decay The ayde of Troy their Vniuersall good To saue all these in keeping still his blood 79 This Hector censures spoake from Womanish feare He armes himselfe in hast and cals to Horse Takes in his hand a bright Brasse-headed Speare Longing for some on whom to proue his force Andromache spends many a ruthfull teare His thoughtes were fixt they bred no soft remorse He armes for field she to the Kings proceeds and tels his thus If Hector fight he bleedes 80 Her dreame and feare she to the King relates and praies him to entreat her Husband fayre Or if soft speech his purpose naught abates To vse his power This said she doth repayre Where Hecuba and Hellen kept their states and where the rest of Priams Daughters are To whose requests she knowes hee 'l soonest yeild Still vrging them to keepe him from the field 81 The Greekes Imbattayld are and from the Towne The Troians Issue the Mid-way to meet When from the loftie Pallace hastning downe Andromache prostrate at Hectors feet Throwes her fayre selfe and by King Priams Crowne His Mothers loue her owne imbracements sweete his Brothers Sisters and his little Sonne Con-iures his stay till one daies fight be done 82 Hector bids one she mingles words with teares and once more casts her selfe to stop his way That he shall backe she begs she wooes she sweares and shun the battaile for that ominous day her horrid dreame hath fild her heart with feares And hill she hanges on him to haue him stay She weepes intreats clinges begs and Coniures stil In vaine hee 's arm'd and to the battayle will 83 King Priam by Antenors mouth desires To vnarme him streight and to the Court returne For should his life fayle Troyes fayre Sons and Sires Matrons and Damsels for his death should mourne The Prince inrag'd his Eye-bals sparkle fires With inward rage his troubled Entrails burne He knowes from whence these Coniurations spring And that his Wiues dreame hath incenst the King 84 Yet will he forward when the aged Queene This hearing with the Spartan makes swift speede They ring his Horse Intreat him cease his spleene And for one day to act no warlike deed The more they pray the more they rouse his teene a purpose irremoueably decreede Hee 'l put in action though they kneele and pray and compasse in his Steede to haue him stay 85 This Priam vnderstanding he descends And in his face a gracefull reuerence brings He stayes his Courser by the Raines and ends The difference thus Oh! Thou the awe of Kings Death to thy Foes supporture to thy Friends From whose strong arme our generall safty springs Refraine this day tempt not the Gods decree Who by thy Wife this night forwarneth thee 86 The discontented Prince at length is wonne Yet will he not vnarme him for them all But to expresse the duty of a Sonne With Priam and the rest he mountes the wall To see both Armies to the Skirmish roone Where some stand hye and some by slaughter fall King Diomed and Troylus from a farre Wafts to each other as a figne of warre 87 They meete like Bullets by two Souldiers chang'd Their way as swift their charge as full of Terror Their Steedes keepe euen they
life and Crowne Could the prince Henry lesse his sorrowes hide Then Hectors Brothers who still guard the Towne The vniuersall Citty doffes her pride The King himselfe puts on a Mourners gowne The Queene and Ladies with their leagued Kings Bury with him their best and costliest things 6 So when from Rome great Tully was exild Full twenty thousand Cittizens the best In garments Tragicke and in countenance wild For twelue sad Moones their loues to him profest But Troy euen from the Bed-rid to the Child From Crutch vnto the Cradle haue exprest A generall griefe in their lamenting cryes Lookes gestures habits mournefull harts and eyes 7 Now when the Fountaine of their teares grew dry And Men and Maâ—…ons him bewayld their fill With one Ioynt-voyce for iust reuenge they cry On him that did the Prince by Treason kill They lay their sad and Funerall Garments by The souldiets long to proue their Martiall skill And try their strengths vpon Scamander plaine Thinking themselues too long Inmut'd in vaine 8 T is Questionable whether greater woe In Troy then glee within the Campe abounded They hold themselues free from that late dread foe Who with his Steed had oft their trenches rounded And neuer but to th' Argiues ouerthrow appear'd in field or to the battaile sounded With shrill applause they proud Aehilles Crowne And with Brauadoes oft-times front the Towne 9 Thus when re-spirited Greece had Dominear'd and brau'd the fieged Troians at their gates Old Priam for his age now little fear'd With Troylus and the rest of warres debates For Hectors slaughter to them all indeer'd They vow reuenge on those hye Potentates That were spectators of the ruthlesse deed When Hectors coarse thrice round the wals did bleed 10 And yssuing with their power the aged King Puts acts in execution much aboue His age or strength he youthfully doth spring Vpon his Steed and for his Hectors loue Amongst the throng of Greekes dares any thing Himselfe gainst Diomed he longs to prone and scapes vntoucht then gainst Vlisses rides and still his age doth equipage their prides 11 Forthwith gainst Agamemnâ—… he contends and on his Beauer raught him many a blow Who like a souldier his renowne defends amazd that weake age should assacult him so The King his puissance further yet extends Against the Spartan King an equall foe Whom with his speare he did so ill inrreat Faire Hellens husband sits beside his seat 12 From them he further to the throng proceeds And deales about great Larges of grim wounds Admir'd alone for his renowned deeds Some with his sword vpon the Caske he stounds This day old Nestor by his Iauelin bleeds With many more and still the field he rounds Against old Priam not a Greeke dare stay Who soly claimes the honour of that day 13 Yet the meane time the King was in this broyle Bold Deiphebus kept the rest in fee With bloods and death whilst Paris made great spoyle Of such as in their valour seem'd most free Aeneas strongly mounted gaue the foyle Vnto th' Athenian Duke whose warlike knee Bended to him yet in an vpright hart Achilles in his rescue claimes a part 14 The King Epistropus amongst them fought So did Sarpedon gainst th'incamped Kings The stout Pelasgian strength they dreaded nought Now mongst their renged squadrons Treylus flings And on their foyl'd troopes much effusion wrought In him the life and spirit of Hector springs Twice he Achilles met and twice him feld Who all the other Kings of Greece exeld 15 A hundred thousand Troians were that day Led to the field to auenge Prince Hectors life Double their number on Scamander stay To entertaine them in their aemulous strife Duke Aiax Telamon then kept in play Troylus whilst murder through the field grew rife The sterne Polydamas did Nobly fight And was the death of many a gallant Knight 16 But Troylâ—…s that succeeds Hector in force In courage and in all good Thewes beside Whom ere he met that day did braueâ—… vnhorse Till his white Armour was with Crimson dide For Hectors sake his sword vsd no remorse His warre-steel'd spirits to slaughter he applyde No man that saw him his bright weapons weild But sware another Hector was in field 17 This day is Troyes and now repose they borrow From the still night to giue the wounded cure And such of note as dide t'intombe with sorrow They that 〈◊〉 themselues with armes assure And so prepare for battaile on the morrow Some to be siedge the rest the siedge t' indure Or if they can to their eternall praise The forren Legions from their Trenches raise 18 Six Moones gaue nightly rest to th'Hostile paines Ofiust so many dayes for full so long Troy without respight the proud Campe constraines Howerly to proue whose puissance is most strong Blood-drops by Plannets on Scamander â—…nes Horrid destruction flyes the Greekes among Troylus still held the Noblest Armes professor And Hectors equall though his late successor 19 T'omit a thousand Combats and Contentions Hostile Encounters Oppositions braue Such as exceed all human apprehensions Where some win liuing honour some a graue With Stratagems and sundry rare inuentions The Towne to fortefie the Campe to saue And contrary to stretch all human reach The Hoast t'indamage and the Towne t' impeach 20 In all which Troylus wondrous Fame atchieued His sword and Armour were best knowne and feared Aboue the rest the Argiue Dukes he gricued By his sole valour were the Troians cheared In acting wonders scarce to be beleâ—…ud The life of Hector in his blood appeared Priam and Troy now thinke themselues secure So long as Troylus mongst them may indure 21 Achilles by his valour mated oft And as he thinkes much blemisht in renowne To see anothers valor soare aloft But his owne bruitfull fame still sinking downe His downy bed to him appeares vnsoft He takes no pleasure in his regall Crowne The best delights to him are harsh and sower Since in one arme rests a whole Citties power 22 The Greekes thinke Hector in this youth aliue To stop whose honors torrent they deuise For since by force of armes in vaine they striue To catch at that which soares aboue the skies They to the depth of all their Counsels diue How they by cunning may the Prince surprise Being well assur'd that whilst his honors grow In vaine they seeke Troyes fatall ouerthrow 23 The sonne of Theâ—…is feeles his armes yet sore By the rude stroakes that from his fury came His armour heere and there be sprinkt with gore Of his owne wounds that he is well-nye lame With often iustles and can no more Indure the vertue of his strength or Fame For since his brest 's in many places seard Hee 'l flye vnto the rescue of his guard 24 Since neyther the broad-brested Diomed Can in the course his rude incounter stay Since last when Telamon against him sped He was perforc'st to giue his fury way Since all those 〈◊〉 Agamemâ—…
