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 hale in for Lee Whereas whil'st men securely sayle not seldome shipwracks bee 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 faile Hope then your Duke doth prophecie and in that hope preuaile A People braue a terren Heauen both Obiects wroth your warres Shall be the Prizes of your Prow's and mount your fame to Starres Let not a Traytors periur'd Sonne exâ—rude vs from our right He dyes to liue a famous life that doth for Conquest fight By this the furious Battels ioyne a bloody day to eyther And long they fight the victory inclining vnto neyther At length the English had the ods who keeping close aray Vnto the Duchie Forces gaue no entraunce any way Who fayning feare and Martially retyring as opprest The English so became secure and follow on disperst To which aduantage furiously the Normanes did returne And got a bloody victorie In vayne the English spurne Amidst the Pikes against the pricke King Harold then was slayne From whom began the Normanes sole but soone conioyned rayne For second Henry Mawd her Sonne freed Englands blood agayne Since when and euer may they so that Of-spring ruled vs Of whose Coniunction in the Crowne the Genalogue is thus King Edmund Irn-side Issue had Edward the Out-law he Had Margaret Mawd by Malcolme theÌ„ the King of Scots had she Mawd to the Conqueror his Sonne first Henry Mawd did beiâ—e This second Mawd the Angeos wife had second Henry heire EDward King Harolds Preregnant of the same Change foretold Who present and succeeding times thus dying did vnfold It is a world to note quoth he the wayes that men adore And how Hypocrisie hath bred of Godlike Deuils store That speake to seeme that seeme to shift that shift to spoyle by guile That smooth sooth yeat deceiue with Scriptum est meane while But let them heaue their hands to Heauen they haue their hier in Hell That seeme deuout to cloake deceit and say but doe not well The Rich are retchles in their willes their liking is for law The Poore repine and Goods not theirs by idle shiftings claw The Lords and Landed ouer-rent and cunningly the same The Parasite doth ouer-reach and beares away the game One riseth by anothers fall and some doe clime so fast That in the Clowdes they doe forget what Climates they haue past But Eagle-winged mindes that fly to nestle in the Sunne Their lofty heads haue leaden heeles and end where they begun It is a common point on which the aged grossely ronne Once to haue dared sayd and seene more then was euer done The Youth are foolish-hardie or lesse hardie then they ought Effeminate phantasticall in few not few are nought At Cyprus not the wanton Saint nor yeat her wylie Sonne Did want her Orgies nor at Rome did Vesta lacke her Nonne The Lampsacens gaue Pryapus his filthie Rites and Create To Ioue his Bulles and Siâ—ilie to Ceres tithed Wheat The Thracians with their Bacchanales did Lybers Temple fill And Italie did blood of Babes on Saturnes Altars spill And fatall wreathes of Myrâ—ill boughes were sacred vnto Dys In fewe there was no Pagane God his Sacrifice did mis. But English-men nay Christian men not onely seeme prophane But Man to Man as Beast to Beast holds ciuill dueties vayne Yea Pulpits some like Pedlers packs yeeld forth as men affect And what a Synode shall conclude a Sowter will correct The rude thus boasting Litrature one Schisme begets another And grossely though a Sehisâ—â—e yeat hath cach Schismatike his Soother Meane while the learned want their Meed none with profit heares The tedious Doult whose artles tongue doth preach to weary eares Here could I enter in a Field of matter more than much But gesse that all is out of frame and long time hath bin such And what shall be let time disclose This onely will I touch A Greene Tree cut from withered Stock deuided Furlongs three From proper Roote it shall reioyne and after fruitfull bee Thus sayd the King And thus doe some expound that Prophesee The Tree this Land the Stock and Roote the thralled English line King Harâ—ld and the VVilliams twaine the Furlongs some define Henry the Normane that begot on Mawde his English Queene Mawde second Henries Mother was the Trees Returne to greene King Stephen first though not so firme did in this Turne proceede But second Henrie perfectly restalled VVodens Seede THE FIFTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XXIII ASsisted by the former Bowne persist my Muse and tell How by the Normane Conquest here an other world befell New lawes not Labyrinths as now through wrested Quirkes came in New Lords also at whom for most our auncient Crests begin The English sinke the Normanes swimme all topsie turute was Vntill the Conquerour had brought his whole command to pas Then was one Edgar sonne vnto the out-law Edward he To holy Edward had been heire had not King Harold be And VVilliam pleading too by sword admits no milder law So Edgar in his soonest flight his safest issue saw Who with his mother daughter to the King of Hungarie And Sisters did attempt into his Grandsiers Realme to flie Thus Englands hope with Englands heir in one same Barke did sayl When desprate from their villanage was English blood of baile 〈◊〉 God that to the hopeles is not helples if he please Did driue the storm-beate English ship into the Scottish seas Wheare cast a shore King Malcolme soone had notice of the wracke And did become a gracious Lord vnto their present lacke And Agatha a Votarisse tooke Margaret to Queene Protects her brother euen by Armes against King Williams teene Vntill by warre and wise conuay he so to passe did bring That Edgar reconciled was vnto the English King In credit though withheld his Crowne and thus at least did good His flight Scotch-queen'd his Sister she regraded Englands blood For let we Edgar gainst the haer preserued as exprest And either VVilliam luckie Knight at armes interred rest And set first VVilliams yongest sonne first Henry on the Throne Through him the royall English and the Normane bloods grew one On Mawd Scotch Malcomes daughter by the foresaid Margaret he Had Mawd that solie did suruiue her drowned brothers three Her Empresse to the Emperour then newly being ded Did Geffrey Plantaganet the Earle of Anioy wed And she vnto Plantaganet did second Henry beire Of England Angeo Gascoyne and of Normandie the heire Yeat Stephen first VVilliams daughters son whoÌ„ th' Earle of Bloys did marrie Did with the Empresse and her son now King now Captiue varrie But lastly tyred and inter'd all England by his death Was quietly second Henries who was lawfulst heire by birth With Hengests blood our droupen Muse it
