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
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
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
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
Melancholy giuen we Saturnists doe call His Wife and Sister kissing ost her Nephewe and her Sonne For she his Aunt and Mother was with Vesta seeke to shunne The voted Fathers deadly doome to kill so sweete a Childe Their eyes and very soules abhorre who nothing so vnmilde Doe weeping kisse his laughing mouth in minde the Babe to saue Howbeit feare of Saturnes wroth contrary counsell gaue But when in haste the Babe his heart was sent for by and by So Saturne wild so Cybell must and Vesta not de 〈…〉 e It was a woe to heare their woe and death to see them die Vnhollowed wretch then Cybell sayd in wombe why did I beare This double Burthen happy Twins saue that my Twins they are So that my teeming with these throwes had ending well were I Or would I might not giue them life that liuing foorth with die Thy Scepter Saturne is not worth Perfourmance of thy vow Thy conscience doth a scruple holde that Gods nor men allow FroÌ„ Gods froÌ„ men from brutish beasts from nature nought doth grow But fosters what it bringeth soorth thou onely doest not so Thy Sonnes alone for slaughters serue and I mean while their mother Am Saturnes Wife lesse prowd of it then that he is my Brother Vnhappy Cybell borne to beare and therefore borne to woe And fruitlesse fertill to a man that soweth not to mow Now teares had drowned further speech till she as one bestrought Did crie that with a knife the Babe should to her bed be brought My selfe quoth she will be his death with whome my selfe will die For so may Sâ—turne saue and shunne his vow and destinie But Vesta countermaunds her charge yeat Saturnes will must stand For Ioue must die or they not liue A Damsell theare at hand Was then enforced to that charge Thrice toucht her knife his Skin But thrice his smiles did cause her teares she fourthly did beginne And fourthly ended as before Betide me death or life Liue still at least for me she sayd and casting downe the knife She kist that sweete and prety mouth that laughed on her lippes And brings him back to Cybels bed Her heart reuiued skippes Reuiewing life where reckned death had wrought repentant teares The Father fronted with a guile at length the Damsell beares The Infant vnto Oson Towne and in her Ladies name Intreates Melissus Daughters twayne to nourish vp the same Vp to a Mountaine beare they him and in a secret Caue A Mountaine Goat did giue him milke and so his life they saue His Nouâ—ses sounding Simbals once to drowne the Infants crie A many Bees the Muses birds into the Caue did flie Where making Honie Saturnes Sonne did long time liue thereby CHAP. III. IT doth remayne of Iupiter as how but then a Lad From Epire to Pelasgis him the Lordes Epyrote had To fetch their pledge Lycaon held when times of truce had ende Lycaon fayning to consent that did not so intend Next day as though he would dismisse the Legates with estate Did make to them a solemne feast when hauing slaine of late The noble pledge he brings his limmes and setteth them before His Countreymen to feede vpon in saused dishes store The Strangers and his Subiects too abhorring such a sight Sit gazing each in others face bereft of speech and sprite Vntill that lustie Iupiter a stripling to beholde Did take the limmes dismembred so and with a courage bolde Did shew them throw Pelasgis streetes declaring by the way The murther of their bloodie King which did so much dismay The Citizens that euen they detesting such vnright Did rise in armes against their King where youthfull Ioue did fight So valiantly that by his force Lycaon tooke his flight And after did by Robberies by blood and Rapines liue For which to him a Wooluish shape the Poets aptly giue IN Epyre and Pelasgâ—s thus Ioue first his honour wonne But greater things vntouched are by this same Worthy donne And partly in the monstrous warre that Titan and his Crue Did holde with Saturne when by search of Issues males he knew The which his brother had aliue against their couenant made When Titan Victor fast in hold was vanquisht Saturne laide Together with his wife and friends where sorrow much they past Till Iupiter did vnderstand his parentage at last He therefore landing tooke in Crete with well prouided men And â—lew his Vncle Titan and the Giant Tiphon then With most part of the Titanoies and sets his Father free By meanes whereof they reconcile and well a while agree NOt brooking then Apollos fault in that he enteâ—tainde The reâ—naunt of the Titanoâ—es that after warres remainde Apâ—llâ— was by Iupiter inforced for to flie His kingdome Paphos and to liue exilde in Thessalie There loue but chiefly penurie constrained him to keepe Vntill he was restored home the King Admetus sheepe And for his Sonne disdainefully enuied Ioue his praise Ioue was the same Phisitions death that dead to life could raise Whos 's same grew thus As Aesculap an heardsman did espie That did with easie fight enforce a Basiliske to flie Albeit naturally that Beast doth murther with the eye Apollos Sonne perceiuing him with Garland on his head Imagins as it was indeede some hearb such vertue bred And for a proofe he caused him to cast the wreath away When strait the beast her onely eyes the silly man did slay Then Aesculap himselfe did take the wreath and puts it oâ— And by that meanes he ouercame the Basiliske anon In hearbs that deeper force is hid then Science may containe I finde sayd he and hearb by hearb into his mouth did straine That lay for dead an hearb at last reuiuing him agayne Henceforth men thought him more theÌ„ man wheÌ„ by his wondrous skill He rendred life to many like so winning great good will But as he waxed famous thus he famous waxed proud Disdayning all yea Ioue himselfe for Peere he disalowd Vntill that Saturns angry Sonne reueng'd his pride by death Correcting iustly each abuse as Rector on the Earth THe Sonnes renoune thus added grace vnto the Fathers name But shadowes waite on substances and enuie followes fame Euen Saturne pompous Saturne ridde by Iupiter of Foes And feare of Titan did renewe his supersticious woes As touching former Oracle and hastie sommons sent Throughout his Realme to muster men in purpose to preuent By death of Ioue his destinie The men of Crete repinde To put on armour to his ill whom they had found so kinde But will they nill they so they must for so their King assignd And Saturne with his armed troupes into Arcadia went Where Iupiter forewarned of his Fathers ill intent Intreated peace to him denide so that perforce he must Defend him from his froward Sire or rather foe vniust Theare might ye see King Saturne fight like to a Lion wood Whilest Iupiter did beare his blowes and spares his Fathers blood And him that foe-like would him sley he friendly did defend Desiring Saturne to
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
bring me so in hate How daintely his eyes endure so bace an Obiects view How desperatly doth he conclude and threatneth me and you Well barke he byte he bragges nor blowes shall dare me to defend A Challenge wheare so braue a Prize stands for the Wagers end Nor thinke vaine-glorious that thou art me lesser than a King Or greater than by sute or sword to prize so rare a thing Vpbrayd me not with banishment nor Belyns quarrell touch Nor yeat my petite Signorie nor more than troth by much These present nobles knowe the cause for which I hether come Not as an exile but for ayde and they assure me some Then knowe the cause is honest when their Honors giue supplies As capable are they of troth as thou art apt for lies My bothers Kingdome seemes forsooth an Ouer-match to mine My Kingdome Cutlake therefore is an vnder-match to thine Nay giue and so I hope ye will the Prize to me and than Let Cutlake with his Crowne of Danske vn-crowne me if he can Then he disabling me to make a Ioynter happelie With Denmarke such a Ioynters want if wanting should supplie But neither haue I such a lacke nor holde I such a loue As that her Dowrie not in quest before her selfe doth moue He harpeth as himselfe would haue that maketh loue his Staile Els would he sue in milder sort and suing feare to faile For Ladie see your Louers Plea your loue saith he is debt And if not words nor worthines then Armor shal you get Braue words and fit to feare not feede a courted Ladies vaine But say he cannot wowe in print but Soldior-like and plaine Nor I in sooth more loues my heart than can my tongue explaine Conclude we therefore Souldior-like and let a combate yeeld Vnto the hardier of vs twaine the honour of the field If not then if my Lords so please or she thereto agree Although thou should'st by force of Armes subdue her hence to thee Yeat from thy strongest Holde in Danske I would thy Cōquest free Loe heer my Gage he terr'd his Gloue thou know'st y e Victors meed So did he pause his Pledge vntoucht and then did thus proceede Then fret thy fill and worke thy worst deliuer Lords your willes Ye haue experience how this same with brags not battell killes He threatneth onely I intreate he claimeth her of dew I wish and hope for to deserue The Counsel then withdrewe Themselues apart and soone for Brenn a verdict did ensewe The Dane inraged sayled thence and rigged out a Fleete And did with Brenn resayling home at great aduantage meete Their Shippes did grapple and their swords did sunder life from lim So fought they as their shippes did seeme in Seas of bloud to swim But multitude oppressed Brenn he hardlye did escape His Ladie will he nill hee left the King of Denmarkes Rape Not meanely insolent the Danes hoyst vp their home-meant Sayleae But after manye crabbed Flawes and long contrarie Gayles The Kings and Norgane Ladies Shippe was tossed to the Coste Of Brutaine wheare imprisoned King Belyn was their Hoste Vntill sufficient Pledges had that Denmarke it should pay Continuall Tribute to the Brutes he them dismist away Meane while King Bren receiued now amōgst the Gawles did threate For Englands Crowne-halfe him with-held his Brothers selfe Seate For Time alaying Loue did adde vnto domesticke hate And with the Cenouesean Gawles whose Prince his heire of late He had espoused