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
wretch in miserie alwaies Cease further prate said Hercules in troth it greeueth much To see a King in this Distresse but since thy life is such As neither in aduersitie nor prosperous estate Thou canst afford one iot of good I purpose to rebate Thy wicked dayes by worthy death prepare therefore to dye When Cacus sawe he must perforce so harde a combate trye He by inchanted flames againe endeuored to flye But Hercules deluded once by that deuise before Had learned now for being so deceiued any more And casting feare aside did leape into the flaming Caue And theare by Arte did conquer Arte. The Gyant then to saue Himselfe did take his Axe in hand wheare Hercules and he Couragiously bestirre themselues vntill they did agree To trye it out in open ayre So doubtfull was their fight That Lookers on could not discerne to whether best should light The frighted Ladies did their best to helpe their fighting friend But Hercules had victorie and Cacus had his end CHAP. XII FOr Gyants of Cremona slayne and Cacus ridded so The Latine Princes prayse on him and presents did bestoe Wheare Rome is now Pallantia then Euander hee did frame A temple and to Hercules did dedicate the same And he intreated thereunto in Italie did stay To honor whome did Princes come from farre and euerie waye King Faunus had affaires abroad when from Laurentum came His wife Marica Facua some this louely Queene doe name From liking did shee fall in loue with Hercules and he More readie to haue made demaunde then like to disagree Conceauing her by circumstance so coupled by contract That had King Faunus neuer liu'd Latinus had not lackt Yeat home came Faunus fathering his late Corriuals act But whether gotten lawfully or thus in loue forbod Latinus Brute his Gran-dames Syer was sonne vnto a God WHilst that in loue of this same Queene and lande of all besides The vanquisher of Vulcans sonne in Italie abides Of Calabries a mightie host King Picus he prouides And in reueng of Cacus swore his Slayer should be slaine But he ere long that so did sweare vnsweared it againe When chased home into his holdes theare sparred vp in gates The valiant Thebane all in vaine a following fight awaites Who for dispatch did fayne himselfe a Legate to the King And him the Porters as the same before their Tyrant bring Then shaking off his ciuil robes his shining Armes appeare And renting downe 〈◊〉 â—roâ— sparre both Prince and people feare Some ran to Armor other some did fight with him their last Both court and Cittie in the end did lay vpon him fast Theare Picus worthely did winne of valiantnesse a name Yeat Hercules more valiantly by death did Picus tame And to attend their King his ghoste he sendeth flocke by flocke His furie was as fier to Ferne his foes as waues to Rocke Nor did his Lyons Spoyle giue place to darting or to knocke Meane tyme his men assault without whil'st he assayles within Wheare fighting to beate downe the Gates he so the Goale did win Within the King his ransackt Court he Iole espyes Whose teares then mounting froÌ„ her hart dismount theÌ„ froÌ„ her eyes King Picus now a lifeles corse was Father of this Mayde In vaine therefore did Hercules her pensiuenesse disswayde Nor could he but lament her fate and loue so sweete a face Whose person also did containe the type of female grace At first she was so farre from loue she rather seem'd to hate Yeat could she not so giue the Checke but that she tooke the Mate Then eithers loue was eithers life poore Deianira she Was out of commons yea of thought an other had her fee. WIth this so faire and portly wench he sayled into Thrace And heares how Diomedes did tyrannize in that place No Straunger scapes vnraunsomed but Raunsome wanting then He casteth them as prouender to Horses eating men A Garde of Tyrants like himselfe attending on him still Who richly did maintaine themselues by such their doings ill The Scourge of such was moued not to be remoued now By Iole whose louing teares such labours disalow With Diomedes and his Garde in Forrest did he meete Who with their common Stratagem the Stranger thinke to greete Hands of commaunded Hercules for Horse I am no hay All Straungers Raunsom once for all my comming is to pay Which sayd himselfe against them all began a noble fray The sturdie Thracians mightie men did hardly loose their ground But than the King a mightier man not any wheare was found These all at once assayle and strike and thunder on his Sheeld But number fitted to his force vnwonted so to yeeld For with his club he skuffles then amongst their Curets so That speedie death was sweeter dole then to suruiue his blo Well mounted comes the King himselfe whom he dismounts anon But reseued to his Horse againe away he would be gon Lesse hasâ—e he sayd I Harts out-runne noâ— shalt thou me out-ride Out stripping so the man-feade horse he topled ore his side The Monstrous King that resculesse to flying people cride Who lying all to frusâ—hed thus the sonne of Ioue did bring His cruell Iades that soone deuoure their more than cruell King The Thracians all submit themselues and ioye their Tyrants death And thinke some God had left the Heauens to succour men on earth From such as what they would they will and what they will they can And what they can they dare and doe and doing none withstan Nor thought they better of the man then did his deedes approue That neuer was a Conqueror vnto his owne behoue But to establish vertuous men and Tyrants to remoue This common Soldiour of the world with Iole did land In Lycia and the earth in peace discharged theare his band Sweete busses not sharpe battels then did alter man and minde Till he as others sorrowe in securitie did finde From Assur went the Empire then when Tonos he had time To court his Trulles Arbaces so espying place to clyme Secure in Tomyris her flight was valiant Cyrus slaine From Capua not from Cannas grewe braue Hanibal his baine The same to whose victorious Sword a second world was sought That Macedon in court not Campe to traytrous end was brought A louer not a Soldiour went Achilles to his graue And Caesar not in steele but silke to Rome his farewel gaue Euen so this second vnto none superior vnto all To whome did sooner Causes cease then Conquests not befall This monster-Master Hercules this Tyrant-Tamer hee Whose high Exploytes did leaue the earth from spoyl spoylers free In pleasures did he perish now that did in perils thriue A greeuous Taske I vndertake his dying to reuiue CHAP. XIII WHen Deianira vnderstood her busbands back returne She thought it strange that he froÌ„ her so strangely did soiorne Explorers sent to search the cause returne was made that he Did loyter in a Strangers Loue and Iole was she That euer hanged at his lips and hugged
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
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
retyre but wordes were to no end The wilfull man pursuing blood Ioue ceaseth to perswade And rushing in amongst his foes so hote a skirmish made That euery blowe sets blood abroch and so in little space Euen he who late he did entreat is followed now in chace By Arcas and his company for Ioue resraind the flight Because against his countrey men he had no will to fight Whilest lucklesse Saturne did escape by flight and fortune then And wandred long in vncouth Seas depriude of wealth and men Victorious Iupiter was crownde with glory King of Create And Saturne now ariude at Troy for succour did entreat Ganymedes King Troys sonne was sent in Saturnes ayde A worthy Knight and valiant warre to Iupiter he made But he and his were chased backe euen to their Citie walles For whoso stoode with Iupiter by Iupiter he falles And theare the Troyan Paragon Ganymedes was taine Twixt whome and Iupiter thenceforth sound friendship did remaine Then Saturne did the second time to Seas with shame retire And neuer after durst by warre against his sonne conspire But sayling into lower Realmes in Italie did dwell And hereof it is said his sonne did chase him into hell MEane while lesse ioyous of his fame then ielous of his freakes Her wrong Queene Iuno on the Truls of Iupiter she wreakes Which was the cause that all too late he purposing returne To rescue Danae in whose loue he amorously did burne Was cast by stormes into the Seas that forthwith tooke the name Of him whom for his Piracies Ioue vanquisht in the same Ye might haue seene Aegeon theare with wreakfull wrath inflamde At sight of Ioue at whose decay he long in vaine had aimd And how that Ioue had now the worst and in a trise againe The Gyant with his twise three Barkes in hazard to be â—aine The Centaures shew them valerous so did Ixeon stout And braue Ganymaedes did deale his balefull dole about But when couragious Iupiter had beaten to the ground Aaegeon and in the selfesame Chaynes wherein he often bound The harmelesse soules that crost those Seas himselfe in fetters lay Ye might haue sayd and truly sayd that then did end the fray So many were his high exploits whereof such wonder bread That for the same the Heathen folke doe deifie him dead Which since they are so manifold I many ouerpasse And though Amphitrio blush to heare how he deceiued was And that Alcmena pinch my tongue possest with bashfull shame Yea though that Iupiter himselfe my lauish tongue shall blame Yeat since that iealous Iuno knowes already of the same I dare to tell how Iupiter so cunningly beguilde His loue Alcmena that by him she traueled with childe Of Hercules whose famous Acts we orderly shall tell Whereof the first but not the least in Cradle-time befell CHAP. IIII. QVeene Iuno not a little wroth against her husbands crime By whome shee was a Cockqueane made did therefore at the time In which Alcmena cride for helpe to bring her fruit to light Three nights and dayes inchaunt her throwes and of a Diuelish spight Intended both the Ladies death and that wherewith she went Till Galinthis vnwitching her did Iunos spels preuent Howbeit cankered Iuno still pursuing her intent Two poysoned Serpents got by charmes into the chamber brought Where Hercules in cradle lay and thinking to haue