ALBIONS England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof And most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents there hapning vnto and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne Queene ELIZABETH VVith varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures First penned and published by VVilliam VVarner and now reuised and newly inlarged by the same Author BY WISDOME·PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY LONDON Printed by the Widow Orwin for I. B. and are to be sold at her shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1597. To the right Honorable my very good Lord and Maister Henrie Carey Baron of Hunsdon Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Lord Chamberlaine of her Maiesties most Honorable Houshold Lord Gouernour of Barwick Lord Warden of the East Marches for and anenst Scotland Lord Lieftenant of Suffolke and Norfolke Captaine of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pencioners and one of her Highnes most Honorable Priuie Counsell THis our whole Iland anciently called Brutaine but more aunciently Albion presently containing two Kingdomes England and Scotland is cause right Honorable that to distinguish the former whose only Occurrents I abridge from the other remote from our Historie I intitle this my Booke ALBIONS ENGLAND A subiect in troth without vaine-glory be it spokeÌ„ worthy your Honorable Patronage had it passed froÌ„ the Pen of a more countenaunced Author But for great Personages gratefully to entertaine the good wils of meane workemen is answerable to themselues and animating to feeble Artists I therefore secure of your Honors Clemencie herein not vnlike to Phaëton who at the first did fearefully admire eueÌ„ the Pallace of Phoebus but anon feareles aduenture euen the presence of Phoebus hauing dedicated a former Booke to him that from your Honor deriueth his Birth now also present the like to your Lordship with so much the lesse doubt and so much the more duty by how much the more I esteeme this my latter laboure of more Valew I owe your Lordship expecteth especiall dutie at the hands of your Seruant And thus right Honorable hoping better than I may offend desirous to please desperate of praise destitute of a better Present I make Tender onely of good will more I haue not for your Honors good word lesse I hope not Your Lordships most humble and dutifull Seruant W. Warner To the Reader WEl know I that Pearls low-prised in India are precious in England that euen Homer was slightly authorised in Greece but singularly admired elswhere and that for the most part the best Authors find at home their worst Auditors howbeit whatsoeuer VVriter is most famous the same is therefore indebted to his natiue Language Neither preferre I aboue three speeches before ours for more sententious VVritten haue I alreadie in Proese allowed of some and now friendly Reader offer I Uerse attending thine indifferent ensure In which if grosely I faile as not greatly I so feare in Ueritie Breuitie Inuention and Uarietie profitable patheticall pithie and pleasant so farre off shall I be from being opinionate of mine owne Labours that my selfe will also subscribe to prescribe the same for absurd and erronious But in Uaine is it either to intreat or feare the Courteous or Captious the one will not cauill nor the other be reconciled My labour is past and your liking to come and things hardly founded may easily be confounded Arrogancie is Linx-eyed into aduantages Enuie and selfe-conceited Readers capable of the least errour But such are good Mindes and the Contraries of these Men in reading of Books as were the Paganes in reuerencing their Gods sacrificing as deuoutly to a woodden Iupiter as to a golden Iupiter to an Oxe a at or vnreuerent Priapus as to the Sunne the Starres or amiable Venus deuotion and discretion being euermore senceles in detraction Of the latter sorte therefore I craue pardon presupposing their patience to the former presupposing impatience I offer pardon resting to either and to you all in good will such as I should Yours W. W. A Table for euery of the seuerall Bookes to find out the speciall Stories and matters directing from their Chapters and Pages The first Booke OF the deuision of the World after the generall Flood And of the confusion of Tongues chap. 1. pag. 1 How and vnder whome the first Monarchie began pag. 2 Of the debate betwixt Titan and Saturne for the kingdome of Crete and of their conditionall Attonement pag. 2 How Iupiter at his birth by commaundement of Saturne his Father should haue been put to death and how he was preserued chap. 2. pag. 4. Of the crueltie of Lycaon and how hee was driuen out of his kingdome by Iupiter chap. 3. pag. 7 How Iupiter deliuered his Parents being imprisoned by Titan. pa. 7 Of Aesculapius and of his death pag. 8 How Saturne wilfully enforcing his Sonne Iupiter to Armes was chaced out of Crete and Ganimaedes taken prisoner pag. 9 How Iupiter on the Sea ouercame the cruell Gyant and Pyrat Aegaeon pag. 10 How Iuno pretending the death of Hercules and hismother being in trauaile of him was preuented chap. 4. pag. 11 How Hercules vanquishing the Gyant Philoctes fetched a bootie out of the Isle of Hespera pag. 12 How Hercules rescued fayre Hesione King Laomedons Daughter from death and of Laomedons treachery towards him pag. 13 How Hercules sacked Troy and put Laomedon to flight pag. 15 How dangerously Hercules ouercame three fierce Lyons in the Forrest of Nemea chap. 5. pag. 16 How Hercules in Agypt subdued and sacrificed the Gyant Busiris pag. 17. How Hercules rescued Hippodame the Bride of Pirithous from the Centaures that would haue rauished her pag. 18 How Proserpinc was rapted by Pluto her deliuerie attempted first by Orpheus then by Theseus and Pirithous and how she was at the length rescued by Hercules chap. 6. pag. 19. How Androdamus ouercame Philoctes spoyled Thaebes slew King Creon How Lycus vsurped in Thaebes imprisoned Megara the wife of Hercules and how hee and Megara were lastly slaine of Hercules pag. 23 How King Laomedon was slaine by Hercules and Troy by him the second time spoyled c. pag. 25 The second Booke OF the warre and fierce Combat betwixt Hercules and Antaeus and of King Atlas chap. 7. pag. 26 How two Amazonian Ladies challenged the Combat of Hercules and Theseus and of the braue performance thereof pag. 29 Of the warre contention and Combat betwixt Hercules and Achelous for the loue of Deianira pag. 30 How the Centaure Nessus would haue rauished Deianira of his death and malitious treacherie towards Hercules chap. 8. pag. 32 How Hercules slew the subtile and cruell Monster Hydra pag 34 Of Gerion subdued and slaine by Hercules pag. 35 How the Tyrant Cacus driuen out of his kingdome by Hercules liued in a Caue with three Ladies Daughters to King Piâ—us pag. 36 The tragicall Storie of Queene Daphles and Doracles chap. 9 p 37 The Tale of the old woman and Battus