did inuade the Empire of his Brother And almost did their Battels ioyne when thus intreates their Mother I dare to name ye Sonnes because I am your Mother yet I doubt to tearme you Brothers that doe Brotherhood forget These Prodigies their wrothfull Shields forbodden Foe to Foe Doe ill beseeme allyed hands euen yours allyed soe O how seeme Oedipus his Sonnes in you againe to striue How seeme these words in me aye me Iocasta to reuiue I would Dunwallo liued or ere death had lost againe His Monarchie sufficing Fower but now too small for Twaine Then either would you as did he imploy your wounds elswheare Or for the smalnes of your Power agree at least for feare But pride of ritch and rome-some Thrones that wingeth now your darts It will I would not as I feare worke sorrow to your harts My Sonnes sweet Sonnes attend my words your Mothers wordes attend And for I am your Mother doe conclude I am your frend I cannot counsell but intreate nor yeat I can intreate But as a Woman and the same whose blood was once your meate Hence had ye Milke She baerd her Pappes these Armes did hug ye ost These fyled hands did wipe did wrap did rocke and lay ye soft These Lips did kisse or Eyes did weep if that ye were vnqueat Thēply I did with Song or Sighes with Dance with Tung or Teate For these kind Causes deere my Sonnes disarme your selues if not Then for these bitter teares that now your Mothers Cheekes do spot Oft vrge I Sonnes and Mothers Names Names not to be forgot Send hence these Souldiers yee my Sonnes none but ye would fight When none should rather be at one if Nature had her right What comfort Beline shall I speede sweete Brenn shall I preuaile Say yea sweete Youthes ah yea say yea or if I needes must faile Say noe and then will I begin your Battell with my baile Then then some Stranger not my Sonnes shall close me in the Earth When we by Armor ouer-soone shall meet I feare in death This sayd with gushing teares eftsoones she plyes the one and other Till both did shew themselues at length Sonnes worthy such a Mother And with those hands those altred hands that lately threatned bloes They did imbrace becomming thus continuall frends of foes Glad was the Queene and Beline hild sole Empier more he had From Denmarke Tribute and to this a greater honor add His daughter Cimbra wedded to the Almayne Prince gaue name Vnto the Cimbrians holding Rome so long and warlike game Some if no Error giue to him for forraine Conquests fame His Valour Warre Peace ore past now speake we of the Knight That this side and beyond the Alpes subdewed all by fight The stateliest Townes in Italie had Brenn their Builder and Euen Rome the terror of the World did at his mercie stand The Senate giuing to the Earth ear-while both warre and peace Could not themselues their Citie scarce their Cappitoll release THeir Gander Feast what Manlius and Camillus did therein How This the Cappitol and That from Brenn his Spoyles did win I pretermit The three-topt Mount Parnassus had beloe Apollos Temple whither men for Oracles did goe This with the God and Goods the Gawles did put to sacke and spoyles And whil'st incamped here they kept such sacreligious coyle The God or rather Diuell whom th' Almightie did permit His Deitie prophaned to deceiue the world in it With Tempests Earth-quakes Steneh Sights so cryde the Spoylers quit That most did
Vnto Ixeon stood their Sprights that had their lusts for law Rebellants to a common good and sinning without awe To Titius lastly ioyned Ghosts whose hearts did emptie hate As Todes their poyson growing when it seemeth to abate About flie Apples Stones and Tubs the wheele was tumbled downe The Vultur girds no Ghoste but had at least a broken crowne This skufling and confedracie in hell made such a reare That wontles of such braules and blowes Proserpine did feare But Pluto laughing told his Bride to Ela it was Fa To morrowes dinne should prooue that same to be a ciuill day In peace these were their practises on earth and here in hell Saue that their Soules haue neuer peace we finde them as they fell They worke to me each of these fiue though dailie count I aske Doe newlie number Million Soules whose torments is their taske The Queene of such not free of fear replied thus againe And yeat me thinks that Pluto should haue pittie on their paine He lowers and Feast with Fray had end and drinke did euery soule Of Lethe who their ioyes forgot euen yet in torments houle Nay Pluto must be Pluto still and so I will quoth he For this same onely day the Ghosts indebted are to thee For as the like shall neuer come so neuer like befell But henceforth all yea Prince and Pope shall euer find it hell So dreamed one but ouer-long on fantazies I dwell CHAP. XIX THe Cosen of great Constantine in Rome and here succeeds Betwixt the Brutes the Scots and Pichtes continuall trouble breeds And long the reg'ment of this Land the Romanes did inioy Transmitting Captaines euermore as Foes did here anoy But Rome it selfe declined now and Brutaine was opprest No longer were the Scottish Spoyles by Romaine Swords redrest Then ends the Tribute then began new troubles worser farre Then Tribute for the Scots and Pichtes inferre consuming warre The Brutons vnder Rome secure as men that did relie On others were disabled now by Martiall meanes to trie The fame of fight but Captainelesse confusedly they deale And giue a wretched instant of an headles Common-weale And whom so many Romaine Peers grand-Captaines of such might Of whome nine Emperors themselues in persons here did fight Could hardly foyle were fronted now euen of a barbarous Foe And at the point a wondrous change their Country to forgoe Such fruit hath ease such pollicie did serue the Romaines turne Who waining Martiall minds themselues the quietlier here soiorn The Brutons thus dispoy'ld of Armes and courage in effect Of Prince of Captaines and aduise their busines to direct Dispatch their Legate to the Land Diminutiue in name To Brutaine where the Legate thus his Ambassie did frame The back-slide of our helplesse friends the down-fall of our flate Our lacke of Prince of people and our wealth not now as late The sauage dealing of our Foes consuming outs and vs Is cause right mightie King that we approach thy presence thus Not for we are in blood allied or that whil'st Fortune smil'd Your Ancestors had rule from vs not for the Dames defil'd At Cullin who withstanding lust for it did loose their liues That els to Conon and his Knights had liued noble wiues We are emboldned in our suit though all of these might mooue But for our former wants O King and for thine owne behooue Great Brutaine doth submit it selfe thy Subiect if thou please Or els dispose it at thy will Prouided we haue ease Against such Foes as would not saue our liues to haue our Land Whom to conclude except thou helpe we neuer may withstand The King Aldroen pittying much the cause of his Allies Arm'd thence his brother Constantine a Captaine stout and wise He chasing hence the Scottes Pichtes with glory wore the Crowne And through his vertue stayed vp a Kingdome sinking downe WIthin a while did Vortiger the Duke of Cornewalle raigne When Constans Sonne of Constantine he traitrously had slaine The Scotts did ruffle then anew nor did the King affye In Brutones for they hated him and reason had they why And Saxon Fleetes from Germanie in Armor here arriue Through whose support the King in wars against the Scots did thriue The Foe by Hengest foyled thus he and his brother git The chiefest credit with the King but few gaine-saying it Necessitie of Souldiers here so well for them did fit And Hengests Daughter intertain'd King Vortiger so well That to misliking of his wife and liking her he fell And sotted thus in forren Loue did wed the Saxon Wench Which wrought vnto the Saxons weale but to the Brutes offence For whatsoere the Queene did aske the King would not deny Vntill his Subiects ran to Armes and made the Saxons flie They putting downe the Father then did set vp Vortimer He poisoned by his Stepdame they restored Vortiger With this condition that he should no Saxons intertaine But Hengest hearing from the Queene that Vortimer was slaine And Vortiger his Sonne-in-lawe re-kinged did resaile With Saxon forces though with fraud not force he did preuaile For thus by pollicy he did the Brutons circumuent He craued Parlie as a man that were to quietnes bent The place appoynted Parlantes him in simple meaning meet Farre from their Armie all vnarm'd whom Saxon Traitors greet With deadly wounds by hidden kniues held the King with them Confounding so the Brittish Oste. Nor cease they to contemne Both Christian rights and ciuill Rule subuerting either twaine And what they would of Vortiger through feareâ—ull threats they gaine And plant themselues in Southfolke Kent and elsewhere at their will And ruffling runne throughout the Land oppressing Brutons still The King and Brutons fled to Wales and Feend-got Marlin theare Bewraied more then I beleeue or credit seemes to beare As shewing how the Castell worke rear'd daily fell by night By shaking of two Dragons great that vnderneath it fight With other wonders tedious if not trothlesse to resight Aurelius Ambrose brother to King Constans murdred late From either Bruton hauing aid wonne so the kingly state And ere that Hengest or his Sonne stout Octa he subdew'd First to reuenge his Brothers death he Vortiger pursew'd In vaine the Welsh wild Mountaines fence the Flier from his Foe Or Gerneth Castell when as flames throughout the buildings goe In midst whereof the wretched King did end his dayes in woe THe Brutons thus had peace a while till Vortigerus Sonne And Gutllamour the Irish King in new Conflicts begonne Whom whil'st that Vter valiantly in VVales to wracke did bring His Brother Ambrose did decease and Vter then was King What Vter did by Marlins Art in compassing his will Vpon the Wife of Garolus transfigured by skill Into the likenesse of her Lord on whom he got a Sonne Renowmed Arthur or to name the Acts by Vter donne Were much and needlesse onely note he was a valiant Prince But such as was his noble Sonne was not before or since Yeat blazing Arthur as haue some