wrought A Tragedie did let them loose who smelling out their pray Skaerd Hercules his brother that in selfe same cradle lay But Hercules as Children vse with little whelpes to play Did dallie childishly with them and no whit did dismay Vntill at last his tender flesh did fecle their smarting stings And then displeasd betwixt his hands the Snakes to death he wrings Amphitrio and the Thebanes all of this same wonder tell And yeeres permitting Hercules did with Euristeus dwell This King by spitefull Iunos meanes did set him taske on taske But Hercules perfourmed more then both of them could aske Yea yet a Lad for Actiuenes the world did lack his like To Wrestle Ride Run Cast or Shoote to Swim to Shift or Strike As witnes his inuention first those solemne actiue Plaies That were on Mount Olimpus tride where he had prick and praise For which his Nouell and himselfe in those not hauing Peeres The Graecians by th'Olimpides kept reckning of their yeeres KIng Atlas daughters in the Isles of Hesperae did holde A many Sheepe and Poets faine their fleeces were of Golde For rarenes then of Sheepe and Wooll in figures so they faine Euristeus pricks his Puple on this nouile Prize to gaine The Greekes applie their sweating Oares and sailing doe persist Vntill they reach the wished shoare where ready to resist Their entrance to the closed Isles an armed Giant stayd Whose grim aspects at first approch made Hercules afraide Now buckle they and boysterous bloes they giue and take among A cruell fight But Hercules had victorie ere long The Giant slaine Philoctes tooke the vanquisher in hand An harder taske had Hercules then pausing now to stand Most dreadfull was their doubtfull fight both lay about them round Philoctes held the harder fight by keeping higher ground The Sonne of Ioue perceauing well that prowesse not auail'd Did faine to faint the other thought that he in deed had quaild And left th' aduantage of his ground and fiercely smites his Foe But Hercules whose policie was to contriue it so Renewing fight most eagerly so strikes and strikes againe That to endure the doubled force his valiant Foe had paine Who yeelding to his Victors will did finde in him such grace As Hercules did thenceforth vse his friendship in each place Hesperides the goodly Nimphs their Keepers chaunce lament But Hercules did comfort them and cure their discontent And shipping then of Rammes and Ewes a parcell thence he went IN coasting back by new-built Troy he saw a monefull sort Of people clustering round about their yet vnconquered Port. He musing much and striking Saile did boldlie aske wherefore They made such dole Laomedon then standing on the Shoare Did tell the cause the cause was thus Laomedon ere than To reare the statelie walles of Troy a costly worke began And wanting pay to finish vp the worke he had begunne Of Neptunes and of Phoebus Priests the Godes of Sea and Sunne He borrowed money promising repaiment of the same By certaine time which thereunto he did expresly name The walles are built the time is come the Priests their money craue Laomedon forsweares the debt and naughtie language gaue Forthwith the Sea the Diuell then did many wonders showe Began to swell and much of Troy with violence ouerflowe And thereupon the swealtie Sunne the wastfull Sea retierd So vehementlie did shine vpon the Oosie plashes myerd That thereof noisome vapours rose and of those vapours spread Such plagues as scarce the liuing might giue buriall to the dead Repentant then their wretched king to diuell-god Delphos goes Where at the Oracle he knew his wrongs to cause
was of him And that his armor layd a-part in silke he courts it trim The daughter of th'Aetolian King did little lesse then raue And can the churle quoth she preferre in loue a captiue Slaue Before his wife whome late he faynd inferiour vnto none Ah Hercules thou art a man thy manhood thus is knowne Fye may a forren Strumpets armes so fasten on his necke As he the Rector of the Earth must bowe if she doth becke Oh how vnlike to Hercules is Hercules in this But leauing men to natures fault in her the lewdnes is No man so chaste but such as she may worke to doe amis Thus whilst her ouerplus of loue to Ielousie did growe She simply minds the spightfull gift that Nessus did bestowe And for he dying spake the words she held it as her Creede That it could winne him to her selfe of which now hauing neede She vseth part and sent a Shirt so boyled as she bad To Hercules and Hercules was of the Present glad Confessing her his onely Wife And whilst he did repent His breach of Loue on Oeta Mount to sacrifice he went Philoctes Paeans valiant Sonne and Lychas he that brought The poysned Shirt were present theare but of no treason thought Not Deianiras selfe good Soule till tryall made it playne When as his body and the fire gaue moysture to the bayne His stoutnes hid such torments long as els could none abyde Yea till the baine his Bowels and his very Marrow fryde But when his torments had no meane the Altar downe he throes And from his martred body rents the gory smoking cloathes And striuing to strip off the Shirt he teareth flesh from bone And left his breaking Synoees bare his Intrailes euery one Did boyle and burst shew themselues wheare lumps of flesh did lack And still the murdrous Shirt did cleue vnto his mangled backe Espying Deianiras Squire that quaking stoode he sayde And art thou wretch the Instrument of my destruction mayde Whome swinging then about his head he slinged downe the hill And so did silly Lychas dye that purposed no il Then running downe from hill to Playne from Playne to hill againe He rents vp Rockes and mightie Hils in error of his paine Till sadly leaning on his Club he sighing vowes that none Should be the death of Hercules but Hercules alone And to his friend Philoctes tooke his Arrowes and his Bow And gladly to the hallowed fyer as to his bed did go Wheare lying downe and taking leaue with reared hands to skye The Earths Protector so in peace amidst the flames did dye Philoctes neere o'rgone with greefe his Ashes did conuaye To Italy inshrined in his Temple there to stay And wofull Deianira heares of Hercules decay His Ghoste she voucheth and the Gods to witnes that her minde Was giltles of a traitrous thought nor thinke me so vnkinde Sweet Husband as to haue the will to ouerliue thee heer But that my Ghoste before thy Ghoste it selfe of guile shall cleer And now I come ah now I come forgiue ye gods the deed She sayd eâ—and pearsing so her breast a breathles Corse did bleed AS Greekes lament their Champions losse so did the Phrygians ioy And Priamus did fortifie his stately Cittie Troy Twise Hercules had rased it and thirdly was it reard By Pryam strong in wealth and walles through Asia lou'd and feard He cald to mynde Laomedon whome Hercules had slayne His Sister too Hesione that Captiue did remayne In Salamis with Telamon and well he was apayde In that the Doer of the same liu'd not the Greekes to ayde His Sister therefore not restorde his Legates asking it By stealing of the Spartane Queene did Paris crye them quit Twelue hundred fiftie fiue war-Shippes with meÌ„ Armor frought By seauentie Kings kingly Peeres froÌ„ Greece to Troy were brought To winne her thence King Priamus besides his Empire greate Had ayders Princes thirtie three lesse Lords I not repeate Not Sagitar that in this Warre did many a valiant feate Tenne yeres tenne monthes twise sixe daies the siege they did abide Eight hundred sixtie thousand Greekes by Troian weapons dyde Sixe hundred fiftie sixe thousands of Troians fighting men Besides the slaughtred at the sacke by Grecians perisht then And if that Hector Troilus and Paris so we name Fell fortie Kings omitting more of little lesser fame Mislike and ciuill quarrels when the Grecians homewards drewe Did well neere waste the remnant Kings that Phrigia did subdewe Thus secure Troy was ouer-set when Troy was ouer stoute And ouer rich was ouer-runne and tardie lookt about The Greekish Ships with Phrigian Spoyles through Xant and Simoes roe For now Antenor had betrayde Palladium to the foe And with Palladium Priamus Aeneas sought to hide From Pyrrhus Polyxena she for whom Achilles dyde Wherefore vpon Achilles Tombe her selfe was after slayne What tyme old Hecuba discryde yong Polydor his bayne For which Aeneas banished did hoyst his sayles to winde And after many perils rule in Italie did finde AENeas dead Ascanius raign'd Ascanius dead his brother Posthumus Syluius did succeede Lauinia was his mother Her Syer Latinus Faunus his and Picus him begot And Saturne him From mother thus Posthumus lacked not The noblest bloud On Fathers side his petigree was thus Ioue had Dardanus and the same begot Erictheus He Troys Troys Assaracus he Capys and the same Anchises he Aeneas had of him Posthumus came And he was Father vnto Brute and thus the Brutons bring Their petigree from Iupiter of Pagane Gods the King And adde they may that Brute his Syer of Venus sonne did spring Thrise fiue degrees from Noe was Brute and fower times sixe was he From Adam and from Iaphets house doth fetch his petigree Posthumus Syluius perishing in Chace amongst the brakes Mistooke for Game by Brute his Sonne Brute Italie forsakes And to associate his Exile a many Troyans mo At all aduentures put to Seas vncertein where to go To whom did Fortune Fortune-like become a friend and foe Till Brute with no lesse payne and praise then had his Grandsier late Achiued Latium landâ—ng here suppressed so the state Of all the Fiend-breed Albinests huge Gyants fearce and strong Or race of Albion Neptuns Sonne els some deriue them wrong That of this Isle vn-Scotted yet he Empire had ere long THE THIRD BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XIIII NOw of the Conquerour this Isle had Brutaine vnto name And with his Troians Brute began manurage of the same For rased Troy to reare a Troy fit place hee searched then And viewes the mounting Northerne partes These fit quoth he for men That trust asmuch to flight as fight our Bulwarks are our brests The next Arriuals heere perchaunce will gladlier build their nests A Troians courage is to him a Fortres of defence And leauing so wheare Scottes be now he South-ward maketh thence Whereas the earth more plentie gaue and ayre more temprature And nothing wanted that by wealth or pleasure might allure And more the