chap. 10. pag. 45 The Storie of Iupiter and Calisto chap. 11. pag. 49 Of Cacus his secret Thefts and Tyrannies and how he was lastly discouered and slaine by Hercules pag. 53 Of the honour done to Hercules in Italie and of Queene Marica on whom he was supposed to beget Latinus Grandfather to Brute chap. 12. pag. 55 How Hercules vanquished King Picus and fell in loue with Iole p. 56 How Hercules ouercame the Tyrant Diomedes and gaue him to be eaten of his owne horses and how in Lycia hee betooke himselfe to ease and effeminacie pag 57 Of the tragicall end of Hercules and Deianira chap. 13 pag. 59 The occasion and circumstances of the third and last warre at Troy The destruction thereof and banishment of Aeneas pag. 61 Brute his petigree from either Parent his Exile from Italie and ariuall in this Isle then called Albion pag. 62 The third Booke HOw Brute named and manured this Iland built Troy-nouant or London and at his death deuided the Isse between his three Sonnes chap. 14. pag. 63 How Locrine ouercame Humbar and his Hunnes fell in loue with Estrild and of Queene Guendoleine her reuenge on him Estrild and Sabrin pag. 64 Of King Leir and his three Daughters pag. 65 Of Porrex and Ferrex and how Queene Iden murthered her sonne Porrex chap. 15. pag. 67 How and when the Scots and Pichts first entred Brutaine and of their Originals pag. 68 Of Belinus and Brennus their Contention Attonement renowmed Acts and death of Brennus chap. 16. pag. 69 Of the kindnes shewed by King Elidurus to his deposed Brother Archigallo pag. 76 How Iulius Caesar after two Repulses made the Brutaines tributarie to the Romaines chap. 17. pag. 77 The Fable of the old man the boy and the Asse pag. 80 The Birth of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. chap. 18. pag. 81 How Guiderius his brother Aruiragus ouercame the Romaines how Aruiragus was reconciled to the Romaines and married the Emperours Daughter pag. 81 How Queene Uoada vanquished the Romanes and of hers and her Daughters deaths pag. 82 Of the first Christian King in Brutaine how the Crowne thereof became Emperiall and of the Marriage and Holiday in Hell pag 85 Of the extreame distresse and thraldome that the Brutaines were brought vnto by the Scots and Pichts and how they were relieued by the King of little Britaine chap. 19. pag. 87 How King Vortiger intertained Hengistus and his Saxons how they droue Uortiger and the Brutaines into Wales and planted themselues in Britaine pag. 88 Of King Arthur and his Chiualrie pag. 90 How after the death of King Arthur the Saxons altogether subdued and expelled the Brutaines and of Cadwallader their last King pag. 91 The fourth Booke THe Storie of Curan and Argentile chap. 20. pag. 93 Of King Sigibert his tyrannie miserable end chap. 21. pa. 98 Of the amorous King Osbret slaine by the Danes who vnder Hungar and Hubba did warre and win much of England pag. 99 Of the politick and couragious Kings Alured and Adelstone and how they vanquished and chased the Danes pag. 100 How Egelred by treason of his mother became king and how all the Danes were murthered in one night pag. 101 Of the extreame thraldome wherein the English liued vnder the Danes How Swayne king of Denmarke and Canutus his sonne wholly subdued England to themselues chap. 22. pag. 102 Of the precepts that King Egelred on his death-bed gaue to his son Edmond Irneside pag. 103 Of the noble warre betwixt Edmond Irneside and Canutus of their Combat Attonement and friendly partition of England betwixt them c. pag. 105 Of the holy king Edward his vertuous and valiant gouernment Of the treacherous Earle Goodwin and of his End How king Harold was slaine and England Conquered by William Duke of Normandy chap. 22. pag. 107 Of the holy king Edward and of his sayings pag. 111 The fift Booke HOw king William Conqueror altered the lawes and gouernmet in England Of Edgar Athelstone and of his mother and Sisters entertainement in Scotland And of the restoring of the English royall blood chap. 23. pag. 113 Of King Henrie the second of Thomas Becket and of his death pag. 114 Of King Richard the first his Victories his imprisonment in Austrich his reuenge therfore and of his death chap. 24. pag. 117 Of King Iohn and how he was poysoned by a Monke pag. 118 A Tale of the beginning of Friers and Cloysterers pag. 119 Of a blunt Northerne man his speeches pag. 120 How king Edgar wowed the Nunne and of his pennance therefore pag. 121 Of the warres betwixt King Henrie the third and his Barons chap. 25. pag. 123 Of the vertuous and victorious Prince king Edward the first and of his counsell giuen to his Sonne c. pag. 124 Of king Edward the second his euill gouernment Of good Thomas Earle of Lancaster of his conference with an Hermit pa. 125 How lecherous Turgesius the Norwegane hauing conquered Ireland was by certaine young Gentlemen in the habites of Ladies slaine and Ireland so recouered chap. 26. pag. 126 Of amorous king Dermot and his Paramour the Queene of Meth in Ireland and of Ireland conquered to England pag. 129 Of the Hermits speeches to Earle Thomas of Lancaster chap. 27. pag. 131 How King Edward the second for his euill gouernement was deposed and his Parasites put to death chap. 28. 136 Of King Edward the third his Victories and noble Gouernement pag. 137 Of the magnanimitie of a Scottish Lady Sir Alexander Seitons wife at the besieging of Barwicke pag. 138 Of the troublesome Raigne of king Richard the second and how he was deposed by Henry surnamed Henry of Bolingbroke Duke of Hertford and Lancaster c. pag. 140 The sixt Booke OF king Henry the fourth of the Rebellions in his time and of Richard the seconds death chap. 29. pag. 142 Of the victorious Prince king Henry the fift Of Queene Katherine and Owen Tuder pag. 143 Of the wowing and wedding of Vulcan and Venus and of the strife betwixt Venus and Phoebus chap. 30. pag. 146 How Pan wowed and was deceiued chap. 31. pag. 152 Of Mercurie his successes loue pag. 154 Of Mars his Censure of loue and women and of Iupiters Sentence and sayings pag. 156. and 157 Of the troublesome Raigne of King Henrie the sixt how he was lastly deposed And of King Edward the fourth chap. 32. pa. 158 Of King Richard the third and of his Tyrannies pag. 160 How Henry Earle of Richmond ouercame and slew King Richard the third chap. 33. pag. 161 Of the vniting of the two hous 〈…〉 Lancaster and Yorke by intermariage pag. 163. The Seauenth Booke OF the great difficulties ouerpassed by Henrie the Seauenth heire of the Line of Lancaster or euer he attained to the Crowne chap. 34. pag. 164 Of the like great difficulties ouerpassed by his wife Queene Elizabeth heire of the Line of Yorke or euer the same two houses by their intermariage were vnited pag. 166 Of