by grieuous Draught as Beasts to plough their Land Of whom the English as of Gods or Feends in terror stand The Husband durst not vse his Wife if liked of a Dane Nor House nor Goods nor ought he had for who resists was slaine That frankes and feedeth daintily This pines and fareth ill And of his sweat that hath the sweete and is imperious still Each house maintained such a Dane that so they might preuent Conspiracies if any were and grope how mindes were bent Lord Dane the same was called then to them a pleasing name Now odiously Lur-dane say we when idle Mates we blame When Swaine the DaciaÌ„ King did hear his Danes were murther dso With bitter vowes he shipt his men for Englands ouerthroe And landing spar'd no shrine nor Saint nor Sex nor any State Not wanting Aiders English-men that held their King in hate Especially false Edricus the Admirall deceiues His King and Countrey oftentimes and Bribes of Swaine receiues And Egelred his cowardisse incouraged the Foe Till Swaine at length for Masses great was bribed hence to goe But making short returne the Peeres of England that disdaine Th'indignities of such a King that did so feebly raigne Submit them Subiects vnto Swaine and Egelred did flie Vnto the Father of his Queene the Duke of Normandie And Swaine possessed of the land did shortly after die His sonne Canutus present here had Seazon of the Crowne Till Egelred returning back by Armor puts him downe Who scarcely giueth breathing time but that he back resailes From Denmarke and by force by friends and fortune here preuailes For in this Warre King Egelred did sicken and decease And then the broiles Canutus king did for a time decrease Till Edmund sonne of Egelred did interrupt that peace COnferring Armes to Edmonds age when Egelred did lie On death-bed to his sonne he said not quite forlorne am I Whose life hath had so much of griefe thus gratiously to dye Ad more thy vertues glad my death yeat two things greeue among To leaue my Kingdom so in Warres and thee for Warres too young So may these troubles weare to none as thou doest waxe I pray And so possesse thy Fathers Seate that all approoue thy sway Not to be made a King my Sonne is so to make thee proude For Mildenes fitteth maiestie high mindes are disaloude See me thy Father now a King and by and by but earth Nor thinke that euerie King hath hap to die a happie death Let nature for perfection molde a Paragon each way Yeat death at last on finest lumps of liuing flesh will pray For nature neuer framed it that neuer shall decay The brauest are as blossomes and the longest Liuer dies And dead the louelest Creature as the lothsom'st Carrion lies Then thinke not but that kings are men and as the rest miscarrie Saue that their fame or infamie continually doth tarry Deeme past Examples Sentences and which did fayle in me Make vse of those not now in vse for now will cease to be Attempt not things beyond thy reach ioyne fortune to thy will Least Phoebus Chaire doe else surcharge rash Phaeton his skill If Fortune helpe whom thou would'st hurt fret not at it the more When Aiax stormed then from him the Prize Vlysses bore Try friends by touch a feeble friend may prooue thy stroÌ„gest Foe Great Pompeâ—s head to Caesars hand it was betrayed so Admit thou hadst Pactolion waues to land thee Golde at will Know Craesus did to â—yrus kneele and thou maist speed as ill Abandon lust if not for sinne yeat to auoyd the shame So Hogges of Ithacus his men the Latian Witch did frame Be not too moody in thy wrath but pause though fist be bent Oft Philips Sonne did rashly strike and leisurely repent Content thee with vnthreatned Meane and play not Aesops Dogge The Golde that gentle Bacchus gaue did greedy Mydas clogge Be valiant not too venterous but fight to sight againe Euen Hercules did hold it ods for one to striue with twaine Be not ambitiously a King nor grudgingly decline One God did root out Cis his stock and rayse vp Iesses line Iest nor with edge tooles suffer Saints let mightie Fooles be mad Note Seneca by Neroes doome for Precepts pennance had Haue care to whom of whoÌ„ what to speak though speech be trew That Misse made Poeâ—â—us contrary his Rauens Swan-like hew He frameth torments to himselfe that feeds a Tyrants vaine Perillus was by Phalaris adiudg'd to self-taught paine Prayse not the beautie of thy Wife though she of forme be sped For Gyges moued so did graft on Candaules his head Shunne Ielousie that heart-breake loue if Cat will goe to kind Be sure that Io hath a meanes that Argus shall be blind Commit not Treasure with thy Child to greedy minded men Thou leauest Polidor a spoyle to Polymnestor then Occurrants giue occasions still of like in which be sure To serue thy God to saue thy selfe and well to all procure Be vertuous and assure thy selfe thou canst not then but thriue In onely vertue it is sayd that men themselues suruiue As for the vicious such they are as is the heedlesse Flye That killes it selfe and hurts his sight that hath her in his eye Farewell my Sonne England farewell thy neuer happy Prince Doth take his leaue an happy leaue if taken so long since And Edmond burying not with me thy vertues nor my speech I blesse thee in his blessed Name whome I of blesse beseech Said Egelred and shortly gaue a quiet gaspe or twaine And being dead his noble Sonne succeeded him in Raigne THis like himselfe euen Knight-like and an English-man indeede Did quickeÌ„ Englands quailing Prowes Mars-like did proceed A brauer Captaine than was he not any band might haue And yeat a Mars did match this Mars Canutus was as braue These wonders of that age for Armes and Dirii of those dayes Did often battell equally to eithers losse and praies Now after many bloody Fieldes when none might estimate The better or the worser part a Knight that saw the state Then present and by likelyhoods presaged what might fall Said hearing it the differing Kings and Souldiers almost all We euer warre and neuer winne Edmund hath Fortitude Canutus Fortune neither thus of other is subdude Death feares not vs nor for their liues our Contraries doe care It followes then that all must die wheare all so despret are If all be slayne then who shall serue our Princes that suruiue Or fence out Forrens better one then none of both should thriue To thriue therefore were not a-misse that seeing one of twaine Will Owner all that onely they the quarrell doe maintaine Or if Combattensie not please the Land is rich and large And they Copernicers may liue and vs of death discharge If Combat nor Partition be then will his Warre reuiue Till one suruiuing all of vs wants one with whome to striue This sayd the Kings did marke and make a profit of the same And did
Vpstarts and all Were ouercome So Spencers both from heauen to hell did fal Put to a fowle and shamefull death with others that misled The King in Out-rages more great than earst in England bred Prolers Blood-thirstie Parasites Make-shifts Bawdes did thriue Nor was an ancient English Peere vnbanisht or aliue For forraine and domesticke Swords Plague Famine and Exile Did more than tythe yea tythe the Tythe of men within this I le Of Baldricks Hoodes Tabrides and Furres from Knights disgraded tore Attaintures of Nobilitie and Armes reuersed store So many Spurres hewen off the heeles and Swords broke ouer head Were through a King so light and lewd a Councell neuer read The King in prison and depos'd tyrannised he dide By Trecheries of Mortimer that ruld the Roste that tide Whilst Edward in Minoritie his Fathers throne supplide CHAP. XXVIII THIS third of that same Name as yet in Nonage for a time Although a King was vnder-kept by some that ouer-clime Queene mother proude Mortimer familiar more than should Did and vndid more than they might not lesse than as they would Till Edward better counselled hong Mortimer the death Of many a Peere who Earle of March and haughtie for his birth Was Lord of nine skore dubbed Knights his other traynes except For greater pompe than did his Prince this Lord of VVigmore kept But more he had bene happie though lesse hautie in his Halls More honour in humilitie than safetie in walls Proud Climers proue not monuments saue onely in their falls The senselesse pride of Fooles therefore whome reuerently we ride Should lessen at the least because that earth their earth shall hide The Countrie purg'd of Fleecers and of Flatterers the Court The King became a Mars for Armes a Iupiter for Port Th Olympâ—ds the Pythea and the prowesse of the Earth Did seeme euen now and not but now to haue in him their birth East South and North gaue ayme farrc off admiring so the West As if that Mars discarding them had set our Realme his Rest. Philip Valois Dauid Bruz of power and courage more Than any French or Scottish Kings since or of long before Confedrate with three other Kings and Princes farre and neere Warre all at once on Edward but did buy their warring deere Dauid debelled left his land but lastly did returne And whilst our King did war in France much did he spoyle burne And proud of mightie Troopes of men of vnresisted prayes And Edwards absence prosperously he on aduantage playes Vntill not sending hence for helpe the Queene did muster Knights And with the Foe though tripled-wise victoriously she fights The Scots for most did perish and their King was Prisner taine And Scotland wholly for a pray to England did remaine Meane while was Paris scarcely left to rescue Philips Goale Whom Edward ferrits so from hold to hold as Fox from hoale That Melancholie he deceast and valiant Iohn his sonne Was crowned King of France and then the wars afresh begonne But after many fieldes vnto the Foes continuall wracke The French King captiuated to the English Monarke backe His Victor sayles the Prince of VVales Edward surnamed blacke The flower of Chiualrie the feare of France and scourge of Spaine Wheare Peter dispossest of Crowne was crownde by him againe Fower yeeres the French eleuen yeres was the Scotch K. prisners heere Whose the Dolphines ransomes were as great as good their cheere PRince Edw. Iohn of Gaunt all their Fathers sonnes might boaste Of famous Sier and he of sonnes matchlesse in any Coaste Howbeit King and Prince at last misled by counsell ill Through Taxes lost a many hearts that bore them earst good will Thence finding Fortune contrary to that she was before Yeat either dying seaz'd of French and Scottish Conquests store Yea Callice late and Barwick