Achiaces next the field asâ—…nded 100 These with the other Princes proudly fare Disordred ruine ruffles on each side Thousands of eyther party slaughterd are In this incounter Deiphebus dide And bâ—…aue Amphimachus forward to dare And able to performe a Souldier tride And now on Priams party onely stand The Scithian Damsels to protect his Land 101 Troy droopes and 〈◊〉 aspyres full foureteene dayes Penthisilea hath vphâ—…ld her fame Both Campe and Câ—…ty surfâ—…it with her prayse and her renowne deseruedly proclayme The best of Greece her hardiment assayes Yet shrinke beneath the fury of the Dame None can escape her vigour vnrewarded Troy by this sterne Virago's soly guarded 102 But destiny swayes all things Troy was founded To endure a third wracke and must fate obay Therefore euen those that with most might abounded Cannot reprieue her to a longer day The Sâ—…ythian Dames by many Princes wounded Were with the Queene at length to Greece a pray Her too much hardinesse her selfe inmur'd Admidst her foes in Armour well assur'd 103 And when her Launce was â—…plinter'd to her hand Her warlike Pollax hew'd to pieces small Her selfe round guirt with many an armed band Euen in her height of Fame she needs must fall The warlike Wench amongst the Greekes doth stand Vnbackt by Troy left of her Damsels all The battery of a thousand swords she bides Till her yron plates are hew'd off from her sides 104 Thus brâ—…athlesse and vnhaâ—…est fresh in breath And strong in armor Pyrrhus her inuades At these aduantages he knowes t is eath To cope with her quite scuered from her Maids His baleâ—…ull thoughts are spur'd with rage and death Close to her â—…ide in blood of Greekes he wades Blood sluc'st by her and naked thus assayles her Whilst a whole Campe of foes from safety railes her 105 After much warre th'Amazonian fals Whom Pyrrhus lops to pieces with his Glaue And â—…ing pâ—…-meale hew'd her lowd he cals To haue her limbes kept from an honoured graue But to be strow'd about the sieged wals She dead the Troians seeke themselues to saue By open flight her Virgins fighting dye Scorning the life to gaine which they must flye 106 Now Troy's at her last cast her succors fayle Her souldiers are cut off by ruthlesse warre Her Sea-ports hemd in with a thousand sayle In her land fiedge two hundred thousand are They close their Iron gates their liues to baile And strengthen them with many an yron barre After that day they dare no weapons weild Or front the proud Greekes in the open field 107 Aeneas and Antenâ—…r now conspire As some suppose the Citty to betray And with the Greekes they doome it to the fire But whilst the rich Palladium's seene to stay In Pallas Temple they in vaine desire King Priams ruin or the Lands decay Therefore the slye Vlisses buyes for Gold The Iewell that doth Troy in safety hold 108 Oh cursed Priest that canst thy selfe professe Seuere in habit but in heart prophane Would of thy name and Order there were lesse That will not sticke to sell their friends for gaine Who but that knowes thy Treason once would gesse Such treacherous thoughts should taint a Church-mans braine But many to the Gods deuoted soly In harts are godlesse though in garments holy 109 Whether by purchase or by stealth Heauen knowes But the Palladium now the Greekes inioy And by a generall voyce the Campe arose From their long â—…ege their ships againe t' inioy The Greekes vnto the sea themselues dispose And make a show to bid farewell to Troy But of this Stratagem what next befell This Canto will not giue vs roome to tell ARtimesia Queene of Caria and wife to King Mansolus she is famous for her Chastity the loue to her husband after whose death she made so royalla Sepulcher for him that it was helde of the Wonders of the world and of that all stately buildinges haue since then beene called Mansolea Camna a beautious maide borne in Galatia the wife of one Sinatus she was religiously deuoted to the chaâ—… Goddesse Diana whom her Countrey held in great reuerence whome when Synorix had often sollicited with loue but coulde not preuaile he treacherously slew her husband Sinatus and after inforced her to his Marriage-bed to whom by the vrgent instigation of her friends and the promotion expected by the greatnesse of Synotix she seemed willingly to yeild he perswading her that for his loue to her he wrought the death of her beloued Sinatus When before the Altar of the Goddesse they were to be espoused she drank to Synorix as the custom was a Bowle of Wine in which when he had pledged her shee told him with a ioyfull countenance that in that draught they had both caroused their deaths being extreamely ouer-ioyed that before the chast goddesse Diana in the face of so great a people she had iustified her owne Innocence and reuenged the murder of her husband which incontinently appeared for the potion being commixt with poyson they both expired before the Alter When Achilles was slaine in the Temple by Paris it is remembred of him that the Graecians could not purchase his bodie of the Troians till to ransome him they waighed them downe ass much Gold as poysed the body of Hector T is sayde that for his death all the Muses Nimphes wept exceedingly Rursus redempto pro altero cadauere Pâ—…r pondus Auris splendidi partoâ—…j ferent The Isle Boristhenes was called Achilleides of Achilles that was there buried besides it is Poetised of him that in the Elisian field after his death he espoused Medea Paris that slewe Achilles and was after slaine by Aiax was sent into Greece with two and twenty saile whence hee brought the faire Hellen. His Shipmaister or he that built his ships was called Phereclus Some thinke he pierst Greece first by the Commandement of Venus and hauing 〈◊〉 Hellen carried her into Aegypt where he first lay with her Others are opinioned that he bedded with her in Athens and had by her these foure Sonnes Dunichus Carithus Aganus and Ideus Others thinke he first lay with her in Cranae one of the Spâ—…rad Islands which when Paris had done almost by violense and after many teares sbed for the leauing of her Husband it is said that of her teares grew the Hearbe Helenium which if women drinke in wine it prouokes mirth and Venery Of Helena it is thus recorded Menelaus being dead after their returne to Greece for her former luxuriousnes she was expulsed from Lacedemon by her Sonnes Nicostratus and Megapenthe She fled to her Cozen Polixo the Wife of Tlepolemus who gouerned Rhodes where shee soiourned for a space but Polixo after remembring that her Husband was by reason of the Adultery of Hellen stain in the wars of Troy she came vpon Hellen suddainely as she was bathing her selfe amongst her Maids and hurriyng her vnto a
tree vppon the same she strangled her Others report that Hellen waxing old seeing her beauty wrinkled and quite faded in griefe therof hanged her selfe as a iust reward of her former incontinence Some thinke the Palladium to be bought by Vlisses of the priest of Pallas Others that it was stole by Vlisses and Diomed others that it was Merchandized by Aeneas and Antenor In which sale the famous Citty of Troy was betrayed to the Greekes These opinions are vncertaine but when Ilus was to build the Pallace of Islion following a party-couloured Oxe he praied to the Gods that some auspicious signe might satisfie him from the Heauens that his buildinges were pleasing to the dietyes then to him descended the Palladium an Image of three Cubits height which seemed to haue motion and to walke of it selfe in the right hand holding a Speare in the left hand a Distaffe or Rocke and a Spindle and where he further proceeded to the Oracle to know the vertue of this Palladium it was them aunswered him that as long as that was kept free inviolate and vnprophaned so long TIOY shold be in peace and security which accordingly happened For till Vlisses had either bought or stolne away the Palladium the Greekes had neuer any apportunity or meanes to vse any vielence vpon the Citty The end of the 14. Canto Argumentum ON th'Hellesponticke Sands Epâ—…us reares A brazen horse the Graecians hoise vp saile And feigning to depart Synon with teares Tels to the inuaded King an ominous tale The Fleetereturnes by night After ten yeares Troy is surprisde and the proud Greeks preuaile The Citty a burnt and after tragicke broyles The Greekes returne laden with Asiaes spoyles ARG. 2. LAocon and Polites Hectors Ghost K. Priams death Troyes Fate Crevsa lost CANTO 15. 