may come thereto the entrance is so straite Cut out the rough maine stonie Rocke This Citie did belong To Pluto and because that he was euer doing wrong And kept a theeuish Rable that in mischiefes did excell His Citizens were Diuels said and Citie named Hell When to this Cities ruthlesse gate were come the friendly Knights Fierce Cerberus did rouse himselfe and scarcely barking bites He thought the world had lackt the man that thether durst repaire And troth to say not one till then to doo the like did dare Now fiery sparks from thundering strokes in darke did giue theÌ„ light And Ceres Champions valiantly maintaine their ventrous fight When stout Pirithous too too bold a deadly wound he catcht And Thaeseus though Combattan-like he long the Helhound matcht Yeat with his fellowe had he falne and flying feares to cope Expecting nothing lesse then life but hap exceeded hope For Hercules at Thessalic did feare so hard euent Whence lanching out he made in showe as ifto Thaebes he went But with Philoctes all his traine and Lycus home he sent And he himselfe to aide his friends did to Molossa goe Wheare like as did his minde presage he found it very so For euen as currish Cerberus with gorie bloes did chace The wounded and the wearie Knight came Hercules in place An vnexpected happie sight to Theseus at that tide Whom Cerberus forsaking then at Hercules he flide Vpbraiding him with threatning words and like himselfe did raue And reacht him many a crabbed rap with his presumptious Glaue The Danter then of Trespassers perceauing Theseus drie His grieuous wounds and at his feete Pirithous dead to lie Desirous to reuenge them both laies lustie lode about And with his still victorious Club did Cerberus so cloute That quite dismaid at such a match he reeling to the ground Did send from out his Doggish throat a loud and diuelish sound But when the victor sure enough the vanquished had bound He leauing Theseus weake without into the Cittie went Whereas he found the wicked King and Citizens that spent Their frutelesse time in vices foule and dealings most vniust As those that in their Porters strength reposed all their trust With these did Hercules play Rex and leauing Dis for dead Not one escapes his deadly hand that dares to shewe his head Whole thousands theÌ„ did breath their last who had seene the sight Might well haue said it Hell indeede for euerie thing out-right Besides that sullen Mew it selfe did giue a figure plaine Of selfe same Hell where damned Soules abide in endlesse paine Saue howlings out shuddering feare came nought to eare or sight With grieuous grones of dying Ghosts so much more their spight By how much more he found them then in pleasures and delight This horror hanging Hercules in buskling vp and downe In Plutoes Pallace to her ioy Proserpine he found And tolde her of enlargement thence And then in harrowed Hell Pyrithous buried he nor she nor Theseus longer dwell But waying Anker with the Queene of Cicils Daughter went To Thessalie where present greefes pretended ioyes preuent For hearing of Pyrithous death not one but did lament Hippodame a Widowe now especially bewailes Her ouer-hardie Husbands death But weeping lesse preuailes Then did Reuenge for Hercules vnto her doome commits Her greefes-Contriuer Cerberus almost besides his wits For feare of death his due desert whome causing to be bound Both hands and feet and to be dragd along the ragged ground A knauish Skull of Boyes and Girles did pelt at him with stones And laying on with staues and whippes did breake both flesh bones WHen Hercules should passe to Hell as hath before been said And that Philoctes of his men he had Lieutenant made And as Philoctes with his charge on Seas to Thaebes did passe He met Androdamus the King of Calcedon he was Androdamus not knowing yet his Cosen there inthralde For Lycus was his Cosen to the Thaebane Pilots calde To Ken of whence and where they would But ere the Thaebans might Giue answer Lycus clogd with chaines on hatches stoode vpright And cride Androdamus beholde and succour me thy friend That shamefully vnles thou helpe am like my life to end I Captiue am to Hercules and thus to Thaebes must goe Giue aide therefore Androdamus deferres not dooing so But setteth on Philoctes that himselfe and Shippe defends And part of Calcedons he slewe and part to Sea he sends But where the number tripled there for them the Battell ends When Lycus was discharg'd of bands and stout Philoctes bound He tolde what skath the Centaures late in Thessalie had sound Amongst the slaine he named some allied to the King For which the sauage Tyrant swore reuenge on Thaebes to bring And sayling thence preuailed theare by comming vnawares And putteth all to sacke and sword nor olde nor young he spares He slaieth Creon and in holde faire Megara was cast And leauing Lycus King in Thaebes from Thaebes the Tyrant past Whilest Lycus thus did Lord-it theare the error of his eye Did vexe his heart but Megara his lust did chastly flye And Hercules by now had newes how things at Thaebes fell out And how that Lycus theare was Lord and none for him durst route Disguised then he thither comes and to the Pallace went Whom wheÌ„ the Porters would haue staide his ragges he of did reÌ„t And showes himselfe like to himselfe no bloe in vaine he spent That seâ—s not breath or bloud abroch This vprore Lycus heard And thinking that some priuat Fray had falne amongst his Garde Presuming that his presence would appease the growing heat Did cast his haughtie armes abroad as who would say be queat Or here am I that can aswell commaund it as intreat Which Hercules so suddainelie chopt off that yet vnmist He thinking to haue vsed Armes was armeles ere he wist Then Hercules our Hercules is come all Thaebes it cride Now shake we off our seruile Yoke and follow him our guide And so they did till none were left to holde on Lycus side The medly ended Hercules did bring the Centaure bound To Prison whereas Megara in miserie he found For Lycus speedeles in his lust against her so had frownde Yea more reuengefull seeing her imbraced by his Foe And hoping nothing lesse then life to vexe them ere he goe He said thou doatest ouermuch to entertaine that Whore The falsest Ladie vnder Heauen for let me liue no more If Megara I speake by proofe imbraced so of thee Hath not offended diuers waies and common been to me Then Hercules supposing that his speeches had been true Sweept off the lying Centaures head and in that choller slewe Too credulent his guiltlesse wife but dead her death did rue FOr losse of her and slaughtered friends he vexed at the heart Did then from Thaebes an heaâ—ie man to Forraine lands depart Distressed in the Troyan Rhode he succour sought for pay To which his peoples triple plague Laomedon said nay And
