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

set his Kingdome frée By ouer-ruling of his Lords intreating long the same Least dying Issules he leaue succession out of frame He tooke to Quéene a Damsell faire howbeit by conscent In vowes of secret chastitie their louing liues they spent The Father of this Mayden-wife in sitting by the King And seeing one that stumbled but not falling vp did spring He laughing sayd the brother there the brother well hath easd His meaning was the Stumblers Feete And haddest thou so pleasd So had my Brother quoth the King bin easing vnto me The traytrous Earle tooke bread and sayd so this digested be As I am giltles of his death these words he scarcely spoke But that in presence of the King the bread did Goodwyn choke Harolde his sonne by Hardi-knoghts late daughter him suruiues He crossed by contrary windes in Normandie ariues There Goodwyns Sonne did take an oth Duke William vrging so To keepe vnto the Duke his vse when Edward hence should goe The Crowne of England clayming by Adoption and by blood But Harolde after Edwards Death not to his promise stood And for he was in wealth in friends in blood and Armor strong And title had his Mothers right he forced not the wrong But arming him against the Duke so vrged vnto wroth Did seaze the Crowne vnto himselfe contrary to his Oth. Whil'st William therfore works for Warre King Harolde had not rest For Harolde Hare-foote King of Danes and Norwaies much opprest The English with his pusant Bands But Harolde him assayles And after fearce and doubtfull fight most valiantly preuayles And with the Norgayne Prince he slewe his people almost all When for deuision of the Spoyle did much contention fall Betwixt the King and English-men and many a noble Knight Not only murmor and malinge but did forsake him quight Such mallice growing William with his Normanes taking land Found hot-spurr Harolde prest in Armes his pusance to withstand And either Battell Marshalled as either Captaine wild The King of England eagerly the Normane Oste behild And with his chearfull speeches thus his men with courage fild Sée valiant Warr-friends yonder be the first the last and all The Agents of our Enemies they henceforth cannot call Supplies for weedes at Normandie by this in Porches groe Then Conquer these would Conquer you and dread no further Foe They are not stouter then the Brutes whom we did hence exile Nor stronger then the sturdie Danes our Uictorie erwhile Not Saxonie could once contayne or scarce the world beside Our Fathers who did sway by Sword where listed them to bide Then doe not ye degenerat take courage by discent And by their Buryalles not abode their force and flight preuent Ye haue in hand your Countries cause a Conquest they pretend Which were ye not the same ye be euen Cowards would defend I graunt that parte of vs are flead and linked to the Foe And glad I am our Armie is of Traytors cléered so Yea pardon hath he to departe that slayeth Mal-content I prize the mynd aboue the man like zeale hath like euent Yet troth it is no well or ill this Iland euer had But through the ill or well Support of Subiects good or bad Not Caesar Hengest Swayn or now which nertheles shall fayle The Normane Bastard Albion true did could or can preuayle But to be selfe-false in this Isle a selfe-Foe euer is Yet wot I neuer Traytor did his Treasons Stypend mis. Shrinke who will shrinke let Armors wayte presse downe the burdned Earth My Foes with wondring eyes shall see I ouer-prize my death But since ye all for all I hope a-like affected be Your Wiues your Children liues and Land from Seruitude to frée Are armed both in shewe and zeale then gloriously contend To winne and weare the home-brought Spoyles of Uictorie the end Let not the Skinners daughters Sonne possesse what he pretends He liues to dye a noble death that life for Fréedome spends As Harolde hartned thus his men so did the Normane his And looking wishly on the Earth Duke William speaketh this To liue vpon or lye within this is my Ground or Graue My louing Soldiours one of twaine your Duke resolues to haue Nor b●ye Normanes now to seeke in what ye should be stout Ye come amidst the English Pykes to hewe your Honors out Ye come to winne the same by Launce that is your owne by lawe Ye come I say in rytious Warre reuenging Swords to drawe Howbeit of more hardie Foes no passed Fight hath spead ye Since Rollo to your now Abode with Bands victorious lead ye Or Turchus Sonne of Troyelus in Scythian Fazo bread ye Then worthy your Progenitors ye Séede of Priams Sonne Exployt this busnesse Rollons doe that as ye wish be donne Thrée People haue as many tymes got and for-g●n this Shore It resteth now ye Conquer it not to be Conqured more For Normane and the Saxon Blood conioyning as it may From that consorted Séede the Crowne shall neuer passe away Before vs are our armed Foes behinde vs are the Seas On either side the Foe hath Holds of succour and for ease But that Aduantage shall returne their Disaduantage thus If ye obserue no Shore is left