thus she spake amidst the silent throng My state and sex not hand or heart most valiant friends with-hild Me wretched Cause of your repaire by wicked Romans I ld From that reuenge which I do wish and ye haue cause to worke In which suppose not Voâ—da in female feares to lurke For Loe my selfe vnlike my selfe and these same Ladies faire In Armor not to shrinke an ynch wheare hottest doings are Euen we do dare to bid the Base and you your selues shall see Your selues to come behind in Armes the Romaines too that bee Such Conquerors and valiantly can womankind oppresse Shall know that Brittish women can the Romish wrongs redresse Then Arme ye with like courages as Ladies shall present Whom ye nor wounds nor death the praise of Onset shall preuent Nor enuie that our Martiall rage exceeds your manly ire For by how much more we endure so much more we desire Reuenge on those in whose default we are vnhallowed thus Whilst they forget themselues for men or to be borne of vs. Ye yeeld them Tribute and from vs their Legions haue their pay Thus were too much but more then thus the haughtie Tirants sway That I am Queene from being wrong'd doth nothing me protect Their Rapes against my daughters both I also might obiect They maydes deflower they wiues enforce and vse their wils in all And yeat wee liue deferring fight inferring so our fall But valiant Brutons ventrous Scots and warlike Pichts I erre Exhorting whom I should dehort your fiearcenes to deferre Lesse courage more considerate would make your foes to quake My heart hath ioy'd to see your hands the Romaine Standards take But when as force and Fortune faild that you with teeth should fight And in the faces of their Foes your women in despight Should fling their sucking Babes I hild such valiantnes but vaine Inforced flight is no disgrace such Flyers fight againe Here are ye Scots that with the King my valiant brother dead The Latines wondring at your prowes through Rome in triumph lead Ye Mars-stard Pichtes of Scythian breed are here Colleagues more Ye Dardane Brutes last named but in valour meant before Iâ— your conduct most knightly friends I superseade the rest Ye come to fight and we in fight to hope and helpe our best Scarce did this braue Bellona end when as the Battailes ioyne And life and death was bought sould with courage not with coine Aboue the rest the Queen of Brutes through blood did cut her way Sixe thousand Ladies Lyons-like exployting like Afray Till Cattus with his Romaine Armes subdewed fled away Of Romains seuentie thousand died of Brutons then were slaine Twise fifteene thousand and the rest their ceased freedome gaine When valiant Plancius President in Gallia heard such newes He waffes an Armie out of Fraunce and Voada pursues The Albinesâ—s to aid the Queene assemble at her call And then began a second Warre nor was the slaughter small The Brutons barring flight had clos'd themselues with waines about In which the awles women stood suruaying who was stout Controuling Cowards and among did fill the aire with dinne But valiant though the Brutones were the day the Romaines winne In vaine the furious women then on Sonnes and Husbands call Themselues with Sonnes and Husbands did by aduerse weapons fall Queene Voada past helpe and hope betooke her selfe to flight Till looking backe vnfollowed then and hauing in her fight The senseles Tronkes of slaughtred friends shee leaning on her Lance Did power forth teares and grew at length impacient of the chance And said my selfe my trustie friends wil with my dearest blood Keepe Obite to your happie Ghostes that for your Countries good Be as you be and I will be no Romaine sword shall boast Of my dispatch So on her Lance she yeelded vp the Ghoste Her Daughter then for to reuenge her friends vpon her foes Assisted by the vanquished against the Victors roes And slaughtring through the Romaine Tentes the braue Virago goes Till Plancius euer prouident of perils brought supplies What time Vodicia vrging wounds with constant courage dies SVch busines hanging Lucius here the first baptized King Died issulesse and for the Crowne did long contention spring At length Constantius Caesar for the Brutons yeelded so Did Helin Colis daughter wed Of her doe praises go For finding of the holie Crosse and for deuotion rare From these proceeded Constantine the most vndoubted heire Both to the Romaine Monarchie and this his Parents Reame He turn'd the Empires ebbing pompe into her flowing streame And was a Prince Religious yeat with reuerence be it said If lesse religious then not he the Empire had decaide By largesse to a pompeous Priest Apostolique ere then But now intruding euen on God insulting ouer men Nor sparest thou his natiue Realme that seazed thee of Rome Admit his franknesse were a fault as is their common doome That say he made a Paule a Saule that made a Priest a Prince And in that grace the Empires grace disgraced euer since Find thou no fault with such a fault wherby he fitted thee But if thou wilt vngrateful prooue vngracious cease to be A Traytors Tutor is a. K. nor force we such a. T. Let such a Prelate blesse or banne with Candle Booke and Bell He cannot raise himselfe to heauen nor rid a knaue from hell Vaine are his Bulles engendring Calues sent hither from his Stals To feede mad Sots the Foule that by his name the Sendor cals Nor thinke he dreamed this in vaine that dreamed thus of late One seemed to haue passed Stix and entring Plutos gate Saw Hecat new canonized the Sourantisse of hell And Pluto bad it holliday for all which theare did dwell Sterne Minos and grimme Radimant descend their duskie roomes The Docke was also cleare of Ghosts adiorn'd to after-doomes The Furies and the deadly Sinnes with their inuectiue Scroles Depart the Barre the Feends rake vp their euer-burning Coles The Elues and Fairies taking fists did hop a merrie Round And Cerberus had lap enough and Charon leasure found The airy Sprights the walking Flames and Goblins great and small Had theare good cheere and company and sport the diuell and all To Tantalus the shrinking flood nor starting fruit were such Nor Titius his bowels did the hungrie Vultur touch Vpon his Stone sat Cisaphus Ixeon on his Wheele The Belides vpon their Tubs no wonted toile they feele Till in this anticke Festiuall these last recited fiue Of dignities for dueties theare they earnestly did striue And then the quarrell grew so hot that hell was hell againe And flocking Ghosts did seuerally their Fauctors part maintaine With Cisaphus tooke part the Ghosts of minds that did aspire And by ambitious climing fell desarts vnlike desire With Tantalus hild starued Ghosts whose pleasure was their paine Whose euer Hords had neuer vse and gettings had no gaine To Besides assisted Soules of Vnthrifts whose supplies Did passe from them as Sea through Cieues whose wastes no wealthes suffise
I might be ouer-seene He was victorious making one amongst the Worthies neene But with his pardon if I vouch his world of Kingdomes wonne I am no Poet and for lacke of pardon were vndonne His Scottish Irish Almaine French and Saxone Battelles got Yeeld fame sufficient these seeme true the rest I credite not But Bruton is my taske and to my taske I will retire Twelue times the Saxon Princes here against him did conspire And Arthur in twelue Battles great went vanquishor away Howbeit Saxon forces still amongst the Brutons stay This King to entertaine discourse and so to vnderstand What Accidents in after-times should happen in this Land He with the Brutish Prophet then of Sequelles fell in hand Of sixe long after-Kings the man not borne of humane seede Did Prophesie and many things that came to passe in deede Now Arthur chiefe of Chiualrie had set his Crowne at stay And to his Nephew Mordred did commit thereof the sway When with his Knights the wonders of the world for Martiall deeds Beyond the Scas in forren fights he luckely proceedes Till faithlesse Mordred cal'd him backe that forward went with fame For at his Vncles Diadem he traiterously did aime Twise Arthur wonne of him the field and thirdly slewe his Foe When deadly wounded he himselfe victorious died so INterred then with publique plaints and issules ensewes A drouping of the Brittish state the Saxon still subdewes Howbeit worthy Kings succeed but destiny withstood The auncient Scepter to iniure in Brutes succeeding blood Vnlou'd Careticus was he that lost the Goale at length Whenceforth in vaine to win their losse the Brutons vse their streÌ„gth Yea God that as it pleaseth him doth place or dispossesse When foes nor foiles nor any force their courage might suppresse Seem'd partiall in the Saxon Cause and with a Plague did crosse The Brutons that had els at least rebated from their losse For Cadwane and Cadwallyn and Cadwallader the last But not the least for valorous of Brittish Princes past Brought out of VVales such knightly wars as made their foes agast The Plague worse spoyler then the Wars left Cambre almost waste Which to auoid the remnant Brutes into their Ships did haste Cadwallader in leauing thus his natiue Shore he fixt His eyes from whence his bodie should and with his sighes he mixt His royall teares which giuing place he speaketh thus betwixt Sweet Brutaine for I yet must vse that sweet and ceasing name Adew thy King bids thee adew whose flight no weapons frame But God coÌ„maunds his wrath commandes al counter-maund is vaine Els for thy loue to die in thee were life to thy Remaine Thus tymes haue turnes thus Fortune still is flying to and fro What was not is what is shall cease some come and others goe So Brutaine thou of Nation and of name endurest change Now balking vs whome thou hast bread and brooking people strange Yeat if I shoot not past mine aime a world of time from me Part of our blood in highest pompe shall Englands glorie be And chieflie when vnto a first succeeds a second She. But leauing speeches ominous Cadwallader is woe That seeing