tickles too no blab she thinks the Bush. Thus whilst she thinkes her Sister Nunne to be a merrie Lasse The Wanton did disclose himselfe and told her who he was Away the Virgin would haue fled whom he withhild by force Thy loue sweet Nymph hath vrg'd this shift wel worthy thy remorse He said nor scorne with me a King to ioyne thy selfe a Queene Or doe but loue and I will liue in Phoebes Celles vnseene And theare in beds in bushes heere My fainings fit so well We may enioy what loue enioynes and none our scapes shall tell She would not loue he could not leaue she wrangleth and he wooeth She did resist he did persist and sport denied dooeth That done which could not be vndone what booteth discontent As good bee pleas'd as not be eas'd away Calisto went To Cloyster Iupiter to Court nor much she did repent Vntill her growing wombe disclosed an ante-cedent fault Then in the Chapter house she told of Iupiters assault Diana and her virgins all admyring that escape Did gird at her maligning Ioue for such his subtill Rape And who more ready to controule then Athalanta was Whome shortly Meleager brought vnto the selfe same pas The Lady Abbesse did discharge Calisto from her Cell And silly Nymph she great with child some other wheare must dwell Pelasgis it was Iupiters and he her cause of blame The King her father in exile her selfe in this defame What then remain'd euen secrecie to hyde her selfe from shame Keepe close quoth she frō world ye woods mine error Ioue his crime And setling theare in simple Caue did waite her childing tyme. At length was hairy Arcas borne no sooner could he go But that his wildnes eiked to his wretched Mothers wo. No beast so strong that he would shunne and man he neuer sawe Nor yeat his vexed mother could from fearcenes him withdrawe Long time the daughter of a King she liued thus in Caue Not wanting griefe but wanting all that poorest wretches haue And worst of all her sauage sonne whose manners did agree Vnto his birth-place howerly threats his mothers death to bee And angrie once pursued her so long from place to place That euen into the Citie gates he followed her in chase The people when they did behold so fayre a nimph in flight A Beare-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 whom when Calisto 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 Calisto liued Ladie like yea Iunos Riuall now And Arcas nobly mannaged such vertues him indow That Ioue consenting him for King Pelasgis did allow A Sonne well worthy such a Syer and for his prowes and fame Pelasgis then of Arcas tooke Arcadia to name BVt neither might these Ladies faire by any pleasant tale Or dazeling toye of masking loue sweet Consorts to preuaile Disswade outragious Cacus from vnpatientnes of mind 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 spoiles he gaines In which except to doe 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 an helpe when Hercules had slaughtered out-right Tenne Giants of Cremona Kings and put the leauenth ' to flight From thence the worthie did ariue with his victorious band At King Euanders Cittie that by Auentin did stand Amongst a many richer Spoyles though none to him so rare He brought a sort of Spanish kine Euander taking care Because the like misfortunes oft had hapned theare 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 recite The murthers thefts and cruelties without compassion made Vpon his subiects and their goods by whom could not be said But that the Gods for so they gesse for sinne them so inuade I am resolu'd quoth Hercules wheare Gods do vengeance craue It is not strong or fensiue walles that any thing can saue My Kyne shall therefore grase abroad if mortall man it be Then know a tyrant is my taske his blood the Taskers fee. The Cattell grasing then abroad as was his vse alwaies The Gyant left his cruell Denne to seeke his cursed praies The Moone not wanting of her light the Kine he did espye And knowing them he also knewe his feared Foe was nye And far much better feare had bin then malice at that tyde But hardly shunneth policie what destinies prouide He might haue lurkte a while in Denne but of a peeuish spight Eight of the Kine with fastned cords by pollicie and might He dragged backward by their tailes into his diuelish nest Then stopping vp the subtill hole did laye him downe to rest Now Hercules the rather prickt by King Euanders talke Into the fieldes to see his Kine by prime of day did walke Where missing eight he could not gesse which waie they shuld be gō A many therefore had in charge to search them out anon The Searchers following euery signe great store of footings found Descending from Mount Auentine into the lower ground But for the footings did descend 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 himselfe and angrie in his minde And chafing when he should depart he twise or thrise did shake A Tree that grew on Auentine which rooted vp did make So large a vent that one might view they hollow caue belowe And Cacus with his Leash of wiues they were disclosed so Whome when the Greeke espied theare O gracelesse King he said Whose Tyrannies haue made the Realmes of Hespera afraid Whose cruelties haue been the cause of al the losse thou hast What moueth thee in Italie to prosecute such waste Thinkste thou whom neither mightie Realmes nor royal Gards of mē Could late defend now to escape inclosed thus in den The iust reuengment of the Godds no no the Heauens we see Haue brought to light a wretch so lewd euen by a senceles Tree And since that neither wealth nor want to goodnes may thee win A greeuous death condignly shall cut off thy grounded sinne To it did Cacus answere thus doest thou pursue me stil Who onely art the chiefest cause of these my doings ill Not suffering me to liue the rest of mine vnhappie daies Among the fruitlesse Rocks a