the which may shelter vs And so hold out amidst the Rough whil'st they hael in for Lée Whereas whil'st men securely sayle not seldome Shipwrackes bée What should I cite your passed Acts or tediously incence To present Armes your faces shewe your hearts conceiue offence Yea euen your Courages deuine a Conquest not to fayle Hope then your Duke doth Prophesie and in that hope preuayle A People braue a terren Heauen hath Obiects wroth your Warres Shall be the Prizes of your Prow's and moun● your fame to Starres Let not a Traytors periur'd Sonne extrude vs from our right He dyes to leaue a famous life that doth for Conquest sight By this the furious Battelles ioyne a bloodie day to either And long they fight the Uictorie inclyning vnto neither At length the English had the ods who kéeping close aray Unto the Duchie Forces gaue no entrance any way Then fayning feare and Martially retyring as opprest The English so became secure and followe on disperst To which aduantage furiously the Normanes did returne And got a bloodie victorie In vayne the English th●●ne Amidst the Pykes against the pricke 〈◊〉 Harolde then was slayne From him began the Normanes sole but soone ●●●ioyned ray●e For second Henrie Mawde her Sonne fréed Englands blood agayne Since whence and euer may they so that Of-spring ruled vs Of whose Coniunction in the Crowne the Genalogue is thus King Edmund Irne side Issue had Edward the Our-law he Had Margret Mawde by Mancholyn the King of Scottes had she Mawde to the Conqueror his Sonne first Henrie Mawde did beire This second Mawde the Angeos wife had second Henrie heire EDward King Harolds Preregnant of this same Change foretold Who present and succéeding tymes thus dying did vnfold It is a World to note quoth he

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

but wanting all that poorest wretches haue And worst of all her sauage sonne whose manners did agrée Unto his birth-place howerly threates his mothers death to be And angrie once pursued her so long from place to place That euen into the Cittie gates he followed her in chase The people when they did behold so fayre a Nimph in flight A Baer-like Arcas in pursute for being naked quite His skinne was swart and hairie they did wonder at the sight And some that would his passage stop he rudely casteth downe And spares no spoyle vntill the sight was noysed through the towne Then out came Iupiter in Armes whome when Calysto knewe Helpe Ioue she cryde for loe thy sonne his mother doth pursue He knewe his Leiman at the first and ioyed of her sight Then kisse they when the Sauage boy by force did leaue to fight Calysto liued Lady-like yea Iunos Ryuall now And Arcas nobly mannaged such vertues him indowe That Ioue consenting him for King Pelasgis did Allowe A Sonne well worthy such a Syer and for his prowes and fame Pelasgis then of Arcas tooke Arcadia to name BUt rather might these Ladies fayre by any pleasant taile Or daseling toye of masshing loue swéet Consorts to preuaile Disswade outragious Cacus from vnpatientnes of mynde Who in his greatest tyrannies did chiefest pleasures finde He sleas the harmles Passengers from eldest soule to childe He burnes and spoyles the neighbour parts and women he defild And to his Caue Troponius Caue did bring the spoyles he gaynes In which except to do more harme he secretly remaynes Whilst none did passe that did repasse vnspoyled or vnkild None knowing how all Italie with feare thereof was fild But lo and helpe when Hercules had slaughtered out-right Tenne Giants of Cremona Kings and put th-eleauenth to flight From thence the Worthy did ariue with his victorious band At King Euanders Cittie that by Auentin did stand Amongst a many ritcher Spoyles though none to him so rare He brought a sort of Spanish kyne Euander taking care Because the like misfortune oft had hapned there before Least Hercules should loose his Kyne of which he made such store Gaue counsell that within the walles they might be kept all night And better to approue his words with teares he did resight The murthers theftes and cruelties without compassion maide Upon his Subiects and their goods by whome could not be said But that the gods for so they gesse for sinne them so inuade I am resolu'd quoth Hercules where gods doe vengeance craue It is not strong or fensiue walles that any thing can saue My Kyne shall therefore graese abroade if mortall man it be Then know a Tyrant is my Taske his blood the Taskers fée The Cattell graesing then abroade as was his vse alwaies The Gyant left his cruell Denne to seeke his cursed praies The Moone not wanting of her light the Kyne he did espye And knowing them he also knewe his feared Foe was nye And f●r much better feare had bene then mallice at that tide But hardly shunneth pollicie what destinies prouide He might haue lurkt a while in Denne but of a péeuish spight Eight of the Kine with fastned cords by pollicie and might ●e dragged backward by their tailes into his diuelish Nest Then stopping vp the subtill hole did lay him downe to rest Now