death determines griefe he dies not on his foe Ah Fortune fayleth mightie ones and meaner doth aduance The mightiest Empier Rome hath change then Brutaine brooke thy chance Let it suffice thou wert before and after Rome in fame And to indure what God intends were sinne to count a shame Nor vaunt ye Saxons of our flight but if ye needs will vaunt Then vaunt of this that God displac'd whom you could neuer daunt This said the teares coÌ„trould his tong sailes wrought land froÌ„ sight When saue a Remnant small the Isle was rid of Brutons quight THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XX. THe Brutons thus departed hence Seauen Kingdomes here begonne Where diuerslie in diuers broyles the Saxons lost and wonne King Edel and King Adelbright in Diria iointly raigne In loyall concorde during life these Kingly friends remaine When A delbright should leaue his life to Edel thus he sayes By those same bondes of happie loue that held vs friends alwaies By our by-parted Crowne of which the Moyetie is mine By God to whome my soule must passe and so in time may thine I pray thee nay I coniure thee to nourish as thine owne Thy Neece my Daughter Argentile till she to age be growne And then as thou receiuest it resigne to her my Throne A promise had for this Bequest the Testator he dies But all that Edel vndertooke he afterward denies Yeat well he fosters for a time the Damsiell that was growne The fairest Lady vnder Heauen whose beautie being knowne A many Princes seeke her loue but none might her obtaine For grippell â—del to himselfe her Kingdome sought to gaine And for that cause from sight of such he did his Ward restraine By chance one Curan Sonne vnto a Prince in Danske did see The Maid with whom he fell in loue as much as one might bee Vnhappie Youth what should he doe his Saint was kept in Mewe Nor he nor any Noble-man admitted to her vewe One while in Melancholy fits he pines himselfe away Anon he thought by force of Armes to win her if he may And still against the Kings restraint did secretly inuay At length the high Controller Loue whom none may disobay Imbased him from Lordlines vnto a Kitchin Drudge That so at least of life or death she might become his Iudge Accesse so had to see and speake he did his loue bewray And tells his bearth her answer was she husbandles would stay Meane while the King did beat his braines his booty to atchieue Nor caring what became of her so he by her might thriue At last his resolution was some Pessant should her wiue And which was working to his wish he did obserue with ioye How Curan whom he thought a drudge scapt many an amorous toy The King perceiuing such his vaine promotes his Vassall still Least that the baseuesse of the man should let perhaps his will Assured therefore of his loue but not suspecting who The Louer was the King himselfe in his behalfe did wowe The Lady resolute from Loue vnkindly takes that he Should barre the Noble and vnto so base a Match agree And therefore shifting out of doores departed thence by stealth Preferring pouertie before a dangerous life in wealth When Curan heard of her escape the anguish in his hart Was more then much and after her from Court he did depart Forgetfull of himselfe his bearth his Country friends and all And onely minding whom he mist the Foundresse of his thrall Nor meanes he after to frequent or Court or stately Townes But solitarily to liue amongst the Country grownes A brace of yeeres he liued thus well pleased so to liue And Shepherd-like to feede a flocke himselfe did wholly giue So wasting loue by worke and want grewe almost to the Waene But then began a second Loue the worser of the twaene A
trust no friend Not one I knewe that wisht me ill nor any workt me well To lose lacke liue time frends in yncke an hell an hell an hell Then happie we quoth Robin Hood in merry Sherwood that dwell Thus sayd the Out lawe But no more of him I list to tell Grammarian-like in order wordes significant to speake Logitian-like to reason pro and contra am I weake Rhetoricall I am not with a fluant tongue to ster Arithmatieke in numbring hath substracted me from her Geometrie her Plattes Bownes and Proportions passe my strayne Not Musick with her Concords or her Discords breakes my braine Nor yeat Astronomie whose Globes doth Heauen and earth containe Let faire Mnemosine her broode their thrise three selues explaine Expect not here Anatomies of Lands Seas Hell and Skyes Such length bredth depth height I balke nor would I be so wise Least knowing all thing els I should not knowe my selfe precise The Skyes containe the fierie Lights Clowdes moysture the ayre Windes Birds Vapors men Beasts the vpper Earth doth beare Her Bowels Wormes and Mettals Seas to Fishes properare Whom this Astrologie and this Cosmographie mislike Beneath the Earth beyond the Moone further then farre must seeke Signes workings Planets Iunctures and the eleuated Ponle With thousand toyes and tearmes wherein our curious Artists roule Be strangers to my Cell yeat loe as sound a minde and heart As theirs that calculate their times eate sleepe and wake by arte What was the world before the world or God ere he was God Why this he did or doth not that his bidden or forbod I dare not thinke or arrogate such Misteries deuine Faith with her Fruites significant suffice these wittes of mine To loue God and our neighouer as our selfe is all in fine One Law and Gospell was and is and eithers drist is thus To shewe vs how the law doth kill and Gospell quicken vs Which Corasiue ahd Lenatiue of Simples made compound Doe rather cure he kindly heales that alsh feeles his wonnd This is my rest if more I knewe I should but know too much Or build in my eonceited brayne too high aboue my touch Or else against the hare in all proue toyous euen such As be too many blockish Clerkes and bookish Clownes extaceme In all things saue in honesty that haue no zeale but seeme As for the Court it is you knowe become a skittish Coult Of wise men hardlier mannaged than of the glorious doult Vice rides on horse backe vertue doth from out the saddell boult Theare all deformities in forme in some one man wee see More garded than regarded franke not to continue free When as the Marchants booke the Map of al his wealth shal be The Muses bacely begge or bibbe or both and must for why They finde as bad Bestoe as is their Portage beggerly Yea now by melancholie walkes and thred bare coates we gesse At Clyents and at Poetes none worke more and profite lesse None make too more vnmade of more the good of other men For those inrich our Gownests these eternize with their pen. Yeat soothly nodds to Poets now weare largisse and but lost Since for the nodant they obserue no pen-note worth the cost For pallace Hermites liue secure obscure in roufes imbost Some few there be much honored well worthy of so much Once wanting wealthie then and now in either fortune such But many a bace stoute blood theare is more lordly than be Lords Who wheare himself once coucht bowde nor cap or beck affords But should we sinne God sheild wee should in smallest sinnes offend What smaller sinne then skoffe such fooles so skornefull to no end The Souldiers qaue nor pay nor pray but if I may be bolde Themselues be prayed vpon by some that doe it vncontroulde And whilst the same on shore or sâ—as be ouer set or pine Or Cuppes on Cushions full secure we victorie define We cast what may bee done but keep the helps meane time awaye And diet thriftly our friends to giue our foes a pray The Citizens like ponned Pikes the lessers feede the greate The rich for meate seeke stomackes the poore for stomackes meate And euery wheare no Gospell is more gospelled than this To him that hath is giuen from him that hath not taken is Court Citie Countrie Campe and I at ods thus euen bee I intermeddle not with them they intercept not mee For still I tether thence mine eyes so heere my heart is free Beleeue mee Sir such is this world this crosse-blisse world of ours That Vertue hardly hides her selfe in poore and desart Bowres And such be best that seeme not best Content exceeds a Crowne They may be richer but more sweete my pennie than their powne For wrest they cark they build they sport they get they worlds together At first or last they die froÌ„ al passe they wot not whether Then comes their pelfe in plea themselues not praysed at a feather And then for so the Princes of great Alexander did Greedie of his they striue and let the dead-man stinke vnhid Or he that had a Countrie hath perhaps a Coffen now Perhaps lesse Cost a Sheete and corse perhaps his heires allow The toombe himselfe aliue had build els toombles might he lye As saue for fashion tearelesse And it matters not for why Testators and Executors so giue and so receaue As doubtfull whethers ioy or griefe is more to take or leaue For as do hogges their troughes to hounds so these giue and get place Death not the Dier giues bequests and therefore but Graue-grace Nor all die testate if they doe yet wieles may wills preuent Or what by rigor was misgot in ryote is mispent Then Churles why are they Churles vnto themselues and others too The good that commeth of their goods is good themselues shall doo But men doe walke in shadoes and disquiet themselues in vaine To gather Riches ignorant to whom they shall remaine The world thus brooding Vanities and I obseruing it Here in the world not of the world such as you see me sit The Earle did well allow his words and would haue liu'd his life Durst he haue stayd for whom pursute in euerie place was rife He reconuenting armes therefore and taken Prisner so Died to his Countries friends a friend and to her foes a foe NOr might y e Queene Kings own Son escape the SpeÌ„cers pride But fearing fled to France and there as banished abide Til thence supplanted safetie at Henaude they prouide Iohn brother to the Earle a Knight of Chiualrie the chiefe With little but a luckie band was shipte for their reliefe No sooner had the Zealand ships conuaide their men ashoare But English Succors daylie did increase their Standerds more Yeat first the Queene Prince Edward and the Nobles humbly crauc Theirs and their Countries enemies but no redresse might haue And then Sir Iohn of Henaude shewde himselfe a warrior braue The King his wicked Councellors his big