conclude by Combacy to winne or loose the Game Within a little Island neare round which the Armies stand The Kingly Champions trie their Force by fighting hand to hand They spur their Horses breake their Speares beat at Barriars long And then dismounting did renew a Battell braue and strong Whil'st eyther King thus Martially defends and did offend They breathing King Canutus said we both I see shall end Eâ—e Empire shall begin to one then be it at thy choyce To fight or part With it their Knights crie out with common voyce Deuide most valiant Kings deuide enough ye haue of Fight And so the Champions did embrace forgetting malice quite Partition equally was made betwixt these Princes twaine And Brother-like they liue and loue till by a deu'lish traine Earle Edricus a Traytor to the Father and the Sonne Did murther Edmund and his head supposing to haue wonne The fauour of Canutus so presenting sayd O King For loue of thee I thus haue done Amazed at the thing Canutus sayd and for that thou hast headed him for me Thy head aboue all English heads exalted it shall be The Earle was headed and his head poold vp for all to see Of England Danske Norway then Canut was perfect Lord And in this triple Regiment all with vertue did accord Harold Hardi-knought his sonnes each th' other did succeede Of either which small certaine Fame of well or ill we reede Saue by their Raigns to Englâ—sh-men did grieuous thraldoÌ„ breede But after Hardt-knought his death the Danes were chased hence Not intermedling with the state of England euersince CHAP. XXII OF foresaid Egelred his Sonnes Alured and his brother Was Edward King for Goodwins guile had made away that other Religious chaste wise fortunate stout francke and milde was hee And from all Taxes wrongs and Foes did set his Kingdome free By ouer-ruling of his Lords intreating long the same Least dying Issuelesse he leaue succession out of frame He tooke to Queene a Damsell faire howbeit by consent In vowes of secret chastitie their louing liues they spent The Father of this maiden-wife he sitting by the King And seeing one that stumbled but not falling vp to spring Did laughing say the brother theare the brother well hath eas'd His meaning was the Stumblers feete And haddest thou so pleas'd So had my Brother quoth the King bin easing vnto me The traitrous Earle tooke bread and sayd so this digested be As I am guiltlesse of his death these words he scarcely spoke But that in presence of the King the bread did Goodwyn choke His sonne Harold by Hardi-knoghts late daughter him suruiues He crossed by contrary winds in Normandie ariues Where Goodwins sonne did take an oth Duke VVilliam vrging so To keepe vnto the Duke his vse when Edward hence should go The Crowne of England claimed by Adoption and by blood But Harold 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 VVilliam therfore works for war King Harold had not rest For Harold Hare-foote King of Danes and Norwaies much opprest The English with his puissant Bands But Harold him assailes And after fearce and doubtfull fight most valiantly preuailes And with the Norgaine Prince he slew 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 onely murmur and maligne but did forsake him quight Such malice growing VVilliam with his Normanes taking land Found hot hot spur Harold prest in Armes his puissance to withstand And either Battell Marshalled as either Captaine wild The King of England eagerly the Normane Oste behild And with his cheerefull speeches thus his men with courage fild See valiant War-friends yonder be the first the last and all The Agentes of our Enemies they hencefoorth 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 no stouter than the Brutes whom we did hence exile Nor stronger than the sturdy Danes or victory er while Not Saxoâ—â—e could once containe or scarce the world beside Our Fathers who did sway by sword where listed them to bide Then doe not ye degenerate take courage by discent And by their burialles 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 part of vs are fled and linked to the Foe And glad I am our Armie is of Traytours cleered so Yea pardon hath he to depart that stayeth Mal-content I prize the minde aboue the man like zeale hath like euent Yeat troth it is no well or ill this Iland euer had But through the well or ill Support of Subiects good or bad Not Caesar Hengest Swayn or now which neretheles shall fayle The Normane Bastard Albion true did could or can preuaile But to be selfe-false in this Isle a selfe-Foe euer is Yeat wot I neuer Traytour did his Treasons Sâ—ipend mis. Shrinke who wil shrinke let Armor's wayte presse downe the burdned earth My Foes with wondring eyes shal see I ouer prize my death But since ye all for all I hope a like affected bee Your Wiues your Children liues and Land from sâ—â—uitude to free Are Armed both in shew and zeale then gloriously contend To winne and weare the home brought Spoyles of Victorie the end Let not the Skinners daughters Sonne possesse what he pretends He liues to die a noble death that life for freedome spendes As Harold hartned thus his men so did the Normane his And looking wishly on the earth Duke William speaketh this To liue vpon or lie within this is my Ground or Graue My louing Souldiers one of twaine your Duke resolues to haue Nor be ye Normanes now to seeke in what you should be stout Ye come amidst the English Pikes to hewe your honors out Ye come to winne the same by Launce that is your owne by law Ye come I say in righteous warre reuenging swords to draw 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 Troylus in Scythian Fazo bread ye Then worthy your Progenitors ye Seede of Pryams sonne Exployt this businesse Rollons do that which ye wish be done Three People haue as many times got and forgone this shore It resteth now ye Conquer it not to be Conqured more Fot Normane and the Saxon Blood conioyning as it may From that consorted Seede the Crowne shall neuer passe away â—efore vs are our armed Foes behind vs are the Seas On either side the Foe hath Holdes of succour and for ease But that Aduantage