yet of their Exployts is lest Though Sonne before the Sier and both of liues long since bereft When Barwick was besieged and stood brauely at defence Sir Alexander Seiton theare chiefe Captaine had pretence To linger forth the Siege till Scots should draw the English thence In rescue of Northumberland and therefore sent his sonne A Pledge of treated Truce and when the guile-got Truce was done And Barwick not releeued nor resigned as it ought Two sonnes of Seiton were before the walls besieged brought They ready for the Iybbet and their Father for his Graue For eyther he must yeeld the Towne or them he might not saue In griefe he then his Countries cause and Childrens case reuolues But partiall vnto either he on neither Choyce resolues To be a loyall Subiect and a louing Father too Behooued him but both to bee was not in him to doo Nature and honour wrought at once but Nature ouer-wrought And but his Ladie it preuents to yeeld the Towne he thought O what pretend you Sir quoth she is Barwick woorth no more Than error of such loue I ioy that I such Children bore Whom cruell Edward honoureth with such a cause of death For that especiall cause for which we all receaue our breath Euen for their Countries cause they dye whose liues for it be dewe Why see their faces constantly she did their faces viewe The same my Seiton seeme so farre from dreading any woe As if they skornde that Barwicke should redeeme them from the Foe Full deere they were to me vnborne at birth and borne and now And Mother like I moane their death and yet their death allow Moe Sonnes and such you may beget your honour if you staine Defected honour neuer more is to be got againe Preuent not then your selfe your Sonnes and me so great a blis Adiew dye sweet Sonnes your soules in heauen shall liue for this With such perswasions did she win her husband from the walls And Edward executes their Sonnes and to assault he falls So long that Barwicke yeelds at length and still vs master calls THese were the dayes when English armes had eu'rie where request And Edw. knights throughout the world had prick praise for best Not Knights alone but Prelates too Queenes whereof were twain The quondam in esse Queenes by Armour honour gain By Warre the Queene that was did cease her husbands tragicke Rayn And by the Queene then being was the Scotch King Prisnet tayne It followes then that as the Pawnce doth circkle with the Sonne So to the vice or vertue of the Prince are people wonne O that our Muse might euermore on such a Subiect ronne But Vulcan forgeth other Tooles and sharpneth deadlier swords For little els then ciuill warres our following Penne affords French Expeditions badly thriue whereof we cease to speake Not forraine but Domestick warres grew strong to make vs weake Melpomen here might racke her wits Sylla Marius hate Pharsalian Fields were gentle Frayes regarding this debate The second Richard sonne vnto the blacke Prince Edward dead Was crownde an Infant and from him the Stratagem was bread The bace attempts of Ball
of Straw of Lyster tag and rag Of Villains Of-skoms Clownes knaues that checkmate durst to brag With Richards self to their deaths his chiefest Princes drag Till VVal 〈…〉 ths girdle-Armor made the Armes of London more Because his courage chiefly gaue an end to that vprore And what-so-els Occurrants much may interrupt our Vayne Digesting Yorke Lancaster acquiring eithers Rayne Our Penne shall not endenizen Now drops it sacred blood Of Men-Gods English Potentates that in this Faction stood Richard begun that ciuill warre that till the Seauenth from him Did last though often fields with blood of Citizens did swim Against the Nobles the vphild innoble and his Peeres And Commons went alike to wracke nor God nor man he feares In fewe Ambition Auarice and Counsell lewd had wrought In him a nature worser than into the world he brought Whereby and thus himselfe and house at length a down-fal cought Twixt Mowbray D. of Norffolke and the D. of Hertford sonne To Iohn of Gaunt close Conference of better dayes begun The King sayd Henry Hertford more remisse than doth beseeme Leaues France to French Scotland to Scots and vs to woes extreeme His Flatterers doe fleece the Crowne and Commons not a State Doth or dares counsell ancient Coats that on the Crowne should wate Giue aime to bastard Armorie what resteth then but this Plucke downe those grating Harpies that seduce our King amis If worthles still set vp a King worthier than he that is The other saying little then immediatly reueales The secrete and before the King his Foe-made frend appeales Whose Gauntlet raysed by the Duke defendant at the last It grew to single Combate when the King his Warder cast And to the Duke of Norffolke iudg'd for euermore exile And selfe same law Duke Henry had saue for a lesser while Thus That did This but This and That their Iudge did thus begile And to his Coffers did escheate a world of wealth a Pray Vnto his Parasites which thriu'd by other mens decay Meane while whose actious life had lawd did Iohn of Gaunt decease So to the banisht Duke his Sonne fiue Cronets did increase But with his kindly aire the King withheld him all the same Till entring ayded by his friends he wonne beyond his clame For Richard was imprison'd and by Parlament put downe And Henry Duke of Lancaster elected to the Crovvne The Lyne Lancastrian frollicke but the house of Yorke did frowne For to those Hydra-kinded warres that after did ensue Those Families gaue name though first the Diadem was due Vnto the house of Clarence till to Yorke that interest gre we By marriage here omitted for we onely giue a viewe How Yorke mis-raigning Lancaster did enter then how This Was dispossest That repossest and how their Vnion is THE SIXT BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XXIX HEnry the fourth so named hild the King deposed strate In Pomfret Castell howebeit in honourable State And got an Act that who so wrought the Prisner to restore That Richards selfe to voyd their hope should dye the first therefore Whose birth brought Nature gentle Lord returning whence it straid Now altred him erst altring it and Richard mildly said I must not say I am and would I might not say I was Of great the greatest lesse they grieue from whom doth little passe Nor more it grieues to contrarie the same I haue been then To haue deserued not to be vnmaliced of men Thus humbled and full penitent liues he lesse mal-content Than was the Duke of Exeter his brother whose intent Was as at a lusts to haue destroyd King Henrie but descryed Himselfe fower such and many Knights the death of Traytors dyed And by these primer Yorkests thus King Richards date grew out But whether brayned famisht or exiled rests a doubt For often Vprores did ensue for him as vndeceast How beit solemnely inter'd himselfe or Signe at least Twise by confedrate Chiualrie the Pâ—ercies and their frends Did fight and fall for either warre to Henries honor ends He neuer had but warre and was victorious euermore Aswell at home as also of his Foes on forraine Shore Till lastly Armor ouercame all Enuie and he liues Of all beloued and his death a common sorrow giues HOt spur his Sonne Henry the fifth hung at his Fathers eyes To watch his Ghoste and catch his Crowne and that or ere he dyes And where the Father doubted if he got it well or noe The Sonne did sweare how so it came he would it not forgoe His bad did blisse the Bad the Good dispaire all good But neither Did aime aright for sodainly his chaunge deceiued either Of good becomming best that was of ill the baddest and The true perfection of a King was not but in this Land He lead good fortune in a line and did but warre and winne Fraunce was his Conquest Scots but brag and he did beate them in A friend vnto weldoings and an Enemie to sinne Yeat of the Yorkests neuer lackt he Princes that rebell Nor other than confusion to their still coniuring fell In fewe if any Homer should of this Achilles sing As of that Greeke Myâ—midon the Macedonian King Once noted would I note both Prince and Poet happiest men That for deseruing prayse and This for well imployed pen For well this Subiect might increase the Worthies vnto ten He aged thirtie sixe deceast and left his infant Sonne His Kingdome Conquests and his Queene whose Fathers Realme he wonne To graue protection Regents and so royall for the port As that his Orphants Cradle seem'd an Alexanders Court Queene Katherin Daughter of the French King Henryes wife of late The fayrest Ladye in the West hild with her sonne Estate She oft behild and hild her peace a braue Esquier of VVailes That tyde her fancie to his forme till fancied forme preuailes All liking was reuersed Loue saue Owen Tuder all Saue him that durst not dreame such good to her was lesse than small She formally by quaint degrees attracting him to fauor Did nourish burnings in her selfe by noting his behauor She pitched Tewe he masshed She vncompaned To flie He bids her solitary moodes She askes the remedie Disclosed pangues sometimes quoth he in Phisicke Phisick is Which sometimes to obserue quoth she doth Patients patience mis Cureles to Aesculapius and Apellos selfe am I The latter felt my languor and immortall wisht to die And yeat saue one no one disease lay hidden to his Art For you were bootlesse then to gesse how to vngreeue my smart Had Daphne to Apollo beene Apollo Tuder said His might haue beene and so may be your Graces humor staid He other Gods and Goddesses found more contented Loue Beloe in diffring bosomes than in equall beddes aboue I aime at Loue for thereto your Aenigma doth incline And aime to him a Deity for whome I so deuine But gladly doubt I of the Man for if I doubted not I should but massacer my lacke in enuy of his lot Yeat are vnworthie