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
than needeth that we kisse as stands the cace Rid hence yonn same your knauish Page you sent him with a Mouse To spie my secretes or belike to braue me in my house Gods pretious would you knew I beare a mind lesse bace then that I can disgest your Drudge with me so saucely should chat Iacke Napes forsooth did chase because I eate my Slaue the Bat. O what a world is this that we can nothing priuate haue Vncensur'd of our Seruants though the simplest Gill or Knaue Well rid him of your seruice Nay it skils not if of life At least if so you meane that we shall loue as man and wife For such Colecarriers in an house are euer hatching strife The Cuckooe hearing this complaint flew on his trusty Page And vndiscreatly gaue him strokes that kild him in that rage Yeat eare he left his life he thus vnto his Maister sayd Thus many honest Seruants in their Masters hastie brayd Are Dog-like handled either yeat like deare in Ioues iust eyes Of Harlots and of hastines beware sayd he and dyes When now her gluttony and spight had thus dispatched twaine The Cuckooe plying amorously her fauour to obtaine Euen then and looking very bigge in came the Buszard who Did sweare that he would kill and slay I mary would he doe If any Swad besides himselfe faire Madam Owle did wowe The Cuckooe seeing him so bog waxt also wondrous wroth But thus the Owle did stint the strife Shee cals them husbands both Now fie quoth she if so you could betwixt your selues agree Yee both should haue your bellies full and it no hurt to me The Buszard faintly did consent the Cuckooe sayd Amen And so was Hen inough for Cocke not Cocke inough for Hen For she deceyues them both and had besides them other game The Gende Buszard dying soone for sorrow of the same The Cuckooe wisely saw it and did say but little to it As nooting she was set on it and knowing she would doe it But what the Swallow warned him of Harlots proued trew For as was gessed also him by trecherie she slew The Goddesse Pallas to giue end vnto these tragicke deedes Descended and the dead reuiu'd to Sentence thus proceedes The Bat because begild of Dis See pittieth partly and Permits him Twy-light flight to giue thereby to vnderstand That to aspire is lawfull if betwixt a Meane it stand The Swallow for that he was trew and slaine for saying well Shee doomb'd a ioyfull Sommers Bird in Winter time to dwell Euen with Mineruas secrete store as learned Clarkes doe tell The Buszard for he doted more and dared lesse than reason Through blind bace Loue induring wrong reuengeable in seasō She eie-blur'd and adiudged Praies the dastard'st and least geason Vnto the Cuckooe ouerkinde to brooke Coriuals she Adiudg'd a Spring-times changeles note and whilst his yong ones be By others hatcht to name and shame himselfe in euery Tree But liue quoth she vnto the Owle ashamed of the light Be wondred at of Birds by day fly filch and howle all night Haue lazie wings be euer leane in fullen corners rucke When thou art seene be thought a signe to folke of euill lucke Nor shall thine odious forme vile Witch be longer on my Shield Whence racing forth her Figure so the Goddesse left the field IVst Guerdons for Ambition for poore Soules opprest for well For dastard Dotards Wittolrie and Harlots nice you tell Said Perkens Wife But thus now of her husbands pride befell At last when sundry Armes had end Henry victorious still And Perkens passage was fore-stald he yeelds of his owne will Himselfe from Churches Priuiledge to Henries Mercy who Did onely limitte his abode and lesse he could not doe But when he sought escapes he then had petite punishment And after for some new attempts to Tower was he sent Whence practising escape t' was sayd he won to his intent Young Edward Earle of Warwicke that indeed was Clarenes son And euer had been Prisner theare eare Henries raigne begon And now by law too strickt me seemes for this to death was don Perken was hang'd and hang may such but that the Earle should die Some thought hard law saue that it stood with present pollicie Sir VVilliam Stanley dide for this oft King-law is doe thus Deseruing better of the King but what is that to vs The last of our three Phaetons was tuter'd of a Fryer Who being fitted now by Art and nature to aspier The foresaid name of VVarwicke fain'd seduced folke thereby As I my selfe in Essex heard and saw a Traitor dye That fain'd himselfe sixt Edward and to grace-out such his lye Lookes bodie words and gesture seem'd heroycall to view He had like age like markes and all that might inforce it trew Whereby to him assisting minds of simple Folke he drew Our Cowle-mans foresayd Actor so preuailed that the Fryer In Pulpets durst affirme him King and Aydes for him requier But lastly both were taken both did fault in one same ill Yeat rope-law had the Youth the Frier liu'd Clergie-knaued still VVHen Armour ended Auarice began for then begins The slye Mercuriles◠and more by wyles then valour wins Beneuolences Taxes and sore Fines for penall lawes To Henry hoords from Henry hearts of many a Subiect drawes Empson Dudly fur'd Esquiers more harmefull being gown'd To Englands friends than Englands foes through Auarice profound In such exacting chiefly Act applaused of the King To whom their ciuill Thefts not Thrifts exceeding wealth did bring Yeat whē the gracious King found out their tacking Rich Poore He then did pardon much and much did purpose to restore But dying those two Harpies lost their hated heads therefore So hardly fauoured of Kings themselues in bownes containe That they securely stout at length doe perish through disdaine So hardly too some Princes are from priuate Lucar wonne As though their bags ore-flow they think no harme abroad vndone Henry acquite his latter dayes of Auarice fore named Deceast for Prowesse Policie and Iustice highly famed THE EIGHT BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XXXIV EIGHT Henry heire indubitate of Yorke and Lancaster Succeeded and with Kingly rites his Father did interr His mind his words his lookes his gaet his lynaments and Stature Weare such for Maiesties as shew'd a King compos'd by Nature All Subiects now of ciuill strife all counter-minds for Raigne All enuious of his Empier now weare rid weare pleas'd or slaine Rich weare his sundrie Tryumphs but his cost had foyzen than When Terwin and strong Turnay in resisting France he wan When Maximilian Emperour did vnder Henry fight When English Ships did often put the French Sea-powre to flight And that the French King was inforc'st to craue and buy his peace Who wiuing louely Mary so the warres for then did cease This sister to our King and then the French Kings goodly Queene Was welcommed with Tryumphs such as erst in France vnseene Iustes Barriers Tylts Turneyes were proclaymed
Faith Faiths fruites selfe-aptly shonne When such a faith is but the faith of that faith-fruitles Deuill That cited Scripture vnto Christ applying good to euill Tell whether that the Leuite or Samaritane did better Tell wherein Diues liu'd and dide to Lazarus a Debter Vnknot sententious Salomon his Parable which is Full Cloudes will rayne vpon the Earth How thus is meant by this Rich meÌ„ by Cloudes poore men by Earth els Clerks expound amis Tell how some Cloudes but misell Rayne that is if so they giue A peny Almes or twaine a yeare they thinke they much releeue Som Clouds flash down their Shewres that is som set vp two or three And begger so themselues and theirs say such are foolish free Some Clouds hayle downe their Raine beate flat hurt helpe not y e ground That is vpbraid whoÌ„ they releeue hold theÌ„ seruile bound Some Cloudes giue Snow that lights and lies a moysture moystles so Doe those that say alas God helpe and nothing els bestoe Some Cloudes doe shewre into the Seas say such do giue to such Whom Almes make idle or belike to recompence as much Som Clouds with lightning thunder lowd winds drip down their raine That is giue sildom almes those proclam'd seene ere â—ayne Some Clouds retayne but forme of clouds with figure black as Coale That is looke bigge Examine long but Scriptum est their doale Some gracious Clouds shed temprate Shewres on thirstie earth indeed That is the Orphant Widow Thrall succour protect and feed Say also whatsoere wee giue to whosoere it bee Though giuen in sight of men if not because that men should see But with Deuotion as a worke from Faith that cannot seuer God for such cheerfull Almes wil be our bounteous Almner euer Say make not as it weare a Quest of quere ere Yee giue But giue yee Almes as men be poore not as poore men to liue Prouided common Beggers nor disordered Lossels who Men know prouided for or can but labour none will doe Than whom doe say for so is sooth no Creatures worse desatue Take you no Orators for them but that they hang or statue And thus for this Our Ouerture to it reduceth mee The Vncles ofthis Orphant King so long as they agree Vphild Religion King themselues and Realme in happie state Which then began to ruinate when they begun debate CHAP. XL. SOme say their falling out was through two haughtie womens strife The Admiralls Queene Bigama Lord Protectors wife These for what glorie enuies not one woman in an other Began a brawle that ended in the blood of either Brother T is thought the Earle of VVarwick threw close fewell to this fire And nourisht it to cut off them that so he might aspire For when the one had lost his head he forthwith tooke in hand To forge the Lord Protector false vnto the King and Land Who though he tryed by his Peeres of treason was acquited Yeat also of a Statute new he being then indighted Was hardly found a Felon and too stricktly sentenc'st so For meanest fault is high offence vrg'd of a mightie Foe The King thus lost his Vncles both to his no little woe Now VVarwick was become a Duke feared of high and lowe Full little thinking that himselfe the next to Blocke should goe The two Prince-loyall Semers erst made let vnto his lust But now remayned none whose