1 TReason whose horrid Front I must vnmaske And pluck the Vizor from thy Fiend-like face To paint thee out in coulours is my taske And by thy clouen foote thy steps to trace In which I still Diâ—…ine assistance aske Hell gaue thee Byrth and thou 〈◊〉 thy race From the grand Prince of darkenesse in whose Cell Thou first tookst life and 〈◊〉 returne to dwell 2 Tâ—…y thou wast strong and thy defence was good But Treason through thy strength made bloody way Hadst thou not harbour'd Traitors thou hadst stood And to thy age annext the longest day But Treason that most thirsts for Princes blood And of the hyest kingdomes seekes decay Enters thy Court and couets to destroy With thy proud buildings euen the name of Troy 3 Thy enuy stretcht to our Chast Maiden-Queene Whose Vertues euen her foes could not but praise Yet gainst her graces didst thou Arme thy 〈◊〉 Thinking by Parries hand to end her dayes But God and Truth whose Patron she was seene Against their Cannons did hye Bulwarkes raise Such Bullet-proofe that neither priuate Traine Could reach her â—…or the open arme of Spaine 4 What Parry mist fourteene fierce Traitors moe Stir'd vp by Rome tooke Sacramentall vowes That God that kept her 〈◊〉 th'invasiue foe Against these bloody Butchers knit their browes Heauen gaue them all a fatall ouerthrow For heauen no such 〈◊〉 act allowes But to all them a blacke end hath appointed Whose bold hand dares to touch the Lords anointed 5 If such Aeneas and Antenor were That would for Coyne their King and Country sell Like plots with them our late Arch-traitors beare To whom for aye they may be ranked well And thou Gui 〈◊〉 that neuer yet foundst peere For a damn'd purpose bred in Earth or hell He whom all pens with most reproaches taint Symon with thee compat'd is found a Saint 6 He told a forg'd tale to a forraigne King With hope his King and Countries fame to raise But thou from strangers didst thy complots bring He a strange Countrey not his owne betraies The poysons from the head of Treasons spring False Guide suckt which fed him many dayes Treasons Milkt tasted seemes to quench the thurst But once tooke downe it 〈◊〉 men till they burst 7 That fate which he and his confederates had May all receiue that beare their Treacherous mind Their purpose cuill and their ends were bad A Fate to all men of their ranke affignd And that great King whose safety hath made glad The hearts of three great Kingdomes 〈◊〉 confind Long may he raigne still guarded by those powers Whose hands Crowne Vertue her foes devowers 8 That the same state that was in hazard then May in this peacefull Kingdome long endure The King to guide his Peeres Peetes Common men Whose summon'd Parliaments may plant secure Brittaines faire Peere for many a worthy pen To Chronicle These acts black and impure We cannot iustly on Aeneas lay In whose reproach we must our Censures stay 9 Since some whose hy workes to the world are deere Whose grauity we reuerence and admire His Fame vnto posterity would cleare And in his Innocent applause desire T' were pitty he that two New-Troyes did reare As famous as that one consumde by fire Rome and our London for the double gaine Of one lost Troy should weare a Traytors staine 10 The bruised Greekes 〈◊〉 with rough stormes of War By Pallas art 〈◊〉 a Timber-steede Whose Backs Tree 〈◊〉 of such huge vastnesse are That they in all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wonder breed The Mountaine structure may be seene from far Which finisht they amongst them haue agreed To stuffe his hollow 〈◊〉 with great store Of Harnest men so 〈◊〉 it on the shore 11 This done their new-calkt Nauy they winde thence As if they to Myâ—…ne would backe repaire Beneath a promontory not farre thence They Anchor East where they concealed are Now Troy secure and dreadlesse of offence Looseth her selfe from her Diurnall care Wide stand the Ports the people yssue free Th'vnsouldierd fields and Deserts plaine to see 12 Where Hector did 〈◊〉 inuade Where Nestor pitcht where Troylus wan the day Where grim Achilles log'd where Aiax made His hot incursions hewing out his way Where Agamemnon with his forces plaid Where with his 〈◊〉 Vlisses lay Where such men fought and such their valours tride Where some men conquered others brauely dide 13 Some wonder at Myneruaes stately piece Saying t' were good to place it in her fawne Since the Pelasgians are return'd to Greece Their brazen horse may through their wals be drawne Other more staide know they are come to Fleece And pillage them this leauing as a pawne Of some strange Treason whose suspected guile Seemes to frowne inward though it outward smile 14 Thus is the multitude in parts deuided Some wonder at the Module being so rare Others whose braines are with more iâ—…dgement guided would rip his wombe which some desire to spare Ardent Laocoon thinking to haue decided This generall doubt as one that all things dare Is seene from top of a high Tower discending A threatning speare against the Machiâ—…e bending 15 Crying from farre you foolish men
Neptolemus from top to toc Satued in blood and slaughter in both hands Wauing a keene glaue Crimsond in the foe To bind with Cords her soft armes he commands That more red liues may on his Faulchion flow There the bright Mayde that bands did ill become He piece-meale howe 's vpon Achilles tombe 93 Thus is King Priam and Queene Hecubs race Extinct in dust young Palidore alone The youngest Lad is with the king of Thrace Left in great charge with Gold and many a Stone Beyond all rate but Polymnestor base Hearing the pride of Troy was spent and gone False to the world and to his friend vntrew To gaino that wealth the louely Infant slew 94 Whos 's death when Hecuba reuenged had By tearing out the periur'd Tyrants eyes First she records the beauty of the Lad Then all the glories she beneath the skies Possest before which makes her Franticke-mad On her sloine husband daughters sonnes she crics Troy she bewaild and fatall Greece she curst Till her great heart with griese surcharged burst 95 Ten yeares ten months twelue dayes this siege indured In which of Greece before the Towne were slame Fourescoute hundred and sixe thousand all inured To steely warre Of Troians that maintaine The honour of their Citty well assured Besides the number that were prisoners tane Six hundred fifty and six thousand tride Omitting those that in the last night dide 96 Chiualrous Hector voyd of fraud or slight Eighteene great Kings slew by his proper hands No aduantagious oddes he vsd in fight Therefore his fame spreds farre through forraigne lands Three Kings to do the amorous Paris right Fell by his Bow next rankt Achilles stands Who besides Troylus and great Hector slew Seauen puissant Kings at Troy if Fame speake true 97 Foure Kings beside the Sagitary fell By Diomed two by Aeneas lost Their precious liues though many moe fought well Their warlike deeds are not so farte ingrost Blacke Pyrrhus acts aboue the rest excell Who thinking mongst them to be praised most Three Royall liues his Tragicke wrath obayd An aged King a Woman and a Mayd 98 Not how two worthy Greekes in words contended Who should the rich Vulcanian armor haue Now how from Aiax who had Greece defended Th' impartiall Iudges to Vlisses gaue To proue that Counsell aboue strength extended And had more power the Argine Campe to saue In griese of which great losse Aiax grew mad Slaine by the sword that he from Hector had 99 Nor of Vlisses trauels twice ten yeares Nor of his loue with Circe the faire Queene Who by her spels transform'd him and his Pecres And kept him thence where he desird t' haue beene With faire Penelope Fam'd mongst the spheares In liuing chast though Princes full of spleene Possest her kingdome and her pallace ceaz'd VVhom wanting power she by delaies appeasd 100 Nor how he after twenty winters came And in disguise his constant Lady proued How he by armes releast the beautious Dame And all her suiters from his Land remoued Nor how Telegonus won with the Fame Of him whom most the witch Calipso loued From his faire Mother Circe himselfe vvith-drevv And vnavvares his Royall Father slevv 101 Nor how King Naulus laide Traines on the Seas To aâ—…enge him on the Gracians for his sonne Palamides whose death did much displease The aged Prince since t was by treason donne Nor how such wandering Greekes as he could ceaze Who on his shores their ship-wrackt vessels ronne Naulâ—…s destroyd and vnto ruine brought Since they his sonnes deere life esteemed nought 102 Nor how King Agamemnon home returning Was by his faire wife Clitemnestra slaine How false Egistus in the Queenes loue burning Plotted with her to shorten the Kings raigne Nor bow Horestes for his Father mourning Grew mad and slew Egistus that had laine With his faire Mother whoÌ„ when he had caught her Vnchild-like he did with his owne hands slaughter 103 Nor how blacke Pyrrhus Hellens daughter stalâ—… The faire Her mione she that before Was to Horestes troth'd and should Sance fayle Haue bin espousd to him who at the doore Of Delphos Templeflew him without blae Staining Apoltos shrine with Pyrrhus gore Not how that face for which the whol world wrangled To see it chang'd with age her selfe she strangled 104 Nor how the Greekes after their bloody toyles Antenor left to inhabit raced Troy And after th' end of their sad Tragicke broyles All Asiaes wealth within their flect inioy Robbing the Towne of all her richest spoyles Whose hye Clowd-peircing spyres the flames destroy nor how Aeneas doth his forces gather And ships with his young son and aged Father 105 Rigging to soa these two and twenty sayle That fetcht the fire brand that all Troy inflamd The selfe-same shippes in which the Troian stale The Spartan Queene gainst whome all Greece exclaimd Nor of Queene Didoes loue and Tragicke bate Nor of Aeneas trauels nobly fam'd Nor how Andromache was Captaine led Left to the hot lust of the Conquerors bed 106 With whom Cassandra was inforst to goe With Helenus that kend deuinest things And al these sad proceedings did fore-show and propheside to Troyes confedered Kings Nor of King Diâ—…meds sad ouerthrow Of Albions Isle first knowne my Muse next sings Her Chariot now I can no further driue Brittaine from conquerd Troy we next deriue Dolopes are a people of Thessaly in the borders of Phthiolis out of which prouince Vlisses made choyce of his Guard Pallas whose name we have often vsed some take to be the Daughter of Neptune and Tritonis and liued in the time of Giges Others hold her to be sprung of Ihoues braine as wee haue before remembred Palluda quandam Cum patris è capite exilijt Clarissiâ—…a patuam lauerunt Tritonis aquae The like many others affirme as also that when she leapt out of Ihoues brain at the saide time it rained a shewer of Gold on the Earth Of her birth many writers differ some affirme her to be the Daughter of â—…riton others to berather the Daughter of â—…upiter Thetis Others of Craunus differing from their opinions therfore I hold with Cicero who auers that there were more of the names One of the Mother of Apollo a second borne by Nyle and adored of the Egyptians a third of the braine of â—…upiter a fourth of Jupiâ—…er and Ceriphe the Daughter of Oceanus whom the Arcadians call Cerin and the Inuentor of the Chariot A fift that was supposed to kill hir Father to perserue her virginity Pallas and Minetâ—…a were one she was also by some called Tâ—…iloma Ihouis filia gloriosa Tritonia Both Greece and Troy highly honered her she is saide to inuent Armes and to haue aided her Father Jâ—…piter in the destruction of the Tytanoyes which the poets call Gigomantichia Of whom it is thus remembred Palluda bellorum studijs Cautanus amicam è Ihoue