for thee the hope that to our House doth rest Now all are tryed we can trust if now we faile we fall Thy death is in the same request as is thy Fathers thrall And which I would it were the worst the Foe doth thirst my life To end his Triumph in the deaths of Husband Sonne and Wife Though thy great-Grandsier Grandsier thy Father wonne wore The King-ring which thy Father hild yeares thirtie eight and more Though by the cappitall Remote of Lancaster withstood Yeat fayle prescription and discents now lacke they but our blood Then learne against thou proue a man ah hardly hope I so The Line Lancastrian naturally doth labour of that Foe The Queene concluding thus in teares did then to Armor goe Fierce was the Field and either part did valiantly offend But Edward ouercomming when the Battell was at end The Queene was carried Captiue thence And Edwards men did bring Her Sonne the Prince sole sonne and heire vnto the captiue King Before the Victor whose demaunds receiuing answers stout He thrusts the manly Boy from him whom Glocester about The King Churle that he was did stab So tragicke was the spight Betwixt those Linages that oft each others so requite His death was more than death vnto his Parents but not long His Father moned vndispatcht alike for death and wrong By foresaid Duke of Glocester of whom succeedes our song THus won the Yorkestes ancient Raigne sixe bloodie Fields did seate Edward the Fourth in Englands Throne possest a while in queate He wonne his Subiects loue and loue was debt to his desarts But as must ours so lastly his vn-bodied Soule departs He left his Kingdome to his Sonne his Sonne to be protected By Richard Duke of Glocester Who pietie reiected Grew treble-wise tyrannicall malicious to the blood Of his deceased brothers Queene And what so Yorkest stood Betwixt the Scepter and himselfe aliue he pricked dead A Foe to all Lancastrians as the same by nature bread This common Deaths-man of those Kinnes and euery Nobles fall Whom he but gest Coriuall or might crosse him near so small This stoope-Frog Aesops Storke alike tyrannous vnto all To giltie giltlesse friend or foe was not secure one day But Either dyes as eithers death might fit him any way Yea euen whilst his Brother rulde when all Lancastrians and His Brothers twaine his Nephewes twaine Neeces three did stand Betwixt himselfe and home euen then by blood he hunted Raine For when his owne and ruthles hands King Henries heire had â—â—ayue Then Henries selfe Henrie the sixt a giltles King in bands He stabd his brother Clarence dide through him by other hands But now Protector as doe Wolues the Lambes protected he And fared as if fearing that one wickedder might be Queene mother and her kindred hild the Orphant King a while Her Kinne hee murdred and from her he got the King by gile Whom though vncrowned tituled fist Edward rest his mother He made be murdred with the Duke of Yorke the yonger brother When neither Yorkest his Allies and of Lancastrians none Were left to let it who should let but he might leape the Throne He wore indeede the wrested Palme But yeat to better bad By murder of his wife he sought new marriage to be had With that Elizabeth that was the Eldest daughter to Edward the fourth But all in vaine the King his Neece did wowe For Henrie Earle of Richmonds friends such doings did vndoe Which Henry and Elizabeth by secrete Agents were Contracted he of Lancaster and she of Yorke the heire Of which letigious Famelies heer mapped be the Lines Euen till the Heire of these two Heires both Stockes in one combines CHAP. XXXIII HEnrie as if by myracle preseru'd by Forraines long From hence-ment Treasons did arriue to right his Natiues wrong And chiefly to Lord Stanlie and some other Succors as Did wish and worke for better dayes thâ— Riuall welcome was Now Richard heard that Richmond was assisted and a shore And like vnkenneld Cerberus the crooked Tyrant swore And all complexions act at once confusedly in him He studieth striketh threates intreates and looketh mildly grim Mistrustfully he trusteth and he dreadingly did dare And fortie passions in a trice in him consort and square But when by his conuented force his foes increased more He hastned Battell finding his Coriuall apt therefore When Richmond orderly in all had battelled his ayde Inringed by his Complices their chearefull Leader sayde Now is the time and place sweete Frends and we the Persons be That must giue England breath or els vnbreath for her must we No Tyrannie is fabled and no Tyrant was in deede Worse thaÌ„ our Foe whose workes wil act my words if wel he speede For ill to ills Superlatiue are easely intist But intertaine amendment as the Gergesites did Christ. Be valiant then he biddeth so that would not be out-bid For courage yeat shall honor him though bace that better did I am right heire Lancastrian he in Yorkes destroyed right Vsurpeth But through Either ours for neither Claime I fight But for our Countries long-lackt weale for Englands peace I warre Wherein he speed vs vnto whom I all Euents refarre Meane while had furious Richard set his Armies in array And then with lookes euen like himselfe this or the like did say Why Lads shall yonder Welshman with his Straglers ouer-match Disdaine ye not such Riualles and deferre yee their dispatch Shall Tuder from Plantagenet the Crowne by craking snatch Know Richards very thoughts he toucht the Diademe he wore Be mettall of this mettall Then beleeue I loue it more Than that for other law than Life to super sead my Clame And lesser must not be his Plea that counter-pleads the same The weapons ouer-tooke his words blowes they brauely change When like a Lion thirsting bloud did moody Richard range And made large slaughters where he went till Richmond he espied Whom singling after doubtfull Swords the valerous Tyrant died THus ended Englands warre and woe vsurping Richard dead When Henry and Elizabeth vniting titles wed Of which two Heires th' vndoubted Heire of either Line did cum The Epilogue vnto these wounds digested in this sum Fourth Henry first Lancastrian King put second Richard downe Fourth Edward of the House of Yorke re-seazd sixt Henries Crowne Lad-Princes twaine were stabd in Field of either Linage one Foure Kings did perish Sundry times now-Kings anon were none Sixe three of either faction helde successiuely the Throne But from the second Richard to seuenth Henry we pretend Eight Kings this Faction to begin continue and to end The Princes Earles Barons and Knights this quarrell did deuour Exceede the tale of Gentry best and bacest at this houre So plagueth ciuill Warre so from Robe to Ragge dooth scoure Then luckiest of the Planets weare Predominants say we When by this Bedmatch either Heire that Bloud-mart did agree When Seuenth begot the Eight and Eight the First and Last for like Our now Pandora
Geron should by me to death be done 〈◊〉 â—pâ—ght of Spight in Hespera I golden fruit would pull Three-headed Cerberus in chaynes should make the Iury full Bâ—ast Snake Bore Stag Birds Bealt Planks Bull Theefe Frute Dog Diomeâ—d â—hokt fear'd pâ—uncht cought pearst priz'd washt throwne slaine puld chaned horse fead Were labours lesse than I would act might I of her be spead Dâ—ll mal-contented Saturne rulde the houre when I was borne Had Iupiter then starr'd I had not liued now forlorne Or Mars had steel'd my milkie heart with manlier moods than thees Or Mercurie had apted me to plead for Louers fees Or Sol infused sense to search what better me behou'd Or Venus made me louely so for loue to be belou'd Or Luna Contrary to Loue had bettered the best Ah could seauen Planets and twelue Signes constell one such vnrest Then lou'd that Sier of Gods when he had vow'd his childrens death That Sonne of his made wanton scapes with Lasses on the earth Dâ—rus aske Vulcan and his Arte if thou didst loue or noc And Hermes that he Herse lou'd will not disclaime I troe Nor wâ—art thou Phoebus chaste although thou wor'st a willow withe Thou Citherea hadst a leash of Loues besides the Smith Endâ—â—ion gaynst Diana could vouch farther than the eye Thus lou'd ye all ye churlish Starres yeat let ye Louers dye This sayd he and for this he sayd I for the ruth of this Did vow that whoso once were mine I would be onely his Why these his words did sauor wit not one distraught quoth he Nay heare the rest of his vnrest it followeth thus quoth she Oft would he kisse a senceles Tree and say sweet Mistresse mine I was I am and will be still the same and euer thine Bâ—leeue me or if so you doubt Anatomize my braine And â—re my Senses see your selfe the Sourentesse to raigne Beleeue me or if so you doubt rip out my heart and see Your selfe in it in it you are and euermore will be Beleeue me or if so you doubt commaund I forthwith dye And see your selfe the onely heauen whereto my soule doth flye If such I seeme and be not such let nought betide me well If such I seeme and be not such I wish no heauen but hell If such I seeme and be not such your Fauours let me mis. With that he blest himselfe and sayd ah what a wish was this Then steps he to some other Tree and as vnto a frend Bewayles himselfe with long discourse of loue to little end And as it were a mysterie thus many a time would tell Of one Erickmon as might seeme with him acquainted well Who would quoth he haue thought that he had doted on a Lasses Who rather would haue thought the Girle so gilefull as she was Once brau'd he it and often found with silken Wenches grace Yeat and I wonder faults he not though hauing time and place He neuer hild but gracious thoughts of women yeat I winne The fayrest She he euer saw might quit his thoughts of sinne When of the Court and Citie both he could sufficient say From eithers busie Vanities he getteth him away Amongst the woods his happiest dayes by-come or to be past He found had not Gynettas face intrapped him at last Nor Court nor Citie had she seene yeat eithers prayse she had So much more worth by howe much lesse she was vnnicely clad At sixteene yeares such was she as at Twentie and at boeth Well worth the louing for her loore her face and comely groeth Thence waxing amorous he checkt his eyes that checkt him so Which checks as oft were countercheckt by Loue his mightier Foâ— He loath'd to liue that liu'd to loue and lou'd to losse for why He scorn'd that wontlesse passion or an amorous Foole to dye Full often therefore would he balke her sight that pleas'd him most And if perceau'd to be in loue false freedome would he boast But all for nought not absence or sweete exercise of wit Or ought besides might put aside Loues ouer-mastring fit Thus pyned ere he pleadeth loue yeat pleasing her so well As none had fitter time and place his hearts vnrest to tell At length he flatly sayes he loues when words too sweet for trew Her answere was she liked him and so attonement