faith or force he did mistrust The Orphant King fell sicke but here suspend what some suspect The new Duke of Northumberland meane while did all direct It was contriu'd King Edward from his Sisters gaue the Crowne Their Fathers Former Act and Will by wrested law put downe The Sisters Daughters Daughter of Eight Henry Ladie Iane Was publisht heire apparant and that right from Mary tane And from Elizabeth though both collatrally preceed her And when by ful Confedracie the Crowne-right was decreed her And Gylford Dudly fourth-borne Sonne vnto Northumberland Had married her and nothing seem'd the Plot-forme to withstand King Edward entred seauenteene yeares of age seauen of Raigne Departed to that endles rest his vertuous life did gaine The Councel then conuent But who wil think perhaps that one Should alter All to alter true Discents vnto a Throne â—ane Suffolks Daughter Gylfords wife One worthie such estate For righteous and religious life who nerethelesse should wate Her Intrest after others Two The younger of which twaine Did match yea Mate her vertues was proclamed Queene to raigne And in the tower of London hild Estate and princely Traine Meane while fled Mary doubting lesse her Scepters losse than life But sildome fayles a rightfull cause that comes to open strife The Commons knew our either Law prefer'd a Sisters Right Before a Cosens and fot it did many fadge to fight Northumberland with Armes pursu'd the Ladie Mary and Obseru'd directions from the Peeres who when they vnderstand Of Maries strength of flocking Friends on sudden came to pas That they proclamed Mary Queene and Iane her Prisner was And well was he that late did seeme a Foe might first salute The Queene and all vnto the Duke did their Amis impute For soothly more the Peeres did feare than fauour alway Who though he seem'd as forward now in Maries cause as thay Yeat was he taken and in-towr'd and lost his head for this A Warrior braue But than his Sier himselfe one Sonne of his Like rare Politians seldome liu'de who in three seuerall Raignes Successiuely did shew them such though losse did proue their gaines THe Duke thus dead Suffolke Lord Gray Lord Gylford Lady Iane Weare executed But we blanch the rest excepting twaine That is Lord Gylford and his wife yong and lesse worthy blame Because the Dukes their Fathers all the Councell all of name Yea and King Edwards Pattents seald for them not they did frame What so was done in this yeat they must perish for the same Who higher then this Couple late and who more wretched now Of more then much remayned nought nor law did life allow Vnhappie Youths not for they die but for the mutuall greefe Of him for her of her for him which tortur'd them in cheefe Come was the day the tragicke day wherein they both should die When Either passing to their end ech other did espie Shee in her lodging waiting death prepared her that day And he in being lead thereto he Lodging in his way Assending and dissending Signes then fly and fall apace And each bemones the other more than mindes their priuate cace Their Eâ—es that looked Loue ere while now looke their last adew And staine their faces faultles ere this dismall enter-vew Their Eares earst listning ioies are deafe vnles to sighes profound Their tongs earst talking ioies those looks sighes did now coÌ„found What parts soere of them had felt or tasted ioyes ere this Wheare senceles now of any ioy saue hope of heauenly blis Whilst Either thus for Earthly Pompe no longer time did looke He passeth
lingring Torments who Fault to their Inquisition oâ— their Damned Rytes must doe Then better Bodies perish than should soules miscarrie too Of neither which hath Rome or Spaine remorse but thristing Sway Regard not whome by whom or how they treacherously berray How oft haue they the rest ore past subborn'd our Queenes decay By wars wiles witchcrafts daggers dags Pope poyson what not To her haue they attempted death for liewe the Traytors lot Vouchsafe O God those loues of thine be neuermore forgot Was neuer any thryued yet that threatned her amis For of anoynted Princes God sole Iudge and Rector is And if Examples might preuaile then Traytors might perceaue They perish in their purpose or but Spyders webbes doe weaue And heere occasion apteth that we catalogue awhile And vnto English Dukes from first to last addresse our Style Though numbers greater as great of power did pryde begyle Yeat in this one degree obserue what headding and exile Yf then such Mighties felt Gods frowne shal Meaners hope his smile CHAP. XLV EDward surnam'd the blacke Prince and third Edwards eldest sonne Third Thomas Duke of Norffolke This did ende and That begonne From Normaine VVilliams Conqueste heere of Dukes the Title hie Of fortie seuen but twentie two a naturall death did die Edward y e Duke of Yorke that lead fifth Henries Vaward Knightly Then slaine at Agencourt with fame we ouerpasse him lightly Nor Humfrey Duke of Glocester heere catalogue we rightly Nor VVilliam Duke of Suffolke who exilde on seas was met And hated headded howbeit sixt Henries Fauoret Nor Edmund Duke of Somerset that Henries loued Peere Nor Humfrey Duke of Buckingham to that same King as deere Nor sweet yong Richard Duke of Yorke of Glosters kyn too neere We also two Plantagenets both Dukes of Clarence cleere Of which was Thomas slaine in France George drownd in Malmsie heere For though these Eight remembred Dukes deceast not in their beads Yeat none of these had traytrous hearts that forfetted their heads Howbeit otherwise of these weare some that erred so That stomack't for such Errors did their ends vntimely groe Nor was the Duke of Ireland Vere in second Richards time A Traytor but a Parasite which proude no lesse a crime He as ambitious as he was enuious and enuied Was banisht by the Nobles and in banishment he died Mowbreie of Norffolke right or wrong by foresaid Richard was Exiled and in Italie did hence to nature pas When second Richard was deposde and Henrie wore the Crowne Two Hollands to restore the one and put the other downe Conspiring weare detected and at Cercester they both Of Excester and Surrey Dukes found death in Vulgar wroth Richard Plantagenet the Duke of Yorke fourth Edwards father Sought to depose fixt Henrie and was heard therein the rather For that to him by law-Descents the Scepter did acrew But they compound howbeit warres were reard and him they slew Iohn Holland Duke of Excester fourth Edwards sentence fleade And was long after in the sea suspuicusly found dead Then Henry Duke of Somerset rebelling lost his heade Of Edmund Duke of Somerset the like is also reade So Henrie Duke of Buckingham third Richards friend-foe speade And that tyrannous Richard Duke of Glocester his Raigne Vsurped was suppressed he for blood payd blood againe Iohn Duke of Norffolk fought and fell at Bosworth field His sonne Duke Thomas in Eight Henries daies did heading hardly shonne Adiudg'd perpetuall Durance in Queene Maries raigne vn-donne VVolsey that slye officious and too Lordly Cardnall wrought Who could would effect his wil that to the blocke was brought Eight Henrie raigning Edward Duke of Buckingham whose end That Prelate ioyde the people moend because his foe their friend Seimer the Duke of Somerset enuied more than reason By one that came the next to Blocke though mightie at that season Sixt Edward in Minoritie dide quit although of treason No sooner Marie got the crowne more liklie to be gon But Iohn Duke of Northumberland beheaded was anone Who wrought to set the Diedeme Iane Dudlies heade vpon Her Father Henrie Gray the Duke of Suffolke was also A friend vnto that Faction the Spanish Wowers foe But by that act he lost his heade as did too many moe In blessed Queene Elizabeth her happie Raigne of peace The Tragedies and Tytles too of English Dukes did cease Which Thomas Duke of Norffolke laste Tragedian did increase All theis weare mightie in their times yeat being Male-contents Both they and hundreds powerfull Peeres for like found like Euents Howbeit of the common wealth none worser did desarue Than such as flattred Princes faults who faulting all did swarue Which in their Pollicie the States of Hell did then fore-see When as they ioyned others Aydes vnto the Furies three Narcissus Shadowe and the Voice of Eccho than which twaine How fabulous so-ere it seeme nought hath or more doth baine Wherefore to such as know them not we either thus explaine CHAP. XLVI WHeare Cadmus old Agenors sonne did reste and plant his Raigne Narcissus of his Of spring theare for beautie fame did gaine His Mother was Lyriope faire Thetis fairer Daughter Whome cheefest as the choisest wowde and braue Cephisus caught her Boeotia was the fertile Realme Parnassus Plaine the place Whear this admired Youth was borne this Lass-Lad forme and face No Nymph so faire but wisht him hers howbeit all in vayne His selfe-loue wrought his selfe-losse his beauty prou'd his baine Who proud of Natures plentie hild all others in disdaine Till God who had created Man the fairest Creature Howbeit but a shadow of his proper Feature More differing far than Sun-shine froÌ„ the Suns selfe-substance pure Narcissus ouer-scornfull pride not longer would indure But froÌ„ his forme that pleas'd him most his plague did thus procure As this same fond selfe-pleasing Youth stood at a Fountaynes brym And proudly sees his shadow theare admiring euery lym Eccho an amiable Nymph long amorous of hym But louing vnbeloued now at least to please her Eye Conuaies her selfe vnseene into a Thicket ioyning by And thear as much ore-gone with loue as he ore-gone with pride She hears and sees and would haue pleas'd three Senses more beside And nothing more than euery part thus stealth-seene liked her And nothing lesse than hidden with vnhidden to conferre For well it had contented then in more then sight to erre Although not meanely did his scorne gainst it her stomacke sterre Meane while the Lad such power hath pride mens Senses to subdue Doats on his Shadow now suppos'd to be a Substance tâ—ue And lastly wowes so formally in words and gestures sweete That Eccho found his error and he saying Let vs meete Let 's meete quoth Eccho mockingly which hearing he with speed Beleeuing that his shadow was a Nymph and spake in deed Did leape into the Fountaine whear that Gallant drowning thus Hath left example how like pride may cause like plague to vs. How smooth-tongu'd Eccho that for him