Hercules the rather prickt by king Euanders talke Into the fieldes to sée his Kine by prime of day did walke Where missing eight he could not gesse which waie they should be gon A many therefore had in charge to search them out anon The Searchers following euery signe great store of footings found Discending from Mount Auentine into the lower ground But for the footings did discend and not ascend they thought of no such cunning as in deed in Auentine was wrought Alcaeus Grand-sonne searching long the Thefts he could not finde Was much disquieted in him selfe and angrie in his minde And chasing when he should depart he twise or thrise did shake A Tree that grue on Auent●ne which ●ooted vp did make So large a vent that one might view the hollowe Caue belowe And Cacus with his Leash of wiues they were disclosed so Whome when the Greeke espied there O gracelesse King he said Whose Tyrannies haue made the Realmes of Hespera afraid Whose cruelties haue bene the cause of all the lesse thou hast What moueth thee in Italie to prosecute such waste Thinkst thou whom neither mightie Realmes nor royal Gards of mē Could late defend now to escape inclosed thus in Den The iust reuengement of the Goddes no no the Heauens wée sée Haue brought to light a wretch so lewd euen by a senceles Tree And since that neither wealth nor want to goodnes may thée win A greeuous death condignly shall cut off thy grounded sinne To it did Cacus aunswer thus doest thou pursue me still Who onely art the chiefest cause of these my doings ill Not suffring me to liue the rest of my vnhappie daies Among the fruitlesse rocks a wretch in miserie alwaies Cease further prate said Hercules in troth it gréeueth much To see a King in this Distresse but since thy life is such As nather in aduersitie nor prosperous estate Thou canst afford one iot of good I purpose to rebate Thy wicked dayes by worthy death prepare therefore to dye When Cacus sawe he must perforce so harde a combate trye He by inchanted flames againe endeuored to flye But Hercules deluded once by that deuise before Had learned now for being so deceaued any more And casting feare a side did leape into the flaming Caue And so by Arte did conquer Arte. The Gyant then to saue Him selfe did take his Axe in hand where Hercules and he Couragiously bestirre themselues vntill they did agrée To trye it out in open ayer So dolefull was their fight That Lookers on could not discerne to whether best should light The frighted Ladies did their best to helpe their fighting frend But Hercules had victorie and Cacus had his end CHAP. XII FOr Gyants of Cremona flayne and Cacus ridded so The Latine Princes prayse on him and presents did bestoe Where Rome is now Pallantia then Euāder he did frame A Temple and to Hercules did dedicate the same And he intreated thereunto in Italie did stay To honour whome did Princes come from farre and euery waye King Faunus had affaiers abroad when from Laurentum came His wife Marica Facua some this louely Quéene do name From liking did she fall in loue with Hercules and he More ready to haue made demaunde then like to disagrée Conceauing her by circumstance so cuppled by contract That had King Faunus neuer liu'd Latinus had not lackt Yet home came Faunus fathering his late Coriuals act But whether gotten lawfully or thus in loue forbod Latinus Brute his Gran-dams Syer was sonne vnto a God WHilst that in loue of this same Quéene and lawde of all besides The vanquisher of Vulcans sonne in Italy abydes Of Calabries

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

sumptuously feasted of Elisa in her Pallace During these their Alcion daies not generally liked of all one there was a Noble Troian that had these spéeches to AEneas Shouldest thou beléeue farre be it from AEneas so to beléeue that the Oracles of our Gods behighting vs the Conquest of Italie were supersticious then beléeue also vndeceiued maist thou so beléeue that our effeminate abode heere is vaine and slaunderous to attempt that former without an Oracle yea with the losse of our liues is honourable because we are Troians to entertaine this latter inuited and daungerles reprochfull because we are Troians Ah AEneas haue we shipped our Gods from home to be witnesses of our wantonnesse heere Beléeue me better had it béene we had dyed in Phrygia men then to liue thus in Affric like women Consider also the place whereinto wee are nowe broughte and then conceaue of the possibility of our héere abode shall I tell thée were there not if in the meane whyle no other Accident crosse thy now blisse were there not I say an Elisa héere to loue thée or were there not an AEneas to be belooued of her no sooner should the first deceased of you be deliuered of life then the Suruyuors of vs Troians be denyed thys Land and then if we should prooue so vngratefull as to resist our Releuors yet hauing number we want Munition for neyther our Shyppes bee tackled nor wee armed but at the deliuerie and appointment of the Tyrians Learne therefore AEneas after so long pleasure in loue