Husbands Bed denide 82 And proouing armes by them she honor sought She tam'd the VVelch-men and the Danes disgraced Next Edward Adelstane the battailes fought Of the bold English and the Castles raced as the proud Danes reard and to ruine brought The Sarafins euen from Hetruria chased Th Italian Guards they Gâ—…n ouerthrow VVhere bloud three dayes out of a VVell did flow 83 Now Gui of Warwick Danish Colebrand slew And England of all Tribute quite releast King Edmond did the Soueraignety pursue When Adelstane at Malmsbury deceast Slaine after fiue yeares by succession true Eldred his Brother raignes whose pomp increast Edmonds two Sons being young the Peeres coÌ„plaine and thinke their Vncle of more worth to raigne 84 France Tuskaine Germany the Hungars wast Hugh King of Italy by Fire destroyes The nauy of the Sarazens then past To Traxinetum Edwin next inioyes The Scepter Eldred hauing breath'd his last At Kingstone crown'd whose hart was set on toyes He Dunstan banisht his Landes and Treasure lauisht and his neere Nâ—…c vpon his Crowne-day rauisht 85 And next he slew her Husband for all which after foure yeares he was depriude his state Edgar his Brother a Prince wise and rich In all things â—…ust seuere and Fortunate ascends the Throne no Sorcerer nor Witch His sentence spard Theeues Bribers he did hate To him Ludwallis Prince of Wales obayd Three hundred Wolues for Tribute yearely payd 86 Forty seauen Monasteryes this King erected Red Crosses made and on mens Roabes were seared When Duffus had foure yeares the Scots protected Donewald a Scotch Lord that no bad thing feared Him basely slew and from his Throne derected From which â—…xe monthes no Moone or Sunne appeared The Turkes by Euecus Earle of Bygar Were Spaine expold he first King of Nauar. 87 King Edgar in his sixteenth yeare expyres When his Sonne Edward was at Kingstone crownde Slaine by his trayterous Stepdame who desires The Crowne for her Sonne Etheldred he founde Exter Abbey Swayne of Denmarke fires Citties and Townes in England burning round King Etheldred raign'd in this Kingdome free Thirty eyght yeares His murdred Brother three 88 Now Stephen was made first King of Hungary And thirty nine yeares raign'd Alphons of Spaine Besiedging great Visenum valiantly Was with an arrow kild and strowed the plaine All the Lord-Danes that liu'd here tyranously Were by the English Wiues in one night slaine Ierusalem was by the Turkes possest Whom twice the bold Venetian Duke distrest 89 King Edmond sir-nam'd Iron-side next his Father Inioyes the Kingdome gainst whom Swanus Son The bold Canutus all his Danâ—…s doth gather Twixt whom were many battayles lost and won After much bloods effusion they chose rather By single strife to end the broyles begon Theyr valors were in epuall ballance tryde and after Combat they the Land deuide 90 Edrick of Stratton valiant Edmond slew And from Canutus had a Traytors meede The valiant Dane in Stiles and Honors grew He Scotland wan and Norway To his seed Leauing foure Kingdomes Vice he did eschew Nor euer did a juster Prince succeed English and Danâ—…s he atton'd vnto his doome and after went on Pilgrimage to Roome 91 Robert the Norman Duke for valor famed Hyes to the holy warres in Palestine He gone his young Sonne William is proclaymed The Norman Duke Now seekes a Throne deuine Canutus when he twenty yeares had raigned and Harrold Harefoote vnto whom incline The Danâ—…s in England next the Scepter swayes and three yeares past at Oxford ends his dayes 92 Hardi-canutus the same number fild and drinking dide whom the good Edward Sainted For holy workes succeeds no bloud he spild Nor with knowne sinnes his high profession taynted He married as the great Earle Goodwin wild Th'Earles Daughter Edgitha and nothing wanted That a iust Prince should haue one and twenty years In zeale and clemency the Crowne he weares 93 This Goodwin Alphred Edward younger Brother Traytorously slew and by his power he yoaked The King himselfe betray de his Soueraigne Mother By Byshop Robert to these illes prouoked But Heauen no longer could such mischiefe smother Swearing by Bread he by the bit was choaked The swallowing Sea deuour'd all his Lands Which to this day beare name of Goodwins sands 94 William the Bastard Duke first landing heare Was by the King receaued and Englands Crowne Promist by Edward which no English Peere Was knowne to contradict after lenthome With greatest pompe and Harrold the same yeare Earle Goodwins sonne a man of great renowne Arriude in Normandy and with oathes deepe Sware the King dead for him the Crowne to keepe 95 But Edward dead Harrold vsurpes the seate Whom Fauston and the Norwey King inuade Vpon the North both whom he did defeate And brauely slew in battaile William made A new Incursion gainst whom in t' is heare Harrold his Ensignes in the field displayde The Norman Duke preuaylde and Harrald slaine William the first so cald begins his raigne In Brutes time whilst he gouernd Brittan Anaeus Siluius raigned amongst the Latines Dercitus in Assyria Athletets in Corinth Pipinus in Thusâ—…an Codrus in Athens in whose dayes the Arke of God was taken by the Philistims In Locrynes raigne Dauid was annoynted King ouer Israel In Guendolins raigne he 〈◊〉 Vriah and marryed Bersheba In Madans dayes Salomon built the Temple c. From Brute to Caelar the Brittans were not Tributary to any the gouernment of the Romans from Caesar to Theodosius lasted 483. years In Theodosius the youngers raign the yeare of Christ 443. the Tribute 〈◊〉 The gouernment of the Saxons continued the space of 600. yeares in continuall warre and hostility either with the Brittans the Danes or the Normans The opinions of those that write of the first inhabiting of this Iland are diuerse and how it came first to receiue the name of Albion some thinke of the Chalky and white Cliffe which seemes to wall it in from the Sea But Hugh Genisis a Roman Chronicler writing of all the Kinges and Kingdomes of the World from the Vniuer sall Deluge to Christ. Writes that Danaus King of Greece had fifty Daughters and Aegiptus as many Sonnes who being married and the women the first night murdring their Husbands were for the offence banished and sayling on the Seas were driuen vpon this Island which Albiana called after her Name Albion vvith these Ladies he reports that Spirits engendred and begotte Gyants who laie with their Mothers and Sisters led onely by their lustes till they had multiplyed themselues to the number of twelue thousand But Idoubt not but that this Land may contend with any other whatsoeuer for her antiquity being inhabited with the first which beeing continually vexed within it selfe with ciâ—… 〈◊〉 and forraine inuasions her Monuments and remembrances
strange Monsters breed One bore a Child that had the face of man and body of a Lyon th' other bred One with two bodies from the Girdle-sted 54 The Scotch King dying Issulesse contention In Scotland grew who should succeede the State The strife Edward atton'd and after mention Made of their Title which these Lords relate He arbitrates theyr fierce and hot dissention And to Iohn Balioll priz'd at hyest rate He giues the Crowne which pleased Scotland well Madock and Morgan now in Wales rebell 55 Edward thrice war'd gainst Scotland and preuayled The French Kings Sister Margaret tooke to Wife and to his Sonne the Princedome he entayled Of Wales proud Ottoman began great stufe With Christendome and many Townes assayled In him the Empire of the Turkes tooke life Pope Boniface the eyght suruiued than He first in Rome the Iubilee began 56 Creat Tamor Caâ—… gouernd Tartaria Albert the Empire France King Phillip guided Prince Ladislaus ruld Hungaria Clement the fift the seat of Rome deuided Transporting it to France which from that day Seauenty foure yeares continew'd vndecided Seraph th' Egiptian Souldan-ship supplide Edward the first in his Scotch garboiles dide 57 The second Edward him succeeds and raignes Full eighteene yeares a Prince of no renowne He ryots Lusts and wantonnesse maintaind Mongst priuate vnthrifts and his peeres put downe Henry the Emperour hauing brauely gaind Many great fields was with an yron Crowne at Milleine Crownd where he aduancst his name The Crutched Fryares first into England came 58 Peirs Gaueston twice banisht by the Peeres Was by the King recald Iohn Tamer rose In rebell armes destroyd by his owne feares Phillip the long their King the French-men chose The hauty Spencers triumpht many yeares Ouer the Nobles who themselues oppose against their pride the Spencers they exile Whom the loose King reuoked in small while 59 Twenty two Barons for the Spencers loue The King cut off the Sun six houres appeared Of sanguine hew his glorious brightnesse stroue with his red Maske which at the last he cleared Edward his force did twice gainst Scotland proue Both times the soyle with