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
in that Climate Frozen dead shut vp with isie Driftes Thus died he and all with him if so to die be death But no saith Heauen no saith their Fame suruiuing them on Earth Then Chancelor his onely Ship remayning of that Fleete For Fynmarke at the VVardhouse sayles with his Conforts to meete There day it is two months of length and Mal-strands Poole it makes Such hidious rore deuouring floods that tenne miles distance shakes Wheare frustrate of his Friends in quest with courage not deiect He for the Course preposed did his ventrous Sayles direct KIng Arthur Malgo Edgar once to haue subdewd are saide Orkney Gotland Island and those former in that Traide Gronland VVireland Curland and colde Scrikfyn them obayde Newland with others and those Isles wheare men saue Eyes alone Are hid in hides of Beasts and Beasts saue Fish haue Fothernone Now Chancelor ariuing mong'st the Laplandeâ—s at last They seeing vncouth Men and Shippes weare wondringly agaste For eare that day was heard no Shippe that churlish Pole had past The Lapland Bay wheare he ariu'd now cald Saint Nicholas Bay Though Russiah fifteene hundreth Miles from Mosco is away Theare Winterd he at Newnox till safe-Conduct being sent Thence to their King on swift-drawne Sleads through frozen waies he went Not like Sarmatian Scithians for the Moscouites be so He found them plaine but rather much in Pompe to ouer-floe They neuer in the Russian Courte till then did English see His intertainment therefore was as stately as might be In sundrie Roomes weare hundreds seene in Gold and Tyssue clad A Maiestie Augustus-like their King inthroned had Let passe what paste in speech betwixt our Pilot and their King Full well could Chancelor demeane himselfe in euery thing Let passe how in Basilius Court most royally he fead Suffise it that our Agent of his arrant thither spead That is that Ours might trade with theÌ„ of which large leaue is read More not vnworthie note here of our purpose is to say But this be first of Mandeuil remembred by the way CHAP. LXIV WE left him form'd a Trauelet braue Pilgrim Knight farewell And Elenor sweete Soule in Loue with whom she could not tell He trauels for to leaue his Loue not caring where he lose it She for her Loue to finde it skils not whom so him that Oose it The greene-Knight be whoso he shall her heart had branded hers Wheare is that Second She that Loue for Vertue so prefers Her onely speede howso he shall his heart had branded his Wheare liues that second He that so by louing betterd is T' is often seene Loue works in Man a weake deiected minde T' is euer seene a Womans Loue doth alter as the winde Example then be Mandeuil for Men not to be idle In Amorous Passions Labor is to loue at least a Bridle Example too be Elenor But let vs say no more For Women euer alter saith the Gospell preach't before Conclude we then when Elenor and Mandeuil did die The Method of true louing did with them to Heauen flie For euer since too feruent in their Loue are Men for most But Iris-like in Womens Hearts Loue too and fro doth poste One Stafford of a Noble House a Courtiour of good hauor A friend and fast to Mandeuil and in the Prince his Fauor From Gyprus from his Friend receiu'd two Letters one was his The other sent to Elenor and that purported this Of you receiued I a Ring a Token to your Minde If so I met it and it is my fortune it so finde For if the Heart may as it might for Minde be vnderstood My Heart is yours your Ring so mine Harts interchang'd were good More did I feare than euer in your Ladiship I found Disdainefull Lookes froÌ„ those faire Eyes that me with loue did wouÌ„d Now speake I Loue far from those Lookes so forceable to kill Howbeit that I loue is not to worke or wish you ill Not more than this though Princes Frownes beare death with them feard I For had you lou'd the King mislikt what had I for'st to die Wheare I haue been were blasphemie from Women to detract Great store of Beauties haue I seene but none as yours exact Courts also more than stately with faire Ladies in the same Which seemed common Formes to me remembring but your name When in the Holly-land I prayd euen at the holy Graue Forgiue me God a sigh for sinne and three for Loue I gaue Against the fearce Arabâ—ans I the Soldans Pay did take When oft at Oâ—set for Saint George Saint Elenor I spake The Amazones those lustie Girles beleeue me lik't me Well But nothing in the best of them but doth in you excell I look't vpon the sterile Lake where Heauen-fir'd Sodom was For one thought I here such as you not so had come to pas Most sweete and Soueraigne Balsamum in Indian Fields I saw More soueraign sweeter SeÌ„ts thought I my lips froÌ„ yours could draw Nere Aethiop when the spice-sweete Well of youth I saw I saide My Lady lacketh not hereof Perfection needs not Ayde I sawe nor wonder you I should who sees you sees as much The onely Phoenix Foule and Faier but it and you none such But flying thus about your Blaze your Gnat doth burne his wings To my despairing Passion more your praised Bewtie brings Not Trauell tiers my Loue a whit but Loue doth tire on me Which should I wish me better or you baser of degree Be still the same you are let me exile my selfe for euer Two diffidenses I conceit will let me hope you neuer The first my selfe vnworthy you the latter and the least The Kings Consent But well I wot Loue is a Lordly Feast Aguize so should you so and so despayre is part releast One comfort is before you doome is Execution done My voluntary Banishment already is begon Which if you neuer shall repeale shall neuer end or when Ah can I hope it should you not for vs is England then Nor is it but our minds that make our natiue Homes our Graue As we to Ours Others to theirs like parciall Fancie haue Transmute we but our Mindes and then all one an Alien is As if a Natiue One resolu'd makes euery Country his Your Answer that by Pen our speech to this return'd shall be Voutsafe it vnto Stafford for an Other-I is he In perfect Friendship no suspect for two are one in all Communitie or doubling ioy or making griefe more small But would you to an Vnitie of hearts twixt vs incline Wheare Friendship is angelicall our Loue should proue diuine More write I not blest may you liue teares ouertake this Line When Stafford present Elenor this Letter had perus'de She said as else-where shall ensew Now is in vs infus'de Fresh matter of Discoueries How Chancelor he speade Is said before of Russia thus remaineth to be reade CHAP. LXV AVaste and spatious Empier is Moscouie in the same Bee Riuers Tanais Volga and Boristhenes of fame With
fully found Yeat still to gratefull Eares may those Negotiators sound To wit although an Alien good Pinteado abus'd By moodie VVindam Guinte first and Benyn these perus'd Next Gainsh then Towrson diuers times and theare my Father dide Since rife that Voyage Brasile and to Cape-verd Isles beside Gold â—iuet muske graines pepper woad iuory thence be brought In Barbarie old Mauritaine like Trade this raigne hath wrought Of Affrick and America by Ours no part vnsought In Tewriâ— Sirta Aegypt Greece the Turks whole Empier now Our Queene is gratious our Commerce and Agents they allow Of World-admired Drake for of his Worth what argues more ThaÌ„ fame enuide Some for was his so rich thought theirs too poore And his braue Breeder Hawkins yeat be honord euery Pen That howsoeuer honor them as high resolued Men In Fiction or in Mysterie to reade would lesse delight Than would significantly some their glorious Ior 〈…〉 es wright The paines of such inuited Pens such subiect would requite Adde Gilbert Greenuill Frobisher of Knights to make vp fiue All in their better Parts with God with Men their Fames aliue Adde â—hilton Oxnam Fenton VVard Dauis an other Drake With diuers here not catalog'd and for a Cheefest take All actions Candish and of these eternall Pen-worke make And for a gowned Cicero and one that did not liue But to his Prince and Countrie Lawdes to VVaisingham doe giue The 〈…〉 ds and Aeâ—eados for Text and Truth might yeeld Vnto that learned Muse that should manure that plentious Field Was neuer Prince imployed Peace with praise to profit more Or Râ—alme could in the Raigne of one boast worthy Men like store Out Foes can also witnes her armipotent in few ReligioÌ„ Vertue Wealth Peace War her Throne with same indue And here mine altred Muse this Theame surceaseth to pursue Of These East Indian Goa South South-east People moe And of their memorable Names those Toyles did vnder-goe Is one elaborated Pen compendicusly doth floe Omitted then and named Men and Lands not here indeede So written of as they deserue at large in Hakluit reede To him and who deserues like-well of England both as Any Haue wrote of England Camden and to English Poets Many Of which are some praise-worthy though that towre their Wits too hie To make a Pitch for Loue wheÌ„ they at fairer Fowles might flie Now vaile I Bonnet Rest thee Muse abrode what need we rome Our seauenteene Kingdomes once now One yeeld Work enough at Home All which her Highnes owneth now as shall anon be saide But of our English Louers first be this Addition made CHAP. LXXII NOw at Constantinople once Byzantium in old Thrace Had Mandeuil to Stafford wrote should be his Wintring Place Next Summer would hee bee at Rome That Stafford should direct For either Place his Letters which he longing did expect So Sâ—efford had to Elenor the same informed who And Dorcas euermore their Loues did argue fro and too They may quoth Dorcas make more nice but few or none I troe That labour not of our disease and why I pray you noe To be with God what good more good For it we all should aske But for by death it must be done but few affect the Taske Virginitie though praised is alike perform'd for why As much the Flesh is fraile therein as in the feare to dye What was it sayd