at the last profitably and politickly to loue and whatsoeuer thy play be in Affrick let henceforth the Mayne be Italie Mean-while commaunde most humbly we desire to bee so commaunded that thy Shyppes be secretely calked tallowed ballaced tackled victled and armed and then thy selfe also reformed wittingly or vnwillinglie to Elisa leaue her and her effeminate Cittie with resolution neuertheles if thou so please at more leysure to loue her So effectuallie did AEneas lysten to this motion that gyuing order for the readines and secrete repayring of his Fléete hee promised a spéedie and suddaine departure and hys men not slypping opportunities executed the same with as effectuall diligence It happened in thys meanewhyle y e Quéene to mount the high Turrets of her Pallace royal where looking towardes the Rhode she perceyued how earnestly the Troians laboured in trymming pauashing and furnishing theyr Nauie then assuring her selfe not deceiued that she should be deceiued and discending as it were maiestically madde méeting with AEneas she sayd Before AEneas I beheld thy shypwracks and wants I beléeued some God aryued at Carthage yea when I knewe thée but a man yet hath my conceit honoured thee with a Deitie but nowe these thy inhumaine Trecheries not worthy the vnworthyest Tytles argue so farre of from a Godhood as thou shewest thy selfe lesse then a Man and worse then a Deuill What hath Carthage not woorthy AEneas I assure thée if any be so much no Cittie is more happy then Carthage But the Queene pleaseth not AEneas oh that AEneas had not pleased the Quéene then might I haue bettered my choyse for honour or not haue bewayled thy chaunge for the dishonor But vngratefull wilt thou indéede leaue me yea then that thou meanest the contrary nothing more false but to deriue thy departure from any desert of myne nothing lesse true If therefore the life of Elisa the loue of Elisa the land of Elisa her wealth thy want her teares thy vowes her distresse thy dishonor the delightes of thys Shore the daungers of those Seas Carthage possessed Italie vnconquered peace without warre héere warre without peace there thy wracks past the Winter to come anie euils whereof I warne thée anie good that I haue wrought thée and more good that I haue wished thée if anie thing said or more then I can say hath or doth want Argument to seate thée in Affrick yet at the least for thine owne safety stay a more temperate season vrging in the meane-while excuses for thine vnurged departure and so I flattered shall either patient my selfe or repent thy fléeting in a mylder Extasie I did wel may I forethinke me so to haue doone entertaine thée beyond the degrée of an Hostesse or the dignity of a Gueste and yet vngratefull Guest to so kind an Holtis for such welcome thou hast not pretended a farewell Thus alas finding thy loue lesse then it ought I repent to haue loued more then I should and because thou appearest not the same thou wert I am not reputed the same I am but as the by-worde of the Tyrians the Stayle of the Troians and the scorne of the Affricans howbeit in trueth the fayth-plyghted Wyfe of faythlesse AEneas But who will so beléeue nay beleeue not so who wyll thy departure shall bée my death my death thy sinne thy sinne the worldes spéeche the worldes spéeche thy reproofe and thy reproofe my purgation for were thy selfe Iuror and Iudge of the more offensyue my credulencie or thine inconstancie the Iuror coulde not but giue Uerdict for Elisa and the Iudge sentence against AEneas then yf not for my sute yet for thyne owne sake let mee not pleade tediouslye and without grace that pleade so truelie and with more gréefe then for the quantitie I may suffer or for the quallitie thou canst censure AEneas not lightly gauled at her impatience whom hee styll loued more then a lyttle howbeit lesser then hys nowe regarde of honour thankfully acknowledged her great bounty counterpleading to haue pretended a departure without leaue taken vouching moreouer the displeasure of hys Gods for contempt of their Oracles manifested by fearefull Dreames and sundry Uisions as also the vrging of hys Troians impatient of tarriance so that hee resting in Resolution not to bee wonne by wooing or reclamed by exclaiming the Quéene became spéechles and sencelesse and was in a swoune conuayed from his presence In which businesse hée boording hys Shyppes in the deade of nyght hoysting vppe sayles left Carthage to séeke Italie THe Quéene not capable of anie rest by day appearing discried from a Turret the Rhode cleered of the Troian Nauie then not willingly silent nor able to speake shee stoode as stoode Niobe after the fouretéenth reuenge by Latonas Issue Which her then and after Extremities to bee glaunced at not iudged of bréefelie I thus decyfer Imagine for vnimagined vnacted a substātial palpable appearāce of Loue Wroth Sorrow and Dispayre acting in their aptest habits and extreamest passyons and then suppose Elisa not onely the same but more feruently louing more furiously wrothfull more confusedly sorrowfull and more impatientlye desprett Imagine lastly the first thrée imagined Actors after long partes occupyed leauing the Stage to the fourth as to the perfectest Imperfection and then from such imagined Stratagem attend thys actuall Catastropha A Wyzarde or Wytch the too common Oracles of manie too credulent women had instructed the Quéene that an Emollation or burnt Sacrifice offered to the infernall