English blood besmeared The Queene and Prince the Spencers could not brook And like two exiles their owne Land forsooke 60 Sir Iohn of Henault Lands in the Queenes ayde And hy the Barons helpe the King pursued who after in strong Barkley Castle layde Sir Roger Mortimer a man indude With Pride and Tyrrany the King betrayde and with the Kings bloud 〈◊〉 Tower Imbrude Baldock the Spencers Minions to the King The Conquering Peeres vnto destruction bring 61 Edward King Edwards Sonne fifty yeares bore Englands rich Scepter Charles the French King dide Leauing no issue of the Royall store Therefore King Edward being next alyde Claymes France to which the Doncipeeres restore Phillip Valois and Edwards clayme deride Sir Roger Mortimer long graft boue reason By the Kings Mother was condemn'd of Treason 62 Edward the Blacke-Prince was at Woodstocke borne King Edward fought the fiâ—…ld cald Haldonne Hill In Scotland After some few dayes out-worne The King his clayme to France doth menace still Petrach the Laureat liu'd the French in scorne Foure hundred Sayle with armed Souldiers fill These Edward meetes at Siuce whom fame hath sounded Thirty three thousand of French t' haue slain drowned 63 The order of the Garter was first made Soone after was the famous Cressie field Don Petro by his Spanish Peeres betrayde Was to their violent fury forst to yeild Edward wan Callis Iohn next Phillip swayde In France and mena'st with his warlike Shield The braue Black-Prince at Poytieres battayle wonne The field the French King Prisoner and his Sonne 64 Melchella was now Souldan Amurath Emperor of Turky and with Conquest fought A persecutor of the Christian Fayth The French King-Iohn hauing his peace now bought at Sauoy dide and Charles the sixt next hath The Crowne of France Don-Peter ayde besought Who late exiled from the Crowne of Spaine Was by the Black-Prince repostest againe 65 The Duke of Laâ—…caster France ouer-run Vnfought withall Sir Robert Knowles likewise Marcht by the Citty Paris now begun Great Baiazeth among the Turkes to rise The braue blacke Prince from France where he had won So many Noble fields returning dyes The King himselfe as our best writers say Expird of Iune the two and twentith day 66 Richard the second sonne to the bold Prince Edward sit-namd the Blacke at yeares eleuen Began his rule whom many men conuince Of wanton ryot and a course vneuen Well tutor'd in 's minority but since He manag'd state too much neglecting heauen Gunnes were deuisd first by a Germaine Fryer France doth the Kingdome of Nauar desire 67 Queene â—…ane of Naples flourisht Bohemes King Vinceslaus was Almaine Emperor made Twixt Portugall and Castile discords spring Two Popes contend the Genowayes inuade The bold Venetians and to battaile bring Their Nauall powers both Ensignes flye displaid Iacke Straw dyes stabd in Smithfield by the care Of William Walworth at that time Lord Maior 68 A wondrous Earth-quake did whole England shake King Richard thâ—… Almaine Emperors daughter wiude The Turkes in Christendome great vprores make Iohn Galeazo in those dayes suruiu'd Duke Iohn of Gaunt doth a braue voyage take To conquer Spaine and in his purpose thriu'd The Barons of the Realme themselues with-drew And many of the King seducers slew 69 The Duke of Lancaster his daughter Kate Married to Henry Castiles eldess sonne His second daughter had the Queene-like state Of Portugall by which all warres were done The Turke in Hungary suppreft but late Seekes by his power all Gâ—…eece to ouer-ron Against Constantiâ—…opolis he layde at eyght-yeare siedge now Colleines Schoole was made 70 Robert of Scotland dying Iohn his heyre Succeedes next Richard Queene Anne beiug dead Espousd French Isabel then did prepare For Ireland where 's voyage slowly sped He put to death his Vncles for the care Of him and his Realmes safty sore misled Hereford and Norfolke Dukes the Combat clayme and both are banist in King Richards name 71 The Sâ—…ithian Tamberlaine the Turkes subdude and kept theyr Emperor in an Iron Cage Hereford against his sentence durst intrude Himselfe int'England and gainst Richard wage A threatned warre the Peeres Richard exclude From gouernment who in his strength of age Resignes his Crowne his Dignity and Fame To Henry Bullingbrooke fourth of that name 72 Gainst whom the Duke of Exeter Richards Brother The Dukes of Surry and Aumarle conspyre With Glocester who his hatred cannot smother And Salsbury all these his life conspyre and for it lost their lyues with many other Of the same faction seeking to aspyre Richard is slayne in Prison after showne Through London streets to haue his death wel known 73 Owen
Glendoure raysd armes Hotspur rebeld Woorster Northumberland with others moe Whom Edward met at Shrewsbury and queld Giuing those Lords a Mortall ouerthrow The Milleine Duke that many yeares exceld In Tyranny at length was layde full low Leauing to Iohn his Sonne the Dukedomes Seat This yeare was stated Mahomeâ—… the great 74 Charles of Cremona by the Treason dide Of base Cabrinus Fundulus his slaue Th'Arch-Byshop Scroope that Edward late defide Surprizd in field came to a timelesse graue In Poland at Cracouia full of pride Was founded th'Accademy some depraue The Burgoin Duke that did his hands imbrew In Orleance blood whom he by Treason slew 75 Saint Andrewes Vniuersity begon In Scotland Iohâ—… the Milleine Duke is slaine Of his owne Subjects Ladislaus won The Citty Rome which he gaue vp againe King Edward dying left vnto his son Henry the fift a faire and prosperous raigne Ten yeares he did his Royall fame aduance and to his Crowne annext the Realme of France 76 Great Amurath sway'd Turky Iohn Castile The sixt Charles France Pope Martin Peters Chaire at Henries claime to France the French-men smile With many taunts they Englands puissance dare King Henrie crost the seas and in small while at Agin-court manag'd a fight so rare That in one battaile he the Land ore-tun Leauiug the Crowne successiue to his son 77 Ieremy Prague and Iohn Husse dye by fire about religious causes Ziscaled The Thaborytes and further gan aspire against the Emperour to list his head French Katherine was Crownd Queene by great desire Of all our English peeres Duke Clarens sped against the Dolphin but alas in vaine By multitudes he was ore-set and slaine 78 Henry t' auenge his Brothers death prepares againe to inuade France where he breaths his last Pale death that in his rigour no man spates Beteaues him life his infant sonne not past Eyght months of age assumes the Lands affayres Vnder protection Bedfards Duke was great With Regency of France a Sorceting Maide Fought on the Dolphins part and brought him ayde 79 Who in small time was King of France proclaymde at Orleance braue Mountacute is slaine Prince Sigismond is Roman Emperor nam'd Eugenius doth the papall Sea maintaine Phillip guides Milleine now was Talboot fam'd Who many lost Townes did in France regaine Now flourisht Francis Forza in his pride The Lyons in the Tower this yeare all dyde 80 Zeuza liues Persiaes King for Sorcery Dame Elen Cobham the Protectors Wise With diuers others were found treacherously To haue cnnspyred against King Henries life Dame Margaret to the King of Scicily Sole-Daughter which began much future strife To Henries Bed with Suffolke crost the Scas now liu'd the braue Prince Huniades 81 Humphrey the Duke of Gloster was depriu'd His harmelesse life at Bury Suffolke now Was banisht England where he long had striu'd By the Kings grace to make the Barons bow Iacke Cade a mutit ous Rebell now suruiu'd Dating the Kings Edicts to disalow This was the yeare of Iubilee In Menz Faustius first printed at his owne expence 82 The Turkish Mahomet sackt and despoylde Constantinople at this time was fought Saint Albons battaile where the King was foyld and by the Duke of yorke a prisoner blought To London the sixt Henry being much toyld With Kingdomes cares his peace and quiet sought Making proud yorke protector now was fam'd George Castriotus Scanderbag sir-nam'd 83 Great Warwicke at Northampton the King met In battaile of the Barons many slew Surpri'd the King in person without let The Duke of Torke reuiues his claime anew Whom many of the chiefest Lords abet And in the Parlement his right pursue Being Titled heyre apparant to the Crowne at Wakefield him King Henries Queene put downe 84 Great Warwiâ—…ke at Saint Albons she made flie Rescuing the King her husband in small space Torkes sonne the Earle of March gan to defie and sought by armes King Henry to displace Neere Torke both powers each other soone discry Where the fourth Edward hath the King in chace and now the victors Lord it where they please Whilst Margaret with her young son crost the Seas 85 Twelue Kingdomes and two hundred Citties more Great Mahomet subdues next Exham field Was fought by them that Henry would restore But to King Edwards powers perforce they yeild Who wiues the Lady Gray she that before Was wife to Sir Iohn Gray Warwick his shield aduancst against the King whom he had Crownd and for French Bona seekes him to confound 78 Edward flyes England Henry is restord and Edward with an army Lands againe Where Warwickes pride vpon his shield is scord Edward ore-comes his powers on Barnet plaine Earle Warwicke by the Commons is deplord Edward the fourth once more vsurpes his raigne Gloster kils Henries sonne then madly fares Gainst Henrie whom he murdred at his Prayers 87 Cassanus gouernd Persia Mistris Shore Was famous for her beauty Hungary Mathias ruld The Pope not knowne before at twenty fiue yeares made the lubily The Duke of Clarens is lamented sore Being in a Wine-but murdred treacherously Edward expyres two sons he leaues behind Three Daughters and a Brother most vnkind 88 