to all but vs Increase and Multiply No Clarke will so expound that Text God shield they should say I. All yeeld that Marrage is no sinne if chastly then we liue And Man and wife their Bodies each to other wholly giue If so as so is granted what needs curious strugling then Since God and Nature formed Men for vs and vs for Men. Ill match those dallying Girles pray I that intertaine by Arte All Louers giuing Hopes to all of all to make their Marte And hauing blaunched many so in single Life take pride When not a Strumpet Men so much abhorre and more deride Aswell as too remisse in choyce we may be too precise And lose as Aesops swimming Dogge a Substance for Surmise But if we marke in matching this which perfecteth Content That in the Man of Vertues be and Loue a Couplement For either Fortune worke we that we neuer shall repent We coyly may consume our Youth till times may alter so Or forme friends wealth or fame that we out of Request may groe But lose that list their Prime since now I haue that may delight He shall participate my best that must my baddet Plight For true it is as Vessels of first Liquors euer taste Loue seasned so with Sweets of Youth the same doth euer last Nay should my Stafford God forbid lesse kinde than think I proue I neretheles would still be his in chaste and cheerefull Loue. No men troe I the rascall Sort except but women may In Patience temporizing well informe and erring stay And reason were there Scripture none so bidding we forbare In men their Moodes because of vs they wholly take the care Admit we bring them Portions great and beautie sought of Many Alas what bring we one that might not els haue hap't to any For let me speake it to no Blab it is a Question whether That longer think it we or Men vntill we come together Well Wanton well quoth Elenor if Men should heare your chat This last I meane at least they would conclude for vs in that Concerning which vpon my Tongue shall mine Opinion dye Though should I say to it and all Amen I sooth'd no Lye Saint Stafford thine Saint Mandeuil for me God for vs all I haue bin a 〈…〉 and will be still resolu'd what ere befall In saying which came Stafford in and wils them to dispatch To Ship-boord for before had they determin'd of that Match Alreadie had he shipt their Stuffe lack't only they a boord Which Opportunitie did now that time and place affoord How they escap't or how disguisde what skils it scap't they are All three imbark't for Italie and had the winde so faire That almost thither had they reach't before they missed weare For them great search and sorrow much was made but all in vaine None knew or wheÌ„ they went or whence or where they did remaine Here see you what can mightie Loue in either Sexe effect Here see you also friends for friends nor weale nor woe respect Here see you one that fear'd to speake is followed farre to speede Here see you that a Woman dares if she conceits the Deede Here see you one in loue not moop't at home but mapping Lands Here see you how gainst all things els for Ladies Vertue stands Here also heare what they ariu'd in Italie did see And first at Rome when first shall this of Else-what spoken bee CHAP. LXXIII ELizabeths now-Monarchie ore seauenteene Crownes of old As formerly was promised shall briefly here bee told Before the Scots did plant them Heere own'd ancient Brutaines All And still take I
eschew All Practises and Policies for thence her Sorrowes grew True Romish Scottish and true French tell all my Friends I die When Meluin vnto whom she spake did weeping thus replie The wofulst Message Madame this that euer me befell When of my Queene and Mistresse Death I shal the Tidings tel She kissing him sayes pray for me and bids him so farewell Then of a debt was due from her she did the payment craue And that her Seruants might enioy those Legacies she gaue And to attend her at her death some of her Owne to haue All which the Earles commissoned did yeeld vnto and so She to the black-clad Scaffold there to take her death did go Now Mary Stewards Troubles shall haue ending once or twise She sayd and not to mone for her did giue to Hers aduise And whilst the Writ in reading was no more regarded it Than if it had secured or concerned her no whit Beades at her Girdle hung at end of them a Medall and An Agnus-Dei bout her necke a crost-Christ in her hand They prayed her to set a-part those popish Toyes and pray In saith to Christ in only whom her whole Saluation lay And offring then to pray with her that Offer she withstood Alleaging that our Prayers can doe Catholiques no good So doth the Popes false Calendar of Saints of Sense bereaue Our Traytors who dye Papists that therein it them receaue Was neuer yet Religion heard so pestilent as this Their murdring vs for Lawfull of their Creed a portion is So had they schooled her and that her bloodie Mischiefs past Were meritorious which the Pope would honor so at last That euen then the Gospels Light illuminate her heart Was prayd of Ours whilst she with hers prayd as pleasde her a-part Then to her wofull Seruants did she passe a kind a-dew And kissing oft her Crucifix vnto the Block her drew And fearles as if glad to dye did dye to Papisme trew Which and her other Errors who in all did euer erre Vnto the Iudge of Mercie and of Iustice we referre If euer such Conspirator of it impenitent If euer Soule Pope-schooled so that Sea to Heauen sent If euer one ill-liu'd did dye a Papist God-wards bent Then happie she But so or not it happie is for vs That of so dangerous a Foe we are deliuer'd thus The brauely mannag'd Iorney of the Countie Sussex who Did merit praise beyond my Penne Sir VVilliam Druries too Made into Scotland added to Lord Grets sayd-Prowesse theare Did lesser rid our Queene and Realme their Realme King of feare Than Maries end Who of her selfe all Treasons did prefer Gainst either State our forraine Foes deriu'd Pretexts from her But thus Elizabeth hath salu'd Ours and Scotch Troubles Now Ensues we shew her Aids to FraÌ„ce who wrought their Broiles how CHAP. LVII IT by a Polititian a Germaine to whose lore Haue Machiuilian French-Euents since sorted euer-more Before Queene-Mother Charles the King and others priuate was Aduisde a Monarch absolute in France to bring to pas Aristocratick Gouernment nor Democratick pleasde But where to one Mans Emperie is Monarchia seasde He told his Ttauels and in States his Obseruations how Besides the only Turke he none a Monarch did allow Who suffreth none by Might by Wealth or Blood to ouer-top Himselfe giues all Preferments and whom listeth him doth lop His Bands of Ianizaries who are form'd and nourisht still From Childhood his owne Creatures hold all at his owne will He out of these his Captaines and his Bassies doth elect They to deserue their Founders trust his only Weale affect The rather for their Dignities and all that All possesse Determine at his will behooues therefore not to transgresse Saue his Religion none is vsde vnlesse in Conquests late And that of Policie thereby to adde vnto his State Nor euen there permits he of Religion to debate Nor walled Townes nor Forttesses his Empier doth digest Except vpon the Fro 〈…〉 ires for securing of the rest His Subiects thus Theirs and the whole at his Deuotion needs No Imposts Taxes or the like whence Tumult often breeds Discourst of his Experience thus he then descends to it Whereby of Monarchia might himselfe the French King fit Whereas quoth he French Policie consists of Three Estates The Princes Nobles Commons and each one of th' other wates For hearts and helpes and oft the King is bridled of those Three Himselfe therefore such Lets remou'd sole Monarch thus might bee Of ancient Peeres of valiant Men great Lords and Wisemen all By forced Warre or fraudfull peace to temporize the fall Whereto Religions quarrell then presented meane not small Meane while vntill of them by turnes weare Riddance did behoue To worke them Mal-contents the King to labor vulgar Loue. Immediatly euen from himselfe No whit at their Request To passe Preferments not to them but els as likes him best And but of Peeces ruâ—ous the Great-Ones to possesse And when his Creatures shall grow to more those Great to lesse To quarrell then those Nobles when in them great hearts would lurk That for the Souldier or the sword of Iustice should make work So to prouide that of the States be no Conuention nam'd Religion not disputed of Strong Townes which oft haue tam'd The French Kings be dismantled And when things as thus be fram'd His Maiestie quoth he shall hit the Marke whereat is aim'd WHen this worse than thus this worse than Machiuel had said With that Conuenticles Applause so working was not staid For hence if Accidents we shall obserue may be collected The ciuill Warres and Butcheries in France to haue effected Religion gaue the colour whear though infinite were slaine The Church reform'd did not resist yeat still by losse did gaine For blood of Martyrs well is sayd to be the Churches Seede Where Massacres haue plashed there is spread a triple Breede In Sense it seem'd a sillie Spring should Europe ouer-floe Whence Luther his occasion tooke against the Gospels Foe As Scotlands foresaid Guizian Broyles euen France her Tumults so From other then Religions cause did at beginning groe So 〈…〉 ph sold and Christ betrayd was meeter than was ment Of Ben-Iamests or by the false Iscarots foule Intent But howsoeuer ill haps well Woe stayes whence ill is sent French second Henries Fauorites the Constable and Guize The one of them ambitiously the others Hight enuies Each growing crosse and crossing it to Factions grew at length Poore Hugeâ—â—tz vndoubted then nor dreamed they of strength Alone in Henries Francis and ninth Charles their Raignes of them French Papists as our Maries did to Martyrdome condemne But by such Law as Wolues doe Lambes those Innocents for most Were slaughtered whole Townes sometimes with these in theÌ„ they rost And like now threatned Guize against the Saints in euery Cost The Guizians so that Faction shall in this Report be sayd Through Nonage of the Pope-taught King grew Mighty obayd Queene-Mother Mischief-Mistres in their