remembring of this Hystorie I haue also vsed other Authorities YT followeth After long Warres valiantly on eyther part performed Manie greate Kinges Princes and Parsonages perrished when lastly the Rutiles begunne to be repentant of their wrong and the Troians wearie of the Warres AEneas and Turnus méeting had these wordes And first AEneas Often Truces haue we had Turnus for the burial of our deade neuer Intreaties of peace for the welfare of those aliue onely once as I haue béene euer diddest thou séeme thou diddest but séeme prouident that no moe should miscarie offering me Combate which I accepting haue in vaine expected but since thy minde chaunged I wote not by what meanes haue chaunged y e lyues of I wote not how many But now euen now when for the palpable leas●ng thou shouldest not speake like Turnus shouldest thou deny the better of the warres to abide with AEneas and yet I still be AEneas though playing vpon that Aduauntage with Turnus euen nowe I say my selfe doo request thée of that Combate whereby further Blood-sheds may happily bee concluded Beléeue me wert thou a Begger and I a Monark yet so much doo I emulate not enuie thy glory I woulde hazarde all in a Combate requested of so valerous a Competitor But least perhaps I ouer-breath thy tyckled Conceite with more selfe-lyking then is expedient knowe Man Turnus know Nature Beath Arte Education nor whatsoeuer are in any thing more beneficiall to Turnus then that iustly be may enuie as much or more in AEneas To thys aunswered the Rutule thus Whether thou speakest this AEneas as insulting ouer my infortune or as insolent of thine owne felicitie or emulous as thou sayst and I beléeue it of my glory trust mee onely if thus in thy better successe to abandon thy selfe to such offered disaduauntage be not indiscretion neuer hearde I wherein to derogate from thy pollicie but say it indiscretion yet by Iupiter AEneas it is honourable indiscretion Not to encounter so heroicall for in thée I enuie not that Epitithon a Combattant is as contrary to my thought as contenting to my very Soule and as contenting to my Soule as if AEneas were already conquered and Turnus Conqueror either which I deuine at y e leastwise I am determined to aduenture be prouided therefore AEneas of courage for thou prouokest no Cowarde but euen Turnus that would haue asked no lesse had hée not doubted AEneas not to haue dared to aunswere so much Thus and with these Conditions that further warres should finish that the Espousall of Lauinia and Succession of Latium should bee the Prize to the Uictor A Combat to be tryed by these twayne body against body was vpon Othes taken and other Circumstaunces ratefyed Nowe were they Armed Mounted and did Encounter their Coursers were breathles the Ryders Dysmounted and buckled on Foote both offended eyther defended and nayther faynted Lastly not with vnrequited blowes was Turnus Disarmed the Uanquished pleading for life and the Uictor not purposing his death had he not espied on his Shoulders the sometimes Badrike of his once especiall Fréende Pallas King Euander his Sonne whom Turnus in Battell ouercomming had put to Sword then AEneas saying onely in this Spoyle thou shalt not tryumphe and onely for his sake am I vnintreatable shoffed his Sworde through hys Breaste Turnus so ending the World and AEneas the Warres Then was he peaceably wedded to Lauinia shortly after possessed of Latium After which about thrée yéeres he dying left his Kingdome to Ascanius and Lauinia with Childe She at her time and at the house of the before remembred Tyrrhus was deliuered of Syluius Posthumu● so called of hys béeing borne amongst y e Wooddes after the death of his Father To him because in right it was the Inheritance of Syluius from his Mother dyd Ascanius voluntarilie resigne the Kingdome of Latium and of him for his honourable Regyment were all the after Latine Kinges called Syluij Finally he Hunting and mistaken amongst the Thickets for a Stagge was slayne with an Arrowe by his Sunne Brutus This Brutus for sorrow and his safety accompanied with manie lusty Gentlemen and others of AEneas his Troians Ofsprings imbarking themselues after long Sayling aryued in this Iland then called Albion whose Cyantlike Inhabitants in respect of their monstrous making and inciuill Manners sayd to haue béene engendred of Deuilles he ouercomming Manured theyr Countrey and after his owne name called it Brutaine And thus hauing begotten Brutus an Originall to our Brutons I conclude this abridged Hystorie of his Grand-Father AEneas William Warner Finis ¶ Imprinted at London by George Robinson for Thomas Cadman Anno. Do. 1586.