nor till her our humbled sailes we strike For should we at her Grandsier reare our Colome yet too poore We could not write as Hercules on his Beyond no more For he lackt search our Muse hath Kend an Ocean is in store Euen matter that importeth worth coparing all before THE SEVENTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XXXIV NOw let vs poste-alone to Mars and Mercury repaâ—r At least so farforth as wee maye without controwlment daer Richard the third Henry the Seauenth last subiects of our pen Was slaine was crownde with hate with loue as worste as best of men So not with Yorke and Lancaster doth wonted enuie raigne Nor can Aeneas Off-springs now of Orphansie complaine But that Cadwalladers Fore-doomes in Tuders should effect Was vnexpected saue that God doth destinies direct Els Owen Tuder had not wiu'd Fift Henries noble Queene Nor had they of their bodies Earles Penbrooke and Richmon seene Nor Margret Somersets sole heire to Richmon had beene weade Nor they the heire of Lancaster Henry the Seuenth had bread Nor he of Yorks Inheritrix Elizabeth had sped Nor they vnited either house all other titles dead Yeat eare this vnion Either so ariued to their right As Psiches on an errant sent to Hell by Venus spight Worse Ferrymen than Charon Hoods contagious more than Styx Worse Porters than fowle Cerberus were pleas'd past stood betwix How therefore Either dangerously their Labyrinth did passe Shall not be ouerpassed Thus their seuerall fortune was Henries the fourth the fifte and sixt successiuely did raigne Vntill fourth Edwards sword to him did lawfull Empier gaine Lancastrians droupe the Yorkests had their long expected day Sixt Henry and the Prince his sonne by stabbes were made away The foresaid Margaret sole heire of Somerset earst wife Of Tuder Earle of Richmond had by him a Sonne in life To whom from her the Crowne-right of LancastriaÌ„s did accrewe He from his English foes himselfe by secrete stealth withdrewe To little Brutaine wheare he found the Duke a frendfull trewe This Henry Earle of Richmond now poore Lancasters Remaine Was by fourth Edward practis'd home by many a subtell traine Whome once the gentle Duke beguilde with promises vnment Deliuered to the English-men with whome he homewards went Forsaken Ladd for yet he was a Ladd what did remaine But certaine death so to assure his foes vncertaine raine Which to establish many a Prince of his Allies weare slaine But him eare broughta-boorde the Duke aduised better stayd And him as if by câ—â—â—nce escapte to Sanctuarie conuaid The Lambe so rescued from the Wolfe that priuiledged place Assured him till Edwards death and then he hoped grace But he that was Protector of his murthered Nephewes than Vsurped England and became a Monsture not a man Richard the third omitting all his tyrannies beside To be possessed of the Earle by many a message tride Great wealth was sent greater assum'de but nothing might preuail The gracious Duke abhord to set his guiltles frend to sayle But furnished with money men and armor shipt him thence To winne his right yeat churlish Seas did lett such kind pretence Full hardly Richmonds threatned Ship escapt our armed Shoore For Richard of the Riuall got intelligence before Return'de the Duke did sicken and Landoise did beare the sway And he for Masses great was brib'de Earle Henry to betray Yeat through wise Bishop Murtons meanes by stealth he scap'te away In trauell then from Brutaine to his Grome himselfe was Grome By interchaunged rayment till to Anger 's they weare come The French King pittying his distresse pretended asked aide And secrete platformes for his weale his English friends had laide Henry in France at home his Friends bester them and the Foe Meane time with hope with fraud with feare imployde his witts also Now of the Earles conspiracy the totall drift was this Elizabeth the daughter of fourth Edward vow'd he his And she was vow'd to him if God with victory him blisse Our wounded Englands healing balme for thus thereof ensew'de The factious Families vnite the Tyrant was subdew'de And thence the surname Tuder doth Plantagenet include AS hardly as her husband did Elizabeth escape For why like Stratageme for both did bloody Richard shape Whilste that her Father liued now a King and now exilde Her Crosses then did happen from such victors as weare milde But now the same that murthered her Brothers to be King That did withfraud begin and then with bloud conclude ech thing That flattred friends to serue his turne and then destroyde the same That was her Vncle yeat did hate her Mothers very name That thought he liued not because his Neeces weare vndead Theis now and blame her not in her a world of terror bread But of vnpriuiledged bloud yet had he store to spill Yet sanctuaries weare not forc'te yet but expecting ill Theareofte the Queene her Mother Shee and Sisters would reporte Their happie and vnhappie daâ—es the fewer of first sorte Happy was I the olde Queene said when as a Maide vnweade Nor Husbands weale nor Childrens woe mistempered my head Yeat I beloued loued and so left that free estate And thought me happyer than before for louely was my Mate Iohn Gray a sweet Esquier for his prowysse dubbed Knight Was as behoued all my ioy who slaine in factious fight Your Father Daughters late my Lord and Husband now in earth From me had many a secrete curse as motyue of his death Lancastrian was my husband and that faction had the wourste So to releeue my Widdowhood I kneel'd to whom I curste Edward for Henry was depoes'de and Edward seaz'd the Crowne I wot not for what forme of mine did raise me kneeled downe And gaue me chearefull wordes and tooke me curteously aside And playd the ciuell Wanton and me amoroufâ—y he eide His plea was loue my sute was Land I plie him he plies me Too baece to be his Queene too good his Concubine to be I did conclude and on that point a while we disagree But when I was his Queene sweete King not for I was his Queene But for himselfe and for the loue that passed vs betweene I held me happiest vnderheauen yea when his aduerse Line Discrowned him I had inough that I was his he mine Then after fortunes often change he died and I suruiue A life exceeding death for griefe and greefes Superlatiue My heart ah Sonnes my heart deare Hearts was dead eare yee did die Too yong weare yee to censure of your vncles tyranny Then wept shee and her daughters wept their onely talke alwaies Was passed ioyes or present woes nor hope they better daies But in Earle Richmonds good successe that now a power did raise Too soone had Richard notice that Earle Henry would ariue By precontract his eldest Neece Elizabeth to wiue And well he knew in Yorks descent she was immediate heire And Henry like in Lancaster a Match for him to feare Which to preuent he flattered his Neeces from their mother Who fearefull Ladies