The eleauenth of Aprill and the eleauenth sad yeare Of his young age fift Edward gins his raigne But eare he yet was Crown'd Richard too neare His Vncle did his hands with murther stayne Both Edwards Children by his doome seuere Were Butcherd in the Tower and fouly slaine now famous wearc Gaza Sabellicus Pycus Myrandula Aldus Minutius 89 George Valla Hermolaus Barbarus Pelitian Platine with a many moe Marcilius Ficinus Pomponius Latus With Iohannes de monte regio Now Venice and Ferara peace discusse Great Baiazeth sustaines an ouerthrow By the bold Souldan next instated came Vsurping Richard cald third of that name 90 Two yeares two months and two dayes he inioyes Regality whilst Charles the eyght swayes France And Innocent the eyght his power imployes In Rome his Bastards to inhance Richard the Duke of Buckingham destroyes Who thought the Earle of Richmond to aduance Henry Earle Richmond Mâ—…lford Hauen sought Where landing he the field of Bosworth fought 91 Richard there slaine Henry the seauenth sits Crown'd Twenty three yeares Vgnerus Persia guides Fredericke the Empire Henry to make found The breach that Torke and Lancaster deuides a happy nuptiall contract doth propound With fayre Elizabeth whom soone he brides She heyre to yorke This yeare a disease new The Sweating sicknesse first in England grew 82 Spaines Ferdinand the kingdome of Granade Wan from the Sarazens Lambert a Child Taught by a Priest cald Simon came to inuade England with a new stile by him compil'd As Sonne to Clarens in this claime were made Chiese Leaders Francis Louel once exil'd Broughton and Lincolnes Earle with whom took
part A valiant German that hight Martin-Swart 83 These Henry slew in battaile and arrear'd A Taxe of the Tenth-penny through the Land For which the Commons in the field appeard And kill Northumbers Earle with a strong band Henry inuaded France Columbus cleard The vnknowne Seas and boldly tooke in hand The Indies first discouery Insurrection By Perkin Warbeck in forraine protection 84 In Italy a Stone exceeding great Fell from the ayre Lord Audly now rebeld Henry and the Scotch King of peace intreat The Turke the bold Venetian forces queld Who at Dyrachium sought him to defeate Katherine of Spaine a Lady that exceld Was fianst to Prince Arthur Sforce subdude Milleine and all the French-men did exclude 85 Margaret King Henries Daughter was affyde Vnto Scotch Iames In Germany bloud raind Elizabeth the Queene in Child-bed dyde The French this yeare from Naples were constrainde By Ferdinand of Spaine Now in his pride Liu'd Prestor-Iohn Great Ismael Sophy gaind Vpon the Turke in many a warlike strife Henry the seauenth at Richmond ends his life 86 At eyghteene yeares Henry the eyght succedes And thirty eyght yeares raign'd his Brothers Wife He marries by the Popes dispence which breedes Among the Cardinals murmure and strife Emson and Dudley hated for theyr deeds To please the Commons were depriu'd of life Now Doctor Collet liu'd a man of fame Erasmus too deriu'd from Rhoterdame 97 The Turkish Tyrant Selimus by warre Two Aegiptian Souldans chast and slew The Muscouites the stoute Pollonians barre Some rights for which great battailes t'ween them grew France still retaines the memorable searre Of Henries valor who that time o'rethrew Turwin and Turney in whose streetes appeare Turrets as many as be daies â—…'th yeare 98 A peace with France King Lewes Mary wiues Sister to Henry and within few dayes Expyres Charles Brandon gainst the French-men striues At Tilt and Barriers where he won great prayse and fetcht the Queene thence Francis next suruiues The King of France Charles Brandon now assayes The Queene and marryes her in small while after Mary was borne King Henries eldest Daughter 99 Charles Duke of Austrich is made King of Spaine The Citties tumult chanc't on Ill-May-day Cardinall Woolsy flourisht now complaine The Popes allyes gainst Luther Turkes display Theyr Ensignes against Belgrade once againe Zuinglius began against the Pope t'inuaye Whose Doctrines learnd Erasmus seemde to abet Henry at Arde in France the French King met 100 Charles is Crown'd Emperor th'eyght Henry writ A Booke gainst Luther This yeare lost his head The Duke of Buckingham and now did sit In the Turkes Throne a Prince with fury led Who Belgraue did besidge and threatned it Great Solyman The Emperor Charles him sped For England where at Windsore he was called Vnto the Garter and there Knight installed 101 Christierne of Denmarke banisht with his Wife Enter this Land where they were well intreated The Earle of Surry in his Northerne strife In many sundry fights the Foe defeated Stormes and tempestuous Gusts this yeare were rife And in Granade a Prodince fayrely seared Were Citties swallowed the great Turke makes hed From whom the Hungars king drown'd as he fled 102 The Annabaptists sect was first begun Charles Burbons Duke sackt Rome and there was slaine Vaivad grew great in Fame this yeare the Sunne Appear'd three Sunnes at once Katherine of Spaine Before prince Arthurs wife the king is wun To be diuorst from this diuorse in vaine Cardinall Woolsie seekes by meanes to crosse Which to his ruine turnes and fauours losse 103 Tindall the holy Scripture now translated Th'arrested Cardinall at Leister dide And Ferdinand is King of Rome created Anne Bulloine next became King Henrtes Bride And Thomas Cromwell whom the Cleargy hated Made of the Counsell the Kings Sister tyde In marriage to Charles Brandon dyes forlorne Elizabeth was now at Greenewich borne 104 For Treason dyde the holy Mayde of Kent Lady Anne Bulloine like wise lost her head Erasmus after seauenty Winters spent Expi'd whose fame through Christendome is spread Lady Iane Seamors beauty did content The King so well he tooke her to his bed And on Saint Edwards Eeue this yeare tooke life noble Prince Edward by the kings late Wife 105 Fryer Forrest dyde for Treason One of Spaine For eating Flesh vpon a day of Fast Was hang'd in Paris and tooke downe againe His Lady burnt A full conclusion past Of Marriage tweene the King and Lady Anne Of Cleeue which solemne contract did distast The Kinges soone after who for her rare feature Wiu'd Lady Katherine Howard a fayer Creature 106 Cromwell next lost his head the disputation Begun at Rat'isbone Henry th'eyght is stiled The King of Ireland by his proclamation and Lady Katherine Howard who defiled Her vnchast body with much lamentation Led to her death now Luther was reâ—…led In the Popes Trident Counsell the King wed The Lady Katherine Lat'mer to his Bed 107 The Turkish Barbaressa famous grew In Germany at Mounster bloud did raigne Troubles with Scotland next these did insue The Counsell held at Spyre now once againe Henry inuaded France and did pursue The Bullenois since many did complaine Against the Stewes they were abandond quite The pope the Wormace Counsell did accite 108 Luther expyres soone after dyes the king Henry the eyght whom the sixt Edward then Succeedes at nine yeares old now first gan spring That reform'd Church which at first many men Impugn'd Masses no more the Church-men sing Next Musele-borrow field did happen when Much bloud was spilt a both-sides Bonner now Great in his Fathers dayes the king makes bow 109 Stephen Gardiner is cast into the tower The Brother Seamers falling at dissention By meanes of their proud Wiues begin to lower Each vpon other which without preuention Causd timelesse Fate both their sweet liues deuower First Arundell then Kit had firme intention To change the State but both were hang'd in chaines Bulloine was giuen vp by the French-mens traynes 111 At Feuersham was murdred by his Wife Arden by helpe of Mosby and Blacke-Will The Trade with Musco did now first grow rife Mong th' English Marchants by the Nauiall skill Of one Gabato he that first gaue life To these aduentures Many rumors fill The Land with newes that Edward lately dide Meane time the Lady Iane's made Guilfords Bride 112 Edward at sixteene yeares ofage deceast The Duke Northumberland proclaimes Queene Iane But soone her young and Infant title ceast The Commons by their power Mary maintaine Sister to Edward her high State increast And next her Brother she begins her raigne Guilford and Iane with whom the Queene 's offended Sent to the Tower where their sweete liues they enâ—…ded 113 Bourne preaching at Panles-Crosse the Masse maintaining A suddaine