grew Then vncontroulled kisses and imbracings often mixt With lesse than loue too grosse though more than should be such betwixt Were currant And if euer man did fish before the net If euer man might credit her did by her credit set If euer man for heartie loue deserued honest meede Erickmon might beleeue himselfe to be belou'd indeede More arguments of earnest loue gaue neuer Mayde than she Lesse cause to falsifie that loue gaue neuer Man than he How beit on aduantage play'd Gynetta all this while And by externall smoothnes did obscure internall guile There was a Swayne a wylie wagge that with his apish toyes His Pedlarie and pype-notes such as pleaseth girles and boyes So chang'd I would haue sayd bewitcht but that she often chang'd Gynetta that her former loue was sodaynly estrang'd Erickmon hardly brok't such bace coryuing of the Swayne And of her loue and wits did wish reducement all in vayne Was neuer Girle so ouergon that had so good a wit So well reported of ere then and well deseruing it Than was Gynetta giltie then both of her owne reproofe And of her Louers griefe that sate and sighte thereat aloofe And were it not that she was young and that Erickmon knew She rather seem'd than sin'd in deede he might haue err'd in view With weeping heart he her remaunds to be with him at-one And many restlesse daies and nights consumeth he in mone To thinke vpon her madnes which her selfe beleeued none Her too much wronged Relict might as wel he might be greeu'd Perhaps offended but God knowes no whit the more â—eleeu'd So wilfull she so wylie and officious was her Squier That craft intrapping craft they both did enter bootles fier She bore a mind more haughtie than to humble her so much And he a bacer minde than that he hop't his fortune such Yeat either lik't at randon not resoluing any end Vnlesse perhaps she dallied him as erst her former srend Meane while for Apes be euer Apes somwhat did he not well That mou'd a discord and through it their loues deuorse befell Erâ—â—kmon languisht all this while not re-beloued long For shee that â—ayl'd to doe him right did feofe on him the wrong Who giltles pleadeth giltie for what was it he would not To reconcile her fauour lost might seeme ere it was got So loue againe a foote gaue both re-intertainement hot Not any lou'd they nere so much seem'd more to loue than they Nor any lou'd she any whit in loue made shorter stay Than shee for he doe what he could did often times offend For why euen impudently she grew toyous in the end That was so modest comly erst as none might lier amend
Princely her Allowance and more stately as is sayde Than had she been in Scotland nor was Libertie denayde Of Hauking Hunting and Disports that had she been content Her merriest and securest daies a Prisoner she spent Scotland though labourd of our Queene would not receiue her and Such Treacher though imprison'd here prou'd she to either Land That death awaited her at Home and had we let her goe She was the Leagues shot-Anchor might our Queene and State o'rethroe Percie and Neuell auncient Earles This yet in Spanish paye Though bacely ill too well for him his Countrie would betray That other headed both her Wreckes wee touch but by the way With that succeeding County who concurring with his brother Once pardon'd still conspyred and Lawes Progresse so to smother Dispatcht himselfe Paget and moe like guiltie as those other Whose faultes falls had Rome Spayne their Father her their Mother Omit we Noâ—folks House from first of Howards made a Prince Though fauor'd of the Commons haue defected euer since As Absolom vs'd Curtesie but as Ambitious smoake Last Thomas Duke of Norfolkâ— so did his aspyring cloke WhoÌ„ promis'd faith once fre'ed but that promise soone he broke Him for Confedrate with those Earles rebelling Proofes did touch And with this Scottish Queene that he Intelligence had much Her Marriage that he closely sought and her Escape pretended And in her Right had fadg'd their wrong her Highnes Raine had ended Of Rising neer to London and to take it Plots they layde From Netherland the Spanish King had promised them ayde From Scotland into Spaeyne should be the Infant-King betrayde Ireland meane-while with aduerse Armes should also be ore-layde And hereof to and fro the Pope weare Letters still conuayde All which and more directly prou'd he piâ—ied lost his head Nor ought his death from being such did stand his Sonne in steade So hardly finde we Great-men in their Greatnes satisfide Or for their Greatnes not to be of other Men enuide But what is All to those haue All when but in Trifles crost Disgrace or Greese or Grudge vn-queare no lesse than all weare lost Conclude we then all Riches Forme Pompe Worlds-Applause but Winde Conclude we then to Monarchize is to coÌ„mand the minde Throckmorton yeat more priuie and more practising than those With her Mendoza Papists here forren and Land-leapt Foes Did Mischiefes that imported more our practiz'd State disclose But when of Parry Babington and their Attempts I thinke With whome this Scottish Lady in their bloody hopes did linke All foresaid Practises seeme then Epitomies to it Whereto these folliall Traytors did themselues and Senses fit Our Centinels almost too late the Larum bell did ring Yeat hardly then to arme her selfe our Generall they bring The Queene of Scots froÌ„ Ours almost her Crowne life had priz'de Eare to preuent the same she would by audience be aduis'de When gentle Durance might not salue that Daunger did remaine Which God and Nature tolerate slea rather than be slaine To which our Parliament aduis'd our Queene but long in vaine So far was she from foing her that sought her life and Rayne CHAP. LVI NOw thirtie sixe our greatest Peeres and States had power to heare And to determine and as found her to condemne or cleare By Statute passed in our Queene her seuen and twentith yeare These noble Tryers iustly then examining the Cause With reuerent Note of her who heard and spoke to euery Clause Did after diuers Daies so spent adiudge by Verdict trew Her guiltie of most trayterous Conspiracies not fewe And then from Fotheringhaye themselues to Parliament with-drew Of this Infection that our Peers and People had and would Remediles impoyson if not medeine it we should By some Decision of the Lymme whence all the bayne did floe Our publike Weales Phisitions much did argue to and froe Did neuer English Parliament fully conuented then Consist of Noblier Learneder Wiser and Worthier men By these it was debated how this common Foe might liue Without her death whom God to vs a common Blisse doth giue Much was it labord wished much some Course herein might holde But to resolue of any none had reason to be bolde Her still obdurate Malice to her Maiestie was cleere If she preuaild Religion was assurd an Altring heere Our Nobles Crocodile at home and hence our Foe-hop't Head Then must our Queene Religion Realme or She for them be dead Wherefore from Either House were sent the chiefest Men to craue Her Highnes that the passed Doome might Execution haue Whereof She askt to be aduisde and earnest her to saue Dismissed them with louing words and biddeth them expect Her Answer shortly nor did She the sending it neglect Though contrarie to it that all did hopingly affect For she perplexed in that case did lastly them direct To studie Meanes how Both might liue the Perill ouer-past Which much amaz'd yeat solemnly they handell it at last Mercie to her Malice in her might happily preuent Was sayd but not resolu'd for oft she Mercie vnder-went When rose the Earles and other times yeat neuer did repent But of our Queene to be destroyd had made her Testament A straiter Garde Bonds Hostages were also nam'd in vaine For should she prize our Queene who then durst her or theÌ„ detaine Or what were these to recompence the Losse we should sustaine For Loyaltie to take her Oth was thought to purpose small Such Othes she oft had falsifide nor thought it Sinne at all To breake them to an Heretike our Queene so Papists call To banish her were to possesse our Foes of their desier For vs to rid away the Smoake and runne into the Fier To set her free to make a Head for them against our Queene In few no safetie for vs but in her Death was seene So wholly by the Parlament concluded was and so Reported to her Maiestie still pitying her Foe In more sententious learned and delibrate sort than I Can set it downe past all toucht heer So did her Maiestie In answering earst and now to them her Aunswer Aunswer-lesse Sweet Adumbrations of her Zeale Mercie and Wit expresse But with her Oracle that bod them do and doe it not Play'd they as Alexander did with King Gordians Knot OF Spayâ—s huge Nauy toucht before great Rumor now was spread And that th'Inuaders meant to make this Scottish Queene a head For which continued doubt of her in English hearts was shead Not in the Vulgats only but some Nobles of this Land Who had not knowing it our Queene then got into their hand The Writ of Execution that her Heading did purport The which was executed soone and in a solemne sort This nature-frended Ladie had she bin as wise as witrie Who by the Massacres in France had learnt to leaue off Pittie Made there too apt for bloody Acts the Pope for it too blame To take her death too much deseru'd her selfe did meekly frame She bids commend her to her Sonne and will him to