did expect like deaths as had their brother And as they feare did he affect which for the troubles then Was vneffected now behou'd to winne him loue of men Yeat casts he how he might conuay to him his Neeces right Soone compassing his Wifes dispatch whose life stood in his light Then plyes he his amazed Neece to his inâ—â—â—tious bead Of her abhor'd Shee in conceite by faith fore-plighted spead This marrage motion gawles her more than any former griefe Her selfe Friends Realme Conspiracie all it toucht in breefe And therefore death late feared now she fantaseth in cheefe Meane while did Henry land incampe fight and subdewe his Foe And marrying her long ciuill warres in England ended so CHAP. XXXV SEauenth Henries forraine busenes had succesfull honor heere Three schol'd Dâ—dalien Icarists whose mounting cost them deere Did interrupt the peace The first a Priests bace Puple he By his Complottors was pretenst'e Duke Clarence sonne to bee A many of our natiue Peeres some forraine Princes too Submissiuly behight him aide in all that they might doo The Lad was lofty for himselfe he harrollized well At full he could his lessons and a formale lie would tell For him was fought a bloody field the Victory the Kinges Lambert the forged Yorkest and the Priest that fram'd his winges Weare taken For minority the Icarus was quit The Dedalâ—s for cleargie tites was but intowr'd for it Thus scapte the Priest The mother Queene to her that now was Queene Found harder sentence for a crime more venale as I weene Shee that did forward Henry with her friends her purse her wit That had conspir'd conceil'd concur'd for him the Crowne to git And had him now her sonne in law vnchauncy Queene fore-went Her whole reuenewes and her age as if in durance spent Because against her heart good Soule for bootles to withstand See yeelded all her daughters to the late Vsurpers hand Whereby the Vnion might haue quaild and for it might she must Indure such law strict law to her of mallice not vniust THan good old Queene Elizabeth our next young Phaeton Had gentlier Iudgement He till then froÌ„ Realm to Realm had gone And now in Ireland hoping no such honor was at Corke Saluted by some Rebels theare for Richard Duke of Yorke Fourth Edwards second son Those Stiles to him were strange but thay Did feofe them on the bace-borne Muffe and him as King obay The Yorkesh Faction though they knew the error let not slip Occasion that they now might haue Lancastrians on the hip Margret fourth Edwards sisters heart for ioy hereof did skip Shee had him soone to Burgone and informes him cuery thing That might concerne Yorks pettegree or apted for a King Maliciously repining still at Lancasters successe And often would thus or thus-like her heart with tongue expresse God hath forgot our house of Yorke nay Yorke it selfe forgot To my late Brother Richards soule cleaue euermore this blot He made away our friends to make a way vnto our Foe To Lancaster proud Lancaster I thence these teares doc floe Had he stock't vp that hated stocke had he raâ—'st out that Race Python had ceast and he had bene Apollo in that cace That Henry was Lancastrian and that Henry was aliue And where he liu'd that he should not liue if we would thrâ—â— He knew ywis yeat knew he not his death how to contriue The Duke of Brutaine is no God then how the diuell y'ste That both my brothers laboring him for whome they 〈◊〉 Their Sinons weare too simple and their bribes but petite geere WheÌ„ had they bought him with their souls they had not bought him deere The heire of Lancaster fie how it loathes to sound that name Enioyes the Crowne nay worse enioyes to wife a Yorkesh Dame Worser the name Plantâ—genet is buryed in the same And worst of all their Title such as law bids vs disclame Who would haue lookt such change to chaunce oh howe I feed like will As Aeâ—as daughter Aesons house with tragedies to fill Who can endure to see their friends decline their Foes ascend I see it and for seeing so doe wish my life had end When that her darling had his looer she left him to his wings Who flead not to worse company or at lesse game than Kings He lighteth in the French Kings Court wheare honord as the same From whom he falsely would contriue a Crowne by forged name He had Supplies and English ayds and Irish troupes also With which he lands in England where King Henry met the Foe On either part the Battell was right bloodie but at length The King subdues and Perkeâ— flead the land dispoyld of strength Then as the French the Scotch King did repute of him whereby He wyu'd a Lady passing fayre and of the Kings Allie The Earle of Huntlies daughter of the scotch-blood-royall bread Shee both before and after that her low-pris'd Mate was dead When well she knew his parentage and felt his ebbed state In onely sorrow did abound in loue no whit abate Howbeit in the English Court prefer'd to high estate Theare for she was of comely parts and vncompeered face Shee often brauely courted yeelds no Courtier labor'd grace To one among'st the rest that most admierd her aunswers chaste She sayd besides the sinne and that I so might liue disgrac'ste A Presedent of wrong and woe did make me long since vow Chastly to liue the Loue of him whom Fates should me allow I knew quoth she a Knight a Knight he was in each respecte I knew a Ladie fayre she was but fouly to be chect They loued long if that to loue and leaue may loue be sayd Till lastly she conceyued loue wheare loue should be denayd Then he whose Sowles Soule goddiz'd her perceiuing her vntruth Became vnlike himselfe and mou'd saue her each one to ruth At last he runs'distraught about and what his moods conceited He did confusedly he wept askt answerd and intreated Ah many a time for though his words lackt methode yeat they moued He had these speeches arguments how earnestly he loued CHAP. XXXVI MY Mistresse is a Paragon the fayrest fayre aliue Atrides and Aeacides for faire lesse faire did striue Her colour fresh as Damaske Rose her breath as Violet Her bodie white as Iuorie as smooth as polisht Iet As soft as Downe were she down Ioue might come down kisse A Loue so fresh so sweet so white so smooth so soft as this The Cleonâ—an Lions spoyles for her I would redresse I would the Lernan Hydras heads with sword and fire suppresse My force the Erymantheon Bore should brauely ouermatch The swift-foote golden horned Stag I running would orâ—catch My bow the Birds of Stymphalus from wastfull prayes should chace Of her proud Baldricke would I spoyle the Amazon at Thrace Augeas washed Stables should my seauenth Labour end I with the Bull of Calidon victorious would contend On horse-deuoured Diomede like honour should be wonne 〈◊〉 Spanish Robber