Warre twixt Saturne and lupiter K. Iames and Queene Anne The opinion of some ydle discontents How the Medeterranean sea first came The middle-earth sea that parts Europe from Africa Valer. Flaccus lib. 1. Argon Denaâ—…s Egiptus 2409. 1473. The tale of lâ—… pitâ—…r Danae The building of Barreia tower Perseus Homer bymno Pâ—…son in mâ—…ssemacis Meâ—…nus Orpheus in bym Calimachus de coaditis insulis Archelaus lib. de fluminibus Lucianns in dial Calim. in hymn 2617. 1346. Eliud of the tribe of Beniamin slew Eglon K. of Moab The progeny of Menelaus and Agamem non Tantalus in Hell Pelops death and life 1642. 1321. Saturnes arriue in Troy Ganimeds warre against Iupiter The Combat twixt Iâ—…ne and Ganimed Iason Ganimede taken The first ensigne borne in Battell Aegeon Sir Richard Greenvield Reuenge one of Q. Elizab. ships Royall Egeon â—…nrprised The 12. Celestiall Signâ—… The rest of the history of Danae The fruits of Gelousie The birth of Perseus Pelonnus ma rieth Danac begat Danaus Iaunary 〈◊〉 Iâ—…piter accord Ianus Eâ—…der Italus Saturns second mâ—…are The birth of Vulcan and Proserpine How Vulcan became lame The Gorgons Mars Venus Hesiodus in Theogon Aeschilus in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Phoricis Athen. Apollodor lib 2. Melanthes lib de mysterijs Apollod Menander lib de mysterijs Nimphodorus Theopompus Poleme Alexander Mâ—…dius lib 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Virgil. Perseus killeth the Gorgon 1497 1466 〈◊〉 lib. 3. 〈◊〉 Theopompus lib 17. Pegasus Affrica most abounding with snakes Atlas This prophesie had his end in Hercu les Atlas transformed The tale of Perseus and Andromeda 2589 1374 〈◊〉 in Perseide Aratus Cepheus 〈◊〉 The league twixt Englád and Spaine 2856 1307 The L. High Admiral Imb. for Spaine Bellerephon K. Pricus Brother to Acrisâ—… Bellerephons tale Perseus Issue Herodotâ—… in Polimnia Pausanias in 〈◊〉 2657. 1306. Theseus inrebus Corinthiacis Persepolis The genealogy of Hercules Galantis Alcmenaes nurse â—…pectent Herules tvvinne-Brother and sonne to Amphitrio Iole daughter to Cacus Herodotâ—… Hesione daughter to LaomedoÌ„ The first destruction of Troy Crâ—…on K. of Thebes Pluto and Proserpine Ceres Apollâ—…d AtheÌ„ lib. 2 Melanthes lib. de misteryÌ„s S. Augustine â—…uid Metamorph Hesâ—… in Thâ—…g Apollodorus Athen. Eusebius 〈◊〉 Solinus Mercury 〈◊〉 â—…liattes king of Lydia Orpheus and Euridice Molossia a part of Epire so called of Moloâ—…us Sonne to Pyrhus and Androâ—…ch M 〈◊〉 s. rerum Astronomicarum Minos Eacâ—… Rhodamant Hels torments Clotho 〈◊〉 Atropos In Argonanticis â—…rithous slaine The lal or inth made to Dâ—…alus Looke in the Skolly Peleas King of Thessâ—…ly and Vnckle to â—…son Amâ—…ion Zethus Thebes A tempest The Islands voyage Phasis a town in 〈◊〉 and a Riuer Medea Dionis Milesius Charles Branâ—…on Duke of Suffolke Iason sonne to Eâ—…on and Poâ—…nela Antimachus 〈◊〉 3. 〈◊〉 Apolon lib. 3. Absyrtus Brother to Medea Strabo lib. 7. Atusilaus Phâ—…cides lib 7 Timaut 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cales Cales twice taken once by Sir Francis Drake since by the Earle of Essex Hercules Lybicus The 12 labors of Hercules The death of 〈◊〉 Eripid in Med 〈◊〉 Andron Teius 〈◊〉 Epist. Cithara canitus 〈◊〉 per 〈◊〉 Aurata 〈◊〉 quae maximus Atlas 〈◊〉 canit erraÌ„ tem Lunam 〈◊〉 labores 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 et pecuder vnde imber et Ignes S. 〈◊〉 Timonax in rebus 〈◊〉 Pasiphae Zezes histors 19 Dedalus and Icarus Ouid 2. de arte Amandi S. Hiâ—…roms Pompey gaue Theoptanes a Citty Thais a Curtezan of Athâ—…nt Lais a Curtezan of Corinth Aegipseus King of Thrace Hecubaes Issue Diodorus Tully Ihosephus Homer Aâ—…tolus Sonne to Mars Herodotus Polidor Plutarch Dares The first that was seene to vse the snield Peletronians a nation of Thessaly Macheuil historie Floreâ—…tina Priam Hector Parls Daris Ches-play first deuised in Troy Deiphebus Helenus Troylus Cressida Aeneus Anthenor Polydanus Menon Heeâ—…ba A dromache Creusa Cassandra Polyxena The sixe gates of Troy The Riuer Symois Three kingdomes conquered by Hector Hectors Oration The prophesie of Helenus Phoebus and Cassandra Pherecides Dio Drodorus Iâ—…hanes Antiochâ—…s Hecubaes dreame To preuent the Oracle Para was cast out among the shepheards of Ida. The vision of Paris Iuno Palles and â—…enus The entertainment of Paris Hâ—…en at nine yeares of age rauisht by Theseus A custome in Peleponesâ—… the Prouâ—… in which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stands Ganimed Cephalus Anchises Myrtoan is a part of the sea betwixt the Ioutum Egâ—…um Sylenus the Priest of Bacchus Ariadnt Castor Poll. Castor Pollâ—… translated into the two Poles the North and South Pauson Strabo Diodo Pliny Palydor Polichron Amoclâ—…s of Corinth Nesichthon of Salamis A sea-battaile fought betwixt Phillip of FraÌ„ce Ed. the 3. in the yeare 1340. when there were slayâ—… FreÌ„ch 30000 ships taken 200. Agamemnon Menelaus Archâ—…laus Prothenor Helmius Ascalaphus Epistropus Sedius Telamon Theuter Thebus Amphimachus Nestor Thoas Doxunois Telam. Chyleus Amphimachus Polybetes Idumeus Mereon Vlisses Tynelus Prothocathus Prothesilaus Collosis Machaon Pollydris Achilles Thelaphus Eruphilus Anthipus Amphimachus Polybetes Lopius Diomedes Eurialus Thelanus Fureus Polyphebus Carpenor Theorius Hellen Philoctetes companion to Hercules De Arte Amandi 2. Deremedio Amoris 2. Homer Virgill Metamor 12. Theacritus in dioscuris Apollon lib 1 Zezes hist 46 Stasinus in rebus Ciprijs Bren. Nennius Arthur Edgar Edmond Ironside Robert of No mandy sirnamed Cort-bise Richard Cordelyon Edward long shankes Edward 3. Black prince inuested don Pedro in Spaine Iohn a 〈◊〉 Bedford Talbot Edward 4. Richard 3. Earle Surrey Charls Brandon Fame Tenedos subverted Pandrastus Panodrus Galior Carras Amasius Nestor Amphimac Glaucus Sarpedon Eusemus Mystor Capidus Remus Pylex Achamas Tessemus Stupex Fortunus Samnus Ausernumus Boetes Epistemus â—…hilemus Perseus Thiction Symagou Hector Thelemus Archilocus Two Kinges from Argrest Troâ—…lus Deiphebus Epistropus Sagittarius Nastes Tentumidas Pandarus Hyrtacides Adrestus Amphius Merops Ennonius Chronius Pylemen Pyrechmes Euphemes Ascanius Dius Pyrous Mnemon Pyleus Hypothous Vlisses and Diomeds Embassle Theutrâ—…m The first battaile Prothesilaus slaine The second daies battayle King Menon slaine Thesus The Tale of Cephalns and Procris Lycomedes K. of Scyros Achilles and Deiademeia Neptolemus cald Pyrrlâ—… Vlisses and Palamides Peribea daughter to Nais Oracle Femineâ—… Peribea dâ—…s Peribeapâ—…dorem fort â—…ere Heredotus lib. de perse Andromeda Penelopes Grece sig A brood of Indian hens 〈◊〉 in Chrisilla The third battell Archeptolemnus Hectors Charioter Antomedon Achilles Charioter Hectors challenge Hectors steeds The combat twixt Archelous Hercules Cornucopia The Combat betwixt Aiax and Achilles De Arte Amanâ—… 1. Achilles and Dâ—…a Ouid de Arte Amandi lib. 1. Homer Strabo lib. 10. Plutarch lib. dâ—… fluminibus Eurip. in Bachis Heredotâ—… in Eutripe Hellanicus Strabe 10. Xanthus in rebut Etolicis Herâ—…genes lib de Phrygia An enterchaÌ„ge of gifts betwixt Hector and Aiax A Truce Dictes The Greekes feasted by Priam. Achilles loue to Polixena A battaile lasting 30 daies Achilles his abstinence froÌ„ battaile Patroclus slain Thetis otherwise called Amphetrite Charis Homer Iliad Apollodorus Staphilus in lib
nothing knew The wax he fastned with the strings he playde Not thinking for his shoulders they were made To whom his Father spake and then lookt pale With these swift Ships we to our Land must saile All passages doth crewell Mynos stop Onely the empty ayre he stils leaues ope That way must we the Land and the rough deepe Doth Mynos barre the ayre he cannot keepe But in thy way beware thou set no eye On the signe Virgo nor Boetes hye Looke not the blacke Orion in the face That shakes his Sword but iust with me keepe pace Thy wings are now in fastning follow me I will before thee fly as thou shalt see Thy Father mount or stoope so I aread thee Take me thy Guarde and safely I will lead thee If we should soare to neere great Phoebus seate The melting Waxe will not endure the heate Or if we fly to neere the Humid Seas Our moystned wings we cannot shake with ease Fly betweene both and with the gusts that rise Let thy light body saile amidst the skies And euer as his little sonne he charmes He sits the feathers to his tender Armes And shewes him how to moue his body light As Birds first teach their little young ones flight By this he cals to Counsell all his wits And his owne wings vnto his shoulders fits Being about to rise he fearefull quakes and in this new way his faint body shakes First ere he tooke his flight he kist his sonne Whilst by his cheekes the brinish waters ronne There was a Hillocke not so towring tall As lofty Mountaines bee nor yet so small To be with Valleyes euen and yet a hill From this thus both attempt their vncoath skill The Father moues his wings and with respect His eyes vpon his wandering sonne reflect They beare a spacious course and the apt boy Fearlesse of harme in his new tract doth ioy and flyes more boldly Now vpon them lookes The Fishermen that angle in the brookes and with their eyes cast vpward frighted stand By this is Samos Isle on their left hand Vpon the right Lebinthos they for sake Astipalen and the Fishy Lake Shady Pachime ful of Woods and Groues When the rash youth too bold in ventring roues Looseth his guide and takes his flight so hie That the soft wax against the Sun doth frie and the Cords slip that kept the Feathers fast So that his armes haue power vpon no blast He fearefully from the hye clouds lookes downe Vpon the lower heauens whose curld waues frowne at his ambitious height and from the skies He sees blacke night and death before his eyes Stil melts the wax his naked armes he shakes and thinking to catch hold no hold he takes But now the naked Lad downe headlong fals And by the way he Father Father cals Helpe Father helpe I die and as he speakes A violent surge his course of language breakes Th' vnhappy Father but no Father now Cryes out aloud Sonne Icarus where art thou Where art thou Icarus where dost thou flie Icarus where art When loe he may espy The feathers swim aloud he doth exclaime The earth his bones the Sea stil beares his name But least we inâ—…st too much on these impertinent tales we wil proceed in our proposed History The end of the seauenth CANTO Argumentum THE twice sackt Troy with all abundaÌ„ce flowes Her wals mlarg'd hir spacious bounds augmeÌ„ted Fortune on Priam all her fauour strowes Her populous streets from all parts are frequented Proud of his sonnes the King impatient growes And with all Greece for wrongs past discontented Warlike Anthenot by Embassage seekes To haue the Kings faire Sister from the Greeks ARG. 2. THe worth of Poets Who first weapons found Troy the Troians Theta makes hir grouÌ„d CANTO 8. 1 FAyre Poesie both ancient and Deuine Tell me thy true Diuinity and age Emmius oft cals thee Sacred thou didst shine In Moses dayes a Prophet wise and Sage Who sang sweet Hymnes compos'd in measured line To great Iehoua Oft Dauid did asswage His melancholy cares in many an Oade Tun'd to the praises of th' almighty God 2 A sweeter verse then good Isaias wrote Or Salomon in his deuinest song For Number Accent Euphony or note Were neuer set with pen or ayr'd with toong Greeke Pindarus whose meeters made men dote Nor Saphos vaine so Musically strong Could in their fluent Verse or sweet inuention Better delight the rauisht eares attention 3 The rising and soft Cadens of a verse In Deutronomium liuely is expressed He that shall Dauids Haebrew Psalmes reherse Shall find true number in his words professed Not Orpheus Horrace line could sooner pierce Th'inchanted braine not Homer whom so me gessed To be chiefe Poet this approues it holy Not as some hold deriu'd from Apish folly 4 In verse Hexamiter did Moises praise The heauens Creator through the red sea flying Archilochus Iambickes first gan raise Apollo meetred Verse all Prose denying Daphne the sonne of Mercury assaies The Elegeick verse soone after dying Thespis Quintilian Tragedies deuisd Which Sophocles soone after enterprisd 5 A Poëm is the richest Monument And onely liues when Marble toombes decay Shewing Kings deeds their merit and discent Notstab'd by time whom Sepulchers obey Thou proud Achilles with thy great ostent Where stands thy Monumentall graue this day Toome-makers die disgracst then Homer trust By whom thy fame liues now thy graue is dust 6 By Poëm Troyes name is preseru'd from fire Which else long since had perisht with the towne Who in these dayes would for her fame inquire Had not deuine wits Chronicled her downe Those flames that eate her buildings with like Ire Had burnt her Name and swallowed her renowne But Poësy apt all such things to saue Redeems her glory from Obliuions graue 7 Poets are Makers had great Homer pleasd Penelop had beene wanton Hellen chast The Spartan King the mutinous hoast appeasde And smooth Vlisses with the horne disgra'st Thersites had the Imperiall Scepter ceasd And Agamemnon in his rancke beene plast Oh! Homer t' was in thee Troy to subdue Thy pen not Greece the Troyans ouerthrew 8 Achilles durst not looke on Hector when He guld his Siluer armes in Greekish bloud Homer that lou'd him more then other men Gaue him such hart that he gainst Hector stood T was not Achilles sword but Homers pen That drew from Hectors breast a Crimson-flood Hector his Myrindons and him subdude In such hye-blood faint hands were not imbrude 9 T was Poesy that made Achilles bold Stout Aiax valiant and Vlisses wise By Homers guift the great Alcide contrould The hoast of Greekes all such as highly prise The sacred Muse their Names are writ in gold Thersites was well featur'd but denyes The Muse her honor therefore to his shame The Muse hath made him Stigmaticke and lame 10 This made great Scipio Affricanus bring Dead Ennius from the rude Calabrian Coast placing his statuë that his prayse did sing In Romes hye Capitoll
who now can boast Of such rich meede worthy the greatest King So Pompey guerdon'd learning to his cost And gaue a large Towne rounded with a Wall And thought it for the Muse a guift to small 11 Art thou a Tyrant to thy seruice take Some Helliconian Scholler whose fine quill To after times thy raigne may gentle make And giue them life whom thou in rage didst kill Art thou a Vsurer Wilt thou not forsake A hundred for a hundred Learne this skill To some one fluent Poet pension giue And he shall make thy famous bounty liue 12 Had Thais fauour'd Arts the Arts had raisd her and made her Chast as Faire This Lucresse knew Because she lou'd the Muse the Muse hath praisd her Lending the knife with which her selfe she slew Who Lais can accuse Though fame hath blaz'd her For wanton who can say report is true Happly though Chast al Poets she eschewes And now liues onely famous mongst the Stewes 13 Art thou a Coward Exhibitions lend To Schollers that shal make thee ventrous bold Art thou a Glutton Make the Muse thy friend Or a loose Leacher Giue thy Poet Gold Hee 'l cleare thy Fame and giue thy scandall end He can redeeme renowne to ruine sold Make Ryoters frugall the dull blind to see The Drunkard temperate and the Couetous free 14 Th' ambitious meeke the Lofty minded low Th' inconstant stable and the Rough remisse Women that your defectiue humors know Are likewise by your bounty helpt in this Some speciall grace vnto the Muses show That haue the power t'inthrone your names in blisse Had faire fac'st Hellen this opinion cherisht O're-whelmed Troy had not for her sake perisht 15 They can make wantons Ciuill the Foole wise The stooping Straight the Tawny coloured faire The merry Modest and the Loose precise and change the colour both offace and haire All your Mercuriall mixtures then dispyse For your Vermillion tinctures take no care What neede you far for couloured vnctions seeke When our blacke Inke can better paint thy cheeke 16 Some of this Artfull coulour now I want Which from the Muses I desire to borrow In Melancholly Priam to dispaint The perfect Image and true face of Sorrow At sight of ruind Troy his spirits faint Yet after gathers strength and on the morrow Resolues himselfe with bootlesse cares to striue To interre the dead and cheere those that suruiue 17 In processe taking truce with all Vexation Priam intends a fayrer Troy to reare Of larger bounds so layes a firme foundation So strong that being mounted they need feare Nor Phoebus wrath nor Neptunes Invndation Nor any other bordering Neighbour neare His Towne repayrd King Priam in small space Takes to his Wife a Princesse borne in Thrace 18 Great Aegipseus Daughter Hecuba Prooues Mother of fiue Sonnes the first in Row Hector the boldest Knight in Asia Paris the fayrest expert in the bow Then Deiphebus named by Phaebus ray Helemus taught all hidden Arts to know Bold Troylus youngest of his Mothers store Hath Bastard-Brothers fiue and forty more 19 Some thinke young Polidore from her descended And Ganimed that standes in Aebes place Her Eldest Girle Creusa much commended Matcht with Eneas of a Noble race VVhose puisance next Priam most extended Then sweet Cassandra one of regall grace A Prophetesse but Polixene surpast Fayrest of all the world and Heeâ—…bs last 20 But now since Armes and Battailes Swords Speares With other warlike Engines we must vse Before Troyes rich aboundance touch our eares With some delay we must restraine our Muse To shew what people the first Armour beares And who they were first broake the generall Truce In the first age erae men keene weapons knew They fought with naked fists but no man slew 21 Some say the Thratian Mars first Armour brought Others that Pallas was of wars the ground Others that Tubal-Cayne for weapons sought And taught the way how to defend and wound Most thinke Lame Vulcan on the Styth first wrought Helmets Swords Speares the Lacedemons found The Haberion Midias Messenius filed Iauelins and Darts Aetolus first compiled 22 Yet were not Souldiers arm'd at euery Peece Some thinke th' Aegyptians flourisht in this trade And Helmets and bright Salets brought to Greece Leg-harnesse by the Carians was first made These Iason vsde in Conquest of the fleece Great Fuluius Flachus Iustings Speares assayde At Capua first by old Tyrhenus framed For the browne Bill the Thracian was first named 23 Pyses the hunting Staffe the warlike Queene Penthiselea taught the Pollax-fight Crosse-bowes were first among the Cretans seene Quartyes and Bolts the Syrians bring to sight The euer-bold Phenetians furnisht beene With Brakes and Slings to Chronicle their might In lists appointed in the Argiue fields Acrisius and bold Pretus fought with shields 24 Epeus at Troyes seidge the Ramme deuisde The Tortoyes Citty wals to vndermine Artemon Clazemonius enterprisde Bellerephon to imitate the signe Cald Sagitarius Footmanship dispisde And backt the Iennet after some Deuine Bridles Bits Trappings to adorne a Steede Seru'd first the Peletronians warlike speede 25 But of all Hellish Engines he whose brayne By Deuilish practise first deuisd the Gun The world shall Vniuersally complaine A generall murder by that Almain done By which the strong men are by Weakelings slaine By him hath many a Mother lost her Sonne This Hell-borne Art sinceby the Deuill must Venice against the Genoes practise first 26 Of Priam now and of his royall seede Their fashions and their features Dares writes The aged King of puissance in his deed And in his prime-age expert in all fights Tall but well shaped Mounted on his Steede In Horseman-ship excelling all his Knights Grisled his heyre grey-eyde Beard full and long Soft voy'st his limbs though slender rare and strong 27 In enterprises dreadlesse early rysing Eating betimes with Musicke highly pleasd Not rash to execute but with aduising Sound in his body and no way diseasd Vpright in sentence flattery dispising Apt to be angry and as soone appeasd Euen to the last in armes his body prouing Amorous of Ladies and Souldiers dearely louing 28 Hector the eldest of King Priams race Past in his puissance all Knights of that age An able body and a pleasant face Affable and not much inclinde to rage Big-limb'd but featur'd well which added grace To his proportion young but grauely sage His flesh tough-hard but white his blew veines ayery His quicke eye fiery bright his skin much heyry 29 His head short curld his beard an aburne browne His pleasant Language lisping but not lowd Saue in the wars he was not seene to frowne Saue to his Gods and King he neuer bowd In field a Lyon but a Lambe in towne Strong without equall but in Armes not prowd Was neuer knowne to speake fellonious word Or but against Troyes foes to vse a sword 30 Aduentrous bold but with discreet aduice Patient