was indeed a wonder for this Virgin so was bent To Chastitie that by selfe-selfe-death she Marrage did preuent Here Mandeuil perhaps had bin and tooke occasion heere To feare least Flenor in like might imitate too neere Euen Toyes in Loue discourage Loue froÌ„ Toyes resumeth cheere Of him therefore whilst Ienkinson rests at his Iornies end With Obdolowcans Sonne that on the Sophie did attend CHAP. LXVIII SO Knightly Mandeuil demeanes himselfe against the Foes Of Melek Mandibron that he in Aegypt famous groes And of himselfe that Soldan did to Mandeuil commend A greater Match than els his Thoughts with hope could apprehend For vertuous beautious Birth Wealth a Match for none to meÌ„d This Ladie also of the blood and heire vnto her Father A mightie Prince in those same Parts he courteth now the rather To intermit that home-bred Loue which seaz'd on him indeed As for to proue how such as he with such as she might speede And there experimented here to cease or els proceede Fye Mandeuil how good so ere thy Merits otherwise In making Loue vnmeant thou didst thy selfe but mis-aduise Though thou could'st buzze about the flame keepe vnskorcht thy wings Few safely play with edge-Tooles sin to iest at holy things With women made for Men therefore soone won yeat edging Sute With Marrage praisde enough in him did first it institute With Women who when all was made and Man of all possest Yeat lacketh Man an Helpe sayd God and Man with Woman blest With marrage that legitimates our Propagation and Two Hearts in one transplants in all befalne or taine in hand With women that no lesse attract our Senses them to leeke Than Hunger for to labour Foode or Anguish Ease to seeke VVith Marrage that preferreth vs and stayes vs in content Vnanimieth weale or woe as either vs is sent In Nature Women Marrage by Tradition either twaine So sacret and autentick as we naither should profaine To trifle then or Them or This were not so slight a sin As that thy Vertues Mandeuil would fault think I therein But for she was a Pagan and thy selfe a Christian theare And she the Soldans Tender thou didst forme a Loue for feare For that thou should'st reny thy Faith and her thereby possesse The Soldan did capitulat in vaine the more thy blesse For than a VVoman euermore the Diuell tempteth lesse Yeat that they tempt not theirs but ours the sinne for if I see And steale a pretious Gemme the Gemme faults not the Theft in me Howbeâ—t when to actiue and to passiue loue it groes And VVomen then shall alter them as Diuels then suppose And like of Men if Men alike shall Reputation lose This faire Aegyptian Ladie of the English Toy in this To wit in forward Loue to whom the farthest Commer is Might easly haue bin wonne of him not at an easie rate If to his Faith a Recreant had Miscrent bin his state But he immoueable aswell in Faith as former Loue Did there so well as he from thence with honor did remoue On Elenor he still deuisde yeat sometimes to allay Those Moodes by mustring in his mind these thoughts did thus assay Full soone the fairest Face thought he would cease from being such If not preserued curiously with tendring more than much Or age at least and that not old so alters it that was That Helen did disclaime her selfe for Helen in her Glas. That great Phisition that had liu'd in health an age admirde Did answer askt the cause not he had done as Flesh desirde Then Mandeuil bethinks him of the Labyrinth of Cares Incumbring married Men and neer that life and loue forswares How tedious were a Shroe a Sloy a Wanton or a Foole All foure a-like threatning Mislike when time should Dotage coole How seldome Women come vndow'd with one or some or all Or answerable Faults to these to men not Crosses small The Flattries and the Fooleries whereby are women wonne With fishing long to catch perhaps a Frog when all is done And all that Sexs Infirmities his Thoughts did ouer-runne But like as Mothers beate their Babes sing them when they crie Loues Incantations so did he with Malice such defie The Amorous with the sea-Crabs gaet doe angring Amours flie This humour and the honor by this Knight in Aegypt wonne Ore-passe we and in Persia see what Ienkinson hath done CHAP. LXIX AT Casben hild the Shawgh his Court who thirtie yeares and odd Had not been seene abroade thereof by Prophe sie foâ—bodd Like Maiestie he kept as those great Monarchs did before The Macedons subdewed them of Wiues he had like store Besides most bewtious Concubines not lesse than fifteene score And yearely of the fairest Maides Wiues doth make new choyce When much the Friends and Husbands of those chosen doe reioyce Him blesseth he to whome doth he one of his Relicts giue Yeat Persian Shaughs esteeme themselues the holiest Kings that liue For when a Christian whom they call an Infidel because He not beleeues in Mahomet nor Mortezalies Lawes Is cal'd to audience least the same prophaine wheare he doth stand Must doffe his Shooes and to and fro treade on new-sifted sand Our Soueraignes Letters to the Shaugh so Ienkinson presents Who being ask't his arrant said those Letters like Contents But new-made Peace with Turkie him of new-sought Trade preueÌ„ts The Turkish Marchants fearing least their Traffique might decrease Had by that Basha mard his Mart that then had made that Peace The Shâ—ugh did also question his Beleefe and quarrell it So well appaid is â—enkinson if well away he git Whome with our letters to the Turke the Shaugh to send was bent Had not the Hyrcane Murzey Posts vnto his Father sent And Obdolowcans Letters then disswaded that intent When with a Present for himselfe he Thence to Hyrcan went And theare did him the heart-trew King most kindly intertayne And thence dismisse with Gifts when he no longer would remayne Nor onely his Ambassadors vnto his care Commends But moment of that Ambassie which he to Mosco sends There now suppose them well ariu'd and bringing gratefull newes Of waightie Messages whearin the Mosick him did vse Conuenient time he nerethelesse for Persian Trade attends Which Arthur Edwards thither sent succesfully theare ends This Edwards and a many here vnnam'd deserued well In these Imployments but of All weare tedious al to tell For sauing of Discouerers we purpose not to dwell Els would we here reuiue but that through Hakluits Pen they liue To him your Fames sweet Trumpetor Yee English Garlands giue A Catalogue of Names that in this North and Northeast Clymes Haue more obseru'd and more deseru'd than perish shall with times Nor be my Father here forgot for he amongst the rest Deserueth in this Generall remembrance with the best And here from out those churlish Seas with Ienkinson we sayle To London theare an aged Man to tell this youthfull Taile How he had past All Europe seene all Leuant Ilands and
Forrest not farre from their Fortresse by chance did incounter strike and chace a fayre and well spread Stagge which the Children of one Tyrrhus the Kings Raunger and Steward of his Grounds a Man of no meane account amongst the Latines had from a Fawne nourished and so intreated that no Beast might bee more tamer This Stagge thus stroken and followed of the Troians taking the readiest way to the house of Tyrrhus and with bleeding haunches entring the Hall was first espred of Syluta or Ilia a young Gentlewoman in whose lappe hee sleeping had often layd his head and at whose hands he had many a time taken Brouse been kemmed and trimmed She seeing the Stagge in such a plight almost swouned ere shee could weepe wept eâ—e shee might speake spoke ere shee was comforted and was comforted onely in promise of Reuenge At the winding of an Horne came flocking 〈…〉 Heards-men Shepheards Plow-men and 〈…〉 of Groomes finding Almon the eldest Sonne of Tyrrhus and their young Mistris Syluia grieuously passionate and the Stagge bloodie and braying his last question no further what should be done but were furiously inquisitiue after the Doers In this meane time by euil hap Ascanius and his Companie drawing by Parsie after the Stagge which they knew not for tame were entered the view of this Shoole of inraged Clownes who all at once and suddenly with such weapons as they had or found neerest at hand as Staues Sheep-hookes Dung-forks Flayles Plow-staues Axes Hedging-Beetels yea Lâ—bbats newly snatched froÌ„ burning and what not fiercely assayled with down-right blowes the amazed Troians who not hauing leisure to aske questions couragiously entertaine the vnknowne Quarrell and so long and daungerously for either parte continued this confusion of blowes and effusion of blood that by now it was bruted at the Fortresse and at Laurentum and was anon increased by rescue from either Faction neither had this Skuffling an end vntill night was begun at what time the Latines Rutiles Troians left the wild Medley howbeit not discontinuing their malice Of chiefe account amongst the Latines were slaine lustie Almon and aged Galesus this latter a man of an honest and wealthie condition whilest he vnseasonably amongst blowes deliuered vnregarded perswasions of Peace The wounded Corses of these twaine did Turnus cause to bee conuayed to the view of Latinus as Arguments of their common dammage himselfe with an enuious heart and an inuectiue tongue amplifying the same â—o the vttermost not vnassisted therein by the yrefull Queene Amata or vn-furthered by the hurlie burlie of the impatient People all labouring the King to denounce Armour against the Troians Latinus in this tumult of his Subiects and trauell of his Sences assuring himselfe that Aeneas was the man prophesied to the Marriage of Lauinia and succession of Latium disswaded but might not perswade with the headie multitude In fewe with such efficacie did the dead Corses inuite it the Queene intreate it Turnus affect it the People follow it that lastly though against his minde the King did suffer the Laurentines to reare on their Walles absolute Tokens of imminent Warres Thus found Turnus that which he longed for and Aeneas no lesse than hee looked for and either solliciting succours were not long vnfurnished of hardie Souldiers yea in respect of their multuous Armies the Warres lately ceased at Troy might now haue been sayd to bee reuiued in Italie But as in his Wandrings so in his Warres my purpose is breuitie either of which the Lawriat Trumpetor of his glorie hath so effectually sownded that many might amplifie I could iterate but not any amend it neuerthelesse in remembring of this Historie I haue also vsed other Authorities IT followeth After long Warres valiantly on either part performed many great Kings Princes and Personages perished when lastly the Rutiles begunne to bee repentant of their wrong and the Troians wearie of the Warres Aeneas and Turnus meeting had these words And first Aeneas Often Truces haue wee had Turnus for the buriall of our dead neuer treaties of peace for the welfare of those aliue onely once as I haue been euer diddest thou seeme thou diddest but seeme prouident that no moe should miscarrie offering me Câ—mbate which I accepting haue in vaine expected for since thy minde changed I wot not by what meanes hath changed the liues of I wot not how many But now when for the palpable leasing thou shouldst not speak like Turnus shouldst thou deny the better of the wars to abide with Aeneas and yet I still be Aeneas though playing vpon that Aduantage with Turnus euen now I say my selfe doe request thee of that Combate whereby further Blood-sheds may happily be concluded Beleeue mee wert thou a Begger and I a Monark yet so much doe I emulate not enuie thy glorie I would hazard all in a Combat requested by thee so valerous a Competitor But least perhaps I ouer-breathe thy tickled Conceit with more selfe-lâ—king than is expedâ—ent know man Turnus know Nature Birth Arte Education not whatsoeuer els are in any thing more beneficiall to Turnus than that iustly he may enuie as much or more in Aeneas To this answered the Rutile thus Whether thou speakest this Aeneas as insulting ouer mine infortune or as insolent of thine owne felicitie or emulous as thou sayest and I beleeue it of my glorie trust me onely if thus in thy better successe to abandon thy selfe to such offered disaduauntage bee not indiscretion neuer heard I wherein to derogate from thy policie but say it indiscretion yet by Iupiter Aeneas it is honourable indiscretion Not to encounter so heroicall for in thee I enuie not that Epitheton a Combattant is as contrary to my thought as contenting to my very Soule and as contenting to my Soule as if Aâ—neas were alreadie conquered and Turnus Conquerour either which I deuine at the leastwise I am determined to aduenture Be prouided therefore Ae 〈…〉 eas of courage for thou prouokest no Cowarde but euen Tuâ—â—us that would haue asked no lesse had he not doubted Aeneas not to haue dared to answer 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 Victor a Combat to bee tried by these twaine body against body was vpon Othes taken and other Circumstances agreed vpon Now were they Armed Mounted did Encounter and their Coursers breathlesse the Riders dismounting vigoriously buckle on Foote both offende either defende neither â—ainted Lastly not with vnrequited blowes was Turnus disarmed the Vanquished pleading for life the Victor not purposing his death had hee not espied on his Shoulders the sometimes Baldrike of his once especiall Friend Pallas King Euanders Sonne whom Turnus in Battell ouercomming had put to Sword then Aeneas saying onelie in this Spoyle thou shalt not triumph and onely for his sake am I vnintreatable shoffed his Sworde through his breast Turnus so ending the World and Aeneas the Warres Then was he peaceably wedded to Lauinia and shortly after possessed of Latium After which about three yeares he dying left his Kingdom to Aseanius and Lauinia with childe She at her time and at the house of the before remembred Tyrrhus was deliuered of Sylâ—iâ—s Post-humus so called of his being borne amongst the Woods after the death of his Father To him because in right it was the inheritance of Syluius from his Mother did Asâ—anius voluntarily resigne the Kingdome of Latium and of him for his honorable Regiment were all the after Latine kings called Sylâ—ij Finally he hunting and mistaken amongst the Thickets for a Stagge was slaine with an Arrow by his Sonne Brutus This Brutus for sorrow and his saâ—â—tie accompanied with many lustie Gentlemen and others of Aeneas his Troians Ofsprings imbarking themselues after long Sayling ariued in this Iland then called Albion whose Giant-like Inhabitants in respect of their monstrous making inciuill Manners sayd to haue bin engendred of Diuels he ouercomming manured their Countrey and after his owne name called it Brutaine And thus hauing begotten Brutus an Originall to our Brutons I conclude this abridged Historie of his Grandfather Aeneas FINIS
men When arked Noah seuen with him the emptyd worlds Remaine Had left the instrumentall meane of landing them againe And that both man and beast and all did multiplie with store To Asia Sem to Affrick Cham to Europe Iapheth bore Their Families Thus triple wise the world deuided was One language common vnto all vntill it came to passe That Nembroth sonne to Chus the sonne of Cham O 〈…〉 d Noah his sonne In Caldea neuer seene before an Empire had begonne As he and his audacious crew the Tower of Babell reare Pretending it should check the cloudes so to anoyd the feare Of following flouddes the Creator of creatures beheld The climing toppes of cloud-high Towers and more to be fulfilde To cut off which ambicious plot and quash their proud intent Amongst a world of people there he sundry speeches sent So that vnable to conferre about the worke they went The Tower was left vnfinished and euery man withdrew Himselfe apart to ioyne with those whose language best he knew And thus confused tongues at first to euery nation grew THe Babylonian Saturne though his buildings speede was bad Yet sound the meanes that vnder him he many Nations had He was the first that rulde as King or forraine landes subdude Or went about into the right of others to intrude Ere this aspiring mindes did sleepe and wealth was not pursude His sonne Ioue Belus after him succeeded and puruaide For dreadfull warres but awlesse death his dreadfull purpose staide Then Ninus prosecutes the warres preuented Belus sought And fild the wronged worlde with armes and to subiection brough Much people yet not capable of such his nouile fight From Caldea to Assyria he translates the Empire quite And caused fire on horses backes before him euer borne To be adorned for a God Thus out of vse was worne In Caldea and Assyria too the honour rightly due To high Iehoua God indeede Idolatrie thus grevv From Ninus first he first of all a Monarchie did frame And bewtified Niniuiâ— that bore the Builders name His warlike wise Semir amis her husband being dead And sonne in nonage faining him long ruled in his stead Delating in a males attyre the Empire new begonne The which his yeares admitting it she yeelded to her sonne Thus Cham his broode did borgeon first and held the worlde in awe But Iapheths Line to Iauans land from Assur doth vs drawe MVch prayse is spoke of Thessalie and Pegasus his Springs And how the Nimphes of Meonie in Tempe did great things And how that Cecrops and his seede did honour Athens so As that from thence are sayd the Springs of Sciences to flow Not onely Artes but Cheualry from Greece deriue we may Whereof omitting many things my Muse alonely say How Saturne Ioue and Hercules did fill the world with fame Of iustice prowesse and how they both men and Monsters tame And so from these deriue the meane how Brute to Albion came In Crete did florish in those dayes the first that florisht so Vranos he in wealth and witte all others did out goe This tooke to wife not then forbod his Sister Vesta fayre That crooked Titan did to him and comely Saturne bacâ— The elder for deformities in making and of minde With parents and the people too did lesser liking finde The younger by the contraries gaue hansell in his prime Of many vertues honouring their Owners elder time Away slips age death spareth none Vranos leaues the stage His body now depriu'd of pomp interrd the wormes doe gage Well may a rich mans Hearse want teares but heires he shall not mâ—s To whome that he is dead at length no little ioye it is How beit at the least for forme Vranos Sonnes lament But scarce their patted fathers Ghost to heauen or hell was sent When that his heires did fall at oddes about the vacant Raigne And Titan chafes disabled then the Scepter to sustaine Each eye did follow Saturnes forme each heart applaudes his fame And to conclude with whole consent he winnes away the game Yet for because the Birth-right should inure to Titan still In Mars his Church did Saturne vow his Issues males to kill Not meanely glad was Saturne then his head possest of Crowne When of his building he was Lord of many a peopled Towne He giueth lawes his lawes are kept he bids and all obay And equally belou'd and feard he wealds a kingly sway He teacheth men vntaught before to eare the lusty land And how to pearse the pathlesse ayre with shaft from Bow-mans hand God Dis did quaile to see his golde so fast coâ—uayd from hell And fishes quakte when men in ships amidst their flouds did dwell Who loues not him Wherein did not the King of Crete excell But what auaile or Townes or Lawes or what doe subiects moue Sheaues Shasts or Ships or Gold or all king Saturne is in loue He loues and is beloude againe yeat so might not suffice In former vow to Titan made his paine of pleasure lies But no man from the Monarke Loue by wealth or weapons flies Cybella fayre Cybella is espoused to her brother And as doe Venus billing Birds so loue they one another In Coiture she doth conceiue one sonne is borne and slayne And Saturne of the hansell hard doth male-content re mayne CHAP. II. THe Sunne had compast all the Signes and Cybell brought to light Her second breede a smiling boy and Iupiter he hight Together with the Queene of Gods so Iunos stile we wright The infant smiled at his birth but Cybell ioybereft And Vesta whom Vranos had an heauy widow left Did both lament for Saturne wild the new borne babe should die Both to acquite him of his vow and frustrate Destinie For at the Oracle he had his wife a sonne should beare That should eâ—ect him from his Realme his vow therefore and feare Did hasten on vnwillingly the slaughter of his sonne For which his sorrowes granting speech his moene he thus begonne And waÌ„t not stately Crowns their cares With pompe haue princes paine Ah die he must and die he shall els may not Saturne raigne Yeat might a Scepters want suffice I gladly would resigne But sworne-by Stix and wreakfull Mars at periuries repine Then farre be it that they repine least I too late repent It doubles sinne if sinne by sinne we practise to preuent From this time foorth Melancholie for Surname Saturne had No mirth could wrest froÌ„ him a smile ech smile would make him sad His seruants feare his solemne fittes when if they ought did say He either answers not at all or quite an other way Vnpeopled roomes and pathlesse wayes did fit his humour best And then he sighs and sheadeth teares when all things else did rest Who so could cite a Tragedie was formost in his creede For balking pleasaunt company on sorrowes did he feede Death likes him that mislikes himselfe in gesture roabes and all He shewes himselfe like